Don Imus and Rutgers Women's basketball

[mburbank]

Now it's a presidential issue, because Obama didn't condemn it soon enough or harshly enough, which he' required to do, because he's black.

I wish Obama had come out and said "While I think it was ugly, as a presidential candidate I have many, many more pressing issues I devote my time to. You want to talk race in America, okay. You want to talk about Don Imus's racist remark? I think that's a waste of time."

This has been a top story for days now. It's beyond absurd, and the people most upset about have mountains of more serious issues this is taking energy from. Imus is a symptom, not a disease. You don't fight AIDS by spending days on end focusing on painful cancor sores.