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Spitzer practices ritual of Repentance

News – We are riveted, but why? Nearly every post-scandal news conference is like every other. There's a script to these things, as we all know, and New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer followed it to the letter yesterday in seeming to acknowledge his involvement with a prostitute and apologizing for it.

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I'm wondering who one through eight are ...

Top Ten List please, Dave ...

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Eliot just go, this is worse than bush, bush is stupid eliot isn't just get lost you let me down!

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Eliot Spitzer was a very aggressive PROSECUTOR and therefor, whether a governor or not should resign immediately.

He is a hypocrite with deep problems that, obviously he has never attempted to control...

Goodbye Eliot.You are a very intelligent fool!!

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Must have been some real good Mexican booty. It's the only thing I could think that would get a man to do such a stupid thing as provide driver licenses to illegal Mexicans.

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Though I said it slightly differently, I said the same thing. It now only stands to reason that someone was blackmailing him in order to get him to seek licenses for illegals.

Though, yes, we all mess up in life, I think his mistake affected his performance as governor. He should be removed.

Debra...

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This is not a liberal or conservative issue.

He broke the law and was elected to uphold the law.

He should have resigned immediately.

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"This is not a liberal or conservative issue."

I agree - but he doesn't:

http://news.propeller.com/story/2008/03/11/spit...

The partisan games continue on Nutscape.

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In another photo appearing in AOL.com, the mrs looks at the mr with darts in her eyes. If looks could kill, he would not need to apologize, he be dead.

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Politician repenting = piling on the bs.

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That's assumptive. There's always the possibility that he regrets his actions and is repenting honestly.

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True! I remember Jimmy Swaggart's tearful repent after his dalliance with a New Orleans prostitute. He, too, severely castigated from his "pulpit" those who succumbed to "sins of the flesh".

Spitzer lends further credence to what famales have long criticized us males for....an inability to supply sufficient blood supply to both the brain and the penis at the same time.

Now, if this idiot could make up a pack of lies to invade a foreign nation, kill about a million foreign nationals, advocate and condone torture of detainees, bankrupt the treasury, and get New York 10 trillion in debt, he could qualify to be President of the United States. I hope he resigns so the Repukes don't have to waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money to get rid of him. Even though they are vomit sucking hypocrites themselves, Repukes are correct in calling for his ouster.

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C'mon Teech! You really believe that baloney? Swaggart, and creeps like Spitzer are hardly never sorry until they're caught! Then, and only then are they sorry. Otherwise, they'd still be doin' it.

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Not really. You're dead right in that repentance really means "I'm repentant for getting caught and revealing how stupid and corrupt and hypocritical I really am."

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You think they would stop on they're own if they weren't ever caught? You must be looking at the world through rose colored glasses my dear. With all due respect, and to show you that, I gave you a pos vote anyway, although I don't agree with you because I guess I'm more cynical than you. But that's the way this world has me going these days.

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"True! I remember Jimmy Swaggart's tearful repent after his dalliance with a New Orleans prostitute. He, too, severely castigated from his "pulpit" those who succumbed to "sins of the flesh"."

You need to detail which time. ;-)

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after said repentance he asked his flock to send money so God wouldn't call him home right then and there. I bet he laughed all the way to the bank and then booked a 7 diamond hooker.

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That would be ol' Sinner Jimmy all right! Getting all those God-fearin' Christians to send him piles more of money so he could afford some of those 2 - 3 thousand a night hookers who don't kiss and tell!

Jaaayyyssssuuussss saayyyysss go ye forth and multiply...!

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Now you're talkin' like the ol' Teech that I'd known, and admire.

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yeah, because he got caught. That's what he feels bad about I can assure you.

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The only thing he regrets is not getting away with his lies.

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He is sorry he got caught . A politician and a hypocrite. What's new.

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As a former law enforcement official who shut down at least two "sex rings," Spitzer was guilty of the sin of hypocrisy by apparently patronizing prostitutes.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/11/sp...

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Don't give a damn about an apology. If he committed an illegal act, he ought to resign and then be prosecuted for that crime.

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The outrage (not fascination) is that Mr. Spitzer has taken pride in prosecuting this sort of "crime". He is only sorry now that he is in the same position where he placed many others.

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Yeppers,,, like Newt,,,, Like the preacher that railed against gays,,, Like Craig,,,,, if you're doing the same thing you are sending others to jail for or candemning them for it then you should suffer the humiliation of what they felt by ten fold

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The allegations bearing down on New York's governor didn't start with a prostitute -- despite lurid details in a federal affidavit detailing an alleged tryst with a "very pretty brunette" named Kristen last month.

Rather, sources familiar with the investigation said Tuesday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer's troubles began with a federal money-laundering probe.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/11/spitzer....

The federal investigation into a high-end prostitution ring linked to Gov. Eliot Spitzer apparently began last year as a financial probe by the Internal Revenue Service.

The public-corruption unit of the U.S. attorney's office got involved after the IRS looked into a complaint of a potential violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, the government's main tool against money laundering.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gRFb5RlZ4amJ...

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yes indeed,,, when you move large sums of cash the IRS does tend to look into what's going on

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We hold them to a higher standard. However, those that we really go after are those who claim they are vehemently opposed to something yet demonstrate it's OK if they practice it.

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Unless it was in Vegas, he broke the law. These are the same laws he was supposed to uphold..

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He must have been on to something. He was going after the Ratings companies on Wall Street.

Has the wire tapping been adjudicated yet? The investigation needs to start there.

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So, what if he was? If a pirate robs a pirate he's still a pirate!

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Spitzer's "repentance" was a weasel-worded statement that buys him time while he (and his high priced legal defense team) sees what if any charges the Feds can bring against him.

I feel sorry for Spitzer's wife, children and parents but not for him. NY State will be better off once Spitzer leaves office.

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I wouldn't stand at the podium with him. This isn't an indictment of her, just the way I'd handle it. I'd have been sitting across from a divorce lawyer, & planning a move to distance my kids from all of this.

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It's possible that, in spite of it all, Spitzer's wife still loves him. If that's the case, Spitzer should be doubly ashamed of what he did, and what he's putting his family through.

But an egomainiac like Spitzer doesn't give a damn about anyone other than himself.

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People make mistakes and this wasn't a life ending ordeal. Due to his position ,its a bigger deal. As far as his wife is concerned its nobodies business but hers on how she should handle it.Worst part is CNN getting a hold of it and going over it and over it and over it, two thousand lawyers and politicians who have nothing better to do than go on TV and over analyze this thing to no end.

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If the lady doesn't want it to be people's business 'how she handles it,' then she needs to stay out of the public spotlight. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

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Spitzer is going to have a lot more to apologize for if the NY Post is correct:

SPITZER HAS USED HOOKERS FOR 6 YEARS: SOURCES

March 11, 2008 -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, sources tell The Post.

Sources tell The Post that Spitzer had frequented high-priced hookers as far back as 2002 and possibly earlier.

Spitzer, who as attorney general lead investigations into prostitution, was among an elite group of powerbrokers and high-powered attorneys that regularly paid for dates at top escort agencies, sources said.

He's also reportedly hired a top-notch criminal defense law firm in anticipation of possible charges over his possibly illegal bank transfers.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112008/news/regio...

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I don't know how far back Spitzer's use of prostitutes goes, but this clearly wasn't the first time for him.

Too bad none of this came out before he was elected Governor.

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Now aint that the truth. Stephen, that's exactly what I was thinking.

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If this guy was 'loved' by those around him he may have had a 'chance' of staying in office,,,, from what I've heard, ,, he has few people that hold him in high personal regard

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Here's a guy that never let anybody have the benefit of the doubt. Now he got caught in his own wiretap.

The bigger problem is that his replacement, Patterson, is one dumb bastard.

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"The bigger problem is that his replacement, Patterson, is one dumb bastard."

After getting caught like that, is Spitzer a genius?

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The bastard's dead. Long live the bastard.

Spitzer never expected police officers to "shoot guns out of the hands of criminals" in actual shootouts.

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There is at least one winner in this, Tammy keeps her song fresh as another wife stands by her man. What's Hillary to do with this support?

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Will he repent to George Fox his friend?

http://www.wnbc.com/politics/15564094/detail.html

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"We are riveted," writes Libby Copeland. The "we" of MSNBC, perhaps, but "we" in my household are far from riveted on yet another story of the sexual mores of the political class.

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All I want to know is did the prostitute Spitzer or Swallow?

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Spitzer practices ritual of Repentance

No problem here, all spitzer needs to do is contact BJ Bill Clinton to get advice on Damage Control. The Kennedy's are also an excellent source to cover up their Crimes...

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And it has been said that Spitzer wanted to be the first Jewish president. What a shame.

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Legalize it.

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