Let's back into this. A Republican aide in the Tennessee state legislature sent out an email to fellow GOP staff members. The email was a collage of portraits from the other 43 presidents, and the last portrait depicted Barack Obama as two white eyes peering from a black background. Now the Democrats are calling for the aide, Sherri Goforth, to be fired.

Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester says, "I am calling on Sen. Black to reject this racist smear and fire this staffer who, on state government time, on state government computers, using a state government e-mail account, launched this bigoted attack on our president ... This e-mail is reprehensible, insults the office of the president, and is embarrassing to all Tennesseans regardless of political party," Forrester said.

The staffer shouldn't be fired because she's a racist. She should be fired because she's dumb as hell. Sorry ... and I know that the Democrats are using this for some good old-fashioned race baiting, but what kind of an idiot would send out that email in the first place?

Well ... here we go. Opa-locka, Florida .. near Miami .. is going to rename Perviz Avenue to Barack Obama Avenue. Well isn't that special. So ... let me tell you what's coming. Opa-locka won't have the last Barack Obama Avenue, or Street, or Road, or Trail, or Boulevard .. or whatever. You're going to see more; and before too long you're going to see various "activists" screaming "racist" if their local community doesn't designate its own Barack Obama Something-or-other by the end of 2009. I'm just setting myself up for a sweet "I told you so" down the road a bit.

And please - don't forget. For the next four years any statement uttered by someone not black in opposition to any Obama initiative will either be (a) hate speech; or (b) a racist diatribe. Take your pick.