A Potpourri of Politics
May 29th, 2007The Secret Service is stretching itself too thin because of the enormous field this year. In response they’re pulling agents from other agencies and taking guys off of investigation and putting them into security.
My solution? Don’t protect all of the candidates. I mean, who wants to kill Tommy Thompson or Joe Biden? Aside from Labour Party speechwriters.
A few more things on my radar: Bush is passing more economic sanctions against Sudan, hundreds of thousands of lives, of children, too late. Shame on him, as well as the international community that didn’t do anything either though they were in a better position to help than us.
Cindy Sheehan is quitting as the face of the antiwar Left. She’s mad at Democrats now, as every antiwar democrat should be. Wonder if she’s mad at herself yet, for a) believing that the Democrats would do anything significant against the war and b) exploiting her pro-war, pro-military son’s death and ruining her marriage and family as a result.
China has sentenced their food and drug chief to death because of consumer-safety scandals. Now I know that “Die if you fail!” might motivate some people, but I also know that the Chinese are a disgusting government and there’s absolutely no reason to sentence someone to death for being incompetent and corrupt (he expedited the arrival of new drugs for bribes). But this is China we’re talking about where the death penalty is acceptable for being born.