arse poetica: Bush Has a Black Millionaire Friend

Saturday, 22 July 2006

Bush Has a Black Millionaire Friend

I've tried for days now to come up w/ a coherent response to dumbyass's NAACP speech to no avail. Everything I think comes out: Aaaarrrrgggggggguuuuuugggguuuggghuuuggghhh. Thud.Thud.Thud. The latter being the sound of my head hitting against the wall. [But it feels so good when I stop.]

Quoth the (dunder)head of the Repugnican Party who did not address the NAACP for 5 out of 6 years of his "presidency":

"I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historical ties with the African-American community," Bush said. "For too long, my party wrote off the African-American vote, and many African-Americans wrote off the Republican Party."

They consider it a tragedy unless they racebait to win primaries, lament the political passing over of diehard (rapist) segregationists, and disenfranchise to "win" "elections." In those instances (and many others), they are pleased as punch to exploit the historical wounds of centuries of disenfranchisement.

And does the last 5 years count in that "too long" that the Repugnican Party has written off the African-American vote? Such unmitigated bullshit has made me wonder yet again why we don't all fall over in a collective faint at the hypocrisy of such cynical utterances. Have we become so inured to his peerless falsity and bumbling idiocy that it's hardly worth commenting further? Yes.

But the post below is so good that it cannot be improved upon, and I quote it in full:

uggabugga.

Bush doesn't support millionaires, he supports the richest millionth:

Everybody says Bush cares only for the richest 1%, or 1/2 of 1%, or some other "percentage" figure. But consider remarks by Bush at the NAACP today. Here's how Think Progress reported it:

President Bush addressed the NAACP today for the first time in his presidency. Speaking on behalf of his friend, multi-millionaire conservative BET founder Bob Johnson, Bush used the opportunity to promote the repeal of the estate tax on the ultra-rich:
One of my friends is Bob Johnson, founder of BET. He’s an interesting man. He believes strongly in ownership. He has been a successful owner. He believes strongly, for example, that the death tax will prevent future African-American entrepreneurs from being able to pass their assets from one generation to the next. He and I also understand that the investor class shouldn’t be just confined to the old definition of the investor class.
President Bush’s “death tax” pitch demonstrates his stunning disconnect from the African-American community. According to an American Progress analysis, just 59 African-Americans will pay the estate tax this year, and that number will drop to 33 in 2009.

59 African Americans now, 33 later. The average is

46

How many African Americans are there? From the CIA World Factbook, we get 12.9% of 298 million. That's

38 million

So you could fairly say that, when talking to African Americans, Bush is defending a policy that is favorable to the richest one in a million. Remarkable.