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Tonya
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Candidates Woo Blacks
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards shakes hands with Rev. Al Sharpton after speaking during the 'Keepers of the Dream Awards Dinner' Wednesday, April 18, 2007 during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Wednesday, April 18, 2007 in New York. Democratic presidential contenders are scrambling for support in what's being dubbed the Al Sharpton primary. This election, the high-profile Sharpton, fresh from the fight over Don Imus' derogatory remarks, is attracting all the party's major candidates this week for his annual National Action Network convention.
(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Associated Press
NEW YORK --Promoting the concept of good global citizenship, former President Clinton implored black leaders Thursday to take better care of their health, reduce their use of energy and recognize the promises and peril of globalization.
Appearing before the National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by Rev. Al Sharpton, Clinton gave a wide-ranging talk on topics from the genocide in Darfur to his efforts to reduce the calorie content of soft drinks. He spoke of a booming global economy that has enriched many but has remained unattainable for most.
"People say, 'This deal is not working for me. It looks pretty good from a distance, I turn on the TV and it looks good. But it's not working for me,'" he said.
The former president largely avoided politics and never mentioned the presidential bid of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. But he urged attendees to press candidates to detail their plans for universal health care and how they plan to promote a "culture of wellness" to reduce health care costs.
With black voters a key part of the Democratic Party base, Sharpton's gathering attracted almost all the major Democratic presidential contenders.
A highly popular figure among black voters, President Clinton offered an added boost to his wife, who was scheduled to address the group Friday. Sen. Barack Obama, who hopes to be the first black president, was set to speak Saturday.
Joe Biden, who followed the former president to the podium, jokingly thanked him for warming up the audience and said he'd also "warmed up the presidency" for him.
Biden, the Senate Foreign Relations committee chairman, called for military action to resolve the killing in Darfur and promoted his plan for peace in Iraq that would divide the country along ethnic lines.
He said Republicans -- from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to President Bush and White House political adviser Karl Rove -- had "wallowed in the politics of polarization."
"I would argue, since 1994 with the Gingrich revolution, just take a look at Iraq, Venezuela, Katrina, what's gone down at Virginia Tech, Darfur, Imus. Take a look. This didn't happen accidentally, all these things," he said.
Earlier Thursday, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said he would make Africa a foreign policy priority as president.
"Somehow it's not considered by American policymakers to have the importance it deserves," Richardson said. "Issues related to AIDS, refugees, issues related to governance, international poverty -- somehow this continent is forgotten."
Richardson, a former ambassador to the United Nations, said that as president he would press to add an African nation to the U.N. Security Council. He also touted his recent efforts to help bring about a fragile cease-fire in Darfur.
An Hispanic American, Richardson said he was proud to be part of a diverse field of candidates that includes a woman -- Hillary Clinton -- as well as a black man, Barack Obama.
"I'm going to be, hopefully, the first Hispanic elected president," he said to applause. "If it's not me, we may have the first African-American president, or the first woman president.
"We may also have the first Mormon president," he said, referring to Republican Mitt Romney. "Although I'd prefer the other three."
A service of the Associated Press(AP)
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2007/04/19/ap/headlines/d8ojvq280.txt
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/19/bill_clinton_candidates_woo_blacks/ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/19/america/NA-GEN-US-Campaign-2008-Al-Sharpton.php |
Renata
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They look like they go together like mayonnaise and cheesecake. |
Renata
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Mitt WHO? |
Abm
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If the Democratic primary is going to be decided based upon whom Sharpton endorses, perhaps we should start preparing ourselves for a Fred Thompson presidency. |
Yvettep
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That look on the Reverend's face is priceless! LOL |
Enchanted
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hes going to back Obama hes got no other chocie because he doesnt want to piss off the black who follow Obama and they are huge group too. |
Ntfs_encryption
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"Candidates Woo Blacks"
Sigh......What a sad state of affairs.
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Tonya
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Friday, April 20, 2007 7:48 p.m. EDT
Hillary Tells Blacks: We Always 'Clean Up After People'
Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told black leaders on Friday that the Bush administration's treatment of blacks and the poor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was part of a pattern of government failures.
"The abuses that have gone on in the last six years, I don't think we know the half of it," Clinton said, her voice inflected with a singsong Southern twang that she often uses in front of black audiences.
She cited the administration's slow response to the devastation of Katrina, which left thousands of poor and black Gulf Coast residents homeless.
"When I walk into the Oval Office in 2009, I'm afraid I'm going to lift up the rug and I'm going to see so much stuff under there. You know, what is it about us always having to clean up after people?" she said.
Clinton spoke to the annual convention of the National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by Rev. Al Sharpton. The four-day gathering, dubbed the Sharpton primary, has attracted all the major Democratic candidates as they court black voters, one of the party's key constituency.
Sen. Barack Obama addresses the group on Saturday.
All the candidates have tailored their speeches to the audience, and Clinton was no exception.
The New York senator said civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson and Marian Wright Edelman — Clinton's mentor and president of the Children's Defense Fund — had paved the way for a woman to seek the presidency.
Both leaders were on the dais as she spoke.
"I wasn't on the front lines of the civil rights movement the way Jesse and Marian were but I'm a beneficiary of it," Clinton said. "I'm standing here today running for president because of the changes people like them brought our country."
For his part, Sharpton argued that it was natural for Democrats to want to address the conference and it was no different than Republican contenders wooing conservative constituencies.
"Why is it so different if Senator Clinton, or Senator Obama or Senator Biden would come to constituencies that are affiliated with Rev. Jackson or me?" he asked.
When Republicans court conservative leaders, Sharpton said, "It's considered an inclusive thing to do. But when (Democrats) are, they're demeaned as kissing rings and placating and bowing."
© 2007 Associated Press.
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Chrishayden
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All anyone who doesn't like it would have to do is get out here and create their own power base.
All you got to do is get villified, stabbed, jailed, and parodied and you can do it.
That or get a whole lot of money. |
Chrishayden
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Face facts. Any candidate worth his salt is not going to meet with anybody who can't get him some attention or a crowd or some pub. And Al and Jesse can do it. |
Tonya
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San Francisco Chronicle
Obama: Blacks as guilty as Imus
He appeals to African Americans to stop using
same degrading speech as shock jock
Patrick Healy, New York Times
Sunday, April 22, 2007
(04-22) 04:00 PDT New York -- Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois told several hundred black political organizers Saturday that African Americans had been "complicit in diminishing ourselves" by talking about blacks in the same sort of degrading terms that the radio host Don Imus recently used to describe the Rutgers women's basketball team.
"I've heard those words around the kitchen tables," Obama said, speaking to members of the Rev. Al Sharpton's group, the National Action Network. "All of us have been complicit in diminishing ourselves, and engaging in the kind of self-hatred that keeps our young men and young women down. That's something we have to talk about in this election."
Several audience members applauded or nodded in response; they did, too, when Obama said he did not want African Americans' votes simply because he is black.
"That's not what America is about," he said. "I want it to be because of what I've done, and how I've lived, and the principles I stand for, and the ideas I promote." He promised to improve the public education and health care systems, and affirmed his long-standing opposition to the war in Iraq.
While the audience warmly received Obama, it was not an especially rousing affair. One of his rivals in the Democratic primary, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., received more standing ovations when she spoke Friday to the group, which was holding its ninth annual convention.
Obama called the group "the Urban Action Network" three times before a few audience members audibly corrected him. Obama simply said the correct word -- "national" -- and moved on.
Obama and Clinton are both competing for the endorsement of Sharpton, who said he would make his choice from among the Democratic field in a few weeks. (Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and other candidates spoke to the group over the last four days.)
Clinton and former President Bill Clinton have been courting Sharpton, said Sharpton's associates. Clinton has been determined to lock up political and fundraising support on her home turf, and a Sharpton endorsement would help with her task of vying for African American votes against Obama.
Obama and Sharpton have good ties, but associates of Sharpton say he feels a natural rivalry with Obama; Sharpton ran for president in 2004 and has worked to become an influential and visible leader in black and Democratic politics.
The Sharpton-Obama-Clinton dynamic was made unusually plain at one point Saturday when Obama, pausing in his remarks, looked at the podium and said, "There's something humming down here."
"That's Sharpton's BlackBerry," Obama added, and then quickly quipped, "Is that Hillary calling?"
As the audience laughed, he said: "I was just checking. I wasn't sure."
This article appeared on page A - 5 of the San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/22/MNGLSPDBBN1.DTL |
Ntfs_encryption
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"Obama: Blacks as guilty as Imus He appeals to African Americans to stop using same degrading speech as shock jock."
Good point. Although there will be a few strident race baiting Negroes who will provide a weak counter argument for their culturally imperative divine right to use demeaning racist and misogynistic language while bitterly attacking others for doing the same. You know, the "double standard".....
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Savant
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Obama's address will be broadcast on Cspan in 10 minutes, at 6:30pm. |
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