I'm glad the wingnuts are defending Bennett

[submerged99]

My African American friends got incensed when they heard Bill Bennetts remarks. Coming after the tragedy in New Orleans, those kind of remarks turn people off and confirm their suspicions. Those statements go a long way in stripping away the disguise of tolerance that people like Mehlman and others have belatedly tried to mask the Repukes with.

Now, people like Rush, freeptards and assorted wingnuts are rushing forward to defend Bennett. I can't think of many African American people, other than Armstrong William types, who would actually believe the wingnut explanation of Bennetts words. Couple that with the wingnuts reproachful attitude about the whole thing and you have another wedge they've driven between themselves and African American people.

I feel like the wingnuts are hanging themselves by forcefully defending Bennett and I am all for giving them as much rope as they need.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. His remarks incensed me as well....

And I am sure there are some centrist people who were leaning republican that were revolted by what they saw when the mask of the republican party was removed.

[XanaDUer]

2. Did you hear Randi yesterday and that nut freeper?

He kept saying that people like us like to, "read between the lines" on Bennett's remarks.

Sheesh.

[LibDemAlways]

3. Those comments would incense any thinking person.

Chimp got 8 and 11% of the black vote (that was counted) in 2000 and 2004. After Katrina, a repuke presidential candidate would be lucky to get 1%. I think those remarks and the defense of those remarks is a deliberate effort to appeal to racists who haven't been voting - to get them onto the voter rolls and into the polling places to shore up the base and make up for votes lost by those who've finally seen the light. I would expect more of this - and a 2008 convention so white you'll have to fend off the glare from the tv set.

[pacalo]

4. But the icing on the cake is in the timing: * has been trying to recruit

the black vote. Remember during the presidential campaign when * had a meeting with a group of black clergymen after a speaking engagement one evening in a large tent? I've always wondered if payoffs (*'s m.o.) were involved.