[Brad from Tennessee]

I believe most politicians are amoral at their core. Some are what psychiatrists call “functional psychopaths”—malignant, criminal personalities who are shrewd enough to avoid major run-ins with the law. Murtha was snared in ABSCAM but he was able to cut a deal by turning on two co-conspirators.

After Swift Boat veteran John O’Neil debated John Kerry on Dick Cavet’s show, when they were both still young, O’Neil said Kerry approached him after the debate to shake hands which O’Neil refused. O’Neil said that by this gesture Kerry was telling him the debate was only about personal political ambition—which Kerry guessed must be O’Neil’s motive for being there—and not about viciously slandering hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops still in the field and abandoning millions of Vietnamese to death and tyranny.

When Bill Clinton allegedly raped Juanita Broaddrick in a hotel room, a charge supported by much circumstantial evidence, he forcibly embraced her then bit down on her upper lip with his teeth and held the bite while he raped her. This technique would indicate Clinton was a practiced rapist. Friends of Broaddrick the next morning commented on her swollen lip.

If I could remake American politics, which I can’t, I would like to see farmers, carpenters, welders, waitresses, barbers, nurses and truck drivers in Congress and the White House rather this endless gaggle of sleazy, sociopathic lawyers.

The news media worships and elevates these scumbags while attacking anyone who opposes them.

I hope in 2008 the voters will send a real message and dump this whole load of human garbage.

[Seaplaner]

Some are what psychiatrists call “functional psychopaths”—malignant, criminal personalities...[later adding]...sociopathic lawyers.

Hmmm, sounds complete. I might only add malignant narcissism to the collection of psychiatric abnormalities of the Murthas, Kerrys, Clintons, and Kennedys and their Beltway chums.