This story detailing the shucking and jiving by the Bush administration into the Katrina debacle would be hilarious if the people involved weren’t the ones supposedly leading our country.
“I said, ‘Grab some black people who look like they might be preachers,’ ” said the supporter, who asked not to be named because he did not want to be identified as criticizing the White House.Three days later, on Mr. Bush’s next trip to the region, the president appeared in Baton Rouge at the side of T. D. Jakes, the conservative African-American television evangelist and the founder of a 30,000-member megachurch in southwest Dallas.
It is amazing how much work they put into looking like they care about what black people think. It would be such a leap if they put 1/10th of the energy they put into public relations into actual governing.
RELATED: Sen. Barack Obama, from This Week
“They have excellent responses when it comes to PR, more detachment and less effectiveness when it comes to governing. I think that’s been true in Iraq, it’s been true across the board.”
I knew it was spin the minute I saw him hiding behind TD Jakes as he visited a select few “displaced” NOLA residents. It’s like he needed a big, black body guard to protect him from the angry nigras who might otherwise spit in his face. Bush is a low life coward and the wee bit of respect I had for Jakes is now gone!
So politicians run out and grab people for their photo ops? You’re kidding me!
By the way, how come Al Sharpton is never described as the “liberal Al Sharpton”, or Jesse Jackson as the “race – baiting Jesse Jackson”?
Boy, that was quick. Just a few threads down I commented on how unidentified, unknown people (but people we are supposed to TRUST exist ) are always available to help the left make their killer points. Oh, well. BTW, just this morning a prominent Democratic politician, who did not want to be identified, told me that Al Gore likes to drive through old growth forests in a Hummer while looking for spotted owl eggs – a delicacy long popular in the Washington insider politiican’s diet.
Dugger, Can You Prove Its Not True!!?
More like “Morning After” in America!
But what did they expect? You hook up with a drunk and he spins you a tale and you think it’s all going to be sunshine and roses ….. but it never is.
Sadie, it’s all about the PR, and lulling the Soccer Moms into believing that it’s ‘Morning in America’ again, and the birds are singing in the trees, and life in exurbia is great…
Sadie : The fundamental flaw in your premise is that you assume racism, assume bigotry, and use that as your jumping off point.
JD the fundamental flaw in your premise is that you think the world is what you say it is. The world is bigger than you, and far older. It will have the last laugh in the end.
Still wondering why Condi isn’t in front of the cameras- surely she has street cred with the African American community- right?
I just sat down to read the paper, anyone see this? It’s from that same article:
Last week the White House continued its political recovery effort among African-Americans through its network of conservative black preachers like Bishop Jakes. Many of them have received millions of dollars for their churches through Mr. Bush’s initiative to support religious-based social services.
Bought and paid for.
Sadie, let me see if I can get this straight. You make an assertion that the Republican base as a whole is racist, but they have to attempt to pretend they are not. I point out that maybe, just maybe, Republicans are not the evil racists you portray them to be, and your response is that I think the world is what I say it is, and that the world is bigger and older than me? Incredibly astute observation. Bravo.
loopy — “street cred”? Are you kidding? You don’t know jack shit about street cred.
You’re probably a lily – white suburbanite that locks the doors and rolls up the windows when you drive down Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, if you have the guts to drive down Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd
The base, yes, the hardcore, used-to-be Dixiecrats. They are definitely racists. They are the ones the so-called “Southern Strategy” was crafted for (and as a Southerner I really hate that it is called that, because not all of these assholes are Southern, thank you very much).
The religious Republicans I don’t think so. I think a lot of them actually take their religion seriously and believe all men are brothers, which kind of precludes racism for them. The Wall Street Republicans I also think are not racist, or at least not in any outward way. The only color they see is green, bless ‘em.
But the thing is, the Republican Party is a minority party and always has been. The only way they can win elections is by getting people who aren’t registered Republicans to vote for Republican candidates. That’s where things get sticky — they have to keep all their core constituencies happy without alienating voters who don’t self-identify as Republicans.
And I thought what you said earlier was that there was no such thing as racism? Maybe I misunderstood your post.
Clearly you did misunderstand, as I do not recall every saying there was no such thing as racism.
Okay, then, I take it back. After all the world is bigger than me, too.