There's no need to rehash what happened in Tuscon one week ago. By now you've seen all the news, heard every side and almost every angle on what happened that day, and most especially you have heard Sarah Palin's "all about me" Facebook video.
But what I find truly outstanding in that video was the forgiving nature that Palin showed. She's truly a wonderful woman who has seen the light.
Follow me below the fold and bask in the glowing light of forgiveness;
In her Facebook video, Palin said the following;
President Reagan said, "We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.
Let's read the key phrase in that paragraph again;
Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state....
With this simple phrase, Palin attempts to wash the blood from her own hands. Her followers will tell you that she has succeeded.
Perhaps she has.
But if this is true, as Palin will have us believe, then the entire rationale for chasing terrorists has flown out the window.
Osama bin Laden is apparently an innocent man, free from any finger-pointing. Whether or not he is a leading terrorist, he has committed no crimes apparently.
The men who bombed the USS Cole? That crime begins and ends with the men on that little boat that blew a hole in the side of our ship, according to Palin. In her feeble mind, there is nobody "responsible" for putting them up to it except themselves.
9/11? Clearly all the men responsible died in the plane crashes. Better forgive al qaeda now, Sarah. They obviously had nothing to do with it. The responsibility begins and ends with the men holding the box cutters, so you say.
From this day forward, there can never again be a talking head on Fox who dares to suggest that an imam may have seduced someone into attacking an American interest. Apparently it no longer matters if somebody had an influence on a crime. Only the trigger man is free from innocence now.
Queen Sarah said so.
I'm sure she'll be apologizing to bin Laden any day now. I'd better go check Facebook to see.