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from DOP (Democrat Operating Procedures). Just think of the uproar if they had found the hooker... in his freezer!
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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes

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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.

Which should tell you something about Dershowitz.

Dershowitz has been right about only one thing in his life--terrorists should not come under civil law.

Other than that, I think he's been 100% wrong.

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.“--Jeff Cooper. From Bill Coffey's collection of military quotations

He does deserve credit there too. But he's certainly off the reservation when it comes to Spitzer.

And Rightly So!

Maybe he's been right about two things then, or maybe both are subsets of a recognition that anti-Israeli sentiment has multiple manifestations.

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.“--Jeff Cooper. From Bill Coffey's collection of military quotations

He's described Spitzer in glowing words in Time Magazine. Maybe I should count him as another one of Spitzer's "abused" and in fact there's a sense in which Dershowitz is. In fact that's probably more accurate at this point -- the mentor doesn't have final responsibility for the actions of the pupil. In fairness to Dershowitz, he probably would have advised Spitzer to stop had he known the full extent of the deceptions involved, but I was surprised that he spoke out so quickly in his defense.

I think Eliot Spitzer disgraced his mentor and needlessly so, particularly given how much his teacher evidently thought of him. What a shame.

Well, unlike many of your colleagues on the left, at least you recognize that George Bush is not running for reelection.

Unfortunately, in your conspiracy-driven unitary driver universe, you've simply moved your locus of evil and the first-cause of all happenings from Bush to the Clintons. Same pathologic thought process, however.

Look, I have much dread of the Clinton machine because of their connections, experience, and sheer ruthlessness. But they aren't the only players around. If your want to make sense of this world, you're going to have to get off the "secret society rules the world" schtick and address the reality of the 21st century and the globalization of money and power.

Otherwise, you're going to get tiresome fast here.

And Rightly So!

I don't think there's a conspiracy-driven universe behind this comment.

She's pointing out the widespread practice of double standardization which is nowhere more evident than in this case with Spitzer and also if people have long memories, with the Clinton perjury.

If you read the op-eds in the Washington Post and the NYT up until this morning they were seriously entertaining the possiblity that Spitzer would stay on, and in any case most of them have been very velvet-gloved in their criticism. I mean, Maureen Dowd starts out by saying something angry and quickly descends into her normal mishmash of Gilligan's Island crossed with Shakespeare. Harold Meyerson couldn't do anything except talk about what a rube Spitzer was and how guys like Spitzer don't exactly notch their prostitute visits into their business cards because they're not ISO-2001 businesses.

Let's not forget that Foley resigned without any threat of prosecution because he never broke any laws, but Eliot Spitzer was still testing the waters right up until this morning about whether the "public would have him" despite the fact that he's ... well, the wiretap transcripts speak for themselves.

At the very least you should recognize when someone is trying to say "you're right." :)

In part, being at risk of CDS myself, I'm perhaps a bit hypersensitive to seeing CDS in others.

I've gone back to check dorothy's past posts and comments, and conclude that a wrong synapse must have fired when I pegged her as a possible moby, probably confusing her with some other commentator on some past thread.

Also, I'd forgotten that New York is Hillary's senate home, and thus she objectively does wield political power regarding Spitzer and Democratic politics. Moreover, she definitely in her campaign run would want to cut off ties with Spitzer as soon as possible and get him out of the public spot light. So she very well may have had a decisive role in getting Spitzer to terminate himself.

And as for Clinton and double-standards, but I repeat myself...

Bottom line - I retract my put-down.

And Rightly So!

Unlike Clinton in the office POTUS with no legal authority capable of indicting him, the feds have jurisdiction over a governor and they made it clear they weren't dealing. That's the other dot that came out today and the one that made Spitzer realize he wasn't going to be able to cut a deal for no indictment. That meant no, "but I haven't been charged with anything cover". If he fought it he was going to go to jail for a longer period of time.

Just be glad a Dem wasn't in the White House to have the DOJ squash this. I can just see Spitzer telling his wife, "don't blame me, I voted for Kerry". Someone send him the bumper sticker.

Good bye and good riddance you abusive thug.

"Honor is self-esteem made visible in action." - Ayn Rand, West Point, 1974

Even maybe President? As a New Yorker, I can tell you that he's a good enough politician to have at least gotten close.

That's what I meant by "dodging bullets."

... from that standpoint, yes you are correct.

he's a good enough politician to have at least gotten close.

Well, if people as vacuous as Hillary and Obama can then he certainly could have.

John
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Why would God invent something like whiskey? To keep the Irish from ruling the world of course

Even maybe President? As a New Yorker, I can tell you that he's a good enough politician to have at least gotten close.

Very close indeed.

Spitzer might well have been called on for some work by a Hillary Administration, given his ties to Hillary.

Umm, not so close. With the police scandal last year, and the general clumsiness of issues (illegal's licenses) it just looked like Spitzer wasn't cut for this job. He seems to me less politician, more prosecutor.

it appears that much of what he did as a prosecutor was primarily political, designed to advance his creer with little regard to what served the needs of the people or the law

John
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Why would God invent something like whiskey? To keep the Irish from ruling the world of course

Let me remind everyone who perhaps doesn't know who Ken Langone is. He was one of the directors of the New York Stock Exchange, when Spitzer went on a witch hunt against the NYSE board for giving chairman Dick Grasso a large severance package.

The remark you quote was made on camera to a local news station. I saw the interview, and I saw Ken weighing carefully how to answer the question, then stepping away quickly as soon as he said it.

It took my breath away to see such an important guy saying such a thing about a man with the power to throw him in jail for nothing, and enough ruthlessness and vindictiveness to actually do it.

That should make it clear just how hated Eliot Spitzer is.

of times.

Richard Grasso guided the Exchange through the tech meltdown and then 9/11 and kept those jobs in NYC. Then he was hung out to dry by the "reformist" drives symbolized by Spitzer.

There is no gratitude in this world.

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