Yeah, those were some good times.
I’m glad that he apologized to that poor woman who got fired because she had a racist thought (unlike all those white people with government jobs who look into the eyes of blacks and Latinos and just see Jesus’ third cousins) and then felt like a jerk about it and did her job. Sheesh, even Glenn Beck defended her, in his inimitable, performance-artist-on-meth kind of way. (If she’d been kept on, he’d be using her as Example One of how much Obama hates white people, but that’s another morning’s rant.) Given how quickly Vilsack fired her for fear of, precisely, a Glenn Beck attack, I’ve got to wonder about the soundness, in his case, of the body part that forms his last name’s second syllable.
(Incidentally, one of my favorite students got harrassed by the cops last week for half an hour for … nothing in particular. He’s black, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with it.)
But, y’know, as with most political scandals, we’re talking about people when the actual scandal, if any, is policy. Like, Tom Vilsack should be wrestling out loud with his conscience about accusations that he’s an ethanol whore. Can we waste a week talking about that, please, just sometime?
