Gore got no wood.
Posted on 10/25/2004 2:45:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ALBERT GORE III and John Forbes Kerry, two of America’s most blue-blooded and buttoned-up white politicians, swayed awkwardly to gospel music and preached a message of black revenge in churches across Florida yesterday, imploring African-Americans to turn out in their droves on election day and defeat President Bush.
Mr Gore, returning to the state that destroyed his presidential hopes four years ago after its bitterly disputed 36-day recount drama, delivered a gospel of civil rights and anger, acutely aware that without a massive turnout from African-American voters on November 2, Mr Kerry has virtually no chance of defeating President Bush.
Mr Gore looked utterly incongruous, failing miserably to tap his foot in time to the febrile mix of gospel music, electric organ and wailing worshippers inside Jacksonville’s Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church in an area of northern Florida where Democrats claim that 27,000 black votes were wrongly rejected in 2000.
Yet in making one of his first campaign appearances for Mr Kerry, Mr Gore also knows that there is no one better to remind black voters in Florida, and in other swing states, of what he and Democrat leaders have been telling them for four years: that the 2000 election was stolen from them.
Introduced as “Brother Gore, our President-elect” by the Chief Pastor, who accused the Republican Party of “spitting on the graves of our ancestors” by stealing the 2000 election, Mr Gore entered the pulpit and declared: “If anybody ever tells you that your vote doesn’t count, or one vote doesn’t count, you just tell them to come and talk to me about that.”
After the intervention of the US Supreme Court, Mr Bush won Florida by 537 votes, and with it the White House.
“That’s right!” the congregation responded.
“If any of you are feeling frustrated or angry about what was done four years ago, I want you to allow yourselves to feel what you felt, but don’t turn it into angry actions, vote for your future.”
“That’s right!”
“I’d like to see some changes in the economy,” Mr Gore said. “After all, I was the first one laid off,” which brought whoops of laughter. “People ask me what it’s been like the last four years. Well, I flew on Air Force Two for eight years. Now I have to take my shoes off to get on an aeroplane (a reference to security procedures faced by most passengers after the September 11 attacks of 2001.)
In 2000 nine black voters in ten backed Mr Gore, turning out in record numbers, while only 9 per cent supported Mr Bush. Democrat strategists know that another huge turnout for Mr Kerry among the party’s most loyal constituencies, especially in the crucial swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, is vital.
In Florida, Democrats claim that up to one million blacks were disenfranchised. Getting them angry and mobilised is one of the Kerry campaign’s most urgent goals.
However, in recent weeks it has become clear that Mr Kerry, a Europhile Roman Catholic married to a millionaire heiress, is struggling to energise the party’s black base to anywhere near the level enjoyed by Mr Gore four years ago. Mr Gore, then Vice-President, was able to bask in the glow of President Clinton, a Southern Baptist whose ability to connect with black congregations — he could even sway in time to the music — has seen him become the first white politician included in the Black Hall of Fame.
According to a poll released by the Joint Centre for Political and Economic Studies this month, Mr Bush has doubled his support among blacks to nearly 20 per cent. Although Mr Kerry still enjoys the support of some 70 per cent, the slippage has sent tremors through Democratic ranks.
In the past three weeks Mr Kerry has appeared in black churches in Ohio and Florida, trying to rouse congregations in sermons rich with Baptist scripture and the language of civil rights, but still with the delivery of a man trying rhetorically to break free from 20 years in the Senate.
Appearing in a Baptist church in Fort Lauderdale, southern Florida, yesterday, Mr Kerry declared: “Never again will a million African-Americans be denied the right to exercise their vote in the United States of America.” Invoking the civil rights era, he added: “We have had an unfinished march in this nation.”
Two weeks ago, Jesse Jackson, the most popular black activist among African-Americans, answered the calls of the Kerry campaign and now travels extensively with the candidates. With Al Sharpton, who appeared in Ohio yesterday, he has been breathing fire into swing-state congregations all month.
If they had successfully stolen the election from Bush as they attempted, would Brother Bush be as petty and vindictive as Brother Gore. Gore is a disgrace. Can dem pres candids keep gettin worse?
Something about tax exempt status and using churches for political means...
I note the atheists and secularists are conveniently silent when it comes to the exploitation of church pulpits by Democratic politicians. There's no phony "separation of religion and state" issue involved. Its only when Republicans appeal to their evangelical base that the faith-baiters and theophobes swing into action in high and mighty dudgeon.
Gore got no wood.
Way to slant it guys. As if the Supreme Court stopping the insanity was the only thing that could have beaten Gore, who, by the way, subsequently lost EVERY press-supervised recount.
We report, to divide.
"Mr Gore, returning to the state that destroyed his presidential hopes four years ago...."
That would be his HOME STATE of Tennessee! BuWahahahaahahahah!! Even his homies hate his guts.
That only applies to Republicans.
Black church goers and their Pastors are the biggest sellout fools to forsake the teachings of Christ all for the support of the Godless, pro-abortion democrat party.
Gore belongs in a straight jacket with the following zeros; kerry(16wks tdy nam),ted(the gut)kennedy,nancy(the mug)pelosi,shrillary(i can't recall)klintoon,jesse(the reparations/race card)jacksassaon,al(shaft the bros/sisters)shafton,calypso(i love white people)faroutkan),robert(kool kalm kollective) bird, maxine(no justice no peace) muddy waters, carl(white-bread)levin,henry(the quack)waxman, alcee(bribe me)hastings,jimuh(the kommie kracka)carter,ross(pipsqueak out-sourcing)perot fritz(ain't no ritz)hollings, charlie(the draftsman)rangel,chucky(the gun)schumer,sheila lee(smiles alot)jackson,Pat(bin laden)murray,linda(big&round)ronstadt,brad(the spit)pitt,sean(still a pawn)penn,barbara(people loving rich people)striesand, qwesi(hate a honkey)mfume,chuck(slurpin)durbin,puff(vote or die)combs,matt(unborn identity)damon,diane(AK-47sR-Us)feinstein,learnardo(don't know squat)Di scrap io,michael(i don't wanna be a white man(moore and finally all the liberal(surpress the truth) media. I think I covered most all bases and was truly an equal opportunity selector for the coveted(straight jacket)award for all people,races/religious demoninations. Now I can sit back and await disparging replys from the trolls and PC-B-Me crowd. It's a great day to be an American and in the Organized Militia. Don't Tread On Us.MOM, Had Enough! Bush/Cheney 2004 For A Free And Better America For All People.
Not ALL black clergy are lowlife shills:
http://www.bondinfo.org/servicesactivities/specialevents/repudiate/repudiate.htm
In fact, taking a gander at the lilly white Protestant church, I'd have to say that the ratio is probably pretty similar. You got yer basic 'liberation theology' heretics in various flavors and you got yer hardliners that still believe in something.
In any event, these scum can go to hell, IMHO.
You've interviewed every black pastor in America to know that. BTW, listen to the Kevin McCullough show sometime. Maybe you'll be enlightened, unless you like thinking such thoughts.
Why does a single one of those churches still have a tax-exempt status?
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