Is it okay that Joe Biden paid family members from campaign?

[The Magistrate]

10. A Man Of High Principle, Sir

Would not allow family and associates so much as a cup of coffee purchased with campaign funds. Whether it was legal or not would not matter.

This is what comes of posturing as a moral exemplar. People who do are properly held to the standard they apply to others, and 'Bernie' has made far too much hay out of braying that others are corrupt to be allowed even the smallest monetary peccadilloes. The amounts do not matter, and the fact that this behavior was engaged in over a period of fifteen years at least simply establishes it is 'a continuing pattern of conduct', and not a one-off which can be rectified by apology, and refraining from such acts in future.

My own attitudes towards 'honest graft' are quite lenient, but I charge few people with being corrupt, and find scolds and crusaders particularly offensive. Life is an organic thing, full of curves and waves and spirals. Scolds and crusaders seek to impose a crystalline form upon it, and sooner or later must commence whacking off or squeezing in the organic shapes that do not fit their mineral framework.




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