Only in America

Courtesy of Andrew Sullivan:

From the email in-tray:

I’m out on the street smoking a cigarette and this black dude, wearing a “No War Against Iraq” T-shirt and a bag on his shoulder, comes up to me and asks, “Sir, are you against the war or for the war?” “For the war,” I say, at which point he pulls a T-shirt out of his bag that says, “Kick Saddam’s Ass!,” and tries to sell it to me. I said, “No thanks,” and he moved on. Is this a great country or what?

Now that has to be the single most brilliant piece of literature I have read all day.