Baltimore Mayor in Spotlight Over Remarks

[The Sheik]

BALTIMORE - Mayor Martin O'Malley, a charismatic white man elected twice in a predominantly black city, is a Democrat with a future — a rising star nationally, and perhaps the party's best bet to take back the governor's mansion in Maryland in 2006.
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Demonstrating that the GOP already has O'Malley in the crosshairs, a Republican official was fired Tuesday by GOP Gov. Robert Ehrlich for spreading rumors on the Internet that the 42-year-old mayor had an extramarital affair with a TV reporter. On the same day, Republican officials pounced on O'Malley after he drew a loose comparison between President Bush (news - web sites)'s cuts in urban aid and the Sept. 11 attacks.
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He once showed up unannounced at a Baltimore talk radio station and went on the air to respond to criticism from a caller, winding up in a sometimes-bitter exchange with the hosts. He ended by saying: "And gentlemen, if you enjoyed that, come outside after the show, and I'll kick your (expletive)."
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Now read this article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=2&u=/ap/baltimore_mayor and tell me this guy isnt awesome?

[democracyindanger]

1. Clinton once said this guy would make a good prez

[okieinpain]

2. so what's wrong with that. oh I forgot, he's a dem.

[GalleryGod]

3. Met Marty in 1989 When he ran for Councilman-Good Guy.

Featured in Esquire last year......:kick:

[Ian David]

4. If instead of "kick your ass" he said "Bring 'em on" he'd be Presidential

[hector459]

5. This is the kind of "spotlight" O'Malley should relish. Standing up to

fascist regime and exposing their lies and dirty tricks. Hey, put that "spotlight" right over his head. If I were him I would sue the hell out of Erlich and that aid who admitted spreading the rumors and knowing they were false.

[Skinner]

6. I think I have a new hero.

"And gentlemen, if you enjoyed that, come outside after the show, and I'll kick your (expletive)."

YEAH!

[SuffragetteSal]

7. yay..o'malley for president!

He is telling it like it is...thank you Mayor O'Malley.

[Redstone]

8. If I could manage it

I'd move to Balmer just to be able to vote for this guy.

Redstone

[applegrove]

9. Everyone rent the movie Brazil

In the movie Robert Deniro plays an appliance repair man who 'intercepts calls' to the bureaucracy, waits until the darkness of night, dons black clothing and a mask, and sneaks into the home to fix the 'air conditioning' on the sly. And at no cost.

For this the character his hunted down massively by the military forces that support the 'bureaucracy'.

In the movie Brazil you get 'destroyed' for having done a better job and 'anything' than the people in power.