The Shoe Obviously Fits

By Sniffles

After the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 for George W. Bush and he proceeded to 1) ignore the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief; 2) invade a country that didn't attack us; and 3) generally shred the Constitution, we cats often lamented to one another that we wanted to get our country back.

So when the right-wingers on the unhinged fringe start using that same line about a decisively elected President who happens to be black, we can't help but wonder what else might be behind it.

That's just one reason we're so pleased about what former President Jimmy Carter said earlier this week. It's certainly kicked up a kerfuffle, with lots of whining from the guilty parties.

It's because they are so clearly guilty of that which the 39th President accuses them (see above) that we're relieved. It's about time that someone with moral authority spoke up. We'd feel similarly happy about other figures of great stature calling these haters out — people like President Carter's fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bishop Desmond Tutu, say, or former South African President Nelson Mandela. But it helps that Jimmy Carter is white. It also helps that he's an American, a Southerner, and more than old enough to remember some of the worst days of Jim Crow.

And last but not least, he's fearless. President Carter has never shied from telling us things we don't want to hear. We cats just wonder whether, this time, we're finally grown up enough to handle it.