To politics again...

I have to apologize for the rant in the last post. After re-reading it today, I have to wince. It was a bit much, but it did reflect how I felt at the time.

I don't want to talk about the Presidential race today, so much as the information and people posting online.

I like surfing the web for info on political issues. You can find a lot more on the Internet than you can find in newspapers and on television. The Internet in a lot of ways has broadened the amount and types of information that you can find. This is an excellent thing. However....

I just find that it also gives opportunity and protective anonymity to people to freely spew a lot of crap. My one gripe with reading political blogs and websites is that people who post comments can say all kinds of s*** and get away with it.

As a person who supports a particular candidate, I have to wince when I get a load of some of the back and forth that goes on. And really, it comes from all sides.

For example, yesterday the Kentucky Derby took place. Tragically, one of the horses had to be put down on the track because the horse broke bones in both front legs. The horse was the lone filly in the race, Eight Belles. It just so happened that a few days ago, Clinton asked a number of her supporters in KY to place bets on the filly. A sort of symbolic support. Perfectly understandable...

So yesterday, several blogs noted the irony in the filly in the race that Clinton supported having to be put down after coming into second. Personally, yes... I can see the extreme irony in that fact and also in the fact that the horse that won was "Big Brown", one of Obama's picks. However, I think it was extremely tasteless of people to take that analogy and make crass suggestions about Clinton and "putting her down" after the primaries were over with. (And yes, there are people who actually said this!)

People seriously need to grow up! Good gravy... how could they even suggest such a thing??? You can be against Clinton. That's fine... but don't denigrate the terrible tragedy of the loss of a magnificent animal like Eight Belles by taking the analogy to such a level. It's absolutely MORONIC! I found in unbelievable that people would actually say things like that.

Of course, I don't think people would dare say such things in person or public where other people could hear. With the anonymity of the Internet, however, you are free to say whatever you want without any consequences. Hence the crass, idiotic responses such as the one above.