I’ve seen a lot of stupidity in my life, but this has to take the cake. I certainly hope that this is just some excellent satire from Jonathan Valania.

As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just don’t think we can be trusted to exercise it responsibly anymore.

I give you Exhibit A: The last eight years.

In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election, got us attacked, and then got us into two no-exit wars. Four years later, white people reelected them. Is not the repetition of the same behavior over and over again with the expectation of a different outcome the very definition of insanity? (It is, I looked it up.)

Exhibit B is any given Sarah Palin rally.

Exhibit C would be Ed Rendell and John Murtha, who in separate moments of on-the-record candor they would come to regret, pointing out that there are plenty of people in Pennsylvania who just cannot bring themselves to pull the lever for a black man – no matter what they tell pollsters.

I hope it’s satire but I know it isn’t. First of all, how did Bush “steal” the election in 2000? The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the recount method wasn’t allowed. It ruled 5-4 that there was no alternative. Independent recounts by major media outlets afterwards showed Bush winning no matter how many times you counted the ballots.

Second of all, how did Bush’s election get us attacked? We had been attacked by the same exact group — Al Qaeda — since at least 1993 when it bombed the World Trade Center. As for the “no-exit” wars, how does Valania figure that? We have a tough fight ahead in Afghanistan, but we’re looking at withdrawing troops from Iraq as long as security conditions remain. We’ll be out of there in a few years and we’re looking at a surge in Afghanistan.

The fact that any breathing human, much less a columnist for a major paper, would suggest this scares the crap out of me.