Spitzer: Character Matters

Thomas Sowell explains why New York Governor Eliott Spitzer's YEAR-long involvement in an ILLEGAL protitution ring was not a "personal matter" and "unrelated to his duties as governor."

In this age, when it is considered the height of sophistication to be "non-judgmental," one of the corollaries is that "personal" failings have no relevance to the performance of official duties.

What that amounts to, ultimately, is that character doesn't matter. In reality, character matters enormously, more so than most things that can be seen, measured or documented.

Character is what we have to depend on when we entrust power over ourselves, our children and our society to government officials.

We cannot risk all that for the sake of the fashionable affectation of being more non-judgmental than thou.

See article here: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2008/ts_03121.shtml