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Old 11-04-2010, 11:18 AM   #13
Jim in CT
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Tim and RIJIMMY, I hear you about branding. I just had this conversation with my parents, who are each 75. They grew up thinking that unless you were rich, you voted Democrat, because Republicans only care about rich people. And that may have been true at one time, not anymore.

It's funny the way Democrats have been branded, for example, as the party who cares about blacks (unless that black happens to be named Clarence Thomas). Democrats have controlled the federal legislative agenda for most of the last 50 years, and what have blacks gotten out of it? Poverty, fatherlessness, crime.

Democrats want to keep blacks addicted to a sense of welfare entitlement (give them just enough to stay alive, never enough to get ahead). That way, rich liberals can claim to care about blacks, but keep blacks from joining them on Nantucket.

Republicans want blacks to have good jobs so they can get rich if they want. Yet 95% of blacks vote Democrat. That's branding all right, very effective branding.
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