Power gets unfairly blamed in the saying that says ‘power corrupts’. Its all a question of which was first, the chicken or the egg. As I see it, most politicians don’t need power for a transformation in character. They come ready-made and thoroughly corruptible into the job.
Take Mr. Giuliani, the New York hero of 9/11 for instance. ABC News reports: “Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABC News.com.”
This is besides the revelation “that the city had provided a security detail for Nathan, who became Giuliani’s third wife after his divorce from Donna Hanover, who also had her own police security detail at the same time.” This was all hidden in cooked books as politico.com reports:” Politico.com reported yesterday that many of the security expenses were initially billed to obscure city agencies, effectively hiding them from oversight.”
Looking at the previous presidents chosen by the American people, it would seem that this one suites the job description just fine. If elected, the rest of the world would at least know that ‘what you see is what you get’.
J.C.Grobler.
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