Jackson and Sharpton irrationally blame GWB for attacks

sierratimes.com ^ | 9/01 | Lunelle Siegel

[BikinLiLo]

In an interview with Black Entertainment Television this week, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton pinned the blame for this week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC squarely on the shoulders of current President Bush. Stating that the Muslims were feeling slighted by the US' boycott of the Durban Conference on Racism, Jesse Jackson, identified Bush as the culprit by ordering the boycott. The Durban conference deteriorated into a name-calling session by Palestinians and Israelis, and no real progress was made.

[TommyDale]

Jesse Jackass and Al Not-so-sharp-ton are bigger idiots than we previously thought!

[jedi150]

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton

Just seeing these guys makes me want ta puke! but in true form they have said exactly as expected.

When in doubt cover yer @$$ with a Republican! Wish the sheeple of this nation would remember things that happen more than a week or two in the past.

[Koblenz]

I thought they bombed us because we didn't sign the Kyoto treaty...

[Congressman Billybob]

Gallup has just reported that President Bush has the highest approval rating of any President since such ratings have been assessed -- 90% approval, 5% disapproval, 5% no opinion. No one has dared to publish a demographic breakdown of the 90% approval and the 5% disapproval. Is the reason for avoiding the demographics that the 5% consist largely of those few Americans who do not realize that Jackson and Sharpton have sh*t for brains?

Can any FReepers get into the Gallup data and obtain those demographic breakdowns? They have to exist, becaue no legitimate poll can be conducted without making sure that the weighted sample accurately reflects the makeup of the adult population of America.

The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob,
cyberCongressman from Western Carolina

Click here for Billybob's latest, "The Engineering (and Law) of War." The next will be, "Bush is DEAD Wrong.

Click here and go to "ALCU Watch" for a detailed legal discussion of how the US declares war, both historically and in this instance.

[kdf1]

Is that Jesse or Al at the back?

[Libloather]

And yet it had been planned for five years.

Which would mean most of the planning happened during the impeached *Squirt's term. Maybe Moanica can tell us what was on *his mind...

[beaversmom]

The terrorists have only been planning this for years. Guess they knew back in 93 when the first attack on the WTC happened that President George Bush wouldn't be attending in Durban. Jackson and Sharpton can go to hell with their divisive comments. They are the bastards that have helped to weaken this country.

[ofMagog]

Like Rev$ Fartwell and Robert$on, the boy$ are merely trying to make a buck while the opportunity exi$t$. You have to remember that Al Spittoon is a presidential candidate!

[beaversmom]

No, it would have been Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush then.

[onyx]

Jackson & Sharpton are giving the rallying cry to black Americans "not to support the REPUBLICAN President." Nothing more, nothing less = look at President Bush's poll numbers! They can't begin to imagine President Bush in office for 7 more years, what with reparations on their minds!

[BurkeanCyclist]

And yet it had been planned for five years. Dang, these terrorists are psychic!

Either that, or Jackson and Sharpton are psychotic.

[ffrancone]

Louis Farrakan says: Whenever a nation becomes great and powerful by God’s Permission, as America has; whenever a nation becomes the undisputed ruler of the world, as America has, by Allah’s Permission; when a nation becomes the only remaining superpower, having the power to destroy other nations and people by the tens of thousands and millions, as Allah has permitted America the power to do, and that nation then has a spiritual lapse and begins to sink into moral decline, the Qur’an teaches that Allah (God) raises a messenger, but he raises that messenger from among the poor and the abject to guide and to warn the great and the powerful.

Allah (God) knows that the powerful will not heed a warning coming from their ex-slave or from the weak or from the abject, so the Qur’an teaches that Allah (God) then seizes that nation with distress and affliction, that it might humble itself. For only in humility can the proud and the powerful heed the Guidance of God, which is mercy and grace from Himself. Allah (God) used this tragedy, hopefully, to bring a great nation to Himself.

I was born in this country in New York City, and though the pain that Black people have suffered in America has caused me to be angry with the country of my birth, however, in my maturation, I know that, with all of America’s problems, she’s the greatest nation on this earth. And in spite of America’s problems, America has the potential to become the greatest nation ever. As a citizen of this nation, I do not wish to see harm come to her, so, I must lift up my voice and cry out, not just as one crying in the wilderness, but as one out of love who wants to see this nation avoid the pitfalls that have destroyed the great nations of the past.

So how come he can say God punished the US for its sins but Pat Robertson cannot?

[Madame Dufarge]

So how come he can say God punished the US for its sins but Pat Robertson cannot?

I guess it's because "Minister" Farrakhan is noted for his incisive, clear thinking, lending credibility to his every pronouncement, where Pat Robertson is just this crazed, right-wing preacher man (/sarcasm).

[RJCogburn]

these a.r.'s flame out.

Duh, sorry, I don't get it.

"a.r.'s"?

[Howlin]

Oh, geez..........and I just got in from a great weekend.

Can you help me out: how many people watch BET? :-)

[aristeides]

It would be interesting to know precisely what RevAl said on BET. A videotape of what he said would be even better. Since the RevAl is one of the principal backers of Ferrer in the Democratic mayoral primary, publicizing what he said might well have an effect on the primary when it is reheld. I don't suppose Mark Green would dare to run an ad rerunning whatever the RevAl said, but he might encourage -- or even pay -- a more right-wing contender like Vallone to run the ad.

[verity]

They are pissed because the slave reparations issue is dead and buried.

[garyhope]

I can hardly wait to vote for Al as ma new president!

Do I need a sarcasm alert here?

[patriciaruth]

I found Minister Louis Farakan's statement very interesting. I recommend everyone go read it.
Link at comment #24.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Sorry: a.r.= Anal Retentive