In 2000, GOP paraded their diversity - Now Shows their True Color, WHITE!

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End of the Rainbow
The Guardian, by Gary Younge
Monday September 6, 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1298025,00.html

General Colin Powell is missing in action. At the Republican convention in 2000 he led from the front, opening a line up that could have been set up by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow coalition. Of the three co-chairs in 2000 one was black and another Hispanic; national security adviser Condoleezza Rice kicked off prime-time coverage one night while Chaka Khan serenaded George Bush. "Make no mistake about it," said a Republican strategist at the time. "Bush is personally obsessed with diversity." That obsession, even at this cosmetic level, seems to have long passed.

Powell, the secretary of state, was absent last week - not just from the podium but from the entire convention. The White House says his absence was a matter of "custom and tradition" that prevents the national security team from attending. This must have been news to Bush's father, who had secretary of state James Baker at his side at the 1992 convention. Powell did not come either because, given his misgivings on the war, the party did not want him there or because, given his misgivings about the party, he did not want to be there.

Either way, this year the most prominent black speaker was the education secretary, Rod Paige - whose low public profile only a Google search could save from oblivion. And it was downhill from there. After Paige came the lieutenant governor of Maryland and finally Erika Harold, last year's Miss America.

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GREAT, “RIGHT ON THE MONEY” ARTICLE!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. The Guardian is truely one of the world's premiere newspapers!

It reads at a college level too.

[GOPAgainstGW]

2. The "multiracial" Republican convention reminded me of these Bush quotes

Cross Referenced DU Thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x754619

[rhite5]

3. Powell's absense is interesting. Its meaning?

You are right, though. It is a total change from the 2000 lineup.

And could be significant.

[a kennedy]

4. I knew the repubs were a one color entity when watching the

impeachment vote on BC. I watched the whole thing, and every person that got up to vote for the impeachment was fat, white, male or female. I kept thinking, where is the color? So yeah, I knew the repubs were a one color party, and it made me sick. x(

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5. The GOP is crazy, they CANNOT win on ONLY the WHITE vote. It's Over!!