Some teabaggers are bigoted and stupid too

If there's one thing that annoys me to no end, it's people who tell jokes badly.

I'm sure you've suffered through it. They tell you they know a great joke, and before they're through, they've turned it into an ordeal that is anything but funny.

The woman in the picture is probably a perfect example.

She was one of those present at Glenn BeckGlenn Beck's teabagging party in Washington last Saturday, and she was very proud of herself and the sign she had made.

"The zoo has an African and the White House has a lyin' African."

Then there's a picture of a lion.

Get it?

Let's forget for a minute that she left out the word "lion" and that if she meant the picture to replace it, it should have been to the left of the words.

Otherwise, what her sign says is "The zoo has an African and the lion White House has a lyin' African."

The saddest part of this is when you look at the fact that she is wearing a wedding ring and consider her age, there is a very good chance that woman is someone's wife, someone's mother and someone's grandmother.

She's obviously not 90, so we can't give her a pass because of her age. She didn't grow up in a racist era and learn the "n" word without knowing any better.

Nope, she's just ignorant.

Or stupid.

Or both.

I have no problem with people being opposed to President Barack ObamaBarack Obama and his health care plan, but that woman's poster doesn't say anything about taxes, health care, Socialism or anything of the sort.

All it does is make a racial slur.

All it does is say that the president of the United States isn't a true American, and that he's not even an honest person.

Many of the conservatives who post on this site say that racism has nothing to do with the opposition to Obama, but I'll call that what it is.

Bunk.

I've seen too many signs like this one, signs that attack Obama personally. And before you say they did it to Bush too, the opposition to Bush was based mostly on his level of intellect. Nobody called him a cracker or a honky. Nobody said he wasn't a real American.

Can you imagine being married to this woman?

Or being her child?

Or being her grandchild and seeing a picture of grandma on television or in the newspaper, holding up a sign that shows how bigoted and hate-filled she is?

Poor kids.