Columnist Clarence Page, who has been described as a “black conservative”, buys into John Kerry’s “I like black folks!” persona:
Kerry has been to dozens of black churches and black-oriented events on the campaign trail and it showed, particularly on what I call the obligatory litmus-test bromides of black Democrats: He unequivocally supported the “Mend it, don’t end it” approach to affirmative action that was advocated by President Bill Clinton. He criticized President George W. Bush’s judicial appointments. He noted that his own campaign staff has had the largest black staffing, 17 percent, of any presidential campaign this year except maybe the Rev. Al Sharpton’s.
So pandering to blacks is the measure of man, is it? Well somebody ought to tell Kerry that he has an “inner circle” problem.
Check out this news flash: “Kerry’s Inner Circle Lacks Color.”
While Democrats have long claimed to be the party of greater inclusiveness, this year President Bush may argue that his administration is more diverse at senior levels than John Kerry’s would be…
That’s an odd position for a campaign that will probably rely on African-Americans and Hispanics for one in four of their general election votes and the crucial margin of difference in battleground states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.
It’s all so simple. Why would Kerry, who believes that blacks are his intellectual inferiors (see “affirmative action”), hire them to work in his “inner circle”? This is where “affirmative action” supporters show their true colors, so to speak. The chickens have come home to roost. Why would Kerry hire blacks when he can make you do it through government coercion? Fake, fake, fake!
Another news flash: Page, Kerry and the rest of the liberals blame President Bush for the jobless, the sick and the “homeless.”
From memory, he [Kerry] cited “health and job disparities in our communities of color”: “…African Americans have two and half times greater mortality rate…twice as likely to have diabetes … nine times more likely to have HIV AIDS…Go to New York, 50 percent of African-American males are unemployed there. What’s George Bush doing about it?”
Once again we’re treated to alarming statistics with nary a mention of causal factors. What in the world can President Bush do about other people’s promiscuity and reckless living? Every time the man opens his mouth to talk about morality and faith, he’s catigated and accused of violating the precious “separation of church and state.”
This is what unnerves me about liberals in general and black liberals in particular: They think it’s the government’s responsibility to stop the spread of AIDS and get grown, able-bodied bums into apartments and the jobless into the job of their dreams, along with all the free health care they want. They don’t want the government to close down the bath houses or heavily promote abstinence; they want more money. They don’t want to be “judged” by hard-working Americans but expect them to finance health care for the reckless, careless, apathetic and stupid.
Page adds:
Anger among Democrats against Bush is helping Kerry to clinch his party’s nomination, but he also needs to offer a sense of hope for a better future. Clinton, like Ronald Reagan, understood the power of an optimistic vision. Kerry needs to make that power work for him.
That’s something we agree on (except the Bill Clinton part). I see and hear blacks’ anger toward Bush daily. Whenever I ask why, I always, and I do mean always, hear replies like, “He’s not doing enough about unemployment” or “He’s got us over there in some other country killing babies (yes, they say that) when we have enough problems over here.”
Who cares about national security anyway? I’m tired of politics. Wake me up when it’s over.
