George Bush Doesn't Like Black People

See what I mean... What a bunch of tools on this site...

Not edveryone but so closed minded and tired!

I was responding to the previous comments. If people are going to be so anti-0Bus and silly than I feel compelled to respond.

Isn't it alright for me to have a difering opinion?

I am not some right wing nut... In fact I am not republican at all but I am sooo tired of small minded people bashin ght USA and out President and thinking it's okay or that everyone agrees with them.

I am here to tell you that I support the president and my country!

I'm sure the president is grateful for your support.

But he already has a job (paid for by taxpayers, primarily the working poor) and a home (similarly paid for) and is not in any immediate need of support. The people who lost their homes and jobs in Hurricane Katrina really do need our support.

American has both rich and poor. Do you only support the rich?

Mr. Bush referred to his political base as, "the haves and the have-mores." Which one are you, dwinkler?

It was at a fundraiser and it was shown on all the major network news programs at the time. Here's a link to an article referencing it in the right-wing Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16434-2004Nov27.html

You righties have a habit of denying things you said or did. If you'd do and say things you weren't ashamed of, you wouldn't have to deny them afterwards.

And there is no such thing as a "good person" who thinks that delaying aid to survivors, preventing aid from reaching survivors, blocking roads so that survivors couldn't leave, and keeping survivors without food, water, or sanitary facilities in the Superdome long after a group of 100 foreigners had been secretly escorted out of there under cover of darkness (3 white Americans were with them), is anything but hatred of blacks and the poor. Good people are horrified. Those who are not horrified are not good.

Hi. No, in fact, Bush did speak that line about the haves and have-mores. You can hear audio of the moment at http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushism-elite.htm. (I had a little trouble but did succeed in downloading the mp3.) That the audio is not manufactured you can verify by reading reports by CBS and CNN on the remark at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/18/politics/main242210.shtmland http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/20/al.smith.dinner/, respectively. The Washington Post did not invent the incident. I accessed all these links within the last hour; they were working as of my posting of this message.

However, to be fair, Bush said the line at a charity fund-raiser in New York where political candidates are supposed to poke fun at themselves. Gore also spoke. The line was meant to be funny.

However, to be even more fair, some of us little people who can’t afford $800 a plate dinners---or decent health care, or new glasses, or a car, or a few other funny little things---might be excused if we are a little cool in our reception of such hijinks. I’m reminded of Bush’s comedy skit for the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner in 2004 in which he looked in his closet and under his desk for WMDs and called out “those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!� (Yeah, that one’s real too. See http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=1336.) Perhaps not perfectly hilarious, when we think of those killed or maimed really looking for (nonexistent) WMDs in Iraq. On this man’s say-so.

"My son was killed in Iraq. Last night I saw George Bush laughing about that." --Jorge Medina, father of US Army Spc. Irving Medina, 22, KIA 14 NOV 03, Baghdad, Iraq.

Sir, I have no wish to call names, or to be called names. Fellow leftist melon-heads: why don’t we shame the right, which is always blithering about values and civilization, by showing ourselves not only more scrupulous about fact, more caring, better-informed, and better-reasoned, but more civil?

A factual correction is needed with your comments regarding the President's job is "paid for by taxpayers, primarily the working poor."  Please check the IRS website, and you will clearly see that 80% of all Federal income taxes are paid by the top 20% of income earners.  Now, that having been said, the President has an obligation to all US citizens, regardless whether rich or poor, black or white, female or male etc.  But making broad statements that are factually incorrect just add fuel to the emotional fire and do nothing to help accurately clarify the debate. 

"TRUE COLOR'S"

I SEE YOUR TRUE COLOR'S SHINING THROUGH, THE RED,THE WHITE, AND THE BLUE. THE RED IS FOR THE BLOOD, THAT FOR OVER FOUR-HUNDRED YEARS WE SHED AT THE HANDS OF YOU, THE WHITE IS FOR YOU, AND ONLY YOU "THE GOVERNMENT", HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COLOR, THE BLUE IS FOR THE BLUE'S THAT I'M STILL SINGING, TRYING TO ERASE THE HORRIBLE MEMORIES OF YOU.

BUT HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY OBLITERATE WHAT WENT ON THEN AND IS STILL GOING ON TODAY. IT TOOK FIVE LONG DAYS, BEFORE HELP WAS EVEN ON THE WAY, AND I'M TALKING ABOUT RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISANNA, YOU CALL YOURSELF TRYING TO PLAY GOD, BUT IN REALITY YOU'RE NOTHING BUT HYPOCRITES AND FRAUDS.

YOU'RE THE REAL REASON WHY MISSISSIPPI STILL BURNING, BUT DON'T GET ME WRONG WE PLAY A PART TOO CAUSE WE ALWAYS SOBBING AND DEPENDING ON YOU, WHEN WE SHOULD BE CRYING OUT LOUD FOR GOD'S SAKE "CAUSE HE'S THE TRUE SAVIOUR, AND ALL THAT'S WRONG WILL BE MADE IT RIGHT, SOONER OR LATER, SEE I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE GOSPEL OF THE CREATOR.

SURPRISING TO YOU HUH, ALL THE PEOPLE GOD SAVED. HE KEPT THE ONE'S HE CHOSE FOR FIVE LONG NIGHT'S AND FIVE LONG DAY'S, INSPITE OF YOUR IMMORAL AND UNGODLY WAYS. WHAT KIND OF GOD DO YOU REALLY SERVE POWER, PROPERTY AND PRESTIGE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME, I ALREADY KNOW, HIS NAME IS GREED. SEE THE GOD I SERVE GAVE ME THIRD EYE ABILITY.

WE MAY NOT KNOW THE REASON, BUT EVERY LITTLE THING HAS IT'S OWN TIME AND IT'S OWN SEASON, AND THIS IS THE TIME AND THE SEASON, THAT GOD HAS GRANTED US AS A PEOPLE TO WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE CONDELIZA RICE, JESSE JACKSON, OPRAH WINFREY, BILL COSBY, P-DIDDY, JAY-Z, A PROSTITUTE, A WHORE OR A DRUG ADDICT ON THE STREET, AS LONG AS YOU'RE BLACK OR POOR, YOU'RE NOTHING TO THIS COUNTRY BUT A REFUGEE

THOSE PEOPLE IN LOUISANNA, MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA WERE BORN RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA, JUST LIKE ME AND YOU. THEY PAY TAXES JUST LIKE WE DO. YET IT TOOK FIVE DAYS FOR THEM TO GET WATER OR EVEN FOOD TO EAT, BUT IN TWO DAYS THE AMERICAN AIR CRAFT WAS DROPPING FOOD AND WATER IN TSUNAMI, TO WHAT WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY DEFINES AS A REFUGEE.

WEBSTER SAY'S A REFUGEE IS ONE WHO FLEES FOR SAFTY, ESCAPES TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY. WELL LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD WE DIDN'T FLEE FROM AFRICA TO BE SAFE, INSTEAD WE WERE STOLEN FROM OUR COUNTRY AND BROUGHT HERE AS SLAVES, DURING "NINE-ELEVEN" IN YOUR TIME OF TROUBLE ALL OF A SUDDEN WE BECAME YOUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN BROTHER'S, BUT WHEN HURRICANE KATRINA HIT, THE MOMENT YOU SPLIT YOUR LIPS, THAT'S WHEN IT CAME TO ME, GOD OPENED MY THIRD EYE AND ALLOWED ME TO SEE, THAT TO YOU WE'RE NOT AMERICAN, JUST REFUGEE, AND YES I DO TAKE IT PERSONALLY.

FIFTY YEARS OF MY LIVE, I'VE WITNESSED MANY A HURRICANE'S BEING TELEVISED, JEANNE, IVAN, FRANCES, CHARLEY, ISABEL, FLOYD, DENNIS, BONNIE, FRAN, BERTHA, AND EVEN HUGO AND NEVER ONCE HAVE I HEARD AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, BEING REFERED TO AS A REFUGEE, EVEN FOR YOU THAT'S PRETTY LOW! WHAT IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO IS THAT THEY WERE POOR, PEOPLE OF COLOR AND AMERICAN NEGRO"S. SO YOU CAN KEEP YOUR JUSTIFICATION AND RATIONALIZATION THAT WAS PRINTED IN THE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD 2005 ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION NEWSPAPER.

RATHER THAN TO SIMPLY APOLOGIZE, YOU'D RATHER TAKE THAT WRONG, TURN IT AROUND AND TRY TO MAKE IT RIGHT. I DON'T CARE IF IT'S WEBSTER'S FIRST, SECOND OR THIRD DICTIONARY , I'M NOT YOUR DAMN REFUGEE. SO, MR. RICHARD LEDERER, AUTHOR OF "ANGUISHED ENGLISH" I WAS NOT AT ALL IMPRESSED BY YOU TAKING ME ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, EVEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE FRENCH WORD REFUGIE. WELL I MUST ADMIT THERE IS SOME TRUTH TO WHAT YOU SAY, WORDS DO MODIFY OVER THE DAYS. MY PEOPLE WENT FROM BEING CALLED COONS, NIGGER'S, MONKIES, NIGGRA'S,COLORED'S, BLACK'S, BLACK AMERICAN'S AND AFRICAN AMERICAN'S.

BUT WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE THEY ALL MEAN THE SAME, I AM NO REFUGEE, NIGGER'S MY REAL NAME, YOU JUST DRESSED IT UP OUT OF GUILT AND SHAME. WHAT'S BEEN DONE TO MY PEOPLE IS DISPICABLE, AND I'D BE THE FIRST TO DISCLAIM AMERICA AS BEING ANY PART OF MY NAME. WHERE THE HELL WAS AMERICA DURING THIS TRAGEDY, TAKE CARE OF HOME FIRST IS WHAT MY PARENT'S INSTIILED IN ME. OH , AND YES I DO UNDERSTAND YOU AND YOUR TREACHERY, YOU'RE THE REASON OUR HISTORY IS SUCH A MISTERY, YOU DON'T WANT US TO KNOW THE TRUTH, OF OUR AUTHENTIC IDENTITY.

AS FOR YOU BARBARA BUSH, YOU NEED TO SIT BACK DOWN ON YOUR OLD FLAT SOPHISTICATED TOOSH, TO YOU KNOW WHERE WITH YOU AND YOUR SON, PRESIDENT BUSH. FOR YOU TO SAY THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE BETTER OFF, AFTER ALL THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND OR IS IT THAT YOU CAN'T COMPREHEND WHAT THE'VE REALLY LOST. BARBARA MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING, A LOT OF PEOPLE LOST THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND ALL YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT IS THAT TEXAS, YOUR HOME STATE HAS TAKEN SOME OF THEM IN, AND YOUR BIGGEST FEAR, AT LEAST THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY IS THAT SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE JUST MIGHT DECIDE TO STAY.

WELL THEY SAY THE APPLE DON'T FALL TOO FAR FROM THE TREE, BUT IN THIS CASE THE APPLE NEVER EVEN FELL. THE TREE AND THE APPLE ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL. BUT BEFORE YOU GO, GOD HAS GIVEN YOU A SECOND CHANCE, SO WHY DON'T YOU TRY TO CHANGE THAT OLD SONG AND DANCE. BARBARA BUSH BEFORE YOU OPENED YOUR MOUTH , I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE SO IDIOTIC, SO BRAINLESS, SO UNAWARE, BUT I DO KNOW THAT IGNORANCE IS BLISS, GUESS YOU DO YOUR BEST JOB FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT, SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST SHUT THE HELL UP AND GET BACK ON YOUR KNEES, BUT WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH THIS TIME, TRY TO LET IT BE GOD THAT YOU PLEASE.

I SEE NOW, WHY THEY PREPARE HER SPEACHES, WHAT SHE SAID ON THE RADIO MUST HAVE BEEN THE DAY 'OLE BARBARA BROKE THE LEASH. EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS OFF THE CHAIN, THE ESSENCE OF HER INSENSITIVITY STILL REMAINS. TO SEE IT ON TV YOU'D HAVE THOUGHT YOU WERE LOOKING AT A THIRD WOLRD COUNTRY. INSTEAD THIS WAS RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA, THE "HOME OF THE FREE", BUT WE ALL KNOW FREEDOM AIN'T FREE. IT'S BETTER TO UNDERSTAND THAN TO BE UNDERSTOOD, SEE MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN POVERTY, POOR AND FROM THE HOOD, THE REAL DEAL IS, THIS GOVERNMENT MEANT THEM NO GOOD. THEN THEY CALL THEM REFUGEES, LABEL A MAN A LOOTER 'CAUSE HIS FAMILY HE'S TRYING TO FEED, LORD KNOWS WHO THE REAL LOOTERS, TRUE INDEED.

MY PEOPLE SUFFERED THROUGH THE WORST DISASTER IN THIS NATION'S HISTORY, AND FOR YOUR IMAGE YOU'VE GOT THE AUDACITY, AFTER FIVE DAY'S TO TAKE THE AMERICAN FLAG AND DRAP IT AROUND SOME POOR OLD BLACK WOMAN, JUST SO THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD SEE. WELL WHAT I SEE IS A BUNCH OF WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHING AND THAT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ME. I'D HAVE TAKEN THAT FLAG AND GIVEN IT BACK TO YOU AND TOLD YOU WHERE TO STICK IT, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, AND I'M SURE YOU DO. I JUST THANK GOD THAT I'M NOTHING LIKE YOU. I SEE YOUR TRUE COLOR'S SHINNING THROUGH.