Achenblog Suggests Sen. George Allen Needs to Get Out to Real World America Occasionally

Achenblog is kinder to George "Bad hair plugs" Allen than I am:

Perhaps George Allen needs to spend more time in America and less in the United States Senate. Allen sees a person of color in an otherwise all-white crowd, singles him out and calls him "macaca." Any attempt to probe Allen's brain in search of the etymology of this term would surely be a perilous journey. He may have overheard it at a kegger back in college. Maybe he invented the word on the spot. It doesn't have the ring of a compliment, whatever it means.

"I don't know what it means," Allen told our reporter. As a senator, he has a Constitutional right to say things that not only don't make sense to listeners, but that even he can't decipher. This is called senatorial privilege.

More revealing is his remark, "Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." Perhaps the senator is of the belief that anyone who looks Asian or exotic just stepped off a boat. S.R. Sidarth, however, was born in Fairfax County. He is an American.

America is increasingly a nation of many hues. "Multiculturalism" isn't a liberal buzzword, it's a demographic fact. On the very same front page as the story about Allen, we see an article stating that the Washington metro area now has more than one million immigrants. To judge by the accompanying graphic, most of them live in Allen's state.

Welcome to America, Senator Allen. Welcome to the real world of Virginia.

I'd like to believe Allen's presidential plans are just so much micaca as well. We don't need another imbecile in the White House considering the one we have now. ::groan::