Posted on 07/11/2012 2:02:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
He wasn’t pandering. He told them exactly what he intended to do, despite what response he might get.
It’s ironic that the party of slavery and segregation, the Democrats, depend on black people to get elected.
If so, then how do you explain such splendid American thinkers as Frederick Douglas; George Washington Carver; the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,; Associate Justice Clarence Thomas; Thomas Sowell; Walter Williams; Herman Cain; Congressman Allen West; the list goes ON....
I REFUSE the be a "racist," in acknowledging the amazing and irreplaceable achievements of men of this intellectual caliber, and their invaluable contributions to the American self-understanding.
To me, they are all "indispensable public men." I give thanks to God that they exist, or existed.
What a great post
btt
You are right on the money. Black Americans are adrift at sea, and...will remain so for decades to come!!! Until they wise up and get real and come to grips that Obama, the Democrat Party the NAACP and the CBC are not their friends, allies or supporters, just users and abusers of their own race. Folks, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink!!!
Mitt Romney gave a great speech today at the NAACP convention. Honest, truthful and heartfelt!!! Too bad these Black folks don;t have a clue as to how they are ripped off, held down and destroyed by the own kind, starting with Obama, the NAACP and CBC!!! Dummies to the core!!!
I take it you did not watch the speech?
He got a standing ovation because he did not pander or water anything down for them. He addressed them like a leader does and quite frankly, compared to race and class warfare from obama the last 4 years, it was very refreshing to watch.
“...to tell a family secret, my grandmother was Dutch...”
Bart
Appointed Sheriff of Rock Ridge
“...Last time they voted their race....”
Well...it WAS understandable if you think about it. He’s a homeboy (they think), and it was historic for them.
Disastrous for the country overall...but given the choice between Juan McCain and a Brutha, in a reality, where else would they have voted?
At any rate, yeah...I hope you are correct about the pocketbook/wallet.
“I watched his speech and it was not pandering at all. It was sober, mature, serious, and well delivered.”
In other words, not yours, he did a very good job of lying. Something Romney is very good at. He is actually a better liar than Obama. Both are equally worthless though.
I REALLY wished people would stop posting pro-Romney propaganda on FR. Romney is not a conservative anymore than Obama is. He does not deserve conservative support, even to oust Obama. Whether Obama stays is office and continues to harm America, or we put the magic mormon in office and he harms America as well, but destroys any chance the GOP ever has of getting a true conservative in the POTUS chair at a future time.
Even with that, I'm sorry, those weren't boos, those were "no's" and dissapointed jeers. As a sports fan, I know what real boos are.
Not bad except for this:
““If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, black families could send their sons and daughters to public schools that truly offer the hope of a better life. Instead, for generations, the African-American community has been waiting and waiting for that promise to be kept.”
This is nothing but an excuse. I went to the poorest schools that can be imagined. Some were downright laughable. We learned though because we were expected to learn and had good parents who helped us.
The schools these black children go to are crummy because the parents are crummy. The children don’t learn because they aren’t sent and expected to learn and to behave. Instead they act like and are thugs. Their failure is their own fault. It has been a choice made without serious enough consequences.
We have spent trillions and given every advantage and preference possible and still they do poorly as a whole. Romney just supported their excuses for failure, poverty, thuggery and dependence.
The answer to the problem is not more money or more opportunity. The answer is to see failures that put the fear of God in them not to fail.
I agree! Kudo’s for even going in there. It took guts and was done well.
Exactamundo.
To Jack Deth,
I agree nearly 100 percent with your post. Romney stood his ground, didn’t cower because of the booing, and he showed a lot of class. Moreover, he was spot on with his responses to the crowds reactions. He is 1000 percent better than John McCain, and we screwed up big time by not electing as the presidential candidate in the 2008 primaries. A pox on all of you who would damn him because of his religon. At least we know what his faith is...who the hell knows what church Obama embaces.....in spite of his promise to be the the most open and honest president ever. Yeah.....right. Anyway.....I don’t give a damn about the faith of our president....I just want one who will give us less government, less interference, reduced spending, more openness, more jobs, and less BS.
Care to point out which part(s) involved pandering?
Romney is the “ presumptive Republican candidate” (in quotation marks because I quoted Romney), not a conservative candidate.
He presented his views, and was politely received by a specific issues group that invited him to speak at their convention.
Can only imagine the crap McCain would have pulled too.
Of course the participation and communication of parents and teachers is important
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