I did not have time or physical strength to post this yesterday, but here goes:

Laura Bush is my hero for this week because of some comments she made about Hillary Clinton, to be broadcast on Monday (according to Drudge):

Q Before I let you go, one political question, because I'll get fired if I don’t ask at least one political question. The ceremony for Coretta Scott King was just so moving, all the speakers at that. Hillary Clinton has now taken a little bit of the forefront. And I know that you all travel together, and just a week before, she had some very harsh words about this administration, saying it could be one of the worst -- go down in history as one of the worst ever. Is that just politics, is that fair game, or is that out of bounds, a statement like that?

MRS. BUSH: Well, of course I think it’s out of bounds. But I think it’s politics, it’s certainly politics. President Clinton and President Bush and President Bush number 41 who was with us, as well, are in a club together, and really, I think, wives of the Presidents are in a club, as well. We know what it’s like to live in that house. We certainly know what it’s like to have your husband criticized. So I think there’s a certain empathy that we might have for each other that we wouldn’t have maybe for somebody else who said something like that.

My hack is anyone who has reacted violently to one of these cartoons:

As my mom put it an in an e-mail:

"It seems like anything will set off the rioting and killing ( don't they have anything better to do?). What's next? Someone sneezes and it sounds like they cursed Mohammed and they will burn down a house and riot? I mean, come on...if every time an image of Jesus was make fun of or defiled and the world's Christians erupted in violence, there would be war everyday!!! I think that this does an injustice to the peace practice and forgiveness of the Muslim faith."

Amen.

Posted by Ryan S. on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 8:28 PM | Permalink |