Would you like wine with your foot sir?

If a seemingly respectable senator makes a racial slur without really knowing what he was saying, is it still considered malicious? Hell yeah!
Senator George Allen denied that the remark he made to describe an opponent's campaign worker was racially charged, saying in a statement that the media misunderstood his comments. The Virginia Republican called S.R. Sidarth, a volunteer on Democrat Jim Webb's campaign, "Macaca" on two occasions during an event.
Macaca is a genus of monkeys, including the rhesus monkey. The senator's campaign said that Allen did not know that "Macaca" refer to monkeys. The senator went on to say: "I also made up a nickname for the cameraman, which was in no way intended to be racially derogatory. Any insinuations to the contrary are completely false." This, coming from a guy that proudly wore a pin of the Confederate flag on his lapel for a high school picture.
Later in the week, more racially motivated insanity hit the news. Andrew Young, the American civil rights leader who was hired by Wal- Mart to improve its public image, has resigned from that post after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years, "selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.
But wait, there's more!...
A candidate running for the congressional seat of Rep. Katherine Harris apologized for comments he made about the swimming ability of blacks.
Republican Tramm Hudson, a banker, made the comments earlier this year at a Christian Coalition political forum."I said something stupid," Hudson said in a statement released by his campaign. "I apologize for it and would apologize in person to anyone hurt by my comments." Hudson made the comments as he described efforts to rescue a black soldier who had fallen into a river while the Army Reserve company Hudson commanded was training in Panama 22 years ago. "I grew up in Alabama and I understand and I know this from my own experiences that blacks aren't the best swimmers or may not even know how to swim," Hudson said, according to a transcript released by his campaign.
WOW!