Destined For Failure

This one is an interesting post. Newly resigned ex-governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer may have been destined for failure.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080313/us_time/wasspitzerdestinedtofall

Part of it was being not just the brilliant son of a multimillionaire - someone who surely sensed entitlement from an early age - but the son of a particular multimillionaire, Bernard Spitzer. Bernard (who is in his 80s and suffering from Parkinson's) was a fierce, demanding parent. He once reduced Eliot to tears during a game of Monopoly. Bernard, a real estate developer, had ordered his son - at the time a boy of 7 or 8 - to sell him a piece of property; Eliot then couldn't afford the rent when a roll of the dice landed him on that property. "He didn't realize his own rights," Bernard told Masters years later, adding that he had taught his son a lesson: "Never defer to authority.

First of all, I'm pretty sure Spitzer had a deep seeded resentment towards his father. Actually, I kind of have a deep seeded resentment towards his father. Aside from the whole hooker-fiasco (Hookergate maybe? I love adding the words 'gate' to the end of things to make them into a controversy! Schoolgate, apartmentgate, cargate! try it out with your friends) Spitzer did kind of do a good job as attorney general. He was just kind of, you know, a hypocrite.

But look, his dad made him cry after a game of Monopoly. I've always had a problem with Monopoly. Mainly because it makes you want to conquest to make everyone else bankrupt. If anything, Monopoly can probably be attributed to every rich, jackass who lords his (or her) money over you. I would blame Monopoly for many of the social ills that exist today (poverty, hunger, homelessness, KFC, AIDS, SARS, the Ebola virus, bird flu, Cuba; the list could go on).

In short, Monopoly made Spitzer cry, made him governor, made him have a strong love of hookers, and eventually led to his demise. I think Monopoly should be banned in this country like a Cuban Cigar. And someone should beat up that Monopoly, cartoon guy too.