Should We Humanize or Demonize?

It is perhaps not a spring-time thought that someday our graveyard will now longer be remembered. There is much to be said for living in the present and not becoming overly concerned over what politicians and preachers have to say to us. The recent news of the cancers that are challenging Tony Snow and Elizabeth Edwards, political partisans on different sides of the aisle, reminds us of our own mortality and that our own days are numbered. I nevertheless think it is appropriate not to pull our rhetorical punches when it comes to talking about current policies and events. Whatever feelings we may have to them at the human level, politicans are neverthless making decisions that will influence our lives and the lives of our children and community.