Ok, we admit it. This video did makes us chuckle out loud a few times. However, nobody at "Certain Speculation" had anything whatsoever to do with making it -- and, frankly, we wonder who did. This actually would be funny were it not for the fact that Mary Norwood, the ditzy lady in the "commercial" you just saw, is leading in the polls and, conceivably, has a shot at becoming Atlanta's next mayor. How is such a thing possible? Well, she's white. That's how. It's an ugly truth that few of Norwood's supporters will admit, even to themselves -- but what we are seeing here in Atlanta is a sort of reverse version of the "Yes, We Can!" euphoria that put Barack Obama into office. Turnabout, they are saying (although not out loud), is fair play. Even if it tears the city apart. When the good white folk who support Norwood say they want "change" and that her opponents are "more of the same," what they are really saying is that Kasim Reed, Lisa Borders and Jessie Spikes are black. Atlanta has had black mayors for three decades. That's what "more of the same" means. And, by the way, Atlanta has done pretty darn well in those three decades -- including the last eight years, in which Shirley Franklin has been an exeplary mayor, despite various efforts to paint her otherwise. But, don't take our word for it. Here's a good article on the mayor's race -- with an emphasis on race -- from our friends at Creative Loafing. And both of Atlanta's major intown newspapers have denounced Norwood in the process of endorsing Kasim Reed as mayor. CL had this to say, calling Norwood "strikingly ineffective" during her two terms on the City Council. "She’s never chaired a Council committee; she endlessly laments her inability to gain access to city documents; she concedes that Mayor Shirley Franklin has spoken to her only a couple of times in eight years; and she complains that her legislation is often ignored by city department heads," CL says. "Norwood’s cultivated image is that