I blame the weather. After weeks of abnormally crappy winter weather, people are beginning to go nuts.
What else would drive supposedly intelligent public figures to say such STUPID things?
Ray Nagin, the Mayor of New Orleans has been forced to apologize for saying “Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country.
“Surely he doesn’t approve of us being in Iraq under false pretences.
“But surely he is upset at black America also. We’re not taking care of ourselves.”
He also said new Orleans must be a mostly African-American city again because “it’s the way God wants it to be”.
“This city will be chocolate at the end of the day,” he added.
Terrific…as if the devastation wreaked on New Orleans wasn’t enough, now the Mayor thinks he is Willy Wonka. At least he can cite the stress of the disaster as an excuse.
Hillary Clinton has no such excuse. At a Martin Luther King Day event she stated, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," Clinton, D-N.Y., told the crowd at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem. "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
Funny, I heard of her remarks. Too bad it makes her look bitter and ineffectual. So much so that she must cite a horrible time in our history that is over a hundred years old, and reduces the strides made in civil rights by Dr. King.
And Al Gore needs to rehire his handlers and consultants from his bid for Presidential election. He once appeared to be a solid, reasonable and impassioned candidate for the office. Now his strident accusations and whining make him seem to be teetering on the edge of lunacy. Bush lied, Bush is a criminal, Bush is violating your rights, and Bush is the root of all evil. Evil I say! EVIL! Perhaps Mr. Gore, but when you make those types of accusations a little proof would help make your case.
Not that all the stupid stuff is limited to Democrats…Pat Robertson is the poster boy for dumbass comments lately. Saying that Ariel Sharon’s recent stroke was the result of God punishing him for pulling out of the Gaza Strip. Way to go Pat. Stoke the coals and bring on your Holy War. What a total Jackass!
These are the people we elect into power or who lead our political and religious groups?
Maybe it’s not them the weather has affected…maybe it’s us.
For me, spring and summer can’t come fast enough!
Comments