Ditched In The Ditch

When was the last time your boss told you to pull over to the side of the road and resign?  For that matter, when was the last time you heard of anyone's boss telling any employee to pull over to the side of the road and resign?

Shirley Sherrod, who resigned from the Agriculture Department on Monday said the White House forced her out after remarks that she says have sparked a fabricated racial controversy.  The former Georgia director of Rural Development said she received a phone call from the USDA's deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook on Monday while she was in a car. Cook told her that the White House wanted her to resign.  "They called me twice," Sherrod told the Associated Press. "The last time they asked me to pull over to the side of the road and submit my resignation on my Blackberry, and that's what I did."

Just another example of the White House making a crisis out of an opportunity.