Filleting Phoenix

I have long since despaired that President Obama will stop pretending he knows everything there is to know, and telling us about it. I was somewhat irritated earlier when he spoke out of turn and called a small, mostly white police department "stupid," and had to apologize, but now he has insulted the entire state of Arizona, all 6.5 million inhabitants. Acting on scant information, he has called them "irresponsible" and "misguided," because their elected representatives have passed a new immigration law which was signed by their Governor. The President said, "The recent efforts in Arizona threaten[ed] to undermine basic notions of fairness. . . " Is that similar to the fairness he showed the Cambridge Police Department? Will he apologize to Arizona as well?

It is unlikely I will ever be mistaken for an illegal alien, but if I were to find myself in Arizona again, I would happily obtain the appropriate paperwork to display to any polce official upon request. You see, I have nothing to hide, and every other citizen and legal alien should be proud to affirm their status, and be pleased that the State of Arizona is protecting them from those in their midst who have little regard for our laws. Isn't that the fairness we all want?

MOVIE QUOTES: "To err is human; to really foul things up, you need a computer." -- Lloyd Bridges in "Disaster on the Coastliner" 1979

"Too much law make people mad." -- Jocelyn Lagarde (as Queen Alii Nui) in "Hawaii" 1966