Would you let the politicians you elect babysit you children??


http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-14-2013/cracked

News services all over Asia are awash with Canadian mayor rob ford from Toronto. I always like seeing Canadian news coverage while wintering in Asia regardless do the context or pretext. Expats from all over the English speaking countries are having a field day here with the crack smoking, alcohol soaked, obesely bloated, ill mannered, abusively vulgar, Toronto elected and poll rising politician. I quite frankly, take some pride in having one of the most colorful media clips riding the networks of Al Jazeera, news Asia, BBC and Bloomberg just to name a few. Canada news rarely makes one of the networks here in Thailand, let alone the entire gamut.

The stark reality of the real drama did not crystallize until I read a Facebook post from a law professor analyzing the same allegations, no wait, confessed infractions in the workplace. "This is really a point I want my students to grasp – we hold politicians to a much lower standard of accountability for their conduct than we do a Wal-Mart cashier or McDonald’s burger flipper". This quandary, including the discriminatory card of addictions, quickly raised the question, how have Canadians sunk to such a depth that we elect people that we would never knowingly hire to babysit our children. The ardent supporters in those rising polls are the real misguided Canadians. Not some sad example of a political human being holding Toronto's mayoral office.

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