Bush Tells Blacks, 'I'm Here to Ask for Your Vote'

[Cocoa]

Every time I've been mugged, the mugger "asked" me for my money before stealing it from me.

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5760235


DETROIT (Reuters) - President Bush told African Americans on Friday he wanted their vote and acknowledged his Republican Party had "a lot of work to do" to win the support of blacks, who rejected Bush in 2000 by a margin of more than 9 to 1.

Two weeks after he rebuffed an invitation to speak at a gathering of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, the NAACP, Bush struck a chord with some blacks when he urged them not to allow the Democratic Party to take their support for granted in the November presidential election.

But he appeared to face a tougher sell when he asked members of National Urban League, a group focused on civil rights and economic issues affecting blacks, to consider whether his policies might better serve their interests than those of the Democratic Party.

"I'm here to ask for your vote," he told the attendees, who numbered about 1,200. "I know, I know, I know," he said, when the blunt appeal appeared to catch many off guard.

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[dethl]

1. Tsk tsk tsk...a bit late

Hey Bush, if you really wanted their votes, why did you reject the NAACP invitation? Oh yeah, while were at it, why is your administration spending millions in taxpayer dollars to PREVENT the payments due to black farmers?

[Frodo]

2. I heard it at lunch.

OxyMan played it while I was on the way to the library.

He hyped the fact that there was a lot of applause from the audience at that line... which is true...

But he seemed to ignore the much louder noise...

Which was laughter.

[rocktivity]

3. "...but don't expect anyting for it in return..."

:headbang:
rocknation

[soleft]

4. Bush tells Whites - I'm here for your vote

There were quite a few of them in the audience. Did anyone else see that?

[xxqqqzme]

5. lots 'n lots

of 'haves and have mores' in this group. Unless this was a roomful of people getting $250,000/yr & up - he will do NOTHING!

'...consider whether his policies might better serve their interests..." And what policies might those B?

[kysrsoze]

43. Yeah, I think race is a secondary issue too

It's all about whether any of these people have enough money to pay bribes to the WH. That is the only thing that matters.

[Alpharetta]

6. Bush perpetuates institutionalized racism

"yall don't mind if we Feds paid farm subsidies to white farmers but not black farmers ever since the New Deal, do you?

So the lawsuit which ruled the Feds have to pay you back for the institutionalized racism, you can just let the past be the past, right?"

[yellowcanine]

7. Oh well I would like to have sex with the woman in the next cubicle but I

doubt that I am going to get it just for asking. Takes a little groundwork, George.

[ps1074]

8. blacks tell Bush,

'FUCK YOU'

[tridim]

9. If you don't get purged from the voter lists

by my brother or our operatives in other states, I'd like your vote. If not we'll just Diebold your vote.

[hatrack]

10. Did he say "Pretty please?"

Did he say "Pretty please with sugar on top"?

Did he say "Pretty please with sugar on top of a piping-hot bowl of delicious Maypo"?

Wouldn't matter if he did. Nice try, Chimpy.

[Joanne98]

11. Black leaders need to read this report

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=63826#64153

Bush screwed the black farmers out of their lawsuit. Take this report to the "Christian Values" preachers he's courting and it's all over for him.

[struggle4progress]

12. And I appreciate Reverend Jesse Jackson ...

... Thanks for coming, again. (Applause.)

And it's hard to run for office. Isn't it, Al? (Laughter.) Al Sharpton is with us. (Applause.) But I appreciate you putting your hat in the ring. (Laughter.) It's not an easy thing. It looks easy.

REVEREND SHARPTON: It's not over.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/20040723-8.html


Oh yeah! I bet * picks up votes like crazy there! :evilgrin:

[Octafish]

13. Last time, Bush just STOLE them.

So maybe the Little Turd from Crawford thinks he's all growed. Before he had to get help from Jebthro, Katherine Harris, the GOP hoods from the Hill and ClearPoint.

[kitkatrose]

14. "I'm here, *, to ask you

to kiss my fat black ass." Please go home, W.

[Beetwasher]

15. You Know You're In Trouble When You're A Republican and You Are

Reduced to grovelling before minorities to get their votes and the only good reason you can give them to vote for you is, well, no reason, just that you're begging them to do it...

[Mr. Jinx]

16. Didn't he consider that ...

...some of those attending the Urban League conference would also be members of the NAACP?

My head hurts...

[Pachamama]

17. Als dein Fuehrer if hoffe das ich ihre Wahl habe ?????

Is he kidding? I heard this on CNN Live and was laughing so hard I couldn't stop....then I wondered if he is smoking some crack that he picked up in the ghetto on the way to the speach...

Yeah, Black's in America have been benefiting from his agenda and policies...strange since the majority of whites making under $1Million a year haven't benefited from Bu$h's economic agenda and policies....

[joanski01]

18. It looked to me that Al Sharpton

was tearing bush* a new one. Too bad the mike wasn't on.

[Zorra]

19. The reporter heard him wrong - Bu$h said "I'm here to axe your vote".

[Judi Lynn]

41. Deleted post. Sorry. n/t

[kysrsoze]

44. Classic. Nice one. You get my vote for best play on words today

[sampsonblk]

20. Not even at gunpoint

Wouldn't vote for Bush if he were the only guy running.

[Voltaire99]

21. LOL! Maybe Bill Cosby can help him campaign (n/t)

[Sequoia]

22. Cheney Him....

He'll never get my vote. This election no black will vote for him. Count on it.

[Berserker]

23. Dim-son says:

"Blacks are gagging on the Donkey but are not yet ready to swallow the elephant". No intelligent thinking human wants to swallow that steaming pile of shit you spew out Smirky no matter what color they are.

[Pachamama]

25. Elephant Sh*t is a lot bigger than Donkey's...so why don't ya vote for me

Did he write that quote you listed? It's such a stupid statement he must of....

:freak:

[TEXASYANKEE]

24. Maybe I've been reading too much Daily Howler

"Bush struck a chord with some blacks when he urged them not to allow the Democratic Party to take their support for granted in the November presidential election."

How can this reporter know that Bush "struck a chord" with this remark? Did he interview someone/anyone? Or is this the typical media mind-read in evidence?

[Pachamama]

26. Struck a chord all right - pissed them off is more like it...n/t

:grr:

[Barkley]

27. Blacks like everyone else vote their pocket books

Gore got 9 out of 10 black votes because of the record low unemployment rate under Clinton-Gore.

Clinton implemented low-income workers tax credit (negative income tax)and raised the minimum wage.

Accordingly, the crime rate in many black communities fell.

Clinton-Gore administration also appointed a record number of blacks.
I remember reading about it in Jet magazine. Every year blacks in Clinton's adm. took a group picture in the oval office. But by 2000 the number was so large that it picture was taken in the Rose Garden.

Bush has Condi and Colin both of which had higher status/ credibility prior to working for Bush.

When Bush went to Africa (July 2003) he was not greeted as Clinton was greeted. I recall a cartoon of the South African President showing Bush the splendors of that country. The caption had the South African President saying to Bush: "No you can't have it."

I believe that Bush went to Urban League to help blunt to criticism that the Republican party lacks diversity.

[hyphenate]

28. I hope some of them

told him to go Cheney himself.

[DemBones DemBones]

29. What killed me was that he kept saying "Look at my agenda,"

and his "cute" way of saying it made it sound kind of nasty.

[DulceDecorum]

33. The ugly-ass Bush Agenda (graphic)

Thanks, Jenna.

[progressivebydesign]

30. If Bush cares about people of color..

.. then WHY isn't he lifting a finger to stop the genocide in Sudan?? He shows no compassion for people of color, regardless of their citzienship, why should anyone believe he cares particularly?? It is now estimated that 300,000 people will die there.. and he does what exactly? Goes on another vacation in Texas. Shame on him.

[Plaid Adder]

31. BWAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

He's not asking. He's begging.

My friends, this campaign is in serious trouble. First Bush suddenly wants to be the "peace president." Now he's courting the African-American vote? After what happened in Florida in 2000?

This isn't strategy. This is what they call "flailing."

There's only one sensible response to Bush's "asking" for the African-American vote: CRAWL FOR IT!

Yeesh,

The Plaid Adder

[cliss]

34. You're right!

Isn't that something. He's reduced to begging. After what happened in Florida 4 years ago.

It's an interesting thought - someone should have asked, "You want us to vote for you, but does our vote count?"

[BAPhill]

32. vote for me....

and I'll set civil rights back 100 years.

[Downtown Hound]

35. Just so you know George...

You have to actually let them vote before they can vote for you.

[deacon]

36. Yeah, help him and he will give us a slew of Pickerings. n/t

[Alenne]

37. Bush has had 4 years to show blacks why they should vote

for him. Of course he wants our vote. He just doesn't want to do anything to get it.

[neuvocat]

38. Two Words: Robert Byrd

'Nuff said.

[Swamp Rat]

39. Fuck you Bush!

[Tight_rope]

40. As a black person...I'm here to tell you to go to "HELL" Bush!

[DinahMoeHum]

42. If I were there, I'd make Chimpy crawl through broken glass

and lick the soles of my dirt-covered (preferably red-clay) feet.

Hey, it's just a fraternity prank, right? We're just blowing off steam, as Flush Limpballs says.

:nopity::nopity::nopity: