Spitzer far from state’s savior

Eliot Spitzer, the political knight in shining white armor who rode into Camelot, oops, I mean Albany, on an equally lily-white stallion, promised the public that he would personally clean up political corruption and bring integrity back to New York state.

Many people, knowing of his bullying, take-no-prisoners style as attorney general, suspected that beneath Spitzer’s shining white armor was a sinister dark side and, by golly, they were right.

Spitzer’s first storm-trooper tactic was an attempt to destroy his political adversary, Joseph Bruno, the Republican Senate leader.

Using his personal Gestapo (our taxpayer-funded state police), with other of his black-shirted storm troopers and aided by the liberal Times Useless, I mean Times Union (Albany’s liberal big brother to our own Daily Star), Spitzer attempted to bring down Bruno on bogus charges of misusing a state airplane for non-state business. Spitzer obviously went to the same hatchet-job school as Dan Rather.

Ironically, had Spitzer gotten the goods on Bruno, he didn’t intend to go public; rather, he intended to use such "dirt" to intimidate Bruno to enhance his own political agenda.

Spitzer would have you believe that this abuse of power was solely the work of his loose-cannon lackeys and that he had no knowledge of their high jinks. Believe that, and you also believe in the tooth fairy.

So now with the "gotcha" show on the other foot, our sanctimonious king, I mean governor, has ordered his entire staff to clam up, citing voodoo lawyer-client privilege. Integrity, Spitzer can’t spell it, no less practice it.

It turns out that Spitzer’s just another phony Democrat, and his white shining armor was actually painted over cardboard, and his white stallion was an old asthmatic black horse painted white.

William Eckardt

Oneonta

What really is `red’ and `blue’?

The hype about "blue states" and "red states" during the latest national elections has caused me to wonder: Are some people born with blue genes and others with red genes, or is such pigmentation in the minds of demographers?

A back-of-the-mind thought whispers, "Or do you mean demonizers?"

William F. Roberts

Otego