Stupid people are alway offended by something

Stupid people are easily offended look at this item from the Washington Times’ Inside Politics section.

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the troubled Big
Dig construction project as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser with Iowa
Republicans, saying he didn't know anyone would be offended by the term.

In a speech Saturday, Mr. Romney, a Republican considering a run for president in 2008, acknowledged he took a big political risk in assuming control of the project after a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse but said inaction would have been worse.

"The best thing politically would be to stay as far away from that tar baby as I can," he told a
crowd of about 100 supporters in Ames, Iowa.

The term originated with Atlanta author Joel Chandler Harris' 19th-century "Uncle Remus"
stories, referring to a doll made of tar that traps Br'er Rabbit. It has come to
be known as a way of describing a sticky mess, but it also has been used as a
derogatory term for a black person, according to the Associated Press.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said the governor "was
unaware that some people find the term objectionable, and he's sorry if anyone's
offended."

This reminds of when the Washington DC bueracrats whent ballistic over a supervisor using the term niggardly, a word meaning stingy, to describe his control over a certain District fund. Well after severl days the whole thing became a tar baby and the supervisor had to rush to the microphone and apologize for offending people who, were they not so ignorant, never would have never been offended in the first place.

But this is the life of a politician constantly apoligizing in the hope of never ofending anyone, no matter how richly they deserve to be offended or how ignorant they are.