I personally can’t blame anyone for not agreeing to honor President Obama because of his “uimpeachable reputation for integrity, vision and passion”.  Nor do I agree that “no one could be more worthy of a special honor and recognition by the members of this body and the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus than this extraordinary leader.”

Why?  To use juse 2 popular little examples, so far he’s got a losing record selecting honest and law-abiding cabinet appointees, and his vision can’t go past what he sees in the mirror or on his Tivo since he claims to have been “blindsided”, as his ever-fawning minions like to phrase it, by the AIG bonus plan.  A plan that, had he been doing his job as a Senator last spring and last fall, he would have remembered having voted for.

We’ll not mention that he didn’t even bother to read the TARP legislation before signing it as President.  And we’ll forget about the fact that his grandiose schemes to spend even more money – that we, the American taxpayers, don’t have now and won’t have later – is now being estimated to send the deficit soaring towards $10 TRILLION in the next 10 years.  All while cutting the current deficit down to a paltry trillion dollars.  During his “first term”.

Sorry, folks, but I don’t care what color skin you live in, or whether you even walk upright, this is evidence of being dumber than the proverbial box of rocks at best, and at worst a master snake-oil salesman of most nefarious intent.  It is nothing to be honored.  Indeed, it is something that needs to be removed like a cancerous tumor, along with taking out all the lymph nodes made up of Congress critters.

But instead of acting like grownups and demonstrating that they didn’t waste their parents’ or taxpayer money from student loans on all those college degrees by facing the cold, hard facts that this administration has done more damage in its first 2 months than all others combined in the last 20 years, certain lawmakers in Georgia chose to instead play the tattered old race card.  Some dozen of them huffed out of the Georgia House chambers claiming that “white Republicans” are deliberately snubbing the country’s first black president by refusing to go along with their chance to be the first to pass a resolution honoring him in this fashion.

‘Scuse me, O Degreed Ones, need I remind you that President Obama is only half-black?  And while I will grant you that to have anyone other than a “white man” sitting as President of the United States is something to be recognized as a positive step towards the real embrace of American diversity, in the end that’s all it is.  What Obama has done so far merits nothing short of being ridden out of town on a rail.  If he were one of those “white men” flushing us down the toilet this same way just what would you be saying instead?

If we are to be truly color-blind, we will not give credit where credit isn’t due simply because of our differences.  Skin color isn’t some automatic handicap – unless you choose it to be one.

Grow up.