Interesting

Okay, I rarely ever put my two cents in about politics, but I found this article really made some good points. Most pointedly?

The president is responsible for his people, for the culture of deceit. His administration is the soil. And the scandals - the torture at Abu Ghraib, the missing weapons of mass destruction, the unqualified director of the Federal Emergency Management Association, and the lies freely spun by the people in the highest offices of the executive branch - these are the flowers that grow in the president's dirt.

Yeah.

Now, I'm the kind of person who says "Whether or not I voted for him, this is the president we have, so we respect the position." It starts out with benefit of the doubt, and for me, this president has lost that. The hard questions seem to get skirted or answered with the most assinine responses, and I begin to wonder if anyone in the White House has any idea what life is like for people who have to live in the real world.

I put it to the president that we're now seeing the results of raising children who don't know what it is to have consequences for their actions. I realize that some of what prompted all of this feels something like a witch hunt, but I don't believe in the example the action of excusing Libby from prison time and the talk of a potential pardon sets.

Anyway...there's my two cents.