Ok, my smack at the "compassionate conservative" label below was meant to be a joke. We all occasionally word statements in ways that don't convey the sentiments we meant to convey (though you'd think a paid staffer would be more careful before submitting something to a newspaper, and I'm assuming he really doesn't hold some deep-seated aniums toward the elderly). But it's stories like this (and yeah, a plethora of others) that make one question the depth of the current ruling clique's commitment to a compassionate conservatism. There will probably always be poor, and you can't help everyone ... but should we really be deporting people back to their homeland when a volcano has already destroyed 2/3's of the island and its deadly activity shows no sign of abating?
Posted by armand at August 27, 2004 04:37 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics