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President Courts Blacks With Plans For 2nd Term

By Michael A. Fletcher, The Associated Press

President Bush (news - web sites) met yesterday with a group of black business, religious and community leaders, using the opportunity to talk up his plan to allow workers to divert a portion of their Social Security (news - web sites) taxes to private accounts.

Joined by about a dozen aides, Bush met for nearly two hours at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with the group of 23, in a session described by participants as both informal and substantive. Beyond his Social Security plan, which Bush said would be particularly beneficial to blacks by creating inheritable accounts, the discussion touched on the president's efforts to funnel more social service money to faith-based institutions, his plans to press for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and aid to Africa, participants said.

"The president spent a lot of time briefing us on his initiative to reform Social Security," said Robert L. Woodson Sr., president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. "We are pleased that the president has touched the third rail and has not backed off of it."

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For years, GOP leaders have talked about the potential for making inroads among black voters, many of whom are culturally conservative. In polls, large numbers of blacks voice support for issues often identified with the GOP. Many black voters are anti-abortion, favor school choice and back efforts to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

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Bush was more interested in talking about his ideas for moving society toward greater independence and less reliance on government. "His whole notion of an ownership society and African Americans owning homes and businesses was very much on his mind," said Michelle D. Bernard, a senior vice president at the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative research group.

Among others who attended the meeting were the Rev. Joe Watkins of Philadelphia's Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church; the Rev. Eugene Rivers of the TenPoint Coalition in Boston -- one of the leading proponents of Bush's faith-based initiative; Deborah Wright, chief executive officer of New York's Carver Federal Savings Bank; and John Bryant, chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, a Los Angeles-based group that teaches financial literacy.

First of all, Bush's pitch is as racist as the day is long. You die earlier so support me? So why do blacks die earlier? Maybe if we spent a trillion on universal health insurance that wouldn't be the case.

Let's see, he rounded up the usual toms and jemimas and calls that talking to black people.

Woodson has to have white people do his press. Deborah Wright worked for Rudy Giuliani.

Well, this was a waste of time. None of these people have the credibility of Snoop Dogg on being drug free. Bob Woodson is a joke, the rest of these people greedy preachers who get ignored by their congregations.

Black people are not economically conservative. They are, in the same survey cited in the piece, quite liberal, like Swedish social democratic liberal. This plan scares black people. Sure, Woodson has to hop up and down to his master's tune but this all translates into starving old black people. They don't trust Bush or Wall Street.

All these fucking clowns wanted to do is fag bash and get paid off.

They can't get a councilman elected. So who would take them seriously about Social Security? A minister endorsing his plan would be laughed out of church by the fund managers, accountants and other financial professionals in their congregations. Who the hell do you think goes to a black church in 2005? Sharecroppers? The larger the church, the educated the congregation. A minister can say what he wants, but their professional training doesn't go anywhere. Church crosses economic lines and is often filled with educated black professionals. The idea that if you get the minister, the negro will follow happily along was never true and certainly isn't true in 2005.

The GOP still acts like there is no cable in Harlem and the newspaper isn't sold in West Philly. When I was a kid, nearly every black adult on the train had a copy of the Daily News or Post and they weren't reading sports. My mother would by the News in the morning and my father would buy the Post when he came home, and I'd buy Newsday from time to time. The GOP acts as if black people don't make independent political decisions and inform themselves on politics. As long as they patronize, all they will get is greedy ministers and black people so weak that they can't speak for themselves.

posted by Steve @ 2:01:00 AM