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I am bored right now so I thought I would write in this blog.

write about what exactly? Well let us see. Recently I sawr a film called "Street Fight" which documented the 2002 mayoral race between incumbent Sharpe James and young newcomer and outsider Cory Booker.

Do some research on Cory Booker and you can definitely see he is a "choir boy" type candidate. Cory doesn't smoke or drink. He went to Stanford, then became a Rhodes Scholar, and topped it all off by getting his Juris Doctor from Yale. On top of all that, when he moved to Newark and got elected as a city councilmen he chose to live in one of the public housing projects he represented. He made 100 grand a year and still chose to live in a public housing project!

Examining all I have just mentioned, Cory obviously seems like quite the reputable, respectable individual. His opponent, incumbent Sharpe James seems like just the opposite. A lot of his staff members were indicted on corruption charges in the 1990s and he himself was an old school machine politician who spared no expense in dishing out dirty tricks against Booker in the 2002 campaign.

Now, I have grown so cynical of politicians, and even righteous moral leaders in general, that the case of Cory Booker perplexes me. I mean, even Martin Luther King jr. had dalliances with girls while married in hotel rooms when he was travelling around giving speechs. No one is perfect, are they? Does not everyone get corrupted?

You know how people get corrupted. Their desire to be "the man." To get everything that causes them pleasure, even if its at the expense of others own well being. People want to command the respect of the world, to have the good life: fine things, fats, salts, sweets, and of course: a lot of sex. This desire for pleasure is pretty strong, combine it with the seed of doubt that just maybe, just maybe, this is all there is, and we only have one life to live.

In addition, we may become corruput ecause we are just so self centered. We can't feel the hardships or pleasure of other people, not in the visceral, chemical sense we feel our own emotions. That lack of empathy could in fact breed the capacity for corruption within us. I know it already has for me, it definitely has. What I dont know, is if it has for Cory Booker.

Who is this Cory Booker? Does he actually care about helping other people? Maybe he does, Maybe he really does. Although, maybe he doesn't. I'll keep an eye on his career for the rest of my life, because I am really interested in his own morality.

If it turns out he truly has the self control and discipline to "Do The Right Thing," well then...I'll hate myself for not having the same strength.