Mark Green writes in the Huffington Post:...
Read more …Mark Green writes in the Huffington Post:
After the President's remarks in Tucson, ideally the public conversation will be elevated to focus more on serious issues after the tragedy last Saturday -- how can we help the mentally ill before they hurt themselves or us? How can we craft gun control laws to keep semi-automatics away from troubled or politically motivated people? How can the public and officials "debate without hate"?
But as of today, there has been one political ramification of note -- Sarah Palin is done as a presidential candidate. After her video disparaging critics as guilty of a "blood libel," she should be shunned and will be shunned. As John Kenneth Galbraith said of Black Monday in 1929, "the end had come but was not yet in sight."
