Posted on 06/28/2007 7:00:36 PM PDT by mathprof
Democratic presidential candidates stood united Thursday night against the Supreme Court and its historic ruling rolling back a half-century of school desegregation laws. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said the conservative court "turned the clock back" on history.
Sen. Barack Obama, the only black candidate in the eight-person field, spoke of civil rights leaders who fought for Brown v. Board of Education and other precedents curbed by the High Court. "If it were not for them," he said, "I would not be standing here."
The 90-minute debate was the third gathering of the Democratic hopefuls in a presidential campaign that has gotten off to an unusually early start. While the first two debates focused on their narrow differences on Iraq, moderator Tavis Smiley promised to steer the candidates to other issues that matter to black America, including health care, education, criminal justice, police accountability, housing and voting rights.
The debate was conducted at Howard University, a historically black school in the nation's capital.
Black voters are a large and critical part of the Democratic primary electorate, making the debate a must-attend for candidates seeking the party's presidential nomination. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton and Princeton University scholar Cornel West were among those in the audience.
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I only watched the last part of the panderfest, but I was so hoping someone would remark that after eight years of the Clinton co-presidency, most of these problems should already have been fixed.
Did anyone notice that Hillary for an instant seemed to lose a little bit of her starch after the massacre in Rwanda was mentioned?
He also spends a lot of time worrying about "global warming" after he clear cut a forest in order to build his mega-compound. I don't see many solar panels and/or windmills powering that massive set of buildings...
I didn’t understand why he would clear cut so much of the land to build his ugly compound.
I was thinking either he has plans to run it as a plantation (using Mexican peasants as field hands and house servants?) or else he is trying to entice Shoeless Joe Jackson to come out of the trees.
LOL!!! Yes, a tobacco plantation...
Webster’s dictionary: diverse: composed of distinct or unlike elements.
This problem can only be solved by establishing one language and one set of laws applied equally to everyone. We have, in the past 40+ years, weakened our country by this worshiping at the alter of diversity.
I will, however, continue to support immigrants clinging to their diverse food recipes, it's a good thing (and tasty too).
I view the Democrats and liberal’s view of “diversity” as
this: Going to the salad bar and loading up your plate on
everything on it but the lettuce. Eventually, the lettuce wilts from being ignored. When the people in charge of the salad bar grow tired of this, they remove it, and are roundly criticized for doing so.
Many of us old white guys don’t vote Democrat anymore because we started to feel like that same lettuce.
I view the Democrats and liberal’s view of “diversity” as
this: Going to the salad bar and loading up your plate on
everything on it but the lettuce. Eventually, the lettuce wilts from being ignored. When the people in charge of the salad bar grow tired of this, they remove it, and are roundly criticized for doing so.
Many of us old white guys don’t vote Democrat anymore because we started to feel like that same lettuce.
“Most especially for minority children.”
That just about says it all ...
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