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A year ago last January, 2009, I gave my presidential address at the Society of Christian Ethics meeting in Chicago, Illinois. At that time Governor Blagoyovich was being forced out of office because of allegations that he had attempted to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated U. S. senate seat. While this was a tragedy for the state of Illinois, it made my address look prophetic. My address was, however, prepared long before Blagoyovich’s violations. The address was an ethical reflection of the phenomenon of moral disjuncture in evaluating political leaders on the basis of a too narrow focus on their personal moral actions in contrast to a misguided ethical evaluation of the morality of their public policy.