Common Sense, Common Decency

This story on msnbc.com regarding Pres. Obama saying that Kanye West, in his comments during the VMA acceptance speech by Taylor Swift, was being a 'jackass' and the quote then having been not only 'Twittered' but then to be picked up by the media & questioned on whether that was an appropriate thing to do, etc., is on the vomit side of ridiculous.

(a) The President is entitled to his opinions. (Mr. West also apologized for his behaviour, so it is likely that even he would have agreed w/ Pres. Obama that his behaviour was jackass material.)

(b) So it was Twittered...big deal. Terry Moran found it amusing.

(c) The current debate on whether anything a public figure says should be "off the record" is ridiculous. That anything is made of this he-said-big-deal moment makes me see that humans in general are hopeless.

Bombs fall. People are hungry. Animals are finding their habitat shrinking. Our temperatures and oceans are rising. Kids tote guns. Violence, particularly against women and children, continues to escalate. Surely we can find something more meaningful to remember, discuss, & fix.