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John Kerry's talk with black clergy a portent of fate
The Baltimore Sun ^ | November 6, 2004 | Gregory Kane

Posted on 11/06/2004 3:30:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

THE FIRST inkling I had that Sen. John Kerry would lose Tuesday's election came exactly a week before, when I participated in a telephone conference call that the Massachusetts senator had with about 350 black clergy. After former President Bill Clinton introduced him, Kerry told the group that the issue of gay marriage was a red herring.

"I ask you not to be diverted from the real issue in this case," Kerry told the ministers. "Fifty percent of the African-American men in New York City are unemployed. ... There are more black men in prison than in college."

As if blowing off the moral issue that would eventually cost him the election weren't enough, we have to look at what else was wrong with the picture: When you're telling clergy folks that things many Christians regard as sins don't matter, you might not want an admitted philanderer to be the guy introducing you.

Earlier in the campaign, Kerry shared a stage with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, another fella not yet bitten by the monogamy bug, who said moral issues in campaign 2004 were a diversion.

Well, not to the 3.5 million voters who provided President Bush his margin of victory, they weren't. Add to that Kerry's sneaky attempt at demagoguery in addressing the black clergy - the number of black men unemployed in New York City and in prison were "acceptable" to Bush, according to the senator - and you may have a reason why the president got a slightly higher percentage of the black vote this year than in 2000.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; blackchurches; blackvote; church; kerry; morals; pandering
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To: Norman Conquest

John F Kerry is so AFFECTED. Really, really fake.
And this "I'm so 'umble, so very, very 'umble" pose with the hands is over the top.


41 posted on 11/06/2004 6:46:23 AM PST by doberville (Angels can fly when they take themselves lightly)
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To: dennisw

These pics of sKerry just have to be "Photoshopped" ... If they are real, please respond to confirm they are. I gotta believe they are a hoax until then.

(funny how it doesn't excite me much either way today - and it would have a week ago...)


42 posted on 11/06/2004 6:54:48 AM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: stevem

MN: Bush lost by only 98,000 votes! Wow!

You're nearly there! Don't despair at all! The next election you will get the R over the top, if we keep on keepin on like that!

You want to be discouraged, come to NY ... Bush lost by over 1,192,000 here... now, that's a hill to climb... (and, actually, I'm happy it is that close, LoL)


43 posted on 11/06/2004 7:03:46 AM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
But as we saw in this election, it's not the quantity, it's the quality. The 'Rats had more 527's, with better funding. But one underfunded 527 made the big hit - the Swiftvets.

Kerry had sold out and slandered a large chunk of people who are now in their voting prime - Vietnam Vets.

It was payback time. Kerry probably won't ever to prison, or the gallows, for his treasons. But it cost him the one thing he has wanted most in his adult life: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.


But I don't see a similar group in Hillary's past.

I don't see any particular group that she has slandered with the focus, intensity and affect that Kerry slandered Vietnam Vets. And even if there was, she would probably have enough political savvy to avoid rubbing salt in the old wounds of those who would have the most justified animus in opposing her.

44 posted on 11/06/2004 8:36:09 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (Welcome home, Vietnam Vets.)
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To: AFPhys

All are real photos... none are photoshopped.


45 posted on 11/06/2004 11:58:09 AM PST by dennisw (Gd - against Amelek for all generations.)
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