GOOD CHARACTER

Expounding on my post of the 14^th…

They are so glib when they say it: “A politician’s life is separate from his personal life.”  This originally was the excuse offered up by one William Jefferson Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.  I choose this particular scandal to make a point, being that a politician’s personal ethical and legal wrongdoings transcend the right to privacy.  Why?  Because such wrongdoings go to the moral character of the individual involved. 

The proof?  William Jefferson Clinton cheated on his wife and he did it on the rug in the Oval Office, and then he lied under oath about it.  If he will screw around on his wife and lie under oath, what else will he do?  Make crooked deals?  Accept bribes?  Cheat on his tax return?  If he will screw around on his wife, will he screw around on the American public? 

How would you take it if you woke up tomorrow to discover that every Congressman was poking his secretary and every Congresswoman was sacking with her staff?  Further, what if they lied about it when caught red-handed? 

We are taught to look up to our public figures.  How can we tell our sons to have good moral character when we have a William Jefferson Clinton or a Barack Hussein Obama as President, and we elected them?  Obama?  Am I accusing Obama of sexual escapades?  Not in the pure sense of the word, but he is screwing us by flagrantly violating our laws and Constitution and ignoring Congress. 

Here it is, pure and simple: we need to get back to moral, ethical and religious values in this country.  We have a Congress… our nation’s Capitol… so full of corruption and sleaziness that we should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing it to occur. We don't need Charlie Rrangel in Congress.  He should be long gone, and so should Maxine Waters.  Already, there is talk about how Anthony Weiner will return to Washington; how can this be? 

I am not saying that every tidbit of a politician’s life should be in the public realm.  I really don’t care how often the President has sex or what position he uses.  I don’t know that I care so much who he has sex with as long as it does not become public knowledge.  When you screw someone besides your wife, you do take that risk of being discovered and losing everything you have in life.  If you feel that your penis is entitled to wander, that is your business.  But, when it becomes public, it shows the rest of the country what sad kind of character you really have. 

My position, not missionary, is that we hold our politicians out to our children as being good examples of how our children should grow up.  When our politicians betray that trust, they need to be removed, post haste.  If you disagree, you need to go to church on Sunday and you need to re-examine your own values. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.