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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (45246)	10/12/2000 12:58:59 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Obviously you aren't a minority. Gore did himself a lot of good with blacks (whom he needs to come out in great numbers) by challenging Bush on the Byrd case. Again, Bush smoozed his way through the question. Of course he's against an anti hate-crimes bill. Blacks can see that.

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (45246)	10/12/2000 1:01:27 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

At the time of that terrible murder, the prosecutors wanted the death penalty. They stated that if they were unable to seek it, the defendants might be charged under the federal hate crime law. Perhaps this was the existing law to which GW was referring. My own opinion is that we don't need hate crime bills- they're redundant. The victim's mother was in such pain at the legislature when she spoke. While my heart goes out to her, the statement that "no one should die because of color, religion, or sex" seemed off to me-- NO one should be murdered for any reason. I just can't see murder as some sort of sliding scale depending on the victim's status.