Is This Our Modern-Day Booker T. Washington?

by JASmius



....or is he our modern-day Malcolm-X?....



....I report, you decide:



Wow.  Just, wow.  I'm not sure which is more powerful, Mr. Guillory's words or the dramatically understated minor chords that underscore them.  I know I don't live anywhere near Louisiana and I know I'm pasty white, but this spot sure goosed my flesh and sent chills up my spine.  Maybe that's why Senator Landrieu is trailing Republican challenger Bill Cassidy in the polls - though not by nearly as much as she should be.

But then, that always seems to be the case with Mary Landrieu.  In 1996, she won the seat of the retiring John Bennett Johnston (bet you couldn't tell he was from the South, could you?) by a grand total of 5,788 votes out of 1.7 million cast over State Representative Woody Jenkins in a race that stank of election fraud.  In 2002 she was forced into a runoff with GOP challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell, who outspent the Donk incumbent by a three to one margin and still lost.  And in 2008 she was considered the most vulnerable Senate Democrat, but rode Barack Obama's coattails to a third term.  Mary Landrieu looks as if she never should have gotten to the U.S. Senate to begin with, much less hung around there for eighteen years, and yet "somehow" she always manages to hang around some more.

Maybe if the Seventeenth Amendment were repealed, that problem would be fixed.

In the mean time, that problem may be solving itself:

Democratic Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu has reportedly replaced her campaign manager in a late-stage shakeup as she battles to maintain her Senate seat.

Landrieu, who has been called one of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in the November midterms, is also bringing other people from her previous Senate campaigns onto her team, the [New Orleans] Times-Picayune reported Wednesday.

The last-minute shake-up came as recent polling data from Real Clear Politics showed Landrieu trailing her challenger, Republican Representative Bill Cassidy, by an average of five points.

After bearing witness to her endless series of Houdini-esque electoral escapes, I'll believe that this is Mary Landrieu's Waterloo only when I see it.

But if this is her end, how poetically just will it be that Elmer Guillory will have been the one to deliver the "killing" blow?