In one of the weirder claims to be put forth by the White House, President Bush tied anti-war sentiment to racism. Friday the president announced: "There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern...I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily—are a different color than white can self-govern." Neither President Bush nor Press Secretary Scott McClellan commented on exactly who the people are who supposedly think that. The phrase "ours" to mean "white" is also offensive, given that the Census reports a quarter of people in the United States are other than white.
Progress Report article
A king never includes his subjects in the collective "us" and "ours".
In fact, the king's subjects don't self-govern, so technically, he hasn't misspoken.
I have to quit for today. I can't take any more right now. Please continue without me.
Human beings are actually disgusting everywhere. I suspect we always have been, since the day we had our first thought separated from instinct. Modern communications technology has just made it roundly evident.
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