Friday, August 31, 2007
Craig's list (heh)
Hasn't everyone done something stupid once or twice or more? Something we devoutly hope no one ever finds out about? Something we try to bury under the floorboards of our memory, let alone almost manage to believe never happened in the first place? Sure. On the other hand, most of us aren't national politicians whose more or less every action is out there for press and public scrutiny. Whatever Idaho senator Craig did or didn't do in an airport men's room, or whatever he meant to do or didn't mean to do, certainly it was a bit creepy to some of us, or at least a bit distasteful. But isn't it the real point that he displayed such wildly bad judgment? What he did, or at any rate seemed to want to do, is one thing, but immediately pleading guilty and failing to seek and heed legal advice is what we might all do when we're hoping we can dive into the sand and wish things to just go away. For public officials, it doesn't happen like that and he sure as heck ought to have known that. He's been a tad too condemnatory all along anyway, so perhaps some of his constituents expected his behavior to be consistent with his stated stances. But his bad judgment would concern me far more.
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