Bush/Urban League--The captions and the headlines say it all. . .

[wndycty]

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Bush, making a rare appearance before a group that represents black Americans,
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President Bush (news - web sites) shakes hands with Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, after addressing their conference in Pittsburgh, Monday, July 28, 2003. Bush, making a rare appearance before a group that represents black Americans, said the U.S. economy is showing fresh signs of improvement. He urged Congress to approve languishing legislation to help low-income Americans and those having a hard time finding work. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030728/168/4tciy.html

or

President Making Rare Appearance Before Black Group
By Scott Lindlaw Associated Press Writer
Published: Jul 28, 2003

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is making a rare appearance before a group that represents black Americans, part of an effort to build ties to a demographic group that overwhelmingly voted against him in 2000.

Bush was to travel to Pittsburgh on Monday to address a conference of the National Urban League, a group less critical of his policies than the NAACP, which he has shunned during his 2 1/2 years in office.
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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGABS247OID.html

Even when he reaches out it draws attention to how messed up his relationship is with African Americans.

[noiretextatique]

1. that's because his "outreach" isn't to african-americans

since the relationship is so messed up. he's appealing to others...

[diamond14]

6. and shrub's "slavery set us free" remark....nt

.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

10. Can you please provide a link to that remark?

I've looked everywhere and can't find where he's quoted as saying "slavery set us free". I would love to show that to my freeper frieds.

[diamond14]

12. bush* said it TWICE..here's both links, on WH web page even...

The first time in Senegal, Africa....

-snip-...scroll down to paragraph just above 'bush* podium pic'

"By a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America free."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030708-1.html


and the second time, in front of the Urban League...bush* has no conscience, he really thinks it's OK to say this...hoping the Urban League calls the shrub on this, because it's his gift to religiously-insane segregated fundies (who are BIG bush*supporters)....afterall, slavery is God's plan, so it's a good thing, according to bush*, the Cheap-Labor Conservative....FREE labor is good for their bottom line corporate profits...

-snip- fourth paragraph from end of transcript....

And by a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awake the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America free. (Applause.)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030728-3.html

[Catshrink]

2. The jackass got his photo-op

which was all he wanted anyway.

[Demobrat]

3. And that languishing legislation would be....

what? More tax cuts for the rich?

[Devlzown]

4. I think it's appropriate

that he appeared with Marc Morial, one of the most corrupt mayors in New Orleans history -- and that's saying something! Morial tried to get the city council to pass a new law allowing him to run for a third term just before the last election. After the new mayor, Ray Nagin, took office there were hundreds of arrests at city hall and other city offices of employees who'd been taking bribes. There was even some speculation at the time that Morial himself might be arrested.

[diamond14]

5. birds of a feather flocking together....bush* should eventually

end up at the Haig...bush* looks like it's very difficult for him to be touching a Black person or sharing the same air space...but he's suffering through it...

[wndycty]

7. Kick

:kick:

[noiretextatique]

8. and another

:bounce:

[dfong63]

9. is that a bribe being passed?

[whoYaCallinAlib]

11. No mattter what he does . . . black GOP vote won't exceed 9%.

Blacks know who will do the most to help them and it ain't the GOP.

[diamond14]

13. 9 % seems real high to me....pretty optimistic, don't you think? nt

.

[diamond14]

14. bush* "Slavery Set Us Free" is consistent with his grandpa's

"theme" for slave labor:

"Work Sets You Free" posted at the entrance to Auschwitz (historic photo), in German "Arbeit Macht Frei"

bushes grandfather, Prescott, funded hitler, and personnally managed slave labor at Auschwitz...worked Jewish slaves to death at a fast pace in steel and coal industries...fed them starvation diets, and executed them when they couldn't work fast enough for his obscene profits....bushies "Cheap-Labor Conservatives", best bottom line: FREE labor (which we common folks call 'slavery')...

read the whole shameful story of bush* 'blood money inheritance' here
(written by the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum)
http://www.clamormagazine.org/bush.pdf


"Work Sets You Free" on the entrance to Auschwitz (historic photo)
"Arbeit Macht Frei"


http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/auent.html

[TheDonkey]

15. NUL blasted Bush

Luckily the NUL didn't buy Bush's BS during the convention. I was there and the speakers through out the day were blasting his pathetic speech and his horrible record.

[diamond14]

16. one of the BIG guys should make shrub apologize for the

"Slavery Set Us Free" remark...this needs to be stopped, because shrub's fundies are loving it and shrub will spread it all over his campaign trail to raise even more money...it's got to be called on...

[Catshrink]

17. Don't you think it will light a fire under dem's butts?

By spouting off the way he does, Jr. just shows his thorough ignorance and basal racism. I would hope this would energize those he offends to get mobilized. Maybe I'm just dreaming....

Jr. is sure showing his true self, isn't he? Take away his teleprompter and he's toast.

[wndycty]

19. I am glad to hear it!

:kick:

[osaMABUSh]

18. Other photo ops