As everyone knows one Monday the nation "celebrated" Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I am not a big fan of Martin Luther King Jr. but I have no objection to the African-Americans (we must be politically correct) having a holiday for one of their heroes. The reason I used the word celebrated in quotation marks is because it seemed rather to be another "smear Republicans and white people day." US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) gave a speech in which she accused Republicans from "running a plantation" with African American congressmen. Excuse me (for being Republican), but President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863, he was a Dem...no wait he was Republican! Who enforced desegregation in Arkansas (Hillary's home state originally)? It was President Eisenhower, and he was a Dem...wait he was Republican too. Who appointed not one, but two black Americans to the position of Secretary of State? President George W. Bush...and he is definitely not a Democrat! Does it mean anything that Bush appointed more blacks to his cabinet then Bill Clinton? Not to Hillary it sure as heck don't.
Also in the news today: The Washington Times ran a story in which they revealed the hypocrisy of Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass). It revealed how that, while Mr. Kennedy criticized Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for belonging to a Princeton club that was opposed to letting women and minorities enroll (20+ years ago) at Princeton, Mr. Kennedy belonged to an all-men club (personally I have no problem with that) from Harvard. Mr. Kennedy has resigned from that club now, the better to criticize other nominees who may come his way. His spokeswoman defended him by saying that he joined it in 1954, before women were accepted at Harvard. Mr. Alito joined his club before women were allowed to enroll at Princeton. Unfortunately, for him, only Democrats can get away with things like that.