Weak

Either Ben Cardin feels so assured of victory -- or else he has so little respect for the NAACP -- that he simply skipped out on a NAACP-sponsored debate with his Republican opponent for Maryland's US Senate seat, Michael Steele.

Will Cardin's arrogance (or cowardice) be greeted with the same outrage that such behavior would elicit, were his opponent an African American Democrat, rather than an African American Republican?