Doug R.

I can appreciate that one of "conservative leanings" would find last nights West Wing "weak". The point was not that it was ever intended to be a realistic reinactment of what might have occurred on 9/11, but a much less serious scenario that developed an opportunity to air the issues. At least the producers had the guts to address the issue in a popular (and well done in my opinion) forum. Now as for my political leanings, here's the drill: I'm certainly liberal on social issues, moderate on economic policy, and actually fairly conservative on security and foreign policy issues. Yes, the occasional episodes of schizophrenia keep me awake nights. I would consider myself certainly to be a patriot in any event, and one who was indirectly impacted by the events of 9/11 (a graduate school classmate of mine lost her husband at the Pentagon, and on resident of my home town in NY of my exact age, died at the WTC). Careful about painting people's politics with such a broad brush.