Bush Speaks to NAACP to Woe Mod. Whites Offended by Southern Strategy

[McCamy Taylor]

Let's get real. Karl Rove has only one plan for African-american voters this fall. Keep them from voting. Their names will be stripped from voting rolls, as they were in Ohio 2004 and Florida 2000. They will be subject to harassment by GOP pollwatchers and police. They will have their votes changed before their eyes or be unable to cast a vote at all due to lack of equipment (or proper ID or changes in polling places).

As one DU poster so aptly put it, Karl Rove is running a "Fear the Black Man Tour de Force" this year. He has Al Gonzales arresting them right and left after year long stings. He has the press portraying them as crazed maniacs with lethal cell phones, hyped up on steroids and who knows what else. He wants GOPers to be very, very afraid of what will happen when Charlie Rangel and John Conyers get to head Congressional Committees. What else can he do? The administration totally screwed up Hurricaine Katrina and its aftermath. In particular, their handling of the crisis in NOLA showed the world that they could care less what happens to any city that is largely 1. Democratic and 2. Black. African-americans will never forgive W., so why not capitalize on Kayne West? Karl Rove is following Pat Buchanan's advise. He is advertising the Republican Party as the "White People's Party" in hopes of mobilizing the base.

There is just one problem with this. There are a whole bunch of moderate, white suburban Republicans who would rather DIE than be associated with a party that is openly racist. The sight of a bunch of southern Republicans trying to stall the Voting Rights Act must have made those New England soccer moms cringe in horror. Would their friends think that they were like THAT? Good gracious, no! Better to stay home or even vote Democratic than to vote in the same party with a bunch of red neck, burning cross toting racists.

That is why W. is swallowing his White pride and subjecting himself to the NAACP, even though he just got treated like the Devil he is at Rosa Park's funeral. He has to do something to convince the white suburban soccer moms that the GOP doesn't really mean it when they court the right wing base with all that "Fear the Black Man" rhetortic.

Now, the NAACP knows all this. Which means that they know that he is not coming to that meeting waving an olive branch. He is there to exploit them. The question is, how will they exploit him back?

[MrBenchley]

1. I think it's even more desperate than that

I think his handlers are hoping for the delegates to react in outrage so that they have an issue to fire up the dittohead racists on the far right.

[itzamirakul]

5. I think he wants to establish that "Bill Clinton-type" relationship

with the black community of America without putting in the work it entails. He watched Bill "work the crowd" at an African American funeral during the past year and now he and Rove want to try to do it on their own. This is one of Rove's weaknesses that the Dems failed to act upon. He does not know how to relate to black people, so he tends to either ignore them or look down on them. Rove actually fears having a relationship with black people. So does Bush. This truth could have been exploited these past six years, but of course, the Dems are "too nice" to do something like that.

I can't remember now if it was Rosa Park's funeral or Coretta Scott King's funeral, but at the one where Clinton stood next to Hillary and spoke to the largely black crowd in what came across to me as the "kindly, but stern white plantation master...gently, but firmly scolding, to show the white folks that he did indeed have control over these black folks who worshiped him as the "first black president."

Yeah, right...If Bill Clinton was "the first black president" then he has truly turned into the "next Uncle Tom" IMO.

I will never forget the "tone" in which Clinton spoke to that audience, composed of African American Scholars and professionals as well as with "everyday folks." It was familiar yet condescending. Clinton is comfortable with black people. He can take advantage of that "feeling of being accepted" and say what he wants, while Bush cannot. Bush is "not accepted" and "not acceptable" by the larger black community.

SHEEEEEEEEEE - IT!

And that crowd did not disappoint. They cheered Bill and revered him and placed him on high. And all the while he had sold them down the river...callously. And his wife stood there, her feelings about the people she faced were masked as she soaked in the spillover of the adulation the congregation showered on Bill. She wallowed in it, knowing full well that she could never elicit that kind of thunderous ovation from this audience on her own. She will always reflect Bill Clinton's shadow.

Bill and Hillary will deliver the black vote to the DLC because most black Americans do not yet realize that the Clintons are now deep in the GOP pocket as are most other Democratic leaders, including the newest poster boy, Obama. There is no Democrat who is willing to risk his/her political/financial life by publicly telling the truth about this situation and why the Party did not rise up in outrage about both election frauds.

And now Bush. He will meet with the NAACP if only to prove to his white base that he, like Clinton, can put these black folks "in their place," and make them like it at the same time. He must appease the Skinheads, NeoNazis, KKKlan-ers,Aryans, Supremacists and Christian Coalitionists who form his REAL base. MSM might try to throw in the straw men of soccer moms and nascar dads and church-goers as the Bush base, but most of us know that Bush's true base is made up of AMERICAN RACISTS...the same kind that have been allowed to build militias here at home and are now being accepted into the U.S. Army.

And you know what? The Dems don't give a damn. The Dem leadership would rather spend all of its resources fighting for some unnumbered, ethereal, mystical, white "swing vote" than put any of its resources into ensuring that the voting irregularities of 2000 and 2004 affecting mainly the COMMITTED BLACK VOTE do not happen again.

When America really begins to split apart, as it is well on its way to doing, it will be the African Americans who will hold this country together. Just as they did in the 60s.

[Skittles]

2. a great rant

just one correction - it is "COULDN'T care less", not COULD

[itzamirakul]

6. I think I disagree..

The correct expression is..."He could care less" and not "He couldn't care less." It has something to do with a double negative, but I forget what.

He "couldn't care less" implies a lack of ability to "care."

Edit for typo

[Skittles]

7. no, no (lol, double negative)

http://cjr.org/tools/lc/caring.asp

[liberaldemocrat7]

3. Good cop bad cop.

While Bush talks about compassionate conservatism KKKarl Rove will attempt to do the dirty tricks of stealing votes by suppression.

I urge everyone to vote by absentee ballot. The Democratic and Republiklan parties will then get to watch the vote counting.

[wake.up.america]

4. ROVE is lower than whale feces when it comes to politics.