An excellent point, from today’s local paper:

Why Isn’t Sheehan Protesting Any Longer?
Editor, Times-Dispatch: Recently, it was reported that four Americans soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb. On the same page was an article about a captured soldier from Idaho. Where is Cindy Sheehan when we need her?

When George W. Bush was president and our brave men and women were fighting and being killed or wounded in Iraq, the war protesters, led by Sheehan, were front and center in almost every news story by the liberal media. Now that the Afghanistan war belongs to President Barack Obama and the Democrats, I can’t help but wonder: Where is Sheehan?

Jack Gates.
Goochland.

…about ourselves.

Today’s “Ask Marilyn” in Parade Magazine—
“What makes islands float?”—Joshua Messer, Fresno, CA.

Nicely Done, Obama…

July 24, 2009

You’re all familiar by now with the Harvard/Gates/Obama dustup.

Why is this president addressing localized issues such as this in a national speech, when there is so much else going wrong? Do you think he would have done so if the arresting officer had been black? If he had, do you think he would have used the word “stupidly?”

I challenge you to find 1 single instance in history where another American president has publicly used the word “stupid” or “stupidly” in a description of ANY event or person. It just isn’t done. Even when you’re talking about a mortal enemy. But this cumstain thought it was important enough to go on the record for this nonevent?

What a guy. Who’s he going to offend next? Well…

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/22/obama_doctors_taking_tonsils_out_for_money_instead_of_diagnosing_it_as_allergies.html

Come_Out_NowVC

Now, on to Mr. Foxx:

http://www.thefoxnation.com/entertainment/2009/06/30/jamie-foxx-racist-called-miley-cyrus-white-bch-and-now-bet-comments

The second video is the relevant one here, although the first one has some entertainment value.

Imagine a famous white entertainer dying, and another famous white entertainer giving a halfass eulogy at an event put on by a white-dominated organization. Now substitute “white” for “black” in that stupid oratory you just watched.

Now imagine famous white entertainer number 2 above being excoriated in every possible medium, getting death threats, and never working again in the entertainment field.

I sit corrected. Jamie Foxx is not an asshole. He’s a racist asshole.