Global warming due to massive amounts of hot air emanating from Washington, D.C.


[The State of the Union speech shouldn't have been surprising for its total lack of content and pure jabberwocky jibberish. We should be used to it by now. Here's a late January example that should have warmed us up. -v]

Bush's Unprecedented Attack on African Americans
By James Ridgeway, Mondo Washington, The Village Voice

"We've got to shed ourselves of bigotry if we expect to lead by example," Bush said. "And I'll do the very best I can, as president, to make sure the promise—and I believe in the promise of America—is available for everybody."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For four years Bush didn't meet with the Congressional Black Caucus and paid no heed to African Americans, except, of course, to repeat the Republican mantra of how terribly concerned we all are and how we just want to include you under the big Republican tent. But yesterday, reinvigorated by his election mandate, Bush called the caucus and fed them a line of bullshit.

Arguing that his "reforms," ranging from education to Social Security, will help blacks, he offered an insulting cliché: "Civil rights is a good education. Civil rights is opportunity. Civil rights is home ownership. Civil rights is owning your own business. Civil rights is making sure all aspects of our society are open for everybody." When you get past the rhetoric, Bush's ownership society amounts to an unprecedented attack on black people.

[Emphasis added. -v]

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