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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (61035)	11/6/2000 5:35:01 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't have to enlighten you, you know... you just ignore it.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (61035)	11/7/2000 6:19:55 AM
From: Lil Knubber	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

flap: This excerpt from the 11/6/00 New York Times illustrates why African Americans find it, uh, difficult to vote for the likes of G.Bush. {The welcoming tone of the other responses to your question is answer enough, of course.) (excerpt from NY Times, 11/6/00): "At an outdoor rally in Philadelphia this afternoon, Mr. Gore was joined by Louvon Harris, the sister of Mr. Byrd. Ms. Harris, a single mother from Houston, described her brother's death in graphic detail. She added that Mr. Bush had rejected her family's pleas to memorialize him with a statewide hate-crimes law. Ms. Harris said Mr. Byrd's attackers "spray-painted him black, chained him to a truck, dragged him three miles. His head came off, his arms -- dismembered his whole body. We have a governor of Texas who doesn't think that's a hate crime. "My question to him is, if that isn't a hate crime, what is hate to George Bush? We had an opportunity to do something for our whole family. He did nothing." As Ms. Harris spoke, silence gripped the previously rowdy and distracted crowd of about 1,500 people in Fairmount Park. Her story prompted Mr. Gore to instruct Governor Bush, long-distance, on the nature of hate crimes. "Those who take the position Governor Bush takes say that all crimes are hate crimes," Mr. Gore said. "Well, is shoplifting a hate crime? There are crimes committed by people who have various motivations, and all crimes are wrong, and all crimes that result in the loss of a life must be severely punished, of course. "But crimes that are motivated by hatred are different, and here's why," Mr. Gore said. "They are intended to have more than one victim. They are intended and aimed not only at the victim who is initially singled out for the tragedy. They are intended to intimidate and dehumanize an entire group of people, to give expression to the hatred that corrodes the soul."