BUSH DID OFFEND AN ENTIRE GROUP AS PRESIDENT -- AND YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE

Every Obama-basher on the planet has said, in reference to Barack Obama's ill-advised Special Olympics remark, "If a Republican said something like this, it would be the end of his political career." Some have said this specifically about George W. Bush.

Wrong.

I take you back to January 8, 2002:

'Pakis' Remark Draws Fire for Bush

U.S. President George Bush has unwittingly used an offensive racial slur against the Pakistani people that the community has been trying to squash for at least 30 years.

Mr. Bush used the term Pakis in remarks to reporters yesterday, when discussing the possibility of nuclear rivals India and Pakistan going to war. The word has the same impact in the Pakistani community as the term nigger has for American blacks, said Aziz Khaki, vice-chair of the Muslim Canadian Federation.

"It's a very derogatory term," he said yesterday. "People use the term when they do not like you. It is used against people of colour." ...

I bet you don't even remember that. I didn't either. Notice that it didn't end Bush's career immediately?

Yeah, this was shortly after 9/11 -- but the Bush administration always proclaimed Pakistan to be our staunch ally, and there are half a million Pakistani-Americans in the country.