Paul Jacob Recommend this article  Though no scholar myself, I
have managed to collate the following instances of Democratic
dumbitude. Alas, there's not enough space here to report more
than a smattering of the dumb statements made by the Democratic
candidates in recent weeks, let alone those of all politicians
of all parties. But I promise to tackle other examples--
including that dumb thing Newt Gingrich just said--in future
episodes of my free Common Sense e-letter, subscribed to by all
in-the-know political junkies.  We may as well start with Al
Sharpton, race-baiter of Tawana Brawley scam fame, who opined in
one of the debates that we "can't act like just because
something is trade that also makes it right. African-Americans
are here on a bad trade policy." One suspects that even Sharpton
knows that slave trade is bad because of the enslavement part,
not the trade part--and that in 2003, the kind of trade that
policymakers debate has to do with the exchange of goods, not
people. But this degree of dising