Assistant Village Idiot
2008-04-10 12:20:40

Of course. Lee merely politely said what he had said more energetically before, trying to shade it into the realm of “well, this could be an uncontroversial POV if you sorta squinted hard and blurred the edges.”

Except it isn’t, and everyone reading his remarks knew that. These spin efforts remind me of the threadbare excuses of teenagers who got caught. Their peers think the excuses are perfectly good, but no parent does. I use the image intentionally. Listening to Obama – excusers reminds me of nothing so much as my youngest son – or worse, me when I was his age.