Letters to the Editor
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The next commander-in-chief should not be someone who....
Would strap a large caged dog to the roof of his car...
Would get authorities to treat his son's sadistic behavior as a mission of mercy...
Would ditch his wife and family for someone who is capable of torturing dogs for a good sales presentation.
Yes it does matter. It speaks to character and judgement. To moral interpretation and arrogance. Perhaps the headline was misleading. This is not about cute puppie mishaps, or slight lapses of common sense.
Jeffrey Daumer tortured animals as a child. Imagine if someone had thought that was really significant. The idea that an in-your-face "Christian" and minister like Huckabee would countenance this behavior in his son without seeking help is disturbing, but not surprising.
The fact that Mitt Romney would think it is good management to hose off a terrified dog and hit the road again speaks volumes about his disregard for life and his sense of cosmic superiority. And the fact that he regards his sons' missionary work as comparable to soldiers fighting in Iraq fits right in with his views about defenseless animals who depend on him.
These are soul-less people.
And it does matter. It really does. George Bush is a soul-less person, too. And the blood on his hands is the unsurprising outcome of someone having no regard for life other than his own and those of his little self-important circle.
When the Saudi king "pardoned" a victim of gang rape, W's reaction was not of outrage in general, but he tied it to what he would feel if it were one of his girls. That's the only way he could process the horror of a cultural nightmare, by making it about him. I would imagine that if he didn't have the twins to provide an emotional framework, he wouldn't have been moved to comment at all.
I am a military mom...I'll be damned if people like these should ever have the power to inflict their lack of humanity on our troops again. (or on the rest of us, for that matter)