Posted on 11/07/2004 9:24:26 PM PST by opticoax
COMBS: We made them a part of this process, because I'm a part of this community, and I'm also a disenfranchised voter. And my first time voting was, like, 2000. So I know what the talk is inside the community. I know the feeling, the buzz. This is history for us. We will decide. We're the wild card of this election.
HEMMER: Why do you say you were disenfranchised four years ago?
COMBS: Because politicians, they just didn't pay attention to us. We're part -- I call ourselves the forgotten ones, youth and minority voters. Their campaign trails don't come into our communities unless they go to the churches, and they don't stop and speak to us as young men and women, like we have power like veterans do or senior citizens, but that's all about to change.
HEMMER: But let me just try and clear this up. You specifically?
COMBS: Yes, I did. That was my first time voting.
HEMMER: And your vote counted, right?
COMBS: And my vote definitely counted, and I learned from that. And I learned from that, and that helped me to want to get involved in a situation like this.
HEMMER: OK, just for the sake of our discussion. How were you disenfranchised in 2000?
COMBS: You know, just the candidates not, you know, speaking to my needs, not coming in my community. I'm from Harlem, New York, from an inner-city community, and just going, seeing the school systems there not being taken care of, seeing the people having problems with health care, people having problems getting jobs. And you feel just like nobody cares about you. And your vote doesn't count.
But this year, you know, it's different, we have taken control of our future. And that's what Citizen Change has done.
People laughed when I said I was going to get -- that we all together we're going to get, you know, a record turnout for youth and minority voters, and it's happening right now. When you look on those lines, you're seeing so many people of color. You need to acknowledge that. That's not regular. You've seen young people coming out and voting like you've never -- I don't care if it's 10:00 in the morning, because they've been out there for 5:00 in the morning. And we're going to make history. We're the wild card. It's neck and neck, and we're going to decide who's the next president of the United States.
What an F@%$ing idiot.
Puff Daddy's success technique: The big fecal masses rise to the top of the septic tank.
What an idiot.
He was apparently disenfranchised within the educational system.
Isn't that when your favorite chicken joint closes?
Thanks for posting this - like I've been saying for months. P-Dumby is an ignorant dolt that should have at least edumacated himself before becoming the spokesidiot for "Vote or Die".
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Wow, I really wish we could have had P. Diddy and his ilk on OUR side this go around. Campaigning by Hollyweird celebrities with IQ's of dustbunnies could have helped us win...oh, wait...WE DID WIN!
Puff Daddy was born an ass.
LOL - At last An accurate title from CNN.
Hey, puffy daddy, if you feel disinfrancised form your own party.
What an imbecil this thug is.
Allow me to translate:
GIMME GIMMIE GIMMIE! They didn't gimme enough! I'm disenfranchised! Gimmie!
His success says a lot about the problems in the black community.
"Disenfranchised?
Isn't that when your favorite chicken joint closes?"
LOL, that is priceless!
The joy of all this is that there are even GREATER idiots who gave money to this idiot!!!
IQ's of Dustbunnies = great band name!
He's also not from Harlem.
He's from Mount Vernon and went to private school -- Mount St. Michael's in the Bronx.
He was middle class.
That's not a title from CNN.
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