I'm just an unreconstructed old bleeding heart liberal ..... (Marion Jones)

[Stinky The Clown]

Yeah, she broke the rules big time. She doped and that makes her a dope and she probably deserves what she gets.

But DAYUM!

How fucked are we as a country that we might be sending her to prison while the biggest ongoing criminal enterprise the world has ever know goes on unchecked?

And even if that ongoing criminal enterprise didn't exist, I'd still feel VERY badly for Ms. Jones. Bleeding heart bad.

Sue me. I'm a sap.

[LakeSamish706]

1. Nope your not a dope, I'm with you on this... I figure she should be..

banned from the sport and loose her medals... But Jail? I don't think so!

[Guaranteed]

15. Lose.

Lose her medals.

[monktonman]

2. I like how she's the leading news story as well

Every single MSM news cycle is leading with this story.
I'm sorry but why do I care?
Dont we have others things to worry about??
Like Brittneys where abouts.

[blondeatlast]

3. Drugs bad. Rampant corruption and dishonesty in our foreign policy?

Biz as usual.

[Kajsa]

4. I feel badly for her, too.

If she did take banned substances, she was wrong.
The IOC can take the necessary actions.

But jail? I think that's over the top.

I guess I'm a bleeding heart liberal, myself.

[angstlessk]

5. Kill a dog go to jail (both federal & state) Kill an Iraqi and get out of jail free

is there something wrong with this picture???

[judaspriestess]

6. I also feel bad for her

She made some bad choices but I am not going to condemn her.

[MichaelHarris]

9. I would

have to condemn her, not to jail but the steroid use and the impact she's had on young athletes. She has always said she never used the drugs but now we see different. Loosing the medals is a bad thing that in deserved in her case. Remember, we put these people on Wheaties boxes.

[Zookeeper]

7. Jail? Has any other athlete who has been known to use...

steroids gone to jail?

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Actually, they hit her with the same beef Martha Stewart got. Lying to Feds

AS IF the leaders of the fucking feds never tells lies.

[Booster]

11. Well, that's what Libby did so Bush should commute her sentence.

[Zookeeper]

13. But, but....

That's different! :sarcasm:

If only Bush would explain, "Why."

[Zookeeper]

12. I'm not a huge Stewart fan, but putting her offense....

and the offense of Jones, up against the financial rape and pillage of America by the Neo-Cons, the war profiteers and the Greed-is-Good crowd, I think jail time is a travesty.

[sampsonblk]

10. Liberalism isn't dead. Good.

I agree with you on this.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Did yu happen to see her public apology on Countdown?

"Powerful" doesn't do it justice. She's either very glib or very sincere. I read nothing BUT 'sincere' in it.

[sampsonblk]

18. I missed that part

She is very compelling though.

[Snotcicles]

16. Of all the tearful confessions I've heard this past while hers got to me. nt

[lonestarnot]

17. Well,

if she decides to bust out, she can outrun 'em.

[Ilsa]

19. I really don't think incarceration is the answer. I think she should be

tormented by her dishonesty. It would bother me to until I died wondering if I could have competed and won without the drugs. Surely, the gold medals don't really mean anything to her since she cheated to get them. What if she could have won them without cheating? Whoever convinced her that she had to have that shit should face similar or worse consequences. They convinced an impressionable young woman that she wasn't good enough without the junk.