VP shoots hunting mate!

The news is always interesting to read. I wonder how much I have read in recent days about the hunting accident of Vice President Cheney. If this had happened to an ordinary person, we probably would have heard nothing of it unless it involved someone near to us. Why, then, is it such a big story? It was an accident and the accident was due to two people who were careless. Why did Whittington go past the line of hunters? And then why was Cheney so careless as to shoot him? These are unanswerable questions. So why is there a big story? It can only be because we all like to make big stories when they involve people in high places. I would like for us to forget it and get on to important things. Just as we remember a vice president who couldn't spell potato, we will remember a vice president who shot his hunting mate. That is just the way we are.....