Points to Ponder

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NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said over the weekend that he agreed with political cartoonist Aaron McGruder's characterization of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as "a murderer."

Appearing with Bond on the television show "America's Black Forum," McGruder, whose cartoon strip "The Boondocks" has portrayed Rice as a spinster who takes out her personal frustrations by launching carpet-bombing attacks on Iraq, explained his disdain for the highest-ranking woman in U.S. government. "I don't like Condoleezza Rice because she's part of this oil cabal that's now in the White House," McGruder said, as ABF hosts Armstrong Williams and Juan Williams looked on.

"I don't like her because she's a murderer," the cartoonist announced. The charge drew immediate condemnation from Armstrong Williams, who complained, "That is totally out of line to say she's a murderer."

Unfazed, McGruder repeated the accusation, stretching out his words, "S-h-e'-s a m-u-r-d-e-r-e-r."

"Let's put aside the fact that she's affiliated with oil companies that murder people in Nigeria," the cartoonist said. "We can discuss just this illegal Iraq war, the slaughtering of innocent people and the fact that she's one of the big hawks of the administration.

"I don't see where this is even a point of contention," he insisted.

At that point cohost Juan Williams asked Mr. Bond if he supported McGruder's contention. "I generally agree with his politics 100 percent and I think he explained himself well," the NAACP chief said.

[Editor's comments: Do comments like those of McGruder and Bond help explain why the leftists are part of the problem, and not part of the solution? And golly gee-whiz, hasn't everybody noticed how sharply gasoline prices have dropped ever since we started getting all that free oil from Iraq? I sincerely thank them for making these absurd comments, as everytime they open their mouths, another 10,000 voters are persuaded to vote against them and their ilk.]