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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Judging

We had an interesting conversation this morning here at work. We have a few people who have been here for a few months...doing lets say some freelance. One of these people decided to start making comments about Nagin. I know a lot of people don't like him. This person decided to harp on Nagin's latest foot in mouth comment. Ya'll know the one. About the "hole in the ground" It was suprising that this person hadn't heard what the mayor of NYC said about NOLA first. Pretty much about why we can't get shit done. Our mayor doesn't have a filter. He speaks first, deals with later. Which I know EVERY single person has done more than once in their life. I was cheering last night when Wynton Marsalis said, "people need to stop armchair quarterbacking, need to stop critizing (including himself) need to stop judging" He then introduced the mayor.

It amazes me when I said to this person its not fair to judge him so harshly, "what would you have done in this whole situation" Walk a mile in someone else's shoes for once and see what it would be like. Their response was..."that is stupid. " Seriously. Very intelligent. That is because they don't know what they would do in this kind of situation and it is a whole of a hell lot easier to sit back and think "I wouldn't have said that, I wouldn't have done that, I would have done it this way, and it would have been better" I am sorry no one is that perfect. Far from it.

There are people all over this country jumping all over his case. Maybe they need to take a look on what their OWN mayor's are doing and are saying. I am willing to bet MILLIONS that they don't know half of what is happening in their own backyard.

Judging. It must make people feel better....kharma is a bitch and it will bite you in the ass.

I am not defending the mayor's statement. I am defending a human being who makes mistakes.

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