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...mortgage programs recently returned tothe public eye when it was discovered that formerSupreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg bought aHarvard-owned house in 1979 under the PurchaseOption plan...
Following the Ten Commandments has little to do with being a good leader. If that is not clear, then just imagine turning the current argument against Ginsburg or the others around. Suppose we judged men or women by their moral strengths, not simply their weaknesses.Would we want the nation's nicest person to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? To be President...
When discussions of character become issues then they lead to the kinds of absurdities seen in Judge Ginsburg's case. Some experimenting with marijuana and the poor man is forced to make statements to the press. To those of us in college now, that comes as quite a blow. Gov jocks must quaking about that crazy night at Quincy when they got sick on the Master's residence or that paper extension that turned into three weeks. How much should mistakes now cost us later...
People just shouldn't be held accountable for those kinds of things 20 years down the road. What really is a sin is that Judge Ginsburg had to face this issue at all. Smoking a little pot is in no way going to affect a judge's decisions. We have to give our leaders more credit than that. We have to trust them to leave their personal lives in their bedrooms and be businesslike about our nation's business. It's been done before, it's being done now, and it certainly will be done in the future...
...anyone still worries about the relationship between personal indiscretions and public performance perhaps we can satisfy them by asking the indiscreet to be more careful. A word to Judge Ginsburg and he will probably have agreed to keep doobies out of his judge's chambers. As for the hyper-competitive Mr. Carlucci? Perhaps somebody should simply ask him to decline all tennis invitations from Politburo members...