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Spitzer’s Lost Moment

Started by washingtonindependent · 9 months ago

It seems fitting now that the nation’s financial landscape resembles Berlin circa 1945 that we ask what could have happened if Eliot Spitzer, a man whom I spent a considerable amount of time around during his time as New York’s attorney general, had not fallen from public ... Continue reading »

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  • Jaycal

    9 months ago

    I would argue that Spitzer represented very well those old style of values. There were no higher moral standards, greater ethical writs, or any other code followed to a more strict fashion, even in Victorian England. In the "good old days", people could talk and represent one line while living another. Spitzer was the embodiment of this fact as was John Edwards... as was Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Regan, etc., etc.
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  • Tommy

    9 months ago

    How can we possible judge Spitzer when prostitution is so available on the net. I think you just need to look at sites like www.tnareview.com and eros.com to know how public it really is. Not making it legal is the problem
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