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since Hart’s demise. While the Within just a few weeks, Senator electoral process leaves much to be Hart proved unable to withstand. “I I wonder if there is a deeper desired, a cornerstone of our am who I am, take it or leave it,” meaning lurking beneath the story democracy is the right of voters to he declared in his farewell speech. of Gary Hart. Early in the film, a elect their representatives. Voters, Undoubtedly, America made the Washington Post editor not politicians, get to decide how to right choice. anecdotally recalls how LBJ evaluate any person with the intent reportedly asked a group of editors, on becoming President. A Samuel Moore-Sobel is a freelance soon after assuming the candidate, whether they like it or writer. To read more of his work, Presidency, for the same privacy not, must endure a bit of scrutiny. visit they extended to JFK (as it applied www.holdingontohopetoday.com to his numerous extramarital affairs). Apparently, the press obliged. Interestingly, Hart is seemingly operating under this same assumption - that his bedroom should remain off limits, as far as the American people are concerned. Job Title PHLEBOTOMIST Job Title LIBRARIAN In spite of Hart’s defiance, the workintexas.com Posting ID workintexas.com Posting ID scandal at the heart of his brief 5382013 7350578 campaign transcends the details of Location Denison Location Denison an affair. The idea that one’s Posting Close Date 12/19/2018 Posting Close Date personal life fails to affect their Posting Link 12/19/2018 professional one is preposterous. http://bit.ly/2E1wmqw Posting Link Hart exhibited a lack of discipline http://bit.ly/2FPMygu and a streak of recklessness that Description A local company is was evident even in his campaign. Description A local company looking for a LIBRARIAN who Should it really be off limits to ask will assume major responsibility is looking for a whether or not his personal for public service operations. PHLEBOTOMIST who will behavior would influence the way perform routine blood drawing Responsibilities include he approached foreign relations or maintaining current technologies procedures. This position also domestic policy? for ILS, CMS, and various assists in clerical duties, remote contents, and providing blood draws, courier transport information literacy instruction Hart’s arguments also completely of samples, and processing of ignore the realities surrounding a in various settings and outpatients. presidential campaign. While the technological formats of delivery. press may have been too invasive, This position requires a High a lack of privacy is embedded in This position requires a Master's School diploma or equivalent, the process. Assuming a Secret Degree, and a minimum of 1 year Service detail (once the nomination and a minimum of 1 year of of related experience. related experience. is secured), traveling constantly with a group of aides and advisors. Not to mention the lack of privacy Continued from page 1 afforded those who assume the office. In many ways, inherent in the act of running for President is award, it seems there has to be a accepting that your life is no longer Vegas massacre on Oct. 1, 2017. tragedy," said Walker. "No one your own. wins awards for writing a great Monte Walker, president of story about the outstanding Eagle Grayson Publishing, LLC told the Many an editorial has argued since Scout who helped enhance the audience that it was certainly an the release of The Front Runner community through volunteer honor to win the award, but it was that this strange episode was an work. And that's a shame because not without deep emotion. important moment in American those are stories I really like to politics. The scrutiny of the press, write." "This story was about two ladies the idea goes, led to the further that I know that went to Las Vegas erosion of the relationship between The first edition of the Howe to have a good time at a concert Americans and those running for Enterprise was published in June and they were shot at," said Walker higher office. Yet I would argue of 1963 by A.P. Sloan. The to the full audience in Irving, that it may have had the opposite publication was purchased in Texas. "While this award is very effect; mainly, that as a society we August 1966 by Bob Walker and humbling, and I really appreciate it, became desensitized to gaps in sold to Jim and Nita Echols in this is not a touchdown celebration. character. In the years since, September of 1974. Dale and Lana These two ladies are very dear to Americans have elected leaders Rideout purchased the publication me." exhibiting far less character than in January of 1978 and held Gary Hart. A cautionary tale. For, ownership until 2014 when it was won the The Howe Enterprise have Americans been better served purchased by Monte Walker. award a year ago for the article by lowering our standards? entitled, "EF-1 tornado; EF-5 "We want to thank our readers community." None of this to say that anyone is because without you, there's no one perfect, or that a public official to tell stories to," said Walker. "Unfortunately, in order to win an should always be expected to display perfection in terms of morality. Most would concede that the press could have certainly acted in a more professional manner during those heady days of 1987, and that plenty of mistakes were made along the way. Regardless, the question remains: Is it too much to ask for our elected officials to act with a modicum of decency?
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Samuel Moore-Sobel is a freelance writer. He is currently working on a memoir and publishes a blog which can be found by visiting holdingontohopetoday.com Follow him on both Facebook and Twitter. An affair once brought down a presidential candidate. A statement that may seem hard to believe, especially in light of recent elections. Yet, back in 1987, Gary Hart was forced to end his campaign just three weeks into his expected ascent to the White House. The story is chronicled in the recent film, The Front Runner, featuring Hugh Jackman as the Colorado senator. Jackman’s rendition is filled with equal parts lofty and sad moments. An ominous feeling hangs over the film, as one watches a charismatic and intelligent candidate completely self-destruct. Inviting the viewer to feel sorry for the man who could have been president. “I know I could have been a very good President...but apparently now, we will never know,” Sen. Hart says in his withdrawal speech. Lest you begin to feel sorry for Colorado’s fallen senator, considering him a political martyr is a bit of a stretch. What possesses a man, in the middle of a presidential campaign, to invite an unmarried woman to his townhome? Just days after responding to a reporter’s questions regarding his rumored adultery to, “follow me around…if anyone wants to put a tail on me, go ahead.” He evidently believed he was exempt from questions concerning his character, even as he ran for the highest office in the land.
His arrogance aside, viewers of this film are confronted by questions with important implications for the future of our electoral process. Should concerns over a person’s character, or the examination of candidate’s private lives, be part of the process by which voters choose their President? Or perhaps Hart is right when he asserts in his farewell speech that, “We're all going to have to seriously question the system for selecting our national leaders, for it reduces the press of At times, the movie seems intent this nation to hunters and on punishing voters for the Presidential candidates to being “tabloid culture” that has ensued
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