Burnt Orange Report

Yeah, even though Braun, Sharpton and Kucinich are in my opinion "vanity candidates" with no shot at the nomination, I think that all three add to the debate in the primary. So, I really don't feel like they ought to drop out, however pathetic their candidacies may be. Kucinich, for example, I'm glad he's running.... he makes Dean and everyone else look more moderate. As for Sharpton, for all the fear of divisiveness, he's probably been the most unifying candidate in the field. I'm glad he's part of the debate. As for Braun... she's a well-qualified, articulate, Black woman, and she adds to the debate.

Braun's running because she was pretty much dared to by Donna Braile - and Mosley Braun most likely needs a job of some kind, since ethical violations have pretty much ended her publicly elected career. I'd say she's sticking in the race for attention, obviously. Sharpton, although I disagree about 95 percent with his message, from listening to him, actually sounds like he wants to stay in the race to keep his issues at the forefront during the debates. I think he'll pull an Alan Keyes of 2000, where, if possible, he'll stay in the race until the end, and at the convention threaten to leave unless his key issue is given the attention he thinks it is deserved. For Keyes, it was getting a staunch Pro-Life VP. For Sharpton who knows. Kucinich is just vein, and actually thinks he has a chance to win. But anyone who use's the "goddess of peace" in their introduction speech to running for President is obviously on another realm of reality than 90 percent of the populace.

Braun always makes me smile; she is such a happy person who knows she can't win but is in the race because she really believes in Hope.

She is in the race at the behest of the Dem powers that be who hope to deflect black support (and white attention) away from Al Sharpton - not from Al to Braun, necessarily. Just whatever it takes to keep them away from Sharpton and thus on the plantation.

Sharpton has the best zingers by far, and is like a Democratic Peacemaker and Cheerleader.

Ouch...I can only assume this analysis is based completely on political considerations, and ignores the racial demogoguery and malice spewed by the morally debased Al Sharpton his entire "career". Tawana Brawley ring a bell? Light a candle for the Korean grocers who were killed by a mob incited by Al Sharpton, too.

As Josh mentioned above, I'd seriously look into Braun's awful ethical record as a US Senator before saying kind things about her.
She didn't just misappropriate funds either, she consorted with the dictator of Nigeria while he was executing a Nobel prize winning poet.
She's slime of the lowest sort. Don't be so naive Karl T.