A comment about my comments

Recently, I was railroaded by my own sister on her blog in response to a comment I posted on said blog. This I can accept because the comment I posted was confrontational in tone and did make generalizations which were slightly unfair. For this, I owe her an apology.

You see, this is the main reason I try not to post political commentary on my blog. Unless you are a generally accepted, equal-opportunity, political satirist (e.g. The Onion, The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live...) it's hard to get away with quibbling over silly little things without sounding mean spirited and petty. The reason being that we all know you're making a larger point.

Since I do not write for "The Onion" or "The Daily Show" I choose not to put every silly little criticism I have of people on the other side of the aisle into words on this blog. If for no other reason than to avoid opening myself up to return cricisms that may hit a little too close to home. This is what I thought I was trying to accomplish in my comments to dittoheston.com, though I recognize it wasn't the most constructive of criticisms. Of course, it just got thrown back in my face.

Most of us are more moderate than we are given credit for and we need to remember that when we're engaged in dialogue with others.

As much as I would like to put this whole messy situation behind us, I would, however, like to point out one incorrect assumption made by dittoheston: I do not believe Scooter Libby deserves a get-out-of-jail-free card. He committed a felony and was found guilty of it, but he was (in my view, obviously) the fall guy for crimes of much greater import to the American people and I do believe the punishment he was given did not entirely fit the crime of which he was convicted. Many people say that Bush went too far in commuting the prison term but many others believe that he didn't go far enough and that his administration (more specifically, the Vice President) owe Libby a full pardon for taking the perverbial bullet. It's not cut and dry but I honestly think that this nation has bigger worries at the moment than Scooter Libby or the dress code at Presidential functions.