“What are they thinking?” That question rattled through my head while watching the President, the NAACP and Tom Vilsack all independently mess up a situation that now rises to the level of absurd. Race continues to be an issue the Obama administration has been unable to tame, and it was one of his strongest talking points on the campaign trail. Who would have thought that this silver-tongued politician would find himself in so much hot water on this issue!
I’m not convinced Shirley Sherrod is a racist (but the reaction from some NAACP conference goers in the same video makes me wonder about them), but I’m very convinced that her performance in this whole mess was less than stellar. Doesn’t this all make you believe we REALLY don’t need a Department of Agriculture?
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