On Offensive Team Names, Obama Shines

As the NFL weekend kicks off, props to our President for talking sense about team names and logos that offend.

Less sensitive GOP state legislators around here in our bigotry caucus should take notice of Mr. Obama's tone, as the Washington Post noted:

“If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team — even if it had a storied history — that was offending a sizable group of people, I’d think about changing it,” Obama said in an interview published by the Associated Press on Saturday.

The Denver Post featured on its site a remark from the President's interview that should resonate with GOP legislators who want to use state power to make sure offensive names and logos are retained:

"I don't know whether our attachment to a particular name should override the real legitimate concerns that people have about these things," he said in the interview, which was conducted Friday at the White House.