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Posted by .com 2006-02-14 02:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 it just doesn't matter.

Posted by 2b 2006-02-14 03:34|| 2006-02-14 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 True, 2b. I don't think I've ever seen a political climate to equal this - certainly not in my lifetime, and I'm older than dirt. On the upside, they keep failing to smear Bush, though not for lack of trying. We need a two (or three) party system for there to be reasonable and rational progress.

Right now we have one party and a circus with all of them fighting to be the Head Clown.

Posted by Snaish Flaving9011 2006-02-14 07:09|| 2006-02-14 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 [loon]Yeah, but all those successful black people are just Uncle Toms![/loon]

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-14 07:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-14 07:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Last August, BuzzCharts pointed out that black unemployment was historically low. Since then, it has fallen even further. In fact, it has dropped from 10.6 percent in November to 9.3 percent in December to 8.9 percent in January. Jeebus, 1.7 percentage points in 3 months? Wonder how this breaks down for us crackers? You have to go all the way back to July 2001 to find lower levels of black unemployment. Uh, wasn't Bush President then too? No credit there, though, eh?

This drop also undercuts the stereotype that the Democratic party is somehow the party that looks out for minorities: Todays level of black unemployment is lower than the 9.5 percent average realized between 1995 and 2000, supposedly the height of Clintons economic miracle. So much for America's "first black President," eh?

Posted by BA 2006-02-14 13:08|| 2006-02-14 13:08|| Front Page Top

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