Please don't afford me civility, but recognize my occupation

One of my representatives in the Senate completely embarrassed herself last week and by default embarrassed my state.

It is customary which is to say honorific in the military to address one's superior officers as Sir or Ma'am and to address subordinates by their title. Apparently Sen. Boxer is ignorant of this custom and as a result looked foolish.

The real folly as argued by Dennis Prager in his column this week is that it would have to of been a Democrat woman to have made such a boneheaded remark, because of a victimized mindset. No male politician in his right mind would think of correcting a general for having afforded him in what is a polite custom.

Dennis Prager offers the following pithy analysis:

Liberalism has lowered expectations of behavior for everyone in America except white Christian heterosexual males. They are the only Americans from whom dignified and mature conduct is always expected. Liberals treat women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, and many non-Christians, with what is known as the soft bigotry of low expectations. Many liberal women, blacks, Hispanics, and gays know that and use it to get away with conduct and speech that no WASP heterosexual male could. People rise or descend to the level of behavior expected of them.

2010 cannot come soon enough.