One of the most vital issues in election 2006

[serryjw]

Every African American Needs to be registered to vote!


quote......
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., asked the president a question that seemed like a no-brainer: "Do we have your support in extending and strengthening the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it comes up for renewal in 2007?"
According to Jackson, Bush responded that he didn't know enough about the legislation to comment. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who also attended the meeting, said he was "surprised and astounded" at Bush's remarks
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http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2005/02/15/bush_and_blacks/index.html

Considering Katrina this has even more importance than it did before

[neoblues]

1. Remind me again... How could they be surprised

at examples of George Bush's ignorance. His ignorance knows no bounds, and stupid is as stupid does.

[serryjw]

2. When Johnson signed the

Voting Act of '65 he was reported saying" We have given the Republicans the South for Decades". You would think that * would understand how they go the votes??

quote......
In the pre-1965 one-party South, intimidation, often fatal, was the
exclusive handiwork of the nearly all-white Democratic Party. When he
signed the Voting Rights Act into law, Present Lyndon Johnson was
prescient when he told an aide: "We are delivering the South to the
Republicans for a generation
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http://www.southernstudies.org/news/fs20040826.htm