Bush gets Baracked: Illinois Senator Barack Obama refuted Bush's inane assertion that African Americans could reap greater rewards, due to shorter life expectancies, from a Social Security overhaul. Excerpts of said spanking:

It is puzzling to me that we are even having this debate about whether Social Security is good or not for African Americans. I frankly found the statement that the president made somewhat offensive.

[While it’s true that white men outlive their black counterparts on average,] the notion that we would cynically use those disparities as a rationale for dismantling Social Security as opposed to talking about how are we going to close the health disparities gap that exists, and make sure that African-American life expectancy is as long as the rest of this nation … is stunning to me.