Political correctness has robbed America of the descriptor, both relative and comparative. Political correctness is the self-chain set of the suicidal, the irrational in the face of the inevitable. Political correctness is the self-prohibitive march toward doom, the steadfast formation of the red coats as the rebels hid behind rocks and trees.

Surpisingly, Obama issued a statement saying he accepted Reid’s subsequent apology and considered the matter closed. Obama should have responded “Heck, I am light-skinned. No offense taken.” That would have been too Presidential, too common sense, too real for such a narcissus. Instead Obama took mercy on the recently bedraggled Reid, and extended his royal benevolence. Obama’s “apology accepted” sounds ominously like “heads will roll.”