...make like a Donald... and duck.

In a followup from yesterday's story, today's WaTi reports:

Three of Maryland's top Democrats -- including the two leading candidates for governor next year -- declined to repudiate comments by black Democratic leaders who said racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele are fair because he is a black conservative Republican.

Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, both white and running for governor, ducked direct questions about the propriety of the black leaders' remarks, which The Washington Times reported yesterday.

"Steele's got a record there that he has to defend. ... I think he is open to criticism in a number of areas," Mr. Duncan said after a tree-planting ceremony at an Olney middle school named after civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who was buried yesterday in Detroit.

"If there are criticisms to be leveled, they should be leveled on issues," Mr. O'Malley said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Harbor Bank of Maryland, a black-owned bank in Baltimore.

And to top that:

Maryland Democratic Party Chairman Terry Lierman backed the black Democrats' comments. (emphasis mine)

"Mr. Steele is already known by the company he keeps," said Mr. Lierman, who is white. "There is a reason people call [Republicans] the party of Clarence Thomas. ... They support [U.S. Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas and his priorities and his issues."

These democrats' abject failure to condemn what is clearly a racist injustice is quite telling and continues to add credence to my assertions that the democrat party is comprised largely of racists and willing accomplices to the perpetuation of racism. Surprising to me, however, were the comments made by Kweisi Mfume:

"Racially tinged attacks have no place in this campaign for U.S. Senate," said Mr. Mfume, who has chided his party's lack of support for his campaign. "If they did, I could very well be the object of public racial humiliation, based on my skin color, by people who don't like my politics."

"Black bigotry can be just as cruel and evil as white bigotry. There are too many bigots in too many places," Mr. Mfume said, repeating a common refrain from his speeches.

This appears to be in direct opposition to what was reported yesterday regarding the position of Mfume's campaign:

"There is a difference between pointing out the obvious and calling someone names," said a campaign spokesman for Kweisi Mfume, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I commend Mfume for his personally-stated position, and I would imagine that the spokesman quoted in yesterday's story has probably been taken to the proverbial woodshed for his/her milquetoast comments. But until I see more and more democrats quit "ducking" and condemn this brand of childish and racially-motivated treachery, my opinion of the DNC in general and in particular its leadership will remain unchanged.