I watched an old b&w movie last night "Reserved for Ladies". London head-waiter masquerades as royalty to snag an aristocrat girlie. Basically: 1920's between-wars euro romantic comedy.

In the flic, there's a scene where an incognito king and our headwaiter pass judgment on the masses, royalty, aristocrats, workingmen and politicians - the classes they both have to 'deal with', all of whom seem blissfully unaware the other classes exist.

Quote Originally Posted by Idaho
You make it sound like there are politician out there who do have standards that stand above their ambitions. They all have the morals of alley cats.
... could have been lifted from that very king-headwaiter scene. My point? Even 90 years ago, politicians have been held in very low regard. It was funny to see the "alley cats" remark repeated so soon after I viewed the movie.