Posted on 01/21/2010 1:18:31 PM PST by Sub-Driver
NAACP: Obama Energized 'Taliban Wing' of GOP
In a speech Wednesday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond called on defenders of civil rights to support the country's first black president as he faces what is expected to be tough second year in office.
Bond's remarks at Radford University's fourth annual celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday came a day after the Democratic Party lost the late Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat to Republican Scott Brown, and with it, the party's filibuster-proof majority.
The election puts Obama's health care overhaul in jeopardy and has caused speculation that public opinion may be turning against the president.
While "black faces in high places" give reason for hope, Bond, the 70-year-old founder of the storied Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, argued that "racism is alive and well for every nonwhite American, including the president.
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If that racist jerk really thought conservatives were equivalent to the Taliban, he would not dare to make such provocative statements. Okay guys, cut off his head!
Dr. Condoleeza (sp) Rice?
She got a bit too liberal from hanging around the State Department. The Left really hates her too, so she’d be losing people at both ends of the spectrum. Plus she doesn’t have a constituency, as a senator, governor, or congress critter would have. That was someone’s objection to Bolton on the forum, and I saw his point. I’ve always liked her, though.
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