An odd way to pay off a debt.

[King Coal]

Rice also cited her background, growing up in segregated Birmingham, Ala. "I am especially indebted to those who fought and sacrificed in the civil rights movement so that I could be here today," said Rice, who like Powell, is black.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/senate_rice_9

[Stephanie]

1. She's only where she is today because BushCO disenfranchised black voters

I bet she's glad her grandfather isn't here to see this.

[Wisc Badger]

6. Do you mean that Black voters

should only and always vote for Democrats??? Not much freedom of outlook in that approach is there?

So she is a conservative, should she be lynched because she is??

Come on that kind of outlook makes us no better than the old segregationist that held her grand father down.

[King Coal]

7. How many black kids have been killed due to her lies?

Did you think of that?

[Stephanie]

8. Black voters were deliberately disenfranchised in FL in 2000

and in OH in 2004 BECAUSE it is a statistical FACT that they are more likely to vote Democratic.

And why on God's earth are you talking about lynching?

Please don't say "us" - you don't speak for me.

[King Coal]

10. Maybe he has a fish in his pocket.

:smoke:

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Odd choice of word

lynched?

[Stephanie]

11. Here's an article about the 2000 disenfranchisement in case you're unaware

Florida's 'Disappeared Voters': Disfranchised by the GOP
The Nation
Monday, February 5, 2001
by Greg Palast

In Latin America they might have called them votantes desaparecidos, "disappeared voters." On November 7 tens of thousands of eligible Florida voters were wrongly prevented from casting their ballots--some purged from the voter registries and others blocked from registering in the first instance. Nearly all were Democrats, nearly half of them African-American. The systematic program that disfranchised these legal voters, directed by the offices of Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Secretary of State Katherine Harris, was so quiet, subtle and intricate that if not for George W. Bush's 500-vote eyelash margin of victory, certified by Harris, the chance of the purge's discovery would have been vanishingly small.

The group prevented from voting has few defenders in either party: felons. It has been well reported that Florida denies its nearly half a million former convicts the right to vote. However, the media have completely missed the fact that Florida's own courts have repeatedly told the Governor he may not take away the civil rights of Florida citizens who committed crimes in other states, served their time and had their rights restored by those states.

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After reviewing The Nation's findings, voter demographics authority David Bositis concluded that the purge-and-block program was "a patently obvious technique to discriminate against black voters." Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC, notes that based on nationwide conviction rates, African-Americans would account for 46 percent of the ex-felon group wrongly disfranchised. Corroborating Bositis's estimate, the Hillsborough County elections supervisor found that 54 percent of the voters targeted by the "scrub" are African-American, in a county where blacks make up 11 percent of the voting population.

Bositis suggests that the block-and-purge program "must have had a partisan motivation. Why else spend $4 million if they expected no difference in the ultimate vote count?" Florida's black voters gave Al Gore nine out of ten of their votes; white and Hispanic felons, mostly poor, vote almost as solidly Democratic. A recently released University of Minnesota study estimates that, for example, 93 percent of felons of all races favored Bill Clinton in 1996. Whatever Florida's motive for keeping these qualified voters out of the polling booths on November 7, the fact is that they represented several times George W. Bush's margin of victory in the state. Key officials in Bush's and Harris's agencies declined our requests for comment.

The NAACP, tipped off to the racially suspect voter purge by early reports of this investigation, added the tainted felon-hunt to its lawsuit, filed January 10, against Harris, her elections unit chief Clay Roberts and their private database contractor. The suit accuses them of violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Constitution's equal protection amendment. The NAACP demands an immediate injunction to halt the felon purge.

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http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=27&row=2

[Johonny]

2. Just words

She's so typical of this administration. She uses a lot of good sounding words but lacks any details of action. For instance what actions can you point in the last 4 years that show any of this statement to be true. Some might argue their actions have created just the opposite effect. If their securing the blessing of freedom and prosperity then why exactly is DC being turned into a police state for the inauguration? Action of 9/11 did define America to the world. Which is why Bush is unfavorable in every country but 3!



She called the Sept. 11 attacks "a defining moment for our nation and the world. Under the vision and leadership of President Bush," Rice said, "our nation has risen to meet the challenges of our time: fighting tyranny and terror, and securing the blessings of freedom and prosperity for a new generation."

[NYC]

4. Name one thing she has done for the benefit

of the American people.

[NYC]

3. King Coal, did you take your name

from the Upton Sinclair book?

[King Coal]

5. No, I took if from the merry old soul.