DNC: McCain's Bob Jones University?

For Immediate Release
November 21, 2005
Contact: Josh Earnest, 202-863-8148

McCain's Bob Jones University?

Washington, DC - Despite criticizing President Bush for campaigning at Bob
Jones University in the 2000 Presidential campaign, Arizona Republican Senator
and potential 2008 presidential candidate John McCain will begin his
Thanksgiving recess today in Alabama endorsing a candidate who has addressed,
and even praised, a prominent white supremacist organization.

McCain is throwing his weight behind Alabama Lt. Governor candidate George
Wallace Jr., a man who has given four speeches to the racist Council of
Conservative Citizens (CCC), most recently in June 2005. Center, Intelligence Report, Summer 2005]

The CCC was created from the mailing list of the old White Citizens' Councils set up in the 1950s and 1960s to resist efforts to desegregate southern schools. The late former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once referred to the CCC as the "uptown Klan." According to its website, the CCC's mission is to "oppose all efforts to mix the races." <http://www.cofcc.org/manifest.htm>

Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Josh Earnest today called on
Senator McCain to use his appearances in Alabama to condemn the racist beliefs
of the CCC:

"In a sad commentary on the state of Republican presidential politics, Senator
McCain has sacrificed his commitment to social justice and equality on the
altar of his own political ambition. Senator McCain's endorsement of George
Wallace Jr. without specifically denouncing his connection with the Council of
Conservative Citizens is as wrong today President Bush's decision to exploit
the bigotry and racism of Bob Jones University was during the 2000 Presidential
campaign.

"Americans deserve better than Republican politicians with presidential
ambitions who pander to racist organizations and their apologists. Senator
McCain should use today's appearances to specifically denounce the racist views
of the CCC and join Democrats in fighting to protect the rights and freedoms of
all Americans."

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committee.

Martin Luther King a holiday

I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I remember him making apologies for his past racism at some point, that seemed pretty heartfelt.

I know it was done around 2000. He was still fairly racist. If he apologized then that's good for him but it seems he instilled his problem onto his son.

in the last week or so - now this. Trying to placate Bob Jones U crowd without actually visiting which might actually make the news. He is RUNNING and covering "the base" and trying to do so under the radar. Time to pounce and sideline this stealth arch conservative masquerading as a "moderate."

peeling off the velvet slipper of "compassionate conservatism" to reveal the fascist jackboot beneath. When the nation responded to genocidal aftermath of Katrina with stony indifference -- poll after poll repeatedly demonstrated the only significant national anger was over skyrocketing fuel prices -- the Republicans recognized that America's murderous racism had not abated even one scintilla since Jim Crow and the Lynching Times.

Freed of its former restraint by that realization, the GOP is steadfastly becoming ever more brazen in its acknowledgment its core ideology is merely the American version of Nazism: increasingly savage toward racial, sexual and economic minorities; equally malevolent toward working Americans and workers' rights; relentlessly hateful to all peoples -- especially women -- who are not Abrahamic Fundamentalists; fanatically committed to the overthrow of Constitutional liberty; unapologetically imperialistic; and at every level gleefully financed by the most ruthlessly tyrannosauric capitalists in human history. Nor is this without precedent: in the years before World War II, the Republicans and their corporate financiers openly supported Hitler and Mussolini. Der Führer and Il Duce, the Republicans said, had just what it took to make America work -- not FDR, whom the Republicans repeatedly denounced as "an agent of the Communist International."

McCain is thus simply showing his true Republican colors. He and his colleagues no longer make even the slightest attempt to hide the fact that every Republican in the United States regards us as the enemy -- and increasingly demands we should be treated as such. For the GOP, it is already war.

But most of us seem curiously unable to recognize the storm being raised against us -- and I wonder what additional horrors it will take for the Democratic Party to wake up to what is happening. A few people get it -- Gore, who warns that American liberty has never in history been so jeopardized, is one; Bill Moyers is another; John Edwards likewise -- but the DNC press release above merely targets the symptom, determinedly ignoring the terminal malignancy from which it arose. Meanwhile, most Americans don't seem to care: almost as if they secretly agree with the GOP's ever more blatant disclosure of its traditional, true (and truly Nazi) values. Perhaps too this is why so many Democrats seem so strangely reluctant to take up the struggle -- perhaps they fear to be on the losing side in what is now ever more obviously a struggle to preserve our basic freedoms.


Edit: typos.

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someone new.