Greg Palast on bushitler @ NAACP

[lonestarnot]

THEY DON'T CALL IT THE "WHITE" HOUSE FOR NOTHING

Bush at the NAACP Convention
by Greg Palast

God lost this time. I counted: Bush mentioned God only six times in his speech to the NAACP yesterday. The winner was 'faith' - which got seven mentions, though if you count "The Creator" as God, well, then the Lord tied it.

Coming in right behind God and Faith, other big mentions in the First Home Boy's rap included: The Voting Rights Act, his family's "commitment to civil rights," the "death tax," rebuilding New Orleans, "public school choice" and "soft bigotry."

As the philosopher Aretha Franklin once said, "Who's zoomin' who?"

Let's take it one point at a time.

Death and Taxes - Inheritance taxes apply only to those who leave assets exceeding $2 million. Mr. Bush realized how crucial this issue was to the NAACP. He said, "The 'death tax' will prevent future African American entrepreneurs from being able to pass their assets from one generation to the next." His heart went out to the families of Gulf Coast flood victims who discovered that they could collect only the first two million bucks of their inheritance tax-free. Apparently, Mr. Bush heard that, among the 2,000 folk drowned in New Orleans, there were several millionaires. Luckily, the rumor proved false.

School Choice - Our Voucher Salesman-in-Chief offered the Black folk a truly exciting deal:

"When we find schools that are not teaching and will not change, our parents should have a different option. charter schools and public school choice and opportunity scholarships to be able to enable parents to move their child out of a school that's not teaching."

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[otohara]

1. I Hope African-American's Will Never Forget

2000 & 2005 - when the GOP showed their true colors on race.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I do not understand why the NAACP even invited him again. After his

snubbing of them, they should have ignored him this time.

[ClassWarrior]

3. link?

NGU.

[lonestarnot]

5. here you go.

http://www.gregpalast.com/

[ClassWarrior]

6. Thanks.

NGU.

[autorank]

4. K&R. Palast is a champion of the truth. This is good stuff.

Thanks for posting this. Palast was there exposing the greatest political disenfranchisement of all time - the Florida "felon" purge which according to Palast took 50 thousandn plus voters off the rolls who whould have remained, most of thlem black. He's the most serious journalist out there and the hottest investigative journalist around.

[lonestarnot]

7. adore him and his hairline!

[autorank]

11. You mentioned hairline...

This one's for you...http://tinyurl.com/z2r5y :)

[lonestarnot]

12. Ewww yes! They couldn't fit all of his big brain into the pic!

Thanks autorank.

[autorank]

13. You know, I think you're onto something there;) n/t

[rumpel]

8. kicking

and just a reminder everyone welcome at ERD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=442625&mesg_id=442625

had to sneak it in :evilgrin:

:hi:

[msongs]

9. too bad dems did not adopt "birth tax" as a phrase -

because every child born is gonna pay off bush's credit card debt for his war based on lies and other sins.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[grannylib]

10. Wish they had all got up and walked out the minute he opened his lying

little yap.
Every time his lips part, a lie leaps out.
What a waste of space and oxygen he is.