Crotch brains

What do the following individuals have in common: former president Bill Clinton, Sen. John Edwards, Gen. David Petraeus, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Lopez, Heidi Klum and former presidential candidate Gary Hart? 

They were all caught or accused of cheating on their significant others.
 
Does our country have any integrity at all? Is it that people who have fame and power think from their crotches instead of from their brains? 

Are you one of these people? How do you think when you’re out each weekend at a party? Am I going out on a limb? Hell yes, but what’s going on in this country needs some serious thought.

How many people do you know who that have cheated on their spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend? It’s not “if” they’ve cheated. We’re beyond that. Rather, it’s “how many.”

Elected officials, media stars, athletes and the like are glamorized and put on pedestals. You want absurd? Watch “Keeping up with the Kardashians.”

Kardashian has more boyfriends and bedfellows than IU’s football team has “wins.”

The recent Petraeus scandal has sent me over the cliff, not the fiscal cliff that in itself will be President Barack Obama’s next nightmare, but the cliff of moral sanity. If we can’t trust a four-star general to be honest and trustworthy, then who do we look to for hope? 

Sure, no one is perfect, but our standard of perfection is located somewhere between a prostitute, a sex offender, and a pervert.

I am embarrassed for our country. We have never been more divided. We are $16 trillion in debt. We have more poor and unemployed people than ever, and we have the head of the CIA using zero intelligence and sleeping with his autobiographer. 

Is trust something that is a façade?  What needs to occur to bring this country back to a leader of world-class integrity? This is a circus. “Saturday Night Live” writers just need to sit back and wait for the flurry of embarrassing and ridiculous news stories coming from the supposedly premier caste of our country.
 
Other countries on which we spend billions of dollars and try to “fix” are in hysterics regarding our own stupidity.

Perfection is not my foremost attribute, but you can trust me. Our political system is smoked with corruption, lies and selfishness. Our economy is dependent on credit - borrow, borrow and borrow at whatever cost.

The United States’ bar of integrity can be tripped on by an ant.
 
Forget the tired old claim of “no one’s perfect.”

I’m embarrassed by the behavior of our country. We’re better than this. 

It starts with me, and it starts with you.

­— wfgryna@indiana.edu