[fabsroman]

I'll agree with you that there were some level heads there at the time. However, I think you will agree that sometimes a little investigation needs to be done to make sure that the facts are conveyed to the public correctly. Look at the response time we got with the West Virginia miners, and look how that turned out. Sometimes, speed isn't all it is cracked up to be when it turns out that things are inaccurate.

Sure, I could crank out a tax return in an hour without ever talking to the client about grey areas, but you can bet there would be mistakes in it.

At the end of the day, it is easy for people to criticize when they aren't in the other person's shoes. We can criticize this administration on 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Irag, the response to Katrina, and now the Cheney's shooting. Seems as though this administration has a lot on its mind and it has had to deal with a bunch of stuff the previous administration did not. I don't blame them for holding the information.

Let me ask this question, would it be such a big deal if it was anybody other than the Vice President that shot somebody. This is a big deal, and we are making a "federal case" of it because it was the Vice President. Why should we be entitled to know this stuff immediately. Does it have any effect on the nation as a whole. Is it required that this type of information be divulged to the American public? Somehow, I don't think this has anything to do with National Security.

At the end of the day, we can be mad at Cheney for making our fight to keep firearms harder. We can be mad at him and the administration for not disclosing this info to us immediately. However, in the end, I think we would be better off trying to support the guy.

I too was mad when I first heard about this, but I put myself in Cheney's shoes and started to feel bad for him. Can you imagine shooting your friend by accident and then having to deal with all this? I am surprised the man is still sane. On top of all that, we have a man lying in a hospital bed, yet the nation's comedians can find humor in all this. Utterly insane.

At the end of the day, I will agree to disagree about this whole thing, but I think my position is pretty clear. I am going to support Cheney until I find out that he shot the guy on purpose.