Great posts here - M Ted and others who said similar things; I know when I was a young musician many people thought we were all long haired, wild and reckless living drug takers - and it wasn't true. Some of us were, to one degree or other - and some of us never were, but many thought of us ALL in that category. Years later in my corporate life phase (thank God that's over) many people thought we were all traveling the world living high, and cheating on our wives in every city, spending our companies' bloated expense accounts on selfish pursuits -and it wasn't true. Some of us were, to one degree or other - and some of us never were, but many thought of us ALL in that category.

I think when we're angered by the behavior of others, we tend to put an "all of those guys do that" sort of judgement around them - and we need to remember, there are few behaviors that everybody in group follows; good, bad or otherwise. I do take your meaning though, I too feel very cynical sometimes that our political professionals, our gov't leaders find it too easy to engage in purely selfish pursuits - and want to damn the whole lot of them! And maybe there are too many what Mr Condit-types in DC (and surely on BOTH sides of the ailse). But Mr Condit has certainly risen to the top because of the disappearance of the young woman - and even if he is innocent of any worng doing with respect to her disappearance - his behavior, his attitude about his behavior and his apparently long history of such liassons would make me vote him out of office, if I were in his district.