Oh. Double-entendre? ;-)
Posted on 10/16/2003 10:10:49 AM PDT by rhema
Oh. Double-entendre? ;-)
Such negativity, which is the prevailing wisdom conserning American blacks and conservatism, prevents me from joining the GOP.
Thanks, I've been waiting all week for my favorite Rush substitute.
Indeed...I too, can be sagely... [g]
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BMiles2112 said, "Democrats would still pull 90% of the black vote while making all sorts of "Uncle Tom" and "House Slave" accusations." This statement may be correct from a prima facie standpoint, but it is still in the negative because it doesn't address the premise behind it. That premise is "why" does this happen.
Get this. The Dems get 90+% of American blacks' vote. In a campaign, no GOP candidate campaigns in black areas. So in these areas, the people believe what the Dems want them to believe because there is no one there to refute the lies.
Bring up ideas to cause interest for the GOP in black people sans pandering, and it will be immediately shot down by so-called conservatives because they say that it cannot be done. Then, with a straight face after an election, they wonder why 90+% of American blacks' votes went for the Dems.
It's six on one hand and a half-dozen on the other. Both are negative. And, so, I'll remain independent.
. . .Being a college professor is not without inherent risks and temptations. College campuses are loaded with sweet young ladies in the prime of their lives. Plus, there's always the annual shock, abating somewhat as the years go by, of the spring switch syndrome. That's when warm weather arrives, and the young ladies switch from concealing winter attire to revealing summer attire.
Like our past president, Jimmy Carter, I don't mind confessing occasional lust in my heart. However, I'm pleased to report I've never fallen victim to it. Feelings of in loco parentis persuaded me. More important persuasion has been Mrs. Williams' assurances that should I fall victim to lust, there's a good chance I'd leave this world with fewer body parts than I came in with. That assurance was made long before the Lorena Bobbitt surgical incident.
As of late, I'm doing some rethinking. It appears that times and standards have eclipsed me. Yes, you've guessed it; I'm referring to the White House sex saga. When a parent goodbye-kisses a teeny-bopper headed off to be an intern at the White House, it's not that dissimilar to the kiss goodbye when she's headed to college -- a mere four year difference. President Clinton has in loco parentis obligations just as a college professor.
Increasing evidence suggests that the president has not lived up to that obligation and succumbed to lust. Clinton defenders say: "So what if the President had sex with a 21-year-old? After all, it was consensual. Plus, he's doing a good job in his public life; his private life is nobody else's business except Mrs. Clinton's." Opinion polls show that most Americans buy that argument.
Would that same defense apply to Williams? As long as my job was done well, should I be fired if I had a consensual affair with a teeny-bopper? What if I used bribes to keep the teeny-bopper's mouth shut? I don't have enough influence to land her a job at Revlon or the United Nations, but I have an unlimited supply of A's.
The president has also been accused of some things that are just plain lowdown, but I'm wondering about the new morality. In the Paula Jones case, there's the charge of lewd exhibition; in the case Kathleen Wiley, lewd groping. The National Organization for Women defends Clinton by pointed out that when Jones and Wiley made it known his sexual advances were unwanted, he stopped.
I'm wondering whether it's NOW's position that a man gets one free workplace lewd exhibition and one grope before he's charged with sexual harassment.
Today's new-fangled standards befuddle me, but regardless of what anybody says, I'm going to stay with the old-fashioned standards. It's a matter of morality, not to mention the desire to leave this world with all that I came here with.
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