This is paraphrased from Jack London’s description of a scab, but since the description easily fits politicians I’m going to use it anyway. =)
“After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a politician.A politician is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.When a politician comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of Hell to keep him out.No man has a right to politics so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a politician. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A politician has not.Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern politician sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise to his constituency.Esau was a traitor to himself: Judas Iscariot was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a politician is a traitor to his God, his country, his wife, his family and his class.”
This is paraphrased from Jack London’s description of a scab, but since the description easily fits politicians I’m going to use it anyway. =)
“After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a politician.A politician is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.When a politician comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of Hell to keep him out.No man has a right to politics so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a politician. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A politician has not.Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern politician sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise to his constituency.Esau was a traitor to himself: Judas Iscariot was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a politician is a traitor to his God, his country, his wife, his family and his class.”