Posted on 06/09/2002 7:08:18 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
If you thought Cynthia McKinney, the wild and wacky Democratic congresswoman from DeKalb County, might calm down and mute her rhetoric, you were wrong. With the FBI, the CIA and the White House reeling under revelations that they had missed signals of impending terrorist attacks, McKinney has only gained confidence and stature.
Back in April, you may recall, McKinney in effect suggested that President Bush had aided and abetted the Sept. 11 hijackers, hinting that the president knew of the attacks in advance but failed to prevent them so that his friends in the defense industry would profit from the ensuing war. She now claims vindication from recent revelations about undisclosed memos and warnings that were ignored.
Before that, McKinney had garnered international headlines for her ill-considered apology to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Bin Talal had offered $10 million to a relief fund for victims of the terrorist atrocities, but his donation was appropriately rejected by then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani because in giving the money, the prince also suggested that American foreign policy had spurred the attacks. That didn't stop McKinney from butting in, suggesting the prince steer the $10 million to black charities.
Now, McKinney is aiming her outrageous rhetoric at her re-election opponent in the Democratic primary -- a Yale-educated, African-American lawyer named Denise Majette. No doubt searching her thesaurus to find the most despicable epithet to hurl at Majette, McKinney settled on this: Majette, McKinney says, is a Republican.
That's not true. Majette says she is a longtime, committed Democrat, and there's no evidence to suggest otherwise. But McKinney knows the power of that charge among African-American voters, and she hopes to use it to overcome her own history of reckless accusations, low-road insults and baseless conspiracy theories.
In other words, McKinney hopes that Republicans scare black voters more than she does, and she may be right. If so, the Republicans have only themselves to blame.
Since 1964, when Barry Goldwater drew Southern whites with a "states' rights" campaign to block racial integration, the GOP has drawn more and more of its support from the states of the Old Confederacy.
To keep that support, the Republicans have believed it necessary to play the race card, whipping up fears of black crime (Willie Horton), portraying the welfare system as overwhelmingly benefiting blacks (the majority of recipients are actually white), rejecting affirmative action, downplaying the need for diversity and generally ignoring the aspirations of African-Americans. They call that the "Southern strategy."
Progressive Republicans counter suggestions of lingering racism in the GOP by pointing to the diversity of the Bush administration, with prominent black appointees such as Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Assistant Attorney General Larry Thompson. President Bush does deserve credit for raising the bar: He has given blacks more power than any predecessor, Democrat or Republican.
But a diverse Bush Cabinet hardly changes the complexion -- or the politics -- of the GOP. Bush's efforts to make his party colorblind have not had much success beyond the Beltway around Washington.
Just look at the Georgia Legislature. Last year, Gov. Roy Barnes, a Democrat, persuaded the Legislature to end a lingering controversy by endorsing a new state flag. But most members of the Republican minority refused to go along, instead standing by a 1956 flag that prominently featured the Confederate battle insignia. They couldn't resist once again showing their solidarity with whites who remain hostile to black advancement.
So when McKinney tries to smear Majette by calling her a Republican, she knows what she's doing. In McKinney's district, which includes many well-educated black professionals, a hostile, race-baiting GOP may still be more frightening than a loose-cannon congresswoman.
It really understandable why Republicans are hated, and it's not because of Afirmative Action or a state flag. It's because the DemocRAT lies are taken as fact.
And if diversity is so important, doesn't that mean including republicans?
That is why in certain Black communities the mere utterence of the word Republican is tantamount to saying the N word!
And as a black Republican i can tell you that fact is so prevalent in a myriad of areas around the country, and so entrenched, that it has even become a rallying cry during voting times .....for example 'we all have to vote otherwise a REPUBLICAN may win!
Bulls-eye. And it really pisses me off. The GOP cowers as the democRATS beat us over the head with the lies and we just lay down the ultimate weapon...the truth.
One idiot Cynthia defending another idiot Cynthia.Please. Let's be polite here:
How about, "one idiot bitch defending another idiot bitch".
These people enjoy staying on Massa Democrat's Plantation, don't they?
Oh well, when you're being taken for granted and being thrown the table scraps, and you give the con artist 90% of your vote, don't complain when people call you a sucker.
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Chris
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Now, we know. She takes a cheap shot at Cynthia McK., while expressing admiration for her political acumen.
Rather than take a position against McKinney, or in favor of Majette, Tucker chose instead a Third Way:
bashing Republicans.
Disappointing. But not surprising...
Cute, however after I post one of Cynthia's articles, I email her with the URL. And I'm sure as soon as she sees derogatory statements about her personally, I bet she tunes us out.
But every once in a While, Cynthia Tucker makes sense. I sometimes think there may be some conservative in there trying desperately to get out. Note that she is not a McKinney fan, therefore she has an orginal thought once in a while, not just the liberal party line.
Disenfranchised Blacks in Florida:
The new findings likely would be an interesting footnote to the Florida recount battles if they didn't explicitly contradict the central claim of a hasty report by the heavily Democratic U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission argued that blacks in general had been "nearly 10 times more likely to have their ballots declared invalid." Lott says his findings established that this figure is impossible to verify.
..But the new data show that if there was any deliberate effort to suppress votes, it was "not because of race but because of party," ....But it is the "isolated fact of being a Republican that makes an African-American vastly more likely to have his or her ballot declared invalid" than by any other identifiable standard. .
Also, from Policy Review Online:
A study by John Lott reports black Republican voters were an astonishing 50 to 66 times more likely than the average black to have a spoiled ballot, and that black Democratic voters actually had a slightly lower spoilage rate than the average voter. His findings also seem inconsistent with any conspiracy by white or Republican election supervisors, since the rate of spoiled ballots was 14 percent to 31 percent higher in precincts with black or Democratic election supervisors. The overall rate of spoiled ballots was also higher for white Republican voters than white Democratic voters.
Lies of course but if said from a factual perspective it'll fool the stupid people. Why Tucker treats black people as stupid is anyone's guess.
The DemoRat lies that keep the DemoRat blacks in line. Convicted murderers, black or white, need to stay in prison and not be out on furlough to rape an terrorize. Welfare, regardless of wheter the recipient is black or white, breeds dependence on the governent. Affrmative action is just legalized discrimination. What the hell is "the need for diversity"? If African-Americans aspire to positions of power and respect they should become Republicans.
Bollocks. Cynthia Tucker is one of the great apologists for the Clintonian Left that sits on the editorial board of any American newspaper. She is part of the black elite that has bought into the bread and circuses being tossed her way by the Democratic Party. Cynthia Tucker knows her people are being scammed, and she's doing nothing about it.
She has a stake in a contemptible status quo, one that has led to the marginalization of the black voting bloc. You damn right I hope she reads this. If the Republican Party starts concentrating on Hispanics and Asians, while sewing up white men and making advances among white women, where does that leave Cynthia?
Politically, black America must be prepared to vote strategically. That would bring real power and influence to the black leadership, not this comic-opera stepinfetchit theater that Jesse Jackson, Mary Frances Berry, and Al Sharpton have to offer. They do little more than the bidding for their Overseers in the Democratic Party. Every four years they turn out, see which candidate the nice white Democrat has called a "klansman", then they vote against him. They made their bed. Now they have to lie in it.
The good thing is, more and more ordinary black Americans are ready to give their President and his party a chance to perform. And bring results that matter to the black community. This is what members of the black power elite are afraid of.
And yes, I've read her column. She's out-bitched only by Maureen Dowd.
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