What the world thinks of Spitzer

I pulled these comments from articles on the Eliot Spitzer scandal, made by everyday folks from around the english-speaking world. My two cents: DC area prostitutes should be feeling pretty good: DC is to prostitution what Hollywood is to acting...


Times UK

I suppose there is no hope we will ever learn the nature of the services provided for $5,500 an hour?

It is wrong on at least two other levels, 1st: the guy has broken trust with his wife, to whom he has sworn solemn vows. If he can't keep those then there is no way he should be in public office as technical ability is not what public office demands: rather a strong will/self-control. 2nd: he opened himself to blackmail, which considering the job he was doing is unforgivable.

The comments from 'it's just harmless sex and hooker fun' brigade (males I might add) show their total lack of common sense when it comes to the implications of the actions of this man but then that's a failing of some the male species who mostly think below the waist. Had any of you thought past your navel to realise that this man who had not only dishonoured and cheated on his family and those that elected him and put trust in him but had left himslef wide open to blackmail politically?


Wall Street Journal

Go get him, guys!!! I cannot think of anyone more deserving of this public humiliation. This was a bad man who abused his power for years.

Well, well, well the arrogant pillar of morality falls to disgrace…How fitting!!! You’re cronies can’t save you now!

What I like best is that his banks turned him in via Suspicious Activity Reports when he transferred large amounts of money in excess of $3,000. That’s the Patriot Act!!! No wonder crooked and corrupt Democrats want it repealed so badly!

He cites his failure to live up to standards he sets for himself. Since when do we set standards for ourselves in matters legal and moral? I thought institutions outside ourselves such as government, society, and even our creator are the instruments through which moral standards are constructed and given. His statement only highlights his grandiose view of himself as the individual endowed with the right and the power to judge and punish everyone—-including himself!


Guardian UK

Hot damn that Democratic Parties been on a roll all spring.
Bill Clinton gets all red faced and the press tells him to go away.
Hillary and Obama are just starting to throw trash at each other.
Elliot Spitzer finally gets his due.

There are different levels and variety of sleaze. Spitzer's actions and motives are one kind. The revolting glee in his disgrace and bilious tone of this article represent another.

What's wrong with Eliot Spitzer is not so much that he praised good things and did bad ones. Most of the items he championed in his various moral campaigns were, when you looked behind the rhetoric, of dubious value. Really, he was a power-hungry, regulation-crazed functionary whose chief sin was to harness the power of the state to destroy his enemies and aggrandize himself.

As the saying goes "those who live in glass houses shall not throw stones."! In addition, it is pertinent to mention that Hillary Clinton might be willing to throw lot of dirt at Barack Obama but the spectacular fall of E S, Bill and Monica affairs is now being recalled in the public mind and she has lost at least one SD in the process.


Money Web South Africa

He needs some relief from taking on the baddies. And his wife was probably not up to satisfying his sexual needs and desires. At least he was paying for the professional services rendered as opposed to a previous president who charmed his intern to go down on him. His only error was the size of the fee paid. No one can be that good.

BIGOTS,LIARS,HYPOCRITES,PARANOIDS,OIL THIEVES,RAIDERS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES,SPREADERS OF ECONOMIC ILLS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD,EXPORTERS OF JUNK FOOD TO THE REST OF THE WORLD,TRASHY MOVIES ETC ETC ..............So no big deal when a SCUMBAG like ELIOT SPITZER goes on the tare

What a hypocrite. Resign and go to jail, you destroy your family and all your past good works when you cant keep your zip up. No sympathy for you pal.Hypocrite- a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements