[mountaineer]

Good grief, so much nausea-inducing news, so little time. So the Hildebeaste is afraid of Daffy Dean, while he's mildly but not terribly offended by f-bombs, n-words and indecent personal attacks on the president, Condi and Lynne Cheney by his comic (?) supporters. Taken in conjunction with Nikita's "hey, religion is religion, what the hey?" attitude, and it's no wonder people are apprehensive about finding out where - if anywhere - he really stands on issues. Scary.

[mountaineer]

Da Rebrund Charlatan says, "Stay outa my hood, Daffy!"

.... The Rev is furious at the Doc for invading his home turf Tuesday, when Dean went uptown to receive former Vice President Al Gore's endorsement at the National Black Theatre on 125th St. Sharpton didn't appreciate the coronation - or the venue. [In other words, Harlem is not for white folks, except x42, who is only kind of white]

"The day is past when black folks can be delivered," he said in a telephone interview. He called the Dean-Gore summit "drive-by campaigning in Harlem."

And he's firing back. "Howard Dean is a conservative," Sharpton says. "He's supported three-strikes-and-you're-out sentencing. He called welfare recipients 'lazy people' with no work ethic. Now he wants to keep troops in Iraq for years. How are folks in the civil rights community supposed to support things like that?"

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