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To: LindyBill who wrote (95989)	1/20/2005 7:59:43 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Stanley Crouch - Are blacks united? Ask Condoleezza Only a fool would argue that racism in America has died. But one would be equally foolish to argue that the black American community either agrees on or has one true solution to its problems. As one insider says, "Black people can no longer be looked upon as monolithic, and nobody understands this better than President Bush. He has quietly made very big strides by getting funds to faith-based organizations because the Republicans have discovered that the black churches are ready to do serious work." In other words, Republicans have discovered that the morality trumpeted by the evangelicals who were so important to their victories in November is shared by the black church community, which has always been conservative on issues regarding personal conduct. In fact, the black community is on the verge of becoming much more politically splintered. The Democrats would be wise to take the black church into consideration. The party, says one black insider, is "in a free fall because Howard Dean seems destined to be the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which will doom them for years to come." The Republicans have succeeded in making high political appointments that seem to be free of any racial glue and actually recognize the individual rather than color or sex. Condoleezza Rice is a symbol of how the GOP may be thinking in this phase of its development. She was an expert on Russia who advised Bush in the 2000 campaign and became his national security adviser. That she is liked very much by the President may mean that she will be more effective as secretary of state than Colin Powell was, if a conflict breaks out between her and other power players. "After all," one Washingtonian said, "we have never all been Al Sharptons." What is most important is that we are moving to the point at which one is not going to be evaluated on the basis of whether or not he or she publicly disagrees with the administration. The time of meaningless rhetoric and self-promotion is past. The future will be about actual work in the community through, for instance, faith-based institutions, and the kinds of wheeling and dealing off camera that have always made actual power politics work.

To: LindyBill who wrote (95989)	1/20/2005 3:01:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793964

It's common knowledge that Bush was a spoiled little rich boy who did not serve with any great distinction, so this story wasn't exactly a blockbuster. It was more a matter of new details ...except that all of his actual fellow veterans and commanding officers say that he was a good officer and they had no problems with him. Who in a position to actually know calls him a "spoiled little rich boy"? Thanks for the catty little swipe in this "news" report.