"Character" Vanishes from Public Discourse (scathing against GOP)

[bertha katzenengel]

By Robert Steinback, in the Miami Herald

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/12878112.htm
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If you can't rely on a leader to confess before the entire ogling world that he dropped his pants for the wrong woman, how could you trust anything he said? Our children would abandon all respect for honesty, integrity and propriety, using the excuse, ``Well, the president did it. Why can't I?''

These dire predictions of social anarchy struck me as absurdly exaggerated, but the standard was set. Or so we thought.

In rode a new administration and party promising to raise the bar on character. As I see it, they've splintered that bar into toothpicks.

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Evidently, character is only an issue when the other side's is in question. Is hypocrisy also an element of character?

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Editorial pits the administration's and several key GOP players' actions against the question of "character." Steinback discusses the affairs involving Plame, Abramoff, Gannon, FEMA, Miers, Bennett, Robertson, and the lies leading to (and perpetuating) the illegal war on Iraq.

A must read, well worth the free registration.

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[bertha katzenengel]

2. Thank you!

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[carpediem]

3. great piece. Thanks! n/t

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