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February 10, 2004
Why African Americans don't like Bush
Looks like collective memory beats the national media on this one:
When it came to political trickery, Bush Junior got in on the ground floor, receiving tutelage from the masters of the art, which reached its zenith in the person of Lee Atwater. As campaign coordinator, Bush Junior talked to the outlying county offices and doled out campaign materials, including smears against John Sparkman, the sitting Democratic senator, claiming that Sparkman was soft on race. The Blount people, according to Wilson, disseminated a doctored radio tape claiming that Sparkman wanted to send black and white kids around town so as to "mix" the schools. Blount billboards across the state proclaimed: "A vote for Red Blount is a vote against forced busing . . . against coddling criminals... against welfare freeloaders."
I've said it before, but if we don't nominate John Edwards, we don't deserve to call ourselves a Democratic party anymore. Could the contrast be more clear?
Posted by Mike at February 10, 2004 06:18 PM
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