Your thoughts on Bush's MULTICULTURAL administration?

[gibbsvol]

The repugs I know are hailing *'s recent appointments as evidence that the GOP is the party for advancing minorities while we just play lip service to our "plantation blacks", to use their nomenclature. Couple this superficial appearance with the whole gay marriage non-issue, and I become concerned that they may be making serious inroads to what was once an impenetratable democratic base. Your thoughts?

[DenverDem]

1. They're all white on the inside.

Oreo mofo's.

[The Sad Little Pony]

13. That's offensive.

"white inside"?

Remnicent of Louis Armstrong's "Black and Blue".
Equally disturbing.

[DenverDem]

16. Damn right, it's offensive.

Appointing people of color who work against the best interests of their race is offensive as hell. Using their race to deflect the racist policies of the misadministration is offensive as hell.

My point, exactly.

[The Sad Little Pony]

19. "the best interests of their race"?

No.

Appointing people who work FOR "the best interests of their race" is offensive.
NO ONE who is appointed to ANY position in the Government should make decisions that are based on what is in "the best interests of their race".


Imagine if he were white. (yes, I know. Insert joke here)

Would you admire a white man in the government who who looked after "the best interests of their race"?
THAT would be offensive.

Why do you think his being Black allows him such moral leeway to do that which you would object to, were he white?

He should be judged and condemned for his ideas and s=actions, NOT his race, as you are doing.
Which of his policies as secretary of State, did you find to be most damaguing to his race, anyway?

[DenverDem]

20. Puleaze!

"Which of his policies as secretary of State, did you find to be most damaguing (sic) to his race, anyway?"

How about lying to start a war in which a disproportionate number of his race will be killed as cannon fodder to make the middle east safe for rich white guys to get even richer?

For starters.

[The Sad Little Pony]

22. Powell started that war?

Wow. All by himself... Who knew?

So, you think that the Secretary of State should base their decisions on what is best for THEIR particular race, rather than what's best for the country.
That sounds like a real winner of a policy.

Good luck with that.

[DenverDem]

24. The pretzeldent makes decisions based on what's good for his race.

When did colon make a decision based on what was good for the country?

I'm not following you.

The issue is the cynical usage by busholini of people of color to camouflage the racist policies of his mis administration and a second issue is the willing participation of said people of color, when their participation in said racist policies is injurious to their race.

No mention was made of basing decisions solely on what was GOOD for their race. Neither bowel nor codosleaza based their decisions on what was good for their country OR their race, it would seem, as both their country and their race have been injured mortally by their moral bankruptcy.

[The Sad Little Pony]

29. Hmmmm.

A Secretary of State should not base ANY decision on race, period.

On a side note...
I really like your use of cutesy names for everyone.

"pretzeldent"

"colon"

"busholini"

"codosleaza"

"bowel"

It's really quite clever.

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[lupita]

3. same thougth crossed my mind... n/t

[gibbsvol]

10. I'm most definitely NOT!

I'm a proud yellow dog Liberal behind enemy lines here in the buckle of the bible belt. This location (Georgia) puts me in constant contact with "their" side. I'm merely presenting arguments that I have heard in hopes that you guys will give me comfort, or better yet, factual information to bolster my case.
It saddens me that I would be labeled with such a slur for my efforts. Would you prefer we all just pat ourselves on the back all the time? Geeeze.

[digno dave]

12. If you've come to this board expecting rational, objective discourse

then you need to find yourself another forum.

[miss_kitty]

4. multi-cultural?

I see no diversity in the cheney-bush junta

[DrWeird]

5. There's a reason that 9 out of 10 blacks voted for Kerry.

Care to guess why?

[ladjf]

6. Window dressing. The Republican mainstream is "whitie"

all the way. Further, neither Powell or Rice had any real authority.
They were strictly doing whatever the boss told them to do, not a pretty picture. The black voters saw right through that sham and proved it at the polls in 2004.

[beanball]

21. Where are the elected blacks?there

there are so few in the republican party,(the party of Lincoln) and why is it you never hear the rethugs mention Lincoln?

[ladjf]

30. Remember that the Republican Southern strategy

was based on getting the white Southerners to defect from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. This was based totally
on racists policies. Southern whites blamed the Democrats for integration and other civil rights initiatives.

[ComerPerro]

7. This is the newer spin on racism

This reminds me of people who say, "see, I have a black friend!". It's bullshit.

Ever notice that the only minorites Bush appoints happen to be neo-cons who think, talk, and act exactly like white conservatives?

[pnb]

28. Well, how does a black conservative "act" then?

What's the difference you seem to see in a black conservative and a white conservative?

And of course * is only going to appoint people who mostly agree with him. What president wouldn't?

[Zorra]

8. The Bu$h campaign did everything possible to keep minorities from voting

in the election.

Inroads my ass. Racist republican KKK pieces of shit would be wise to stay in their own neighborhoods and not travel outside the US.

[bullimiami]

9. listen to malcom x. house negro and field negro.

these are "White House Negros" we are all the field negros.

[Martin Eden]

11. Bush administration is becoming more UNI-CULTURAL

The shake-up in the Bush cabinet is to get rid of any dissent or difference of opinion. Skin color and ethnicity are unimportant. What is imporatnt is that they all want to implement the same agenda.

If you thought the last administartion had ideological blinders and engaged in groupthink, you ain't seen nothing yet. They're even purging the CIA to get rid of any opposition to their modus operandi, which is to make the "facts" fit their agenda -- rather than basing the agenda on honest analysis of the facts.

The former is how they sold us the Iraq war, and they are in the process of reinforcing that fraudulent process.

I heard John McCain say yesterday that a shake-up at CIA was necessary -- he cited the bad intelligence on Iraqi WMD and Tenet's claim the case was a "slam-dunk." What McCain neglected to say is that Bush is rewarding those who provided the bogus intelligence and punishing those who dissented against the politicized analysis.

This type of purging and staffing based on political loyalty to Bush and the neocon/corporate agenda will be accelerated in the 2nd Bush term and bodes ill for our fading democracy.

[digno dave]

15. They could care less what color people are. As long as they abide by their

rules/beliefs then a three toed unich is welcome in their tent.

[d_b]

14. when republicans have to prove that they're inclusive..

..yea

[TeddyKGB]

17. A minority in the Republican Party - fastest job track on Earth.

Rarer than diamonds, and almost as smart.

[blm]

18. BushInc uses these people as props. They prove fealty to Bush, not America

and certainly not to their own race.

Just like all the other members of the Bush Family Evil Empire, black, white, brown or yellow.

[RevCheesehead]

23. "Heaven's Gate" was pretty "multicultural," too...

...and look what happened to them.

[revree]

25. Can you say tokenism?

[mitchum]

26. Stephanie Fetchit

[Catherine Vincent]

27. Yeah but they need to learn to also appoint the ones that work

in the trenches that don't get tv time. Big difference.

[binglis]

31. Minority inclusion

I don't wish to undermine the importance of the job that she is/will be doing for the country, but should we say it is a token gesture on their parts, or is she actually good at what she does??