[Dolphy]

I agree with Elder and thought exactly that when I saw a couple of brief clips from the speech the other day

How can you characterize his speech from a few brief clips? I watched it in its entirety and not once did I think he conceded anything to Jesse and his ilk.

[Enchante]

"I consider it a tragedy," said President Bush, "that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African American community. For too long my party wrote off the African American vote, and many African Americans wrote off the Republican Party."

I reject his contention that it is somehow the fault of "the party of Abraham Lincoln" that 90% of blacks vote for the raving raging Demagogues of the Demagogic Party. I gagged over his words pasted above, and I still choke on them now. He makes it sound as though it's the fault of the Rs that vicious pandering leftist pols have managed to raise a couple of generations of blacks who mostly want to live on the Democrats' plantation. I reject that contention, no matter who says it.