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Spitzer: Self-Destruction

I am pleasantly surprised to see such enlightened and insightful comments, as well as by the simple depth of the original article. Pleasantly surprised, against the benchmark of (stereo)typical American financial industry people. It is a disappointment at a personal level indeed. However, it is irrefutable that few people would do better in his past and present jobs. Politics is such low-class business and the requisite compromises are intellectualy disgusting. Given typical constituencies, in game theory terms, one faces a heartbreaking and irresolvable conundrum, that is if one maintains the same explicit positions in personal and professional contexts -- which in real life can be not always possible and should not of course be required. Greater plurality can somewhat solve this issue, but that certainly isn't the greatest hallmark of the American political system.