Feel the HATE!

The NAACP is about as hypocritical as the national press is. I just saw a replay of the ad it ran against Bush in 2000, where it claimed that Bush's opposition to hate crime legislation was just like dragging James Byrd to death all over again. Now they're making a big deal out Bush's refusal to speak to their convention. Kweisi Mfume, not his birth name, was shown comparing Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Rod Paige and other blacks given important positions in the Bush administration to "ventriloquists' dummies" mouthing their "puppet master's voice, but we see whose lips are moving." That and the vicious attacks by Julian Bond reveal a greater interest in delivering black votes to the Democrats than in the advancement of colored people.

I have a feeling that Bill Cosby spoke for more blacks than Mfume and Bond in his recent remarks, and he said what a lot of whites have been thinking for a long time, civil rights only take you so far, after that you have to grab the opportunities and make the most of them, as Cosby has done. It's sadly ironic to see black politicians turning into the carpetbaggers of the twenty-first century seeking political advantage through the ignorance of their fellow African-Americans. Bush will speak to the Urban League where he can at least be sure that they will listen to him and won't use it as an opportunity to humiliate him.

More and more, the left is reciting falsehoods which it and the press have manufactured carefully over the past year. "Bush dismissed our traditional allies, and failed to build a coalition." What do they think all those efforts at the U.N. were about? And since when are Germany and France our "tradtional allies?" They dismissed us and sold their votes in the UN to Saddam Hussein, and we're to blame? There hasn't been this much pernicious lying since Goebbels was a big shot in Germany. The Big Lie is back in operation.

The new Kerry ads, "Get to know him!" aimed at African Americans have been released and immediately thudded. They're embarrassing. The Black Caucus have denounced them. He's also getting flak for snubbing Hillary Clinton at the convention. Leftist protesters are plotting to disrupt the Republican Convention in New York. That should really help Kerry a lot, sort of like the 1968 Democrat Convention, when the Democrats torpedoed their own convention. As this sinks in throughout the country, I think that serious voters are likely to react to the hysteria as they did in 1968, and vote Republican.

Hugh Hewitt's new book, If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat. I'm waiting for my copies to get here, but it sounds like a manual for worried patriots on the importance of this election and how to trounce the Democrats. They really need a smack up 'side the head, if there's any hope for them in the future, not that I really think we need a socialist party in this country. I do think that "there must needs be an opposition in all things (that's a Book of Mormon quote, BTW), if only to keep Republicans honest.