Recently my local state senator was accused of being a racist because he ran a depiction on his personal blog of a T-shirt cartoon of Obama and Osama with the inscription that the difference between the two “is just a little B-S.”

It seems the left can say anything they wish with absolute impunity, but a simple play on words is hyped as national news.

My favorite liberal smear is the disrespect they pay the president of the United States by their contention that he is stupid, as if they have the capacity to make such a judgment.

There are, I think, two problems with political correctness: 1) the rules are not equally applied; and 2), no matter how accurate or inappropriate any remark is, the person’s right to free speech should not be infringed upon.

I believe that the best response to an inappropriate remark is a sane, rational and logical retort, not the typical character smear epitomized by branding someone a racist.

Finally, I must say, the subject of the cartoon is the difference between Obama and Osama: “a little BS.” Frankly, I find the “BS” in both Osama’s and Obama’s politics to be very tiring. I understand that Mr. Osama is un-American, a terrorist and a zealot but one can rationalize his ignorance by the fact that the American way of life is foreign to him. In Sen. Obama’s case perhaps the “BS” might mean “born strident” or political “blind spots.”

Bob Martin, Anderson