He became known as “Client Number 9” in what began as a Federal investigation into a possible money structuring scheme. Now, the matter might just as well be renamed with the title of a song made famous by the Beatles, "Love Potion Number 9."
My mom had many short admonitions, one of which was the popular, The bigger they are, the harder they fall. It’s such a simple statement, but so full of wisdom. I don’t know precisely what it was about Eliot Spitzer, but he seemed to have a way about him that left a question mark – as if there were something else unsaid or undone, or that the hammer would fall later, when you least expected it.
The fact that he tagged himself as a (expletive deleted) steamroller before his fellow politicians wasn’t a good way to begin his career as Governor of New York State. I don’t like arrogant people. Never have; never will.
Some have tried to wash away Spitzer’s alleged trysting as peripheral to his personal life and public service, so as to make it inconsequential. In a recent TV interview, no less a figure than Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz, a high-profile lawyer, said of Spitzer’s behavior, “We are making much too much of sexual deviation...”
On the other hand, Mary Matalin, a political strategist being interviewed on the Don Imus Show, observed that, “…What higher calling is there than a dad’s behavior relative to his daughters.” You decide which of those statements makes the most sense.
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This man took on some rich and powerful people knowing well he had an Achilles Heel. I wonder who gave the order to get him. What was the code word?
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