A Liberal Progressive in a Tropical Sea of Red
I am guilty of having made racist comments, even if joking, in the past. While the number of times that has occurred in recent memory has gone down, and I have become much more vigilant in my words and deeds, I still feel the guilt of using race as a method of humor. This being said, there is nothing humorous about hanging three nooses from a tree in a schoolyard.
For more, we turn to Marc Brodzic from Collateral News:
Mr. Larry E. Craig, a Republican senator from the state of Idaho, has resigned, in response to a scandal where he allegedly solicited sexual favors from a police officer in the stall next to him.
I’ve never been in the restrooms at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where Mr. Craig was arrested in March, so I don’t know the particulars about the size of the restroom where he supposedly inquired about said favors. I do know, however, that in Miami, at the Miami International Airport, there are restrooms that are difficult to navigate in, and ones where the restroom stalls are quite narrow. Had this exchange occurred in one of these restrooms, it is quite possible that Mr. Craig’s feet may have touched the feet of his neighbor, thus leading to further exchange of pleasantries, finally leading up to the handing under the stall wall of a card indicating that Mr. Craig’s restroom neighbor was a police officer.
All things considered, if Mr. Craig, as he claims, was totally innocent, and this was merely a misunderstanding, he should have fought the charges. However, having heard the tape in which he discusses his options with the police officer, his explanation that he pleaded guilty in order to get this out of the way in the quickest way possible does, in fact, sound plausible – if not the best way to have resolved this.
I’m not being an apologist for Mr. Craig’s alleged actions… what I am saying is that we probably should take his explanation at face value.
But man, his colleagues sure did hang him out to dry, didn’t they…
