W straddles fence, commutes Libbys sentence

[Otto]

While the greedy bastard is easy to predict most of the time, there is the looming fact that the greedy bastard will always make sure to serve himself and his interests first. He is going to make sure that he is going to win and he will weasel his way through any kind of safeguards and pre-planning that you have set up.

Both the greedy bastard and the religious crazy are unpredictable, except the greedy bastard will give you the illusion that he works through a legal system.

It should also be known that the 2 have hybridized to produce what we know as the modern conservative politician: a horrible cross of underhanded economics, self-serving religion, and an insane urge to punish people who don't share his faith.

[mburbank]

I don't think you could categorize W or Cheney as 'greedy', unless what tey are greedy for is power. Since they are already the two most powerful people on earth, there's very little in the way of manipulating to be done.

And while I think fanatical terrorists 'want' worse things to happen than Cheney, I'll be the first to admit, I have no idea at all what Cheney 'wants'.
W wants to be more dad than his dad. Rove wants a permanent republican majority. What does Dick want? I don't think anyone but Dick has any idea, and maybe not even him.

The day may well be coming when what evil men 'want' is equal to what they achieve. But in our generation(s) I still think men with far more mundane 'wants' achieved far more evil. This to me is the very core of the human condition. The powerful 'good guys' (which is what everybody thinks of themselves) make a continual slaughterhouse of the world in the name of all the good things they want. The most crazy only want good for the five other people who believe exactly as they do. The least crazy want a good probably more than fifty percent of the people on earth could live with. And then they have a contest to see who can cause the most suffering. It's probably some hardwired biological imperative to keep the population of the species down. Intelligent design.

[Preechr]

mburbank~It is my dim view of human nature that MAKES me a liberal.