I was sadly unable to go to this deal, but I was able to see that we Marylanders have our ticket now set for the Fall.
U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin beat out former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume to win the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, even as chaos at polling sites Tuesday delayed final results and left some other races too close to call.
With 93.3 percent of precincts reporting by 9 a.m. , Cardin had 45.8 percent of the vote and Mfume had 37.7 percent.
“I know that we are united,” Cardin told the Associated Press. He said he and Mfume “ran a campaign that wasn’t about our election, it was about November’s election. We need to change the direction of the country. We had two people running who shared the same commitment.”
Mfume had appeared before his supporters shortly after 1:30 a.m. and all but conceded the race, calling Cardin his friend and saying that “he’ll be a damn good senator.”
This isn’t the first time O’Dub has met with Clinton ..
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I look forward to the discussion of fraud and election theft, as evidenced by the rampant confusion and delay at the polling places. This has Karl Rove’s stink all over it.
It seems to me that the best all around response to the “threat” of Michael Steele would have been an all-out effort by Democrats to get Mfume on the November ballot.
No one speaks the NAACP agenda better than Mfume, and if the NAACP/Democrat power structure is really interested in getting the “right kind of black person” (i.e. an NAACP legacy member, and not a Republican) into the White House, then putting Mfume in the US senate would seem like a logical thing to do.
Instead, Democrats chose to bet on a rich white guy in a race with a Black Republican.
Interesting.
Dems vote for who they feel is the best candidate, not based on their race.
Republicans seem to think that black people should vote for Steele because he is black, even though he offers nothing to the black community (or any other, except the extreme right wing community).
“Dems vote for who they feel is the best candidate, not based on their race.”
Since when did Howard Dean died and left you to speak for the Democratic party. Please, if the sitaution was reversed, O’Dub would be crying racism.
And what is with this ‘black community’ speak? Why can’t we just focus on the general ‘community’? What I find so funny is you liberals calls conservatives racists, yet you are the PC ‘tards who have to divide everyone by race.
Part of the problem with America is the tendency to let schoolyard bullies frame the debate in the name of “bipartisanship”.
With that in mind, nobody respond directly to Ian. His childishness and petty spite are not worth dignifying, and besides, he has nothing to say.
Schoolyard bully Nimrod? Have you seen him? He couldn’t fight his way out of a Cheetos bag.
I confess that I have not. He is clearly taking advantage of the magic of the Internet Prism.
There is no black in the media I find more contemptible than Mfume and I’ll tell your why.
About 10 years ago he demanded one of the networks remove a black sitcom because as he put it “it trivializes slavery in America.”
The show was about a black butler in the Lincoln White House. As the head of the NAACP, Mfume raised enough hell so that the show was cancelled.
Meanwhile, Robert Johnson over at bet was tweaking his 24-hour booty-girl, crouch-grabbing gangster rap franchise for his upcoming billion dollar sale to white investors.
Part of the deal was Johnson’s assurances that none of the black leadership including Mfume, Jesse, Sharpton et al, would ever denounce the assault on black culture BET had become.
Indeed, today we have an entire generation of black youth who think of the height of black culture as Lil’ Kim and Snoop Dog.
We’ll never know who the blacks of that sitcom were or how far they could have gone hadn’t Mfume ruined their careers.
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