Smart as a Whip, Dumb as a Hoe Handle

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 11 July 2008 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

Both of these separate subjects have been addressed on FR in the last two days. But no one has drawn the contrast between Charles Krauthammer and Commissioner Price. I thought y'all would find it interesting.

John / Billybob

[DManA]

I respect Krauthammer more than any other pundit. Also I like saying the name Krouthammer.

[trisham]

Good choices, all.

[ThomasPaine2000]

How is the book coming along?? I am looking forward to obtaining a copy of it to read..

[Night Hides Not]

Down here in the Metroplex, we learned long ago to disregard the mindless rants of John Wiley Price. Glad to see he's become a national (comic) figure. Outside of the city of Dallas, he has no credibility.

Think I'll stop and buy some devil's food cake on the way home. All in the spirit of race relations.

[arasina]

Krauthammer’s latest column is “The Alter of Soft Power.”

That'd be altar, John. =o)

[FredZarguna]

Your essay omits one crucial thing that that the ridiculous John Wiley Price and the sublime Charles Krauthammer have in common, for different reasons:

We want both of them to keep talking.

[Congressman Billybob]

You're right. Thank you.

John / Billybob

[JmyBryan]

What has always drove me crazy, since I was a kid, is that “black people” are brown. Shouldn’t calling yourself an inaccurate color be corrected. We aren’t white. They aren’t black.

[fish hawk]

Ooops. Can't say hoe! or devils food cake, or black hole! LOL

[JmyBryan]

We are all a shade of brown (mostly).

[trisham]

What has always drove me crazy, since I was a kid, is that “black people” are brown. Shouldn’t calling yourself an inaccurate color be corrected. We aren’t white. They aren’t black.

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I was thinking about this today. The entire issue and classification system seem flawed. I don't call myself anything but an American. I never say I'm a white American, or an Irish American, and so on.

[Congressman Billybob]

I've long ago written that racial antagonisms would be defanged if both sides were required to use accurate descriptions. “Beige” versus “pink” sounds like an interior decorators’ debate, rather than the formula for a race riot.

John / Billybob

[budwiesest]

Have we kidnapped any communists and kept them hostage for years, anywhere. If not, why not? (Gitmo doesn't count- enemy military insurgents ain't tourists)

Really, all sanctions are is a 'teeing-up' of the ball. The ball doesn't know when, but it's gonna be whacked.

What this world desperately needs is an Alpha male from the U.S. to keep these Beta boobs with bombs in line. Example: have we sent a dummy cruise missle to Mr. Dinnerjacket's compound, and if not, why not? He really needs to know who he's dealing with and his recent missle fireworks display demands a response.

Dinejad is no different than the dozen of other beta males who think they can replace us and then hump civilization and it's heirs into the straightjacket called Islam. Look, the Alpha male in a wolf pack would have already taken this punk's face off and made a point by now.

I figure, if you've got better plans than Mother Nature, produce 'em. Otherwise, you're just gonna piss her off.

Oh, as to these punk FARC in the jungle: if we have coordinates, we deliver some napalm and land a dud in Hugo's swimming pool, labeled "chlorine".

[fishergirl]

HA! I was just thinking if Sharpton saw the title his brain would be spinning trying to make a racial slur out of “hoe handle”.

[fishergirl]

Yep, right now in the summer with fishing and working in the yard, I’m more of a medium cream coffee color. Sorry to say that in the winter, I’m about the color of an aspirin, lol!

[Enterprise]

We Andorians are fond of the term "pinkskins."

[iowamomforfreedom]

Excellent article John. I agree with all you have said.

Krauthamer, Sowell, and Steyn are excellent writers and I always enjoy reading them. However, there was one article by Krauthamer that really threw me - where he said he believed that higher gas prices were a good thing. I understand his logic, but emphatically disagree. But that is the only thing I can remember ever disagreeing with him on. He absolutely is one of the most intelligent and insightful men out there. I love Sowell for his wisdom and plainspoken manner; and Steyn’s wit is unmatched, in my view.

That commissioner sounds like he is just dumb as a box of rocks.

[fish hawk]

I guess I can’t write that book I was going to write about gardening: How To Handle A Hoe

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What has always drove me crazy, since I was a kid, is that “black people” are brown. Shouldn’t calling yourself an inaccurate color be corrected. We aren’t white. They aren’t black.

Speaking of Thomas Sowell:

Pink and Brown People and Other Controversial Essays (Paperback) by Thomas Sowell