This may be the most you will see in print on Precipii concerning this Mcain “scandal” the New Yellow Times has “drudged” up…
Honor is important to me. It means, you honor your commitments – honor your pledges, honor your vows…honor your “profession” (of faith, of matrimony, of career, or otherwise). If you profess to be something, you’d better, by-God, be that something.
If you print a story, you’d better, by-God, have more than just unsubstantiated and un-named sources.
I would not enter the political arena again, for the simple reason that having worked in it, I can tell you that groupies hang out at political rallies the same way they do around rock stars.
Everyone is on the make in the arena. Women are simply used as sex toys to influence those in power (I’m speaking first-hand; I have no idea if the politicians I represented encountered the same young ladies, but given my status as a “lackie”, I have to think they are at the least familiar of this…this which I speak).
Trust me, whatever the temptation that can be used to manipulate or control, it will be used. Whatever the threat they can hold over your head, they will hold it.
These sharks in the arena, they will stop at nothing.
If these power brokers can get to your kids, they will. Get to your wife, they will. Get to your…dog?…they will (of course, with ol’ Beebo, it would mean war, and you’d better show him the proper respect – he’s more fearsome than your’s truly when you rile him).
They are like Columbian drug lords who will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve their corrupt agenda.
I can’t speak for the honor of Mr. Mcain as I do not know him personally. I know that men I semi-respect (and some I respect in full) have come forward to vouch for him.
If I am a man of respect, I should accept this voucher on its surface, sight unseen.
So unless and until there is a corpus delecti, until there is a video tape putting him at the scene of the crime or a host of others coming forward with the same allegations, I’m giving Mr. Mcain the benefit of the doubt.
As to the NY Times, I’ll approach them with this same attitude.
On the surface, they look like a bunch of muck-raking pigs – unless and until I hear the bacon sizzling for myself, I’ll just have to deal with this doubt they have raised in their “incomplete” story – (although in this case I seriously doubt there is anything in its depths other than more of what is on its surface; does a double-doubt make an absolute, I wonder? Wouldn’t you like to get your hands on these “un-named sources” ?) – that said, I will honor the concept of doubt on their behalf as well, even though they, (unlike Mcain) are so instrumental in raising it.
It would appear that doubt is all that is left in an arena where truth seems to be on permanent holiday.
Can I get an un-named witness to ‘testify’, Hallelujah children!
Stand up and be counted, you un-named “maggot” (how’s that for a name?).
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