Why is it that only campaign advisers quit? Shaheen, Power–not to mention the casting off of Rob Malley. These people were merely advising campaigns; it’s fine for them to get cut loose. What about the idiot braintrust that got us into Iraq? Why isn’t the spotlight on them to do harikiri? No one quit during Monicagate either, when you’d think disgust/disillusion would have worked on some of them. Presidential campaigns will get rid of anyone when they’re trying to acquire power. Once they’ve gotten it, forget about it.
I feel that Americans place too great a value on loyalty in corporate/hierarchical settings. While meantime the American myth supports claims of individuality, independence, freedom of conscience. The campaigns invoke the freeranging American myth. After that it’s just another lockdown.
