Posted on 09/23/2004 6:29:27 PM PDT by The Real Indepman
John Kerry's Jim Crow America...
"The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated these allegations over a six-month period beginning in January 2001. Its 200-page majority report, Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election, excoriates Florida's election officials for various acts of misfeasance. But the conclusions drawn by the report often bore little relationship to the facts contained therein. And media descriptions of the report did little to dispel the widespread belief among the black electorate that blacks had been systematically targeted for harassment, intimidation, and disenfranchisement."
Of course there were no names put forth so that we could prosecute these individuals.
Jessie was on Hannity's radio show today and was specifically asked about this. All Jessie did was duck the issue and talk about what he did in the 60's. Even when Sean asked him what that had to do with what he was talking about Jessie still dodged.
Nothing--facts, reports or pleas--will change the perception among blacks that they weren't counted in 2000. This visceral hatred of Bush among blacks is the one thing I fear more than anything come November. In states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, a huge black turnout could well give Kerry the election.
Whoa man are you trying to intimidate me into not voting!
If a person in a Police Uniform rings my doorbell with a gun on their hip, I would invite him in and offer him coffee/soda etc.
From the article:
"But facts are stubborn things. Whites were actually twice as likely as blacks to be erroneously placed on the list. In fact, an exhaustive study by the Miami Herald concluded that "the biggest problem with the felon list was not that it prevented eligible voters from casting ballots, but that it ended up allowing ineligible voters to cast a ballot."* According to the Palm Beach Post, more than 6,500 ineligible felons voted."
If people, both black or white, are too stupid to negotiate a butterfly ballot....are too stupid to see the arrow going from the name of the candidate to the hold you are to punch....and if this STILL confuses you and you are too stupid to go to a poll worker and say "I don't get it...can you explain to me how to do this"....if you are too stupid for all of this YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE...YOU ARE TOO FREAKING STUPID.
"Truth" and "Proof" are part of the evil plot, don't you see? It's interesting that the state was overrun with reporters and they could not find these instances which the Civil Rights Commission then reported. If ever there was a time and place when reporters would have found any shred of evidence of actual vote suppression or discrimination against voters, it was Florida after the 2000 election, and yet they could not find such instances. Repeatedly, they were rumored to have happened and then could not be substantiated. Do we see here a corrupt bureaucracy and fundraising apparatus in need of a myth to perpetuate and sustain itself?
For once I though Hannity did a pretty good job when he exposed this idiot. He nailed him on the myth of 2000 disenfranchisment and of bogus 2004 plans to do the same. However, he didn't nail him on the affirmative action/UofMichigan part of the ad.
The idea that opposing racial preferences is akin to wanting to keep blacks out is absurd. This comical expansion of the definition of 'civil right' -- to include the right to recieve a racial/ethnic preference -- is something the left does all the time now, so the Right should call them on it every time.
Sorry, I was thinking of yesterday when he had the guy from that 527 group on.
That probably represented an ill-gotten margin of about 6000 for Gore then.
Reminds me of a Mark Twain quote;
"The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might."
and another that may or may not have originated with Twain;
"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Blacks hated Reagan even more even more from what I remember, but Reagan still won.
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