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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (50937)	10/1/2004 11:16:44 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Top Black Leaders: Why We Back Bush Top black leaders have taken to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to support the re-election of President Bush. Writing in the Journal, former congressman J.C. Watts, Maryland's Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, Ohio's Lt. Gov. Jennette Bradley, Ohio's Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, and Michael Williams, a Texas Railroad Commissioner, explained why their fellow blacks need to throw their support to the president. Charging that John Kerry isn't "offering credible ideas to extend opportunity and promote ownership in our communities," they wrote that Kerry is instead "going back into the old Democratic Party bag of tricks and pulling out ... the race card." And, they added, Kerry "has tried to paint President Bush as a racist bent on destroying civil rights." To the contrary, the black leaders insisted, "when you look at the real record, you see that George W. Bush has done more to empower African Americans and other minorities than any president in recent history." They cited that record: # The president "has taken action to create opportunities for minorities through improved education and increased homeownership. # His No Child Left Behind education reform was designed to close the achievement gap between white and minority students. # He has worked for an increase in funding for historically black colleges and universities and has set a national goal of helping 5.5 million minorities become homeowners. They added that "just two years later, we're a third of the way there, and today more minority families than ever before own their home." # He has improved minority communities, reducing violent crime rates with initiatives like Project Safe Neighborhoods, which is taking gun criminals off the streets. # His faith-based and community initiative is boosting the efforts of charities that bring real help to people in urban neighborhoods. # His tax relief also has helped businesses create 1.7 million jobs in the last year and he has worked to create more opportunities for small and minority-owned businesses. # He has launched the most ambitious American effort ever aimed at combating AIDS and other diseases in Africa. The record, they wrote, is one that "we, as African Americans, are proud to support." But Kerry, they charged, doesn't want black voters to know about the Bush record. Citing his remarks to the Congressional Black Caucus last month, they reported that he "pulled out all the old civil-rights buzzwords to try to make George Bush sound like Bull Connor" and argued that the president is "taking us back to two Americas – separate and unequal." The black leaders wrote: "Mr. Kerry's rhetoric is false. It's frustrating. And it shouldn't be tolerated by people from our community who want substance over talk." Watts and company remind readers: "George W. Bush has appointed more minorities to high-level government positions than any other president. His critics just hate to admit it." Kerry, they charged, "knows the only way he's going to win this election is if he splits Americans into opposing camps – black and white, rich and poor. But a man who wants to divide our nation into 'two Americas' has no business being president." They pledged that they will refuse to allow John Kerry to use the time left before the election "to divide Americans and distort the president's record while running away from his own." "Nor will we allow the Democratic Party to take black voters for granted. Black voters have a real choice in this election. We cannot allow gossip and innuendo to crowd out the truth. President Bush is the leader our times demand." newsmax.com