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[ManintheMiddle]

Having trouble pinning down your politics? In need of some self-clarification after the recent political campaign? Or maybe you just want to reconfirm where you stand?

If so, take this short, interactive quiz.
First go to this weblink and listen to O.J. Simpson's final appeal before sentencing:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/rn=3906861&cl=10975769&ch=4226713&src=news

If that link doesn't work, go to YouTube and enter a search to hear his five minutes of woe.

Second, reflect for a minute (or less if you prefer).

Then, take the following quiz:

1. Did you feel a sense of moral outrage, believing that this once proud Black man was wrongly accused simply because he's Black and famous? Did you feel another urge to fight the powers-that-be? If so, you're beyond even Obama's hope. Chock it up as "Far Left."

2. Did you feel deep regret, a gnawing sense of discomfort or angst that yet another Black man in the public eye has gone by the wayside? Or did you feel lingering sympathy for this man, whose family has suffered because of his antics? If so, you're a bleeding heart liberal who's in need of a political transfusion.

3. Did you feel a sense of pathos at this scene, a feeling that this once great running back has ruined his life, beginning back in the days when he was beating his wife NIcole, and regret that so much of the country's attention has been given over to this sociopath? Did you feel relief that Obama through his public persona offers a sterling counter-example to this sordid sort? Did you find yourself commiserating more with the Brown and Goldman families after the verdict was read out than the Simpson family, who continue to capitalize on their father's fame? If so, you're a moderate and should stay put.

4. Did you feel a certain level of disgust at watching Simpson giving an Academy Award performance while so many in the courtroom looked on with tears of regret? Did you want to bitch slap him once for good measure if only to say, "Wake up, and smell the coffee. You're not confused, O.J., you knew exactly what you were doing." Did you also feel like puking at the way defense attorneys in the television media have try to rationalize his actions, both during the botched Vegas heist and on numerous previous occasions? Did you sneer when you learned that Simpson was signing autographs and yucking it up with those who waited outside the courtroom during his Nevadan trial, in the hopes of being chums of this unconvicted killer? If so, you're right of center and probably right on in this situation at least. Privately, Obama and the best of his crew are nodding their heads in agreement.

5. Did you feel like tossing out a few well-chosen epithets, laugh loudly, all the while only hoping that OJ gets constantly tormented in the slammer? Did you also wince when you found out his sentence was only 9 rather than 33 years? If so, you're either still really pissed over the way the verdict went in the 1995 trial or you're steering hard right. In either case, get over it and let this chump stew in his own juices.

No matter where you come down on this latest verdict, the irony should not be lost on you that Simpson chose to take this to trial in the manner it was held, thereby exposing himself to greater scrutiny that no competent defense attorney would otherwise allow. And he's going to jail for trying to selfishly get back many of the very things that he was legally obligated to turn over to the Goldman and Brown families after the 1997 civil case verdict. In the end, OJ did himself in. He'll be at least 70 years old before he's released. No golf carting, no shot at public redemption, no hamming it up in the media spotlighting, no quality time with his children (just as well for them), no control over his sports memorabilia, no network of other loser buddies to bail him out and prop him up.

Sounds like poetic justice to me.