Disappointed

::sigh::

Barack Obama has twice disappointed me in the past two weeks. First he has been wishy-washy on the FISA bill vote in the House that will grant retroactive immunity to telecom companies that tapped phone calls without a warrant.

Now, he's spoken out against the Supreme Court decision banning the death penalty for child rape.

I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes. I think that the rape of a small child, six or eight years old, is a heinous crime, and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances, the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution.

Don't get me wrong, I find rape in any form to be a heinous crime. I don't even want to try to compare the degree of evil between rape and murder. No, I find the death penalty absolutely unjustifiable.

Not to rehash everything I've said in the past let me summarize my opposition as this: In any system implemented and run by human beings is fallible. When that system kills a person based on an error, the error cannot be undone.

I don't know if Obama is pandering or he really believes what he said. Either way I think he is wrong. It won't change my vote. McCain is equally wrong on both these points and wrong on many more issues where Obama is right.

Still, I'm disappointed.