We elect politicians to represent us, not serve as moral role models

IN the middle of the current — albeit dwindling — feeding frenzy, a politician who shall be nameless let out a statement which went unchallenged, perhaps because the interviewer was having too much fun pursuing the story of the loans/gifts/whiparounds for Bertie Ahern. Or maybe because the interviewer found the statement inarguable.

“Public representatives must be held to a higher standard,” was the statement.

A higher standard than what? Dolly the cloned sheep? Of course not. The politician meant that public representatives must be held to a higher standard than sleazebags like you and me.