Posted on 06/10/2006 1:23:56 PM PDT by LdSentinal
As Democrats elsewhere rub their hands in anticipation of congressional gains in the midterm elections, Democrats in Maryland are gloomily contemplating a scenario in which they may lose a U.S. Senate seat they've held for 30 years.
And that scenario has a name: Kweisi Mfume.
Smart, personable and politically shrewd, Mfume is not exactly the image of a nightmare candidate. He has the bearing, bona fides and oratorical panache of a senator, and he possesses that priceless commodity for any New Age politician -- a poignant personal narrative. Having run with violent street gangs and fathered five children by four women by age 22, Mfume pulled himself together, earning a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University and winning a seat first on the Baltimore City Council and then in Congress before becoming president of the nation's most august civil rights group, the NAACP.
But in his current incarnation, running in the Democratic primary for Maryland's open Senate seat, Mfume has declared war on his own party. The Democrats' sin, in his view, is to have turned their backs on his candidacy -- and on the aspirations of black Democrats.
"The party has to practice what it preaches," he says. "We preach inclusion, but when the test comes, [Democrats should] at least fake it."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Queasy MoFuMe is a disgusting and repulsive impregnator of numerous women.
He has done more than Billy Goat Clinton to increase the rolls of single mothers.
Damn the Washington Com(Post) is reporting what I have been saying for months.
I thought they were faking it.
'As Democrats elsewhere rub their hands in anticipation of congressional gains in the midterm elections".....you may be correct on this one seat, but the democrats are all up in the clouds with confidence on gaining control of both houses......the downside of this is that we will ahve to endure at least 6 weeks of listening to their wailing and reading of their shock after they get sent back home with their tails stuck up their rear ends....
Well, it's nice that the author doesn't actually USE the term Uncle Tom to describe Steele .... but I don't think I'm imagining the undertones.
Thats too bad.
Translation: another black thug protected by the apologencia.
If the leftwing Washington Post says this, it must be a mess for their lefty party.
That article would more appropriately have been titled, "The Washington Post Problem." They can find no fault with any behavior by any politician whose name and state is followed by a D.
Would be interesting to have both a black racist(Mfume) and and a white racist(Byrd) in the same Caucus.
At least Osama Obama knows he has to kiss white butt once in a while.
Dirty words to a Liberal
Have the courage of your convictions, Kweisi, and run on a third-party ticket!
I got an E-mail today that John McCain will be attending a fundraiser for Michael Steele on June 16th. Now, as with most around here I'm not a big McCain fan, but I do think he'll be fairly popular in Maryland and a boost to Mr. Steele.
He may be politically smart, but in terms of education the guy is dumb as a rock. Barely literate.
I saw him on a Washington celebrity Jeopardy episode and it was embarrasing to watch. The questions were easier than the ones they use for the middle school kids and his answers were soooo wrong.
A black republican senator is just what Md. needs to get itself unstuck from the dynasty of Sarbanes and Mikulski.
The amazing part is that he has never been in the NBA. ...
"Just by the number of illegitimate children he's fathered... he deserves to win the Democrat primary.
Only five. You need more votes than that even in a primary....and they might not all vote for him.
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