AS I SAID BEFORE,

IGNORANCE CAN BE FIXED BUT STUPID IS FOREVER

Today’s case in point, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas).

Ms. Jackson once proclaimed “Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.”

I did not know that.  I seem to recall that we gave up on that war and the result was one single communist Vietnam, but hey, what do I know?

Last week, she was at it again, raging about her favorite topic: racism.  Granted, every since the beginning of Obama’s Presidential campaign, liberals have endeavored to use the charge of racism to explain everything from his lack of executive experience to his total incompetence as Commander in Chief.  Normally, any criticism is immediately dismissed by Liberals as racist in nature.  But “normal” and “things done, said or even imagined by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee” have nothing in common.  This is a woman who once accused The Hill of racism for printing an article noting she had asked NASA staffers if the Mars rover would visit the flag planted by Apollo astronauts… on the moon.  Oh hell yes Sheila. Why not sense we’re going to be in the neighborhood.

And in her logic-impaired tirade late last week about the debt limit, Representative Jackson said “I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness (toward) this president…Why is he different?  And in my community, that is the question that we raise.  In the minority community that is the question that is being raised.  Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?  I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one.”  She actually said that.  Of course, she and her fellow Democrats treated President George W. Bush with the utmost in collegial regard.
 
I would be my guess that she’s not even aware that she’s calling Obama’s critics racist for agreeing with him.  Obama’s own words: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.”  (Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., March 20, 2006)