Bush Tells Blacks, 'I'm Here to Ask for Your Vote'

[smoothmoniker]

1865 – Abolished Slavery

1868 – passed the 14th Amendment after one attempt blocked by Democrats

1955 – Eisenhower makes E Fredrick Murrow first African-American to hold a cabinet level position

1957 – Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act

1957 – enforced the desegregation of Little Rock, Arkansas under armed escort by presidential order.

1964 – passed the Civil Rights Act over a democrat filibuster

1965 – passed the Voting Rights Act, again over democratic opposition

1987 – Reagan appoints the first black National Security Adviser

1989 – Bush Sr. appoints the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

2000 – Bush Jr. appoint the first black Secretary of State

If abolition, broken color barriers, voting rights and civil rights are enough to “earn the Black vote”, then maybe the Republicans should stop trying! Imagine what America might look like today if the Democrats had been successful in 1865, 1868, 1964, and 1965.

-sm

[xoxoxoBruce]

A BET/CBS News poll of 986 black Americans released on Wednesday found that Kerry led Bush by 8 to 1. However, most said they were just "satisfied" with Kerry as the challenger.

I think if the same poll was given to whites, it wouldn't be 8 to 1, but most would "just "satisfied"" with Kerry.
The best Kerry can do is....Hey, he's not Bush.
The best Bush can do is.....Hey, he's not Hitler.

[slang]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The best Bush can do is.....Hey, he's not Hitler

But he could be "if he applied himself". I heard that the other day and laughed my ass off.......and Bush is "my guy".

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by slang

But he could be "if he applied himself". I heard that the other day and laughed my ass off.......and Bush is "my guy".

Shouldn't that be "my lesser of two evils"

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

If abolition, broken color barriers, voting rights and civil rights are enough to “earn the Black vote”, then maybe the Republicans should stop trying! Imagine what America might look like today if the Democrats had been successful in 1865, 1868, 1964, and 1965.

They probably would have kept the black vote if they hadn't worked so hard to take the racist vote from the Democrats. During the civil rights battles, most of the anti-civil-rights Democrats migrated to the Republican party.

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

1957 – Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act

Which got to his desk partly as a result of the efforts of Sen. Lyndon Johnson, D-TX.

1964 – passed the Civil Rights Act over a democrat filibuster

1965 – passed the Voting Rights Act, again over democratic opposition

Both championed and signed by President Lyndon Johnson.

1955 – Eisenhower makes E Fredrick Murrow first African-American to hold a cabinet level position

Do you have a source on this? I can't find anything on this guy.

[smoothmoniker]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Do you have a source on this? I can't find anything on this guy.

here

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

here

Thanks.

No wonder I couldn't find anything on him...his name was E. Frederic Morrow.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

1957 – Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act

-sm

Over a record-setting filibuster by Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond who switched parties to Republican when he realized that the Democratic party would not support segregation.

On the second day of the convention, as I went walking through one of those huge Miami Beach hotels, I heard Thurmond speak to an audience of Southerners. The gist of Thurmond's message was clear: You Southern Republicans want to vote for Reagan because he's the true conservative, but stick with Nixon on the first ballot because he has promised, if elected, to stop enforcing the Civil Rights and Voting Right Acts of 1964 and 1965. (So far as any of us knew,

from this link.


Let's face it, which party in this election is going to get the Klan and Nazi vote? The Republicans may have a big tent, but it's not big enough to hold both the KKK and the NAACP.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by richlevy

The Republicans may have a big tent, but it's not big enough to hold both the KKK and the NAACP.

Originally Posted by Senator Robert Byrd

"The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth in West Virginia... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibility of rebuilding the Klan realm of W. Va?" Byrd's letter to the Klan's Imperial Wizard, 1946.

Scoff.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Beestie

Scoff.

So, who in 2004 will get the Klan vote?