What happened to honor?
Honor - you know that old-fashioned sense of fairness, integrity, honesty and respect. Well that sense of honor seems to be sincerely lacking in todays politics. Take a look at some of the "highlights" for the last few weeks.
We have the supporter of one candidate hacking another candidate's website in order to steal an unfinished campaign add. Then the candidate in question, who swore that they were not using the data found in the ad, started running push polling based on the data in the unfinished ad.
We have a staffer of another candidate posing as the supporter of his bosses opponent on an blog so that he could post messages intimating that the polling that showed the race as close was wrong.
We have another candidate whose supporters are making claims that his opponent made racial "slurs" back when he was a college student...claims that are debunked by the candidates college classmates.
Then we have one party's national committee claiming to have "accidentally" found a flaw in the other's activist database that leaves the activists personal information open to any and all who access the site and then they announced the flaw to the press and the whole world!
Then there are the multitude of leaks in Washington DC...leaks of classified information to the press.
"What happened to honor? Among our elected and appointed officials? A sense of honor still prevails within our military and among hundreds of thousands of government employees. Honor still prevails in much of our community life. Many Americans beyond the Beltway maintain a strong sense of personal and professional honor.
But honor's dead in Washington. And at "leading" universities (where patriotism, too, is beneath contempt). And in the media. Honor isn't hip. It's as pathetic as a powder-blue, polyester leisure suit.
To journalists and members of Congress, the concept of honor is so alien it's incomprehensible. If you can grab a headline, no matter the cost to your country, tell our secrets - and win an award for your "courage."
Well, that pretty much tells us what happened to honor in this country. If you are in the press, universities or Washington DC honor is dead. I guess that tells us all exactly what to expect out of the next 40 days. Dirty tricks (mostly on the Democratic side...let's face it that is where most of the current examples come from) are going to be the staple of the campaign. Republicans can either sit back and let their opponents slime them or they can fight back...and if they fight back the voters had best take a step back so that they don't get hit in the cross fire.
We have the supporter of one candidate hacking another candidate's website in order to steal an unfinished campaign add. Then the candidate in question, who swore that they were not using the data found in the ad, started running push polling based on the data in the unfinished ad.
We have a staffer of another candidate posing as the supporter of his bosses opponent on an blog so that he could post messages intimating that the polling that showed the race as close was wrong.
We have another candidate whose supporters are making claims that his opponent made racial "slurs" back when he was a college student...claims that are debunked by the candidates college classmates.
Then we have one party's national committee claiming to have "accidentally" found a flaw in the other's activist database that leaves the activists personal information open to any and all who access the site and then they announced the flaw to the press and the whole world!
Then there are the multitude of leaks in Washington DC...leaks of classified information to the press.
"What happened to honor? Among our elected and appointed officials? A sense of honor still prevails within our military and among hundreds of thousands of government employees. Honor still prevails in much of our community life. Many Americans beyond the Beltway maintain a strong sense of personal and professional honor.
But honor's dead in Washington. And at "leading" universities (where patriotism, too, is beneath contempt). And in the media. Honor isn't hip. It's as pathetic as a powder-blue, polyester leisure suit.
To journalists and members of Congress, the concept of honor is so alien it's incomprehensible. If you can grab a headline, no matter the cost to your country, tell our secrets - and win an award for your "courage."
Well, that pretty much tells us what happened to honor in this country. If you are in the press, universities or Washington DC honor is dead. I guess that tells us all exactly what to expect out of the next 40 days. Dirty tricks (mostly on the Democratic side...let's face it that is where most of the current examples come from) are going to be the staple of the campaign. Republicans can either sit back and let their opponents slime them or they can fight back...and if they fight back the voters had best take a step back so that they don't get hit in the cross fire.
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