Never trust an 'honest' man

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Star: Daniel Sheehan, chief counsel, Christic Institute Brian Willson, Viet vet who fell victim to Navy trair Holley Rauen, nurse, witness to attack on Willson Martha Honey, plaintiff, Christic Institute lawsuit Prof. Manuel Monestel, Costa Rican composer Sunday, November 8, 1987, 2 p.m. Masonic Audit., 1111 Calif. St., San Francisco Sponsored by: Mobilization for Peaco, Jobs and Justico almost feel sorry for the Democrats and Republicans. Maybe 1988 will be the year they'll have to forego electing a president because they can't find an honest candidate.

Candidates are being dropped like gunslingers in the old West. Every day you open up the paper, one of the leading candidates has been caught with his hand in the till or making out without benefit of wedlock. First Gary Hart, then Senator Biden.

The latest is "honest" Pat Robertson. It seems that he lied on just about everything you could think of to lie about. He said he went to Oxford University as a graduate student. It turned out that he had only taken a summer art course in England.

Then he said he had received battle stars for his action during the Korean War. It turned out, however, that he had been nowhere near any fighting. He had done his duty in the officers quarters—far from any battles.

Couldn't "say no"

If that wasn't enough, he lied about his marriage and the birth of his first child. It seems that holier-than-thou Pat Robertson couldn't "say no." He and his wife actually got married only 10 weeks before the birth of his son.

Robertson explained that he had just gotten the date of his birthday and the date of his son's birth mixed up. It could happen to anyone, he said. Now his David Linder, father of Ben Linder Paul Kantner, singer 'DENS income is under investigation. I can't wait to find out exactly how honest old honest Pat is.

When his wife, Adelia, was eight months pregnant with their second child, Pat Robertson took off to a rustic island in Canada to "commune with God." Adelia wept and begged, but good ol' Pat left her alone to manage her pregnancy, care for the couple's toddler, and move into a new home.

The story of this unforgiving moralist's hypocrisy was revealed by The Washington Post. One of the Rev. Robertson's supporters wrote an outraged letter to the newspaper saying that they should be ashamed of themselves for bringing up old incidents such as Robertson's first child being WHONP A BIDEN fue THE 'FALL' CAMPNEN born out of wedlock, since that happened before he become a Christian.

But all the lying honest Pat Robertson did, was done after his conversion.

"On the take"

The sound of falling candidates is reverberating through both the Democratic and Republican parties. The leading contenders have such sorry records that they have to try and clean them up.

It is not surprising to socialists that these capitalist politicians have feet of clay. It is impossible to make it up the ladder in either political party unless you are prepared to be on the "take."

The capitalist class, the real "kingmakers," want a candidate they can depend on—who is loyal to their class. That means the politician must be completely incorporated in, and dependent on that class. And in the last analysis, they welcome some outright dishonesty-so that when push comes to shove they can blackmail their political representatives if they get out of line.

And of course, the loyal politician is rewarded in many ways-including winding up on the boards of directors of large corporations after their tours of duty as public officials are over. It works every time.-S.W.

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2 SOCIALIST ACTION NOVEMBER 1987 If it weren't so humorous, I'd