Posted on 05/03/2005 4:16:00 AM PDT by ricks_place
HILADELPHIA - As a Baptist minister, the Rev. Luis Cortes has long sought to build a national network of Hispanic churches, one that would bring new power to an emerging minority. As an elected official, President Bush has long sought a more diverse Republican Party, one that would lure more blacks and Hispanics to a dominant conservative bloc. These days, the two are united by faith, friendship, and a line item in the federal budget called the Compassion Capital Fund.
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In this case, it's not Bush they are after (though they hate him too). It's just their ususal animus for (certain) people of faith coming through again.
ususal=usual
The, "Compassion Capital Fund"?
ping
Yes, MY federal aid........which I just just cut off!
If I never hear the word "compassion" again it will be too soon.
"This is what I tell politicians," he said. "You want an endorsement? Give us a check, and you can take a picture of us accepting it. Because then you've done something for brown."
A few months before last November's election, Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao took Mr. Cortes's advice, flying to Florida to give his organization $2.8 million for a youth employment program.
In 2003, when the group began a housing initiative, a kickoff event attracted Mel Martinez, who at the time was the federal housing secretary, and a $300,000 contract followed to counsel homebuyers.
The current issue of Nueva Esperanza's newsletter shows Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and the majority leader, handing over a $500,000 check from his charitable foundation for the group's work on preventing AIDS.
Fulfilling a promise from the 2000 campaign, Mr. Bush has appeared at two National Hispanic Prayer Breakfasts, which Mr. Cortes holds and which have also attracted top Democrats like Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
ping
"Brown power" plays politics wearing the thin disguise of religion and charity. Just another front of the Latino takeover.
Many large protestant denominations are becoming increasingly political and secular as well.
Just when we thought we couldn't barf any more at the spinelessness, pandering, and betrayal of the American people.
Fulfilling a promise from the 2000 campaign, Mr. Bush has appeared at two National Hispanic Prayer Breakfasts....
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When it comes to being bought and paid for, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BUSH AND HITLERY. And where does that leave us??? -- just paying for and tolerating more illegal Mexicans??? That appears to be the case.
Thank You Washington for really TAKING CARE OF your country. In more ways than one!!
BTTT
Their sense of entitlement is astonishing!
BTTT
"Their sense of entitlement is astonishing!"
Wait 4 years......
Race + Political Power I thought that was Naziism?
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