Saturday, March 29, 2008
'Loyalty is a cardinal virtue'
James Carville defends his 'Judas Iscariot' attack on Bill Richardson and pronounces, 'I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue.' Actually, I've come to the conclusion that loyalty is the most abused and overrated of virtues. Its loudest proponents are usually bullies, thugs and gangsters, demanding one-way loyalty toward themselves and rarely extending it back to others. Bill Richardson never took a life-long oath to the Family when he accepted the UN and Energy posts under Bill Clinton. He most certainly didn't take a life-long oath to the Family's matriarch either. But the Family and its Chief Dynastic Enforcer for Life seem to think otherwise. ...
James Carville defends his 'Judas Iscariot' attack on Bill Richardson and pronounces, 'I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue.' Actually, I've come to the conclusion that loyalty is the most abused and overrated of virtues. Its loudest proponents are usually bullies, thugs and gangsters, demanding one-way loyalty toward themselves and rarely extending it back to others. Bill Richardson never took a life-long oath to the Family when he accepted the UN and Energy posts under Bill Clinton. He most certainly didn't take a life-long oath to the Family's matriarch either. But the Family and its Chief Dynastic Enforcer for Life seem to think otherwise. ...
