Michael Prick

Up until I watched 60 minutes last evening I was on Michael Vick's side. (Click here for CBS link) After all second chances are the American way. He did his time now, let him rebuild his life or words to that affect I left on a CNN blog. The interview with Jim Brown was incredibly bad. One, Vick does not appear to be the sharpest knife in the drawer which did not help things. Two, he has many handlers now and he obviously was told to play the contrite, I'm sorry and I found God while in prison cards. Instead, it came out that once he was in prison he realized there were great consequences to his actions, consequences that he almost found unbearable. It almost seemed that he was sorry that he went to prison more than anything else. I really did not get the feeling that he really, truly realizes the magnitude of what he willfully created, controlled and participated in. I just didn't believe that he even truly understood why he is a bad man. None of it came from the heart. He just seemed to badly parrot what he had been told to say. Not that what he had been told to say was bad. It was just that the delivery was not convincing. I did not believe him and as I said up until that point I had given him the benefit of the doubt. This was even after he had served his sentence. People come from different places, they get led astray blah, blah, blah, I excused. The man has served his time, indeed but, unfortunately I do not believe that he actually gets any of it. What to do, what to do? Perhaps as a condition of his or any one's release there should be that the convicted can articulate in his own words why he was punished.

I am embarrassed to have supported the jerk in any way.