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Robert — (archived)

And yet, as a side effect, those investigations often produce valuable information and constructive results.

We'd do well to remember that just because a partisan takes pleasure in publicizing the mistakes and misdeeds of his/her opponent, it doesn't negate the existence of those mistakes and misdeeds. It may be unseemly, it may be small and petty, it may be vindictive, but yet, it still brings the truth to light (at the heart of all the spin).

I'm not sure it could be any other way, given human nature, and that's what I meant about the Founders holding their noses and trying to make something positive of our base impulses. How far would they have gotten just putting a clause in the Constition enjoining us to be serious and responsible? Masters of headology, they were. Granny would've fit right in.

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