dspeers (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dspeers) wrote,@ 2008-02-11 11:09:00 |
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Cheating to win the nomination (D)
My son is 11 years old and my wife and I try very hard to teach him about sportsmanship, honesty, and loosing well. If we play a game, say a board game, and it doesn't look like it is going his way, he will start to claim the rules are somewhat different in certain cases so as to sway the game in his favor. As parents we can see what he is doing, and try to both correct him and help him deal with the loss. It's one thing to honestly make a mistake about the rules, it's another to try to change them mid-game.
Now, my son is 11, Hillary Clinton is both an adult and one that is running for President. A position in public life that you would expect to require a person of high moral character (yeah yeah I know, our recent past seems to disprove that notion, but still we dream). So now that the game seems to not entirely be in her favor she wants to change the rules. Rules she agreed to in writing no less. Not very sportsman like. I realize that to be strong politicians need to be creative in finding ways to get things to go in their favor. But breaking the rules shouldn't be an option. We are strong because we use the tools we have (ie. rule of law), not by breaking those rules while claiming to be following them - or that your actions somehow are so important as to supreceed the rules (ie. George W. Bush).
My son is 11 years old and my wife and I try very hard to teach him about sportsmanship, honesty, and loosing well. If we play a game, say a board game, and it doesn't look like it is going his way, he will start to claim the rules are somewhat different in certain cases so as to sway the game in his favor. As parents we can see what he is doing, and try to both correct him and help him deal with the loss. It's one thing to honestly make a mistake about the rules, it's another to try to change them mid-game.
Now, my son is 11, Hillary Clinton is both an adult and one that is running for President. A position in public life that you would expect to require a person of high moral character (yeah yeah I know, our recent past seems to disprove that notion, but still we dream). So now that the game seems to not entirely be in her favor she wants to change the rules. Rules she agreed to in writing no less. Not very sportsman like. I realize that to be strong politicians need to be creative in finding ways to get things to go in their favor. But breaking the rules shouldn't be an option. We are strong because we use the tools we have (ie. rule of law), not by breaking those rules while claiming to be following them - or that your actions somehow are so important as to supreceed the rules (ie. George W. Bush).
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