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Poll - Are Blacks Used as Tokens To Mask a Policy of Intentionally Racist Campaigning
<b>Disclaimer:There are no MSM sources in this OP...</b> sources are confined to the White House website, Foxnews, NRO, the NRSC site, and a domain registered to the NRSC, FancyFord.com
My observation is that the POTUS and Republican party strategy is to install/sponsor "token" i.e., very unusual, and exceptional (adjectives similar to "odd" or "curiousities"; descriptions like, "one of a kind"), African Americans into high and influential appointed or elected positions, on the rare occasion when they come across an individual who satisfies their criteria...
...and....conversely...when the POTUS and Republican party identify an African American as a political opponent, a message with racial overtones of varying degrees of subtlety is aimed at the offending "target". The message I perceive in the NRSC's new, FancyFord.com smear website, is a not too subtle, racist attack, complete with the link to a "sub smear", titled "steppin out". I perceive a message that communicates to it's target audience that Rep. Harold Ford Jr., Democrat of Tennessee and member of the Congressional Black Caucus, can be compared to a "pimp", because of this descriprion of him on FancyFord.com:
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"Congressman Harold Ford Jr. likes to live the good life... perhaps a little too much. Lavish hotel stays. Fine dining. Couture suits. Parties with Playboy Playmates... all on his campaign contributor's dime."
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Is this a "racist" attack? Does Rep. Ford deserve this smear, simply because he is perceived by the NRSC as a democrat trying to take away a currently republican seat in the U.S. senate, this coming november?
Contrast this with the Bush admin.'s "first move" to "manage" the slow start of it's Katrina disaster response....was the guy that they "trotted" out, a "token", intended to appeal to NOLA's largely African American distressed population?
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http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...s&ct=clnk&cd=1
August 31, 2005
Press Gaggle with Scott McClellan
Aboard Air Force One
En Route Andrews Air Force Base, MD
11:09 A.M. EDT
MR. McCLELLAN:
....Let's see. Just so that you all know, I think a couple of things that might be of interest to you all, just so you can know what the federal government is doing and how we're responding. In terms of the operational aspects, I think you should look at it this way: Secretary Chertoff is in charge of overseeing the operational side of things from Washington, D.C. Under Secretary Brown is in charge of overseeing the operational aspects from the region. And <b>then you have the White House task force, which is really more of a -- it's really a coordinating body, and it's not an operational body. And that's being overseen by Claude Allen, who is head of the Domestic Policy Council....</b>
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http://www.nrsc.org/newsdesk/document.aspx?ID=1844
NRSC Launches FancyFord.com
Website Highlights Congressman Harold Ford, Jr.’s Fancy Lifesty
Washington, DC —Today the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) launched a new website, http://www.FancyFord.com. The site highlights Harold Ford, Jr.’s (D-TN) fancy lifestyle and lavish campaign spending habits—most of which are financed by his campaign contributors. After the site’s launch, the NRSC issued the following statement:
“From his voting record to his extravagant lifestyle, Fancy Ford simply does not represent the values of ordinary Tennesseans,” said Dan Ronayne, NRSC Press Secretary
Visitors to FancyFord.com are invited to learn how to live the fancy life, just like Harold Ford, Jr. The site allows you “party, shop, relax, and dine” like fancy Harold Ford. A few highlights:....
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187531,00.html
Ex-Bush Aide Arrested on Theft Charges
Friday, March 10, 2006
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A former domestic policy adviser to President Bush has been charged with theft for allegedly receiving phony refunds at department stores.
Claude Alexander Allen, 45, was arrested Thursday by Montgomery County police for allegedly claiming refunds for more than $5,000 worth of merchandise he did not buy, according to county and federal authorities.
Allen was the No. 2 official in the Health and Human Services Department when Bush nominated him in April 2003 to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. Bush nominated Allen to the court again a year later, but he never received a Senate vote.
During his confirmation hearing, Allen was questioned about his use of the word "queer" when he was a press aide to Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., in 1984. Allen said he didn't intend it as a slur against gay people.
In early 2005, Bush hired Allen as a domestic policy adviser. He resigned abruptly on Feb. 9, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.
Allen has been under investigation since at least January for the alleged thefts on 25 occasions at Target and Hecht's stores, said police spokesman Lt. Eric Burnett. Police reviewed his credit card records to track his purchase.
Police believe Allen would buy items, take them to his car, then return to the store with his receipt. He would select the same items, then take them to the store return desk and show the receipt from the first purchase. Using that method, he would receive credit for the second items on his credit cards, Burnett said.
Allen was allegedly seen Jan. 2 at a Target in Gaithersburg, Md., taking items off the shelf that he then took the return desk. He had a receipt for the merchandise, was given a refund and left.
The items he allegedly received fraudulent refunds for included clothing, a Bose theater system and stereo equipment. Some purchases were for as little as $2.50.
<b>After the news of Allen's arrest surfaced Friday, the White House provided an account of their knowledge of the events that led up to it.
The night of Jan. 2, after the alleged incident at the Target in Gaithersburg, he called White House chief of staff Andy Card to inform him of what had happened. The next morning, he spoke again, this time in person, with Card and White House counsel Harriet Miers, assuring them it was all a misunderstanding, press secretary Scott McClellan said.
Allen told his bosses there was merely confusion with his credit card because he had moved several times. "He assured them that he had done nothing wrong and the matter would be cleared up," McClellan said.
Allen told White House officials later that he wanted to resign because the job was too stressful on his family. His last day at the White House was Feb. 17, McClellan said.
The president first learned of Allen's planned departure and the January incident in early February, but since Allen had passed the usual background checks and had no other prior issues that White House officials were aware of, "He was given the benefit of the doubt," McClellan said.
"If it is true, no one would be more shocked and more outraged than the president," McClellan said. Allen has had no contact with the White House since his arrest.</b>
Allen's arrest was the talk of the White House late Friday, with many of his former colleagues expressing surprise and sadness.
Calls to Allen's home in Gaithersburg, a Washington suburb, were not returned.
Allen was released on his own recognizance by a Montgomery District Court judge.
Before joining the Bush administration, Allen was Virginia Health and Human Resources secretary.
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http://www.foxnews.com/printer_frien...101498,00.html
Former Helms Staffer Endures Judicial Confirmation Hearing
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
WASHINGTON — Federal appellate nominee Claude Allen (search) told a Senate committee Tuesday he didn't mean it as a slur against homosexuals when he used the word "queer" while working as a press aide to a conservative Republican senator.
<b>Allen also said he was "conflicted" about the 1983 filibuster mounted by his then-boss, GOP Sen. Jesse Helms (search) of North Carolina, against a proposed federal holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"It was the most difficult day for me in my life," said Allen, who could become the second black appeals judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (search), if confirmed. "I believed that Dr. King deserved a holiday."</b>
Now deputy secretary at the Health and Human Services Department, Allen said that when a North Carolina reporter quoted him as using the word "queer" while he was Helms' press secretary during the senator's 1984 re-election campaign, Allen said he meant it in the sense of "odd, out of the ordinary, unusual" instead of a slur for homosexual.
During Helms' campaign against former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, Allen was quoted as saying Hunt was vulnerable because his campaign could be "linked with the queers." He also was quoted as saying the Hunt campaign could be connected with homosexuals, labor unions, radical feminists and socialists.
Allen immediately apologized for anyone who misunderstood him, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"I don't believe that we should use words that are pejorative in nature," Allen said. "I teach my children to have respect and treat people with the very same dignity that they want to be treated with."
The Richmond, Va., court, which hears federal appeals from Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, serves a population that is about 22 percent minorities, the most of any circuit. The number of judges on the 15-member court from each state has historically been proportionate to that state's population.
But after Democrats blocked a Helms nominee, the North Carolinian known as "Senator No" refused to allow any of President Clinton's judicial nominees from North Carolina on that court.
Clinton finally got around Helms' blockade by nominating Roger Gregory of Virginia, who became the first black judge on that circuit but took what was considered to be a North Carolina seat. Helms has since retired.....
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http://www.nationalreview.com/commen...0407070947.asp
July 07, 2004, 9:47 a.m.
Claude Allen & His Enemies
Understanding the judge fights.
By C. Boyden Gray
In April 2003, President Bush announced his intention to nominate Claude Alexander Allen to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which reaches from Virginia to South Carolina. Sixteen months later, as with so many of the president's other nominees — courtesy of Senate Democrats — Allen is still waiting.
The opposition to Allen is directed by left-wing interest groups, from where Senate Democrats increasingly take their marching orders. The National Organization for Women, for instance, has hit upon a most remarkable basis for opposing Allen: "Allen's three children are home-schooled." Never mind the fact that centuries of American children have been so educated; never mind the fact that our Founding Fathers mostly learned at the knees of their parents. In this day and age, apparently, children not educated in state-run, union staffed, federally subsidized schools are a basis for suspicion.
Or, take the self-proclaimed Alliance for Justice, whose mission is to keep the federal bench safe from Republican appointees. Their great criticism of Allen is that he has worked to advance an "abstinence-only-until-marriage agenda." Therefore, in their words: "Everything about Allen's record suggests that...he would be unable to separate his personal extremist views from what the law requires."
Extremist views? Educating his children and promoting sexual responsibility? One might think these are the marks of an excellent judicial selection — yet these are the bases for strident liberal opposition to Claude Allen's nomination. Why would NOW, the Alliance, or any of their ideological ilk take such a stand? The answer is an instructive window into their elitist and anti-democratic manifesto for America......
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184603,00.html
Monday, February 13, 2006
......WALLACE: All right. Let's talk about substance. In 2004, 11 percent of blacks voted for President Bush. According to a recent poll, only 2 percent — the numbers have been to some degree disputed, but 2 percent of blacks said that they are members of the Republican Party.
Clearly, the vast majority of blacks don't think this president and this party have much to offer them.........
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I have tried to present a sensitive subject without "turning off" the folks who I think should contemplate the "strategy", that contrasts the treatment of two ideologically and politically opposed African Americans, by the politcal strategists and party leaders. Is the "sponsored guy", the one who was intended by president Bush to be a federal judge with lifetime tenure, a "token", a curiousity who once worked for openly racist senator Jesse Helms?
Is the "other guy", a victim of a racist message and smear, intended to strengthen, the "base"? Have republicans aimed their "handling" of either Claude Allen or democratic senate candidate Rep. Harold Ford Jr., as a message to other African Americans, at all....<b>or are the polling results that Foxnew's Chris Wallace describes, a sign that republicans ignore blacks now as a politcal consideration, and all of their race related strategies are directed at non-African American voters?
Last edited by host; 03-11-2006 at 05:37 AM..
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