A plea for national amnesia (Derrick Z. Jackson / Boston Globe on Suicide Watch)

Boston Globe Communist Circular ^ | 9-3-04 | Derrick Z. Jackson

[Lance Romance]

NEW YORKJUST WHEN you thought it was only Democrats who promised everything to everybody, President George W. Bush made his own promises and hoped Americans would have amnesia. After Zell Miller, Dick Cheney, and a host of others did the dirty work in tearing apart John Kerry in the first three nights of the Republican National Convention, Bush accepted his party's nomination for a second term by promising to bring back compassionate conservatism. He promised to resurrect education, health care, and prescriptions for senior citizens.

[Lance Romance]

And once again, a party whose face is overwhelmingly white trotted out a black minister for the opening prayer, a black gospel singer, a black business classmate of Bush, and Mel Martinez, the former secretary of housing who is running for the US Senate out of Florida. "Nothing will turn us back," Bush said about those social issues.

He said nothing will turn us back even though his thirst for invading Iraq -- while maintaining tax cuts he said again last night that he wants to make permanent -- figured prominently in the fiscal crisis that has forced severe cutbacks in schools and other services.

Poor Derrick, so delusional yet so stupid at the same time.

I'm sure he's one of those blacks who refers to Colin Powell and Condi Rice as "Uncle Tome's" or "Oreo's". Who is the real racist?

[Crazieman]

Severe cutbacks in schools? Huh? More than clinton's 2 terms is a severe cutback?

HOW THE HELL DO THEY GET AWAY WITH THE LIES? LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE! I HATE THE MEDIA

[2banana]

Take a good look at the protesters - about 99.9% lily white...

[Laserman]

Ignorance on parade!

[dawn53]

And once again, a party whose face is overwhelmingly white

Huh, maybe this guy is colorblind, literally!!! I guess he hasn't figured out that Rice, Powell, and Paige are black.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

Jackson has been hitting the sterno bong again. He's too much of a crazy conspiracy theory junkie, even for the Globe.

[Lance Romance]

And From Today's Letters to the Editor. There were so many good ones, but Dorthea won by being a Michael Moore syncophant.

Some leadership

September 3, 2004

TO BORROW the words of David Nyhan (op ed, Dec. 6, 2000), "It's a stretch to make George W. look presidential." Let me add, it's a stretch to salute Bush's "leadership" at home and abroad as Republicans are doing at their convention.

Any president who can continue to sit in a classroom for seven minutes after being alerted to the disaster at the World Trade Center has surely forfeited receiving praise for superior leadership ability.

DOROTHEA JUMP
Wellesley Hills

[xJones]

Whoa, Jackson must need a hug - and a rug. Jackson Bio.

I was looking around at some of his other articles and this one made me chuckle: Finally, Kerry takes on the faith issue.

Excerpt: " But faith has been another matter for the Democrats. Aside from Jimmy Carter in 1976, most polls show that the more that people go to church, the more they tend to vote Republican. Far more Republicans than Democrats believe, in a May Washington Post poll, that religious leaders should try to influence politics."

I really have to tell my Democratic relatives that they need to go to church more often.:)

[Savage Beast]

If the Democrats want to drink poisoned Koolade, it's not much of a problem. The problem is that they want to force the rest of us to drink it too.

[TASMANIANRED]

ping

[Calvin Locke]

It's been a while since I read, let alone bought, a Boston Globe. Jackson's lost a lot of hair, iirc.

He's still not bothered to study logic, though.

[xJones]

He's still not bothered to study logic, though.Why study logic when you can do Primal Screaming on a major U.S. newspaper and get paid for it?

[NYCVirago]

And once again, a party whose face is overwhelmingly white trotted out a black minister for the opening prayer, a black gospel singer, a black business classmate of Bush, and Mel Martinez, the former secretary of housing who is running for the US Senate out of Florida. "Nothing will turn us back," Bush said about those social issues.

How many black faces are there in Kerry's campaign staff? I can't name any.