Black Democrats Voting For Rep. Richard Steele

From WaPo:

A coalition of black Democratic political leaders from Prince George's County led by former county executive Wayne K. Curry endorsed Republican Michael S. Steele's bid for the U.S. Senate yesterday.

The support from Curry, five County Council members and others barely a week before Election Day reflects their continued disappointment that the Democratic Party has no African American candidates at the top of the ticket and a sense that the county is being ignored, officials said.

"They show us a pie, but we never get a slice," said Major F. Riddick Jr., a former aide to then-Gov. Parris N. Glendening and a former county executive candidate. "We are here today to say we've waited and we've waited and we're waiting no longer."

Steele, who as lieutenant governor is the first African American elected statewide in Maryland, said he was humbled by the support. "I said I did not want this [campaign] to be so much about party but about the people," he said. "And these people understand that."

Ron Walters, a political science professor at the University of Maryland, said the endorsements could be significant. "This is going to go through the black community like a rocket," he said. "It's going to be the talk of the county, the state, maybe even the nation."

I don't support Michael Steele. As long as he's against affirmative-action, he'll never get my vote. But it's good to see some Black people getting fed up with a Democratic party that more than takes their vote for granted, caters to the wants and needs of white liberals and provides a comfort zone for those same white liberals to use racist terminology against Black people who are members of the GOP.

Quote Of The Week: Don Imus

"Please stop it. Stop talking. Go home, get on the bike, go windsurfing, anything. Stop it. You’re going to ruin this."

- radio personality Don Imus to John Kerry, begging the junior senator from Massachusetts to stay in Washington DC and far away from the Democratic campaign trail

Sore Loser John Kerry Disses Troops

This is making news all over the blogosphere, but I just caught up to it. Michelle Malkin has a lot more on it, including updates and quotes from troops.

From CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans unleashed a firestorm of criticism Tuesday against Sen. John Kerry after the Vietnam veteran told college students they'd "get stuck in Iraq" if they didn't work hard in school.

Kerry later said the remark was a "botched joke" meant to target the president, not U.S. troops.

Before the clarification, White House press secretary Tony Snow, House Majority Leader John Boehner and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, lambasted the four-term senator and demanded he apologize. (Watch Kerry's 'botched joke' that launched the political stink -- 1:50 )

A CNN poll suggests that Iraq is the second-most important issue behind the economy as voters ponder for whom to cast their ballots in next week's midterms.

"This is an absolute insult," Snow said at a daily press briefing. "Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who've given their lives in this."

I dont necessarily agree with those who think that Kerry has completely gone nuts. I think this is just John Kerry showing his true colors. TIME magazine ran an extended piece about 2 years ago covering Kerry's campaign run and amongst other things, you found a Kerry who was remarkedly indecisive, arrogant, elitist and downright mean. In other words, a prick. An angry prick who still can't believe he lost his one chance at becoming President of the United States.

Kerry just cant come to grips that he himself is to blame for his loss in 2004, instead choosing to still focus his ire at Karl Rove and the Swift Boat Veterans for supposedly smearing him. This still eats at Kerry not only because it cost him his one shot at the White House, but because personally he feels betrayed by fellow veterans of war. That's why Kerry's tirade at Tony Snow shouldn't come as a surprise, nor should the fact that he refuses to apologize for dissing the troops. It's just Kerry being Kerry: a miserable and bitter man lashing out at anyone who'll still listen, but refusing to realize that every time he opens his mouth he just finds a way to make things worse.

A Side To Iraq "They" Won't Tell You About . . .

And amazingly enough this was shown on CNN:

Quote Of The Week: Camille Paglia

"Mark Foley was never on the radar of anyone outside the small circle of news junkies. So his fall and banishment from Washington were nothing but a drip in the torrential flood of current geopolitical problems. The way the Democratic leadership was in clear collusion with the major media to push this story in the month before the midterm election seems to me to have been a big fat gift to Ann Coulter and the other conservative commentators who say the mainstream media are simply the lapdogs of the Democrats. Every time I turned on the news it was "Foley, Foley, Foley!" -- and in suspiciously similar language and repetitive talking points. After three or four days of it, as soon as I heard Foley's name, I turned the sound off or switched channels. It was gargantuan overkill, and I felt the Democrats were shooting themselves in the foot."

- cultural scholar and liberal Democrat Camille Paglia