Thursday, April 17, 2008
Your Morning News 4.17.08
Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, Death Penalty, Debates, hillary clinton, Pennsylvania, The Pope
Finally, our long national nightmare of not killing people is over. The Supreme Court decided yesterday in a 7-2 decision that lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Within hours of the announcement, dozens of states lifted the moratorium they had placed on all lethal injections. Man, I sure am glad we managed to bring this issue to the forefront while the Pope is visiting. Careful, though, this is an awkward topic to bring up at work, probably even awkwarder if you work in a Federal Penitentiary.
The Pope has spent a lot of his trip apologizing for and trying to move the American church past the clergy sex abuse scandal. This is another one of those topics that is sorta tough to bring up at work. My go-to Pope related icebreaker is to mention how newspapers apparently have no problem publishing the term “Popemobile.”
As we mentioned yesterday, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama met in their final televised debate before the Pennsylvania primary. The general consensus seems to be that the debate focused on Senator Obama, with Senator Clinton and the moderators spending the first 45 minutes assailing him on a variety of topics. Whether you think this is fair or unfair probably depends one which candidate you support. However, I will point out that we can all probably agree that there are more important issues at stake in this election than the candidate’s choice of accessories.