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Jul. 29th, 2004 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI like Slate.
Their report from the Democratic convention is basically right on-target. Especially this segment dealing with Al Sharpton's speech:
"If George Bush had selected the [Supreme] Court in 1954, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school," Sharpton thunders. The hall explodes. Then Sharpton turns to Bush's claim that the GOP is the party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. Sharpton recalls that the Emancipation Proclamation's promise of 40 acres and a mule was never fulfilled. "We never got the mule," he says. "So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
What follows is the longest standing ovation of the whole convention. The place goes absolutely nuts.
And this:
Bob Graham comes to the podium immediately after Sharpton. This is an offense against God, nature, and every delegate in the hall.
Their report from the Democratic convention is basically right on-target. Especially this segment dealing with Al Sharpton's speech:
"If George Bush had selected the [Supreme] Court in 1954, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school," Sharpton thunders. The hall explodes. Then Sharpton turns to Bush's claim that the GOP is the party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. Sharpton recalls that the Emancipation Proclamation's promise of 40 acres and a mule was never fulfilled. "We never got the mule," he says. "So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
What follows is the longest standing ovation of the whole convention. The place goes absolutely nuts.
And this:
Bob Graham comes to the podium immediately after Sharpton. This is an offense against God, nature, and every delegate in the hall.