Bush "didn't know anything about" renewal of 1965 Voting Rights Act

[Bluebear]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=13

President Bush told the congressional black caucus he “didn’t know anything about” renewal of the seminal 1965 Voting Rights Act last Wednesday, RAW STORY has learned.

According to several of the 43-member strong Democratic caucus, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) asked the president whether he supported extending the Voting Rights Act when it comes up for renewal in 2007.

“He said he didn’t know nothing about it, and he’ll deal with the legislation that comes before him,”Rep. Jackson told RAW STORY.
A Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote about the event yesterday said that another congressman told him Bush’s response was “mind boggling.”

Rep. Jackson said he was “disillusioned and greatly disappointed that a man who just a week or two earlier commemorated the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t understand or have an appreciation for the most important piece of legislation for civil rights in the 20th century.”

[mediaman007]

1. I hope that the rest of the Americans with MBA's from Harvard are

a lot more aware of the issues in their corporations. No wonder that corporate America screws up so often. The leaders probably aren't as knowledgeable as they should be, so they take short cuts. Or they probably depend on the "Yes Men" that work under them.

[spanone]

2. He got his MBA the same way he got his guard discharge. Cheating.

The idiot son of an asshole.

[hector459]

3. He doesn't give a damn! Besides, what good are voting rights when

elections are stolen and people can be robbed of their voting rights by local officials and no one does anything about it. The courts are on the side of the administration and the power structure now.

[Ironpost]

4. Look at the picture in the post

Pictures don't lie