Best Line in Debate Goes To... (Rosemary)
Sharpton was questioning Dean on his commitment to minorities. It seems that during Dean's 12 years as governor, he never appointed a black or a hispanic to a Cabinet position. To be fair, we should note that 98% of Vermont is white.
Sharpton said, "If you want to lecture people on race, you ought to have the background and track record to do that."
An angry Dean pointed out that he has the endorsements of more members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus than anyone else
Sharpton fires back, with the best line of the debate:
"I don't think that answers the questions ... I think you only need co-signers if your credit is bad."
Heh. I've got to get this FOX news channel so I can see this stuff as it happens. I don't even know what Howard Dean's voice sounds like.
that is pretty good. nice one sharpy.
Sharpton always has the best lines.
But he's vile. And really, isn't that just a cheap shot? For goodness sakes, what's he supposed to do, start importing people from other states just to give 'em jobs? Or just pick the first minority he can find and offer 'em a job? "Here, I need someone to be in charge of minority affairs." "But I'm the only Inuit in the state!" "Great, your job should be real easy then...."
Aparently there are people in his state (A whole city in fact) that is trying to leave and secede into New Hampshire, thats why I found your comment so funny Dean (That and the inuit is just fun to say) I thought it was BS but aparently these people are for real and its all over the high taxes and such. Well I guess they are off the hook they are trying to warn us all.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36532
Check it out.
Well, right. I said it was the best "line". I didn't say I agreed with it. I also pointed out that 98% of Vermont is white.
Google "Al Sharpton" and "Jews".
Are there more Google Bombs than legit listings nowadays or what?
You have to wonder sometimes, don't ya?
The best comeback that never came:
"I think somebody should ask Steven Pagones what Al Sharpton's credit score is."
TM,
That line is logical, but not snappy. The opposite of Sharpton's
You know it's going bad when Carol Mosely-Braun has got your back.
"Are there more Google Bombs than legit listings nowadays or what?"
Don't know what that was supposed to mean. My point was that Al Sharpton has a long record of anti-Semitism, and therefore has, as far as I'm concerned, zero credibility as a moral authority on how to deal with minorities.
From Jesse ("Shakedown") Jackson to Al Sharpton as the moral authority on racism. What a long way down from Martin Luther King. How about a Condi Rice/Thomas Sowell ticket on the Republican side? I like _that_ idea!
My point was that Al Sharpton has a long record of anti-Semitism, and therefore has, as far as I'm concerned, zero credibility as a moral authority on how to deal with minorities.
Sharpton has moral authority talking about minority issues because he is a member. Now, if the subject were Israel/Palestine - you'd have a point.
Somewhere, sometimes, we're all minorities - just try getting on the 11:15 PM bus to the south end of town along Martin Luther King Blvd. So Sharpton may have 'moral authority' when he's outnumbered by those evil Euro-descendents, but on that bus your 'authority' should be just as great.
dowingba - try www.c-span.org
Talk about a bigot! That Howard Dean, why he doesn't even have a single dwarf (little person) in his cabinet. I bet there are more dwarves in Vermont than Blacks. Come to think about it, when was the last time you saw a midget, dwarf, or any person of height deprivation, on ANYONE'S
cabinet? Another example of the big man keeping the little man down.
Two comments: Rosemary, regarding "Sharpton has moral authority talking about minority issues because he is a member." Yes, but he's black, not a Jew, and the previous poster was talking about anti-Semitism, not..uh..anti-blackism.
Also, regarding the "poor credit" crack, isn't Al accusing Dean of having, well, bad credit wrt minorities?
Tim -- psssssst!! -- Robert Reich, for God's sake!
Sheesh.
Love that Sharpton
But not enough to vote for him.
Is America even ready to vote in anyone not white as president?
Who will answer that honestly?
I'd vote for any minority member who best represented my interests. Sharpton that ain't.
(I found out a few years back that the city I grew up in is one of the most integrated-- by neighborhood-- in the nation. It still amazes me to read about "trying to understand x minority group" because that sort of thing was more or less considered a done deal, and unimportant...)
I think America is ready to vote in a non-white President. If Colin Powell had run in '00, I think he would have won. And I wouldn't be surprised to see Condoleeza Rice run in '08.
Sistereinstein:
"Is America even ready to vote in anyone not white as president?
Who will answer that honestly?"
I don't know. Are you an American? Are you ready? As I said, this American is ready to vote for a Condi Rice/Thomas Sowell ticket. The demagogue who incited the lynching of a Jew (see Crown Heights) cuts no ice with me as any kind of moral authority on anything, and I don't give a damn how dark his skin is. Also, the Tawana Brawly farce doesn't give him much credit either. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan don't speak for blacks any more than David Duke and Pat Buchanan speak for me.
There is not a lot of Hispanics and Blacks in Vermont
Dean is such a 'tard. All he had to say was "look, when I was governor of Vermont, my cabient looked like Vermont. When I'm governor of America, my Cabinet will look like America (TM)."
Yes, Xrlq. And then he should have called Sharpton out on his own race-baiting tactics.
But, instead, he waffled. Why? Because Sharpton is black. It's a no-no to attack a black politician, didn't you know that? :)
P.S. Didn't anyone else catch Sharptons' repeated reference to "blacks and browns" (emphasis added)? What's next, "blacks, browns, and yellows?" Sheesh...
But what about the fucking DWARVES!?!
Simple, Tim. As a height-challenged person himself (at 5-feet, eight {and a half} inches) he feels no need for further representation.
Besides, Gimli already told him to piss up a rope after Dean waffled on the recent battle-axe registration proposal.... :)