Twelve candidates showed up for a mayoral debate in Memphis last night, and as you can see in the photo, this included some crazies — can you believe they let a black guy participate? Here was another candidate’s epic closing: “I don’t know what I would do if I’m elected mayor of Memphis. [unintelligible] If I do get elected mayor of Memphis, well, there are some things I will do. I will go decriminalize marijuana and focus on the hard drugs, the real drugs, the junkies, keep them out of Memphis, and it’ll be a better place to live. And I would use The Pyramid. It’s not being used for anything. Well, let’s let Memphis take it for [unintelligible] — Let’s be known for something in the world. Let’s be known for having the best pot. It sounds like a good idea to me.” Why not? [Memphis Flyer]

For Christ’s sake, please watch this. We mentioned earlier that John McCain asked the dead Martin Luther King Jr. to forgive him for hating black people in the 1980s. But we didn’t mention that the crowd booed him loudly when he did this. They also shouted things back at him, like they do in Barack Obama’s black churches that White America Doesn’t Understand. Around 1:10 into this video, some lady shouts out “so what?” and it is comical. [YouTube via TPM Election Central]

Take that, Obama. You probably didn’t even know you were black yet when Hillary was throwing Rosa Parks under a bus. (PS — Sorry about the Depends commercial before this clip.)

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