Shakespeare was has Richard III say "winter" but the sentiment is appropriate this season. Not only has a liar got a chance at winning the White House, Gerald Tremblay, the mayor of Montreal, has resigned after flurry of revelations about corruption in city government.To give Tremblay credit, I don't think he ever was as self-deluding a prevaricator as Romney seems to have always been. And in this legal system, a person is innocent until proven guilty. But it is tragic that politics has once again thrown up evidence of the way twisted men can manipulate the system.
Tremblay began his resignation speech by saying, in French, that "When I was a young man, my father told me not to get into politics because it was dirty and would destroy me." The current scandals do nothing to change that impression among a large percentage of the population, unfortunately.
Politics should be a high calling. Politicians have the well being of everyone in their hands. That millions will wait in line to vote in the US today, and that thousands around here are looking for change for the better is a tribute to faith in the system. Let us hope that faith is respected.
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