The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Starting next year, next to the words "insensitive," "jerk," "prick," and "douche" in the dictionary will be a picture of Samuel Wurzelbacher, or as he's better known, Joe the Plumber. Following the recent Santa Barbara shooting rampage, Wurzelbacher wrote an open letter to the victims' families, where he actually said this: "I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through right now. But: As harsh as this sounds -- your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights." He then claimed that pro-gun control activists "don't care about your family or your dead children at all," before following that up with this: "They sound like they do, whereas I sound uncaring and like I say, harsh. Don't be fooled - I care about your family and mine. The future of our very liberty lies in the balance of this fight....

Conservative blogger Kevin Jackson, who writes at the site The Black Sphere , wrote this, which was later posted by Joe the Plumber on his site: "Wanting a white Republican president doesn't make you racist; it makes you American." Oddly enough, Mr. Jackson happens to be black, but regardless of his race, that's still a racist statement. If he had simply said, "Wanting a Republican president doesn't make you a racist," that would have been fine. However, in implementing the adjective "white" when describing this Republican president, that right there makes it a racist statement. Also, suggesting that anyone whom doesn't want a white Republican president isn't a "real" American, that just adds fuel to the fire. Being a minority himself, I'd like to believe that Mr. Jackson would be one of the first ones to come forward and say that the color of a person's skin should be irrelevant when it comes to being elected. How...