Okay, we'll make this short and sweet. I'm recommending you leave kos for just a few minutes, to read someone else's diary. He puts it better than me, anyhow.
Skeptical Brotha on Nikki Tinker
Just a sample:
As [Trojan Horse] implies, Aunt Nikki is a stealth weapon of the right-wing that optimally would be used to destroy progressive black representation and the social, political, and economic viability of Black Memphis. Unfortunately for our corporate enemies on the right, Aunt Nikki’s campaign exploded today like an IED in a war zone when it released an ad which strikes a note of false religiosity and implies that Steve Cohen is an Jewish interloper unwelcome in black churches and alludes to a bill to protect "religious freedom" and the unfettered right of religious organizations to discriminate against gay and lesbian people. This is the culmination of her clumsy attempts to make inroads with the black ministerial community by pandering to the homophobia of a select group of black pastors.
A more Faith based perspective from a commenter.
Nikki got herself caught with her hand in the macacca jar. Caught race-bating, and doing other things no sane democrat should do. She is a walking embarrassment to her city, her state, and our country. But don't take my word on it... ;-)
So, I guess you're wondering why I CARE. I don't live there. It's not just that it's an insult to our party, our country and our entire world. It's not just because it's a stain on our honor.
It's because I know people from Tennessee -- the kind of folk you would call good Republicans. Decent people, alcoholic teetollers, you get the picture. I've been talking to them, and trying to get them to turn Democratic, before they make that journey home to Tennessee.
I've heard their stories, fighting for racial integration -- genteely, but still doing their part. Same people who volunteered to help out with the black church, even in Jim Crow days. People who made sure their kids were brought up right, without the preconceived misconceptions of everyone else.
It's kinda hard to tell them with a straight face that the Democratic party is all kinds of shiny and jangly, when we have such a cowbell in the party.