And you thought American politicians were bad?

Over in England they are having a mayoral contest for the city of London. The current mayor is well known to folks who follow the spread of Islamic extremism across the globe. He is Ken Livingstone, normally referred to as Red Ken. He hasn't met a Muslim extremist he doesn't like.

Livingstone, a throwback to the heady days of the late '60s when revolution was in the air and on the airwaves, has welcomed Islamic extremists to London, and was suspended from his post for a month after comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. When the U.S. ambassador claimed diplomatic immunity from having to pay a "congestion charge" on cars entering central London, Livingstone called him a "chiseling little crook."

His opponent this time is Boris Johnson who is from the British Conservative party. Boris is quite a character too.

In a 2002 article in The Daily Telegraph, Johnson referred to Africans as "piccaninnies" (he apologized); he once offended Liverpudlians by saying they were wallowing in "victim status" after one of their own was taken hostage and killed in Iraq (he apologized), and he described the people of Papua New Guinea as cannibals and chief killers (he was sorry about that, too).

I think we can drop the word Great from in front of Britain now.