Well...well...well...this morning the U. S. Department of Agriculture tossed Shirley Sherrod a bone...a table scrap..and she ACCEPTED it. Wonder if she sat up and begged?

Now, you have to realize that I am not all that politically savvy. I did not take political science in college (back in those days I thought politics was borrrrrrrrrrring!). I don't read every single article that is published by the left or the right. But, I have a pretty keen sense of what is right and what is not; kinda like that judge who once said "I can't define pornography but I know it when I see it." Well, I know WRONG when I see it and what I saw this morning on Fox News, from the Department of Agriculture and Ms. Sherrod, was just WRONG.

Ms. Sherrod was literally fired on the spot..while driving down the highway. The White House directed that she be instructed to pull off to the side of the road and render her resignation immediately...right there...in the middle of traffic. Can you imagine?! She was "asked to resign" but we all know that translates into being canned! All of this was due to a short portion of a speech she made years ago, that if taken out of context..WHICH IT WAS...sounded racist. The White House got wind of it and, in the same way they treated a policeman in Connecticut, THEY "acted stupidly" and took drastic action WITHOUT knowing all the facts!

As if that were not bad enough, they then tried to blame Fox News, namely Glenn Beck for THEIR own actions. Is there something that is beyond stupid? Stupid and dumb just do not cover it! Their contention was that Fox brought all this about by airing the portion of the speech in question. Ms. Sherrod went right along with it, joining in the finger pointing at Fox and Beck and her threatening suits against them and Mr. Breitbart. In short order, Fox documented their programming timeline, proving that all this took place between 5 and 6 PM and they did not air one word of the speech OR this incident until after 8 PM that night. The next day, Glenn Beck actually DEFENDED Ms. Sherrod, shouting in his articulate way that "CONTEXT MATTERS" and chided the actions of the White House for taking such actions without hearing the entire speech and knowing all the facts. Still, Beck and Fox remained in the government's and Ms. Sherrod's cross hairs.

This morning, as I listened to the big announcement that now the Department of Agriculture has "hired" Ms. Sherrod as a "consultant", I could only shake my head and feel a bit sick to my stomach. Had I been in her place, I would have told them what they could do with their "consultant" position....SIDEWAYS! What an insult! As they fell all over themselves with compliments and statements of professional "love fest", I kept waiting for the apologies. Well, we will all die of old age before we hear any. Silly ol' me, I kept waiting to hear someone apologize to Fox and Glenn Beck. I mean, how naive am I?!

I suppose that if this were the only such incident that has occurred during the Obama regime, I could get over it...in time. But it is not. There is the aforementioned incident with the police officer, that Obama accused of "acting stupidly", as the officer performed the job he was hired to do, complete with accusations of racism. Did he apologize to the officer? Who knows? Certainly nothing public. There was the now infamous beer summit for a "teachable moment". But, who taught whom, what? Clearly, Obama did not learn anything.

And, more recently, there were Obama's comments supporting the erection of the Muslim cultural center near Ground Zero, formerly named the Coronado House, but renamed the Park 51 Project. (..I guess if you slap a new coat of lipstick on a pig it won't oink any longer!) Then, the VERY next day, he back peddled on his comments, YET..refused to comment on the wisdom of the project's location. Since he had already stuck his nose into something he should NOT have, he could have at least addressed the wisdom or lack of, placing a Muslim flag of victory where 19 terrorist, in the name of Islam, murdered nearly 3,000 innocent Americans. Sitting here rethinking this, I don't think that Obama is qualified to speak to the wisdom...of anything.

This whole current administration is void of any shred of character, integrity and humility. They refuse to take any amount of accountability for their own mistakes and misdeeds. The first casualty of all this...CREDIBILITY. Trust is very delicate. It is easily destroyed...sometimes impossible to restore.

Sammye G