[Vision2020] Under-fire senator alleges entrapment

[Paul Rumelhart]

You know, I'd feel a lot better about this if he was actually caught 
having sex in the restroom, or caught on tape giving money for sex, or 
something else more-or-less unambiguous.

There might be reasons why you would stand outside the door of someone's 
stall, especially if you were waiting for one to free up.  The officer 
might have imagined that he was trying to peer in at him, when instead 
he was lost in thought.  You might put your roller bag in front of the 
stall door not to attempt to block what you want to do from sight, but 
because there is no other fricking place to put it where you can still 
see it.  You might tap your damn foot out of simple boredom.  You might 
not even be aware you are doing it.  You might accidentally touch the 
foot of the person in the stall next to you, especially if you are a 
larger guy that needs to shed a few pounds.  You might reach under the 
partition for toilet paper, or you might have been doing something with 
your bags that are sitting in front of you and the gesture was misconstrued.

I do realize that he pled guilty to their charge, but when you are 
hoping that it might blow over - and when you are apparently trying to 
keep it from your family as well as the media, you might plead guilty to 
try to make it go away.

I have no idea if he was really guilty or not, but I think this thing 
has snowballed out of control.  I don't particularly agree with this 
guy's politics, and I'm certainly no real supporter of his, but I think 
he's getting the short end of the stick.

Paul

Joe Campbell wrote:
> That was the headline on the CNN website. I remember Roy Schieder talking about 
> the seven stages of accepting death (or something like that) in "All that Jazz." One 
> stage was denial. Craig appears to be going through the seven stages of denial.
>
> --
> Joe Campbell
>
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