Mary Mitchell's column today reminds me of something I should have pointed out more than a week ago, right after Bobby Rush finished racially blackmailing members of the United States Senate at the press conference announcing Roland Burris as Blagojevich's appointee.

Congressman Rush, the former Black Panther who said his "prayers had been answered" by the selection of African-American to replace Obama and who called the Senate the "last bastion of plantation politics," chose to back white gazillionaire Blair Hull in the 2004 Senate primary over, you guessed it, Barack Obama.

Of course, that may have been some political payback for Obama, who had the temerity to challenge Rush for his Congressional seat in 2000 (Rush crushed Obama in the heavily African-American district that year by attacking Obama as an interloper who was not authentically black), but still it's nice to know that Rush is perfectly fine backing "The Man" against a fellow African-American when it comes to carrying out his personal vendettas but will still beat white Senators over the head with the race card about Burris even when race has nothing to do with it.

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