July 09, 2003

Slavery bad, says Dubya

Love him or hate him, you have to admire Bush's political gutsiness and "I don't give a damn what the opposition thinks" attitude when he said in a speech on Oree Island, Senegal that slavery was ''one of the greatest crimes of history.'' Always a man of conviction, Dubya finally did what most politicians only dream about and, in reckless disregard for the position of all the pro-slavery lobbyists throughout the country he expressed his views. I just hope this doesn't haunt him come election time.

I wonder what'll be next- is he going to say that "Custer got what he deserved" or that the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments were wrong even though they saved defenseless lab animals from having to suffer? Well, this just shows what you get when you (almost sorta kinda) elect a radical hippie like Bush into office.

In unrelated news, this sentence from the Atlanta Constitution story on the Meridian murders bothers me more than it should:

Armed with a shotgun and a reputation for racism, a factory employee killed
five co-workers and wounded nine others before killing himself Tuesday.

I'm guessing the shotgun proved deadlier than the reputation. (I hate ridiculous phrase turns.)