Does Bush really think he "deserves" the black vote?

[Blue_Roses]

He's so delusional. So quickly he forgets. After James Byrd, was dragged to his death by 3 racist rednecks, he killed the hate bill that Mr. Byrd's family tried to push through and now he asks do the Democrats deserve their vote :eyes: Of all the gall...but then we are talking about Bush...:freak:


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Bush Blasted at NAACP meet

By Tim Wheeler



BALTIMORE, Md. An hour before Texas Gov. George W. Bush spoke to the 91st Convention of the NAACP, here, Texas delegates convened a news conference and denounced him for blocking a hate crimes bill and for obstructing measures to assist poor and hungry children in his state.

Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson of Houston is author of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Act, named for the Black man dragged to death behind a pickup truck by three white racists outside Jasper, Texas in June 1998. Thompson told the press that she arranged a meeting of Byrd's family with Bush in his Austin office soon after Byrd was lynched.Polls showed that 80 percent of Texans supported a hate crimes law, she said. "But when James Byrd's relatives met with Bush, he said he would not support the law and dismissed them from his office. The James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Act was killed by George W. Bush." Thompson told the World that Bush's explanation was that he would not support the bill's inclusion of attacks on gays and lesbians as hate crimes. Bush had sidestepped the issue of lynchings in his own state by claiming that "all crimes are hate crimes" and, therefore, no special laws are needed to combat violent assaults instigated by racism, anti-Semitism or homophobia.

"There are 23 hate groups with headquarters in Jasper," Thompson said. "Every month someone desecrates the grave of James Byrd. Do you think the governor went to Byrd's funeral? No, he didn't. Bush was nowhere to be found." U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) said Gov. Bush "talks the talk" on compassion for the poor and disenfranchised but, in fact, "reversed the progress that minorities have worked so hard for."Texas has 1.4 million children without medical insurance protection, the highest rate in the nation, she charged. "The Bush Administration failed to take measures to enroll these children in Medicaid and 200,000 more fell off the Medicaid rolls," Johnson said. She cited a federal report that Texas has the highest rate of child hunger and malnutrition.

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http://www.pww.org/past-weeks-2000/Bush%20blasted%20at%20NAACP.htm

[Blue_Roses]

1. kick

this needs to be remembered even though so many choose to forget

[Chovexani]

2. Chimpy deserves a cell in Leavenworth

His speech at the Urban League brought me to new levels of disgust.

[Blue_Roses]

3. It made me sick

too...and just when I thought he couldn't stoop any lower...

[Chovexani]

5. What kills me is how dumb he thinks black people are.

I think that's the most insulting thing about these Repug overtures lately, that they think we're stupid. I've got news for them, we've got really good memories. No matter what kind of ministrel show they put on at their conventions and how much they try to divide and conquer we're not falling for it and neither are the moderate white swing voters they're really after.

[U4ikLefty]

4. He thinks shouting "the Democrats take you for granted!!!" will get him

somewhere after all the crap he has done to all of America & much of this burden has fallen disproportionately on Black America.

[Marvelous_Smarty]

6. The Asshats who killed James Byrd

got sentenced to death. Hate crime legislation is not going to make them any deader or send them into a deeper darker pit in hell.

Murder is murder. Hate crime legislation is divisive and does nothing to prevent an assault or murder from happening. Assault and murder are already crimes and should be punished to the full extent allowable.

In San Angelo, Texas they had their first crime prosecuted under the hate crimes legislation. How ironic that it was two black women brought to trial for beating a white girl. They called her a "cracker bitch" and a "white trailer park whore" among other racially charged things as they beat her.

[Blue_Roses]

7. well I see who you support

n/t

[Marvelous_Smarty]

10. I don't support Bush by any means.

I just don't believe laws should be on the books enhancing what are already crimes with race.

Punish murder as murder. Punish assault as assault.

No one is a 100% what the party believes I must believe Democrat. This is one issue I am not onboard with, that is all. My view on it is my own and based on my own feelings about racial differences. There should not be any.

[Yupster]

15. I don't get the Byrd thing either

Two of the three guys got the death penalty and the third got life because he turned on the other two.

So somehow Bush was soft on them? They should have gotten the super-duper death penalty?

Certainly Bush has done enough things to spend a lifetime listing them without bringing up the Byrd case.

[Marvelous_Smarty]

8. Bush Does Not Deserve the Black Vote,

neither does Kerry. Just like neither one of them DESERVES to be President. They have to earn it. They have to work for every vote and their feet should get held to the fire by every single person who votes for either one of them.

[Blue_Roses]

9. It wasn't Kerry who said the "deserving vote"

quote--as we both know.

[Marvelous_Smarty]

11. I am not quoting either one of them.

I am just saying that neither DESERVES anything from the voters except
vigilance that they live up to their promises.

[Blue_Roses]

13. well in that case

Bush definitely DOES NOT DESERVE their vote.

[dee33]

12. Good! Let him waste his energy on people who won't vote for him

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. I saw a poll today on the black vote

Kerry.......80%

idiot-in-chief......20%

Don't remember which network showed it. sorry.


Think again chimp boy. African American voters have you pegged. You're an SOB and they KNOW it! You purge 58,000 blacks from FL. voting rolls and you actually have the audacity to think they are going to vote for you? If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be funny. :grr:

[Yupster]

16. If Bush got 20 %

of the A-A vote, he'd be brachiating around the White House as one happy chimp.

I think he'd feel he was successful if he got 12 %.

[Blue_Roses]

17. yeah I thought 20%

was pretty high too

[walldude]

20. According to Franken today

in 2000 Bush got 6% of the "black vote" the lowest since Barry Goldwater managed to get 8%..

[K-W]

18. Hes not trying to get the black vote really, hes trying to supress voting.

He wants blacks to question the democrats so that maybe they stay home. They know full well Blacks and Gays will never ever vote for the republicans, but they also know that if they dont vote they cant vote for dems. So they are trying to force wedges in between the groups and the party.

They pressure dems into voting for marriage protection bills and they hammer blacks for being taken advantage of and manipulated.

[walldude]

19. Let's not forget the classic Bushism:

"Alot of people out there think that people with a different skin color than ours can't govern themselves".

Little slip of the tongue there reminding everyone that only white people live in America... I, to this day cannot fathom how Colin Powell didn't slap the shit outta him for that one...