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Number Nine

3.12.08 @ 12:01AM

ELIOT WRECKS
Re: Philip Klein's Eliot Rex, Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder's Some Super Delegate and The Prowler's First Spitzer, Now Stryker:

How apropos..."number 9, number 9, number 9...Eliot is dead!
-- Peter Everts

Philip Klein serves up another delightful piece, this one on the expanding disaster that is the Governor Eliot Spitzer saga in the state of New York. Here we are, with a new addition to a long, long line of Dummycrat-induced scandals, joining the likes of Richard Daley and his political machine's dealings in Chicago, the Clintons with Whitewater and other assorted dealings, the congressman with $90,000 in "cold hard"cash in his freezer, various under-handed maneuvers by the likes of "Dingy" Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, et al.

And I thought the Republicans were supposed to be the "Culture of Corruption"?!? Move over, Tammany Hall, Eliot Spitzer is here!
-- Jim Bjaloncik
Stow, Ohio

Way back in 1959 a popular song later made into the title of a movie was "Love Potion #9"

Today 2008 the theme comes to light again with the lines from this historical lyric.

Some of which are:

"I took my troubles down to Madame Rue.
I told her that I was flop with chicks.
I've been disgraced since 1956.
She said what you need is Love Potion #9.
I started kissing everything in sight.
But when I kissed a cop down on 34th and Vine.
He broke my little bottle of Love potion #9."

Same ole song today but the difference is that #9 is not the name of the potion but the potion user.
-- Jared Harold
Naples, Florida

Let me get this right. Spitzer's father is rich so even though there is no evidence he acquired wealth by illegal means, isn't this the reason a federal investigation should be launched to determine if he did engage in criminal activity? After all, isn't this the rationale the Democrats used to justify some of their more ridiculous investigations? Please pardon me for being silly this morning but the whole Spitzer scenario just perfectly illustrates how silly our national politics has become. Also poor Hillary has to go through the whole "stand by her man" act again since Spitzer remains a super delegate. Kudos to Mr. Felder for his refusal to be steamrolled by Spitzer even when the rogue was riding high.
-- Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan

Looks like the Democrats are trying to even the score with the Republicans on sexual misconduct and corruption. How depressing.
-- Mike Roush
North Carolina

But for his impenetrable arrogance, Eliot Spitzer would realize that cynically dragging before the klieg lights the most immediate victim of his indiscretion, his wife, only serves to worsen matters. If hypocrisy is the gravest political sin, then cowardice surely finishes a close second!
-- Francis M. Hannon, Jr.
Melrose, Massachusetts

I'm not normally one to jump on bandwagons but it is supremely difficult to avoid the obvious Schadenfreude attached to the Eliot Spitzer situation. While I normally shrink from rejoicing at the misfortune of another, I'm having serious difficulty in doing so here. Mr. Spitzer not only abused his office as a prosecutor, routinely destroying the lives and families of anyone whom he believed could help him in his climb up the political ladder in New York. When someone chooses to go through life all elbows and shoulders, trampling the innocent and the guilty alike, then suddenly, is struck in the forehead by the sledge hammer of karma, he has little or no defense against the reaction of the public.

I would disagree, however, with those who offer their sympathy and condolences to his wife. His daughters, yes, because of the usually tight bond between fathers and daughters, but his wife, no. She is a high powered corporate lawyer and I find it hard to believe that anyone can succeed in that type of career without possessing the power to read people. I would have to believe that she knows her Eliot after watching him operate, supporting him, and listening to his confidences these many years. I would sincerely doubt that she is totally flummoxed by this turn of events. Not that it places blame on her, or is a mitigating factor in Mr. Spitzer's well earned disgrace, rather this entire situation is a sort of cosmic shift in Mr. Spitzer's fortunes, fortunes that Mrs. Spitzer chose to share.

If the old saw that proclaims "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger," Mr. Spitzer may come out of this a veritable Hercules.
-- Joseph Baum
Garrettsville, Ohio

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