In American presidential campaigns the candidates raise as much corporate money for advertising as they can, and use it to purchase the advertising, which purchases the presidency for one "lucky" lottery winner. The candidates attack each other, both inside and outside their respective parties. The attacks often concern the personal behavior of opposing candidates.
Rick Perry and Hermann Cain are the latest "victims" of this strategy. May we have the good grace and sense to refrain from this behavior, and instead to focus on substantive issues.
Perry showed up for a speech in New Hampshire apparently either slightly drunk, under the influence of some other drug, or extremely tired. This illustrates his unfitness for high political office.
Women seldom accuse men of sexual harassment without some kind of basis. Men of power often feel entitled to behave as they please, which is often inappropiately. Cain therefore lacks the integrity to hold high office. The very need to reconcile these seemingly contradictory but apparent facts constitutes yet another indication of the underlying fact: American culture in its current state is an illness.
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