Blago and Spitzo, Part Two

Blago and Spitzo, Part Two

Whether Rod Blagojevich beats the multiple raps filed against him or not, (see “Blago and Spitzo, Part One,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1645), he will still go down as one of the most entertaining and even charismatic of disgraced politicians of the last fifty years.

Lies, subterfuges, hubris, obnoxiousness, illegalities, contemptuousness, and potty mouth aside, he’s still a likable fellow. On the other hand, his fellow disgraced Dem, former Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York, can also lay claim to most of those negatives–except maybe the potty mouth–without the somewhat redeeming trait of likability.

Charisma is another characteristic with which Spitzo has never had to contend; he compensated by being a lying, sneaky, hubristic, criminal, contemptuous bulldog.

As contrasted with Blago, Spitzo hailed from a wealthy background and all the best schools–Princeton, Harvard Law–and made his name by helping to bring down organized crime’s Gambino family before effectively buying the job as New York Attorney General with the help of a multi-million dollar “loan” from his tycoon father.

If his hubris, his sense of over-weening pride, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1647)