[AGL] President Rice and Racist Hillary-haters

[Wayne Johnson]

Hey.

Your, uh, Bush Thing didn't open.

wgJ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:15 AM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] President Rice and Racist Hillary-haters


  It boggles the mind to think that Rice and Clinton could become the presidential candidates of their respective parties. For the racist and Hillary-Hater segment of the electorate having to cast their vote one way or another will drive them mad--that is, those who are smart enough to contemplate the ideological cachophany, the philosophical dissonance, like being torn between two hatreds. Which way will they go? Which hatred will triumph? The battle of the Titanics begins...

  My sister-in-law sent me the following tale:

  The Robot Bartender  

  A man enters a bar, where he meets his first robot 
  bartender and orders a drink.

  The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, 
  and then asks him, "What's your IQ?"

  The man proudly replies "158" and the robot proceeds 
  to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum 
  physics, biomimicry, environmental interconnectedness, 
  string theory, nano-technology, spirituality and sexual
  proclivities.

  The customer is very impressed and thinks, "This is 
  really cool." He decides to test the robot. He walks out 
  of the bar, turns around, and comes back in for another drink. 
  Again, the robot serves him the perfectly
  prepared drink and asks him, "What's your IQ?"

  The man responds, "about a 100."

  Immediately the robot starts talking, but this time, 
  about football, baseball, cars, favorite foods, supermodels, 
  men's magazines and women.

  Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides 
  to give the robot one more test. He heads out and returns. 
  Again the robot serves him and asks, "What's your IQ?"

  The man replies, "Errr, 50, I think."

  The robot says, real slowly... "So... ya... gonna... 
  vote... for...Bush... again?


  Best,
  Frances 

  Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
    What a completely nauseating idea. Despite all the "good press", Ms. Rice 
    is entirely out of her depth in the fields of security and international 
    politics. A female Uncle Tom is not what this country needs right 
    now.....regardless of ethnicity.

    wgJ
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Harry Edwards" 
    To: "ghetto 2" 
    Cc: "ghetto survivors" 
    Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:45 PM
    Subject: [AGL] President Rice?


    > HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Front 
    > page
    >
    > Feb. 20, 2006, 3:11AM
    >
    > Poll finds readiness for female president
    >
    > Support grows for run by Rice in '08, but fewer favor Clinton
    >
    > By STEWART M. POWELL
    > Copyright 2006 Hearst News Service
    >
    > WASHINGTON - Growing numbers of Americans oppose a presidential bid by 
    > Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in 2008 - and favor a run by 
    > Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - amid broad public willingness to 
    > elect a woman as president, according to a nationwide poll released 
    > Sunday.
    >
    > The Presidents Day survey conducted for Hearst Newspapers by the Siena 
    > Research Institute of Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., covered 1,120 
    > registered voters and was completed Feb. 10.
    >
    > Some 48 percent of survey participants said Rice "should run" for 
    > president at the conclusion of President Bush's second term, an increase 
    > of 6 percentage points over a similar survey a year ago.
    >
    > Clinton saw oppos ition to a presidential bid grow over the same period. 
    > About 44 percent of respondents now say Clinton "should not run" for 
    > president in 2008 - up from 37 percent who felt that way last year.
    >
    > The percentage of registered voters who say Clinton "should run" slipped 
    > from 53 percent to 51 percent in the past year, as support for a Rice 
    > candidacy increased, from 42 percent to 48 percent.
    >
    > The survey found that 79 percent of participants were willing to vote for 
    > a woman as president, and 64 percent said the nation was "ready" for one.
    >
    > The survey did not test a head-to-head race between Clinton and Rice.
    >
    > The margin of error for the survey in both years was 2.9 percentage 
    > points. That could mean that Clinton's 2 percentage point drop in the 
    > "should run" category may not represent an actual change.
    >
    > The survey found that a majority of registered voters thought a female 
    > president would handle national security-related issues as well as a male 
    > president, including serving as commander-in-chief of the armed services.
    >
    > Douglas Lonnstrom, director of the Siena Research Institute, said the 
    > findings, coupled with results from a comparable poll by his organization 
    > last year, suggest the nation is on the cusp of a dramatic political 
    > change.
    >
    > "As things stand now, I see a real possibility that a woman will be 
    > elected president in 2008," said Lonnstrom, a professor of finance and 
    > statistics and member of the American Association for Public Opinion 
    > Research. "Disapproval of President Bush has opened voters' eyes to 
    > alternatives - and women benefit from that."
    >
    > The latest nationwide Gallup Poll showed 56 percent of respondents 
    > disapproving of Bush's job performance and 39 percent approving.
    >
    > Sall y Friedman, a political scientist at the State University of New York 
    > at Albany, cautioned that the generic support for a female president 
    > reflected in the poll could decline when voters get closer to weighing the 
    > strengths and weaknesses of actual candidates.
    >
    > "Right now the election is more than two years away and pretty 
    > hypothetical," said Friedman, who studies women in politics. "That will 
    > change, the closer we get."
    >
    > The survey detected a wide disparity of views between Democrats and 
    > Republicans, with 91 percent of Democrats expressing their willingness to 
    > elect a woman compared with 68 percent of Republicans.
    >
    > The back-to-back Siena College surveys conducted a year apart showed that 
    > 28 percent of registered voters think the nation is not ready for a female 
    > president in 2008. Among those, 23 percent said the country would be ready 
    > by 2012, 16 percent said it would be ready by 2016 and 17 percent said the 
    > U.S. would "never" be ready.
    >
    > "The big winner in our poll is Condoleezza Rice," Lonnstrom said. "She has 
    > projected a good, strong powerful image over the past year, and she 
    > benefits from the anti-Hillary vote."
    >
    > Rice, 51, a former provost of Stanford University and a trained Soviet 
    > scholar, has been on the world stage for the past year carrying out 
    > diplomatic initiatives as the nation's second black secretary of state.
    >
    > Clinton, 58, a career lawyer and former first lady, has been campaigning 
    > for the past year to win re-election to the Senate from New York this 
    > November, as well as taking public positions that often make her a 
    > favorite target of conservatives.
    >
    > "Hillary Clinton remains a very polarizing figure across our country - 
    > people either love her or hate her," Lonnstro m said.
    >
    > Scholars say the nation's readiness to elect a woman stems in part from 
    > voters seeing so many other nations elect women, including recent 
    > elections of women to lead Germany, Chile and Liberia.
    >
    >
    > 






------------------------------------------------------------------------------



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/austin-ghetto-list/attachments/20060221/68fbf106/attachment.html