Democratic Lemmings (Or,...Who's Being Racist, Now?)

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) is facing the fight of his life for having the intestinal fortitude to back President Bush's policies in Iraq.

From the Hartford Courant:

Black Leaders Divided Lieberman Inspires Range Of Memories July 11, 2006 By DAVID LIGHTMAN And MARK PAZNIOKAS, Courant Staff Writers

Two of the Congressional Black Caucus' most prominent members, U.S. Reps. John Lewis and Maxine Waters, have split over Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and his primary with Ned Lamont, a divide that highlights the question of how the black vote might sway the outcome.

Waters, the more media-savvy and aggressive of the two, is backing Lamont - potentially bad news for Lieberman, who in recent years has been criticized for his stand on issues such as affirmative action and school vouchers.

But Lewis, viewed as more of an old-guard civil rights leader, helps reinforce Lieberman's message that he was a part of the rights movement as early as the 1960s, when he was a student at Yale.

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Waters says Lieberman "acts just like a Republican," and that she is talking with Lamont. "I'm calling Mr. Lamont," Waters told The Tom Joyner Morning Show, a nationally syndicated radio program, last week, "to tell him I'm going to come up and help him."

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Like Waters, Lewis is a member of the Congressional Out of Iraq Caucus. But he backs Lieberman despite the senator's support for the war.

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Even though Lieberman's NAACP legislative report card has been stellar, Waters and others have long been critical of the senator.

The TrekMedic ruminates:

The Courant describes Rep. Waters as "more media-savvy and aggressive." Hmm,..sounds like MSM-speak for "loud-mouthed media whore" to me!

So we are left (hehehe) to wonder: will blacks in Connecticut be led by the nose, once again by these so-called "community leaders" (a/k/a media whores)? Or will they vote their conscience and keep a Democrat in the Senate who actually thinks for himself, and not what George Soros, MoveOn.org and (hot) Air America tells him??