Quacks Like a Duck

Vernon Robinson, Republican congressional candidate from NC, recently began airing a commerical calling Kamran Akhtar (arrested for filming buildings in Charlotte) a terrorist who came here to kill. The ad focuses on the fact that Akhtar supposedly came to the US over the Mexican border, a border that Robinson says he will "shut down."

Of course I haven't seen the ad - this is all info from an AP article picked up by the Clarion Ledger. But here's the best part: Robinson thinks this is perfectly appropriate and won't apologize for jumping to conclusions. "If it quacks like a duck and we're in war time, I think its a fair assesment."

I didn't realize that we were at war with Pakistan, did you? I wonder if Robinson would be calling this guy a terrorist if he was from Meixco or Cuba? Oh boy, nothing like starting the day with some good ol' racial profiling.