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David Duke's Nightmare Comes True!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWhat's a white supremacist to do? Consider the events of recent years. First, David Duke's own party (the GOP) all but abandons the "Southern strategy", hires Condi Rice as Secretary of State and Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Then, the country as a whole has the nerve to elect its first African American president. To crown it all off, last week, Republicans picked Michael Steele to head up the RNC. Here's what Duke had to say about the selection in a none-too-subtle piece, titled "To Hell with the Republican Party: GOP traitors appoint Obama Junior as Chairman of the Republican ...
Obama Win Will Swell White Supremacist Ranks
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Associated Press is reporting that white supremacist groups expect a sharp uptick in membership if Barack Obama is elected President. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is sounding the alarm: Obama "will be a clear signal for millions of our people," Duke wrote. "Obama is a visual aid for White Americans who just don't get it yet that we have lost control of our country, and unless we get it back we are heading for complete annihilation as a people." The AP and Duke are a little late on this one, predicting something that has already happened. As I reported in June, white supremacists ...
McCain Stood by David Duke in '90, Still Does
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Huffington Post is reporting that, despite his recent rash of qualms over decades-old civil rights issues, John McCain is standing by at least one of them:In 1990, McCain was one of the deciding votes in helping then-President George H.W. Bush sustain a veto against the relatively benign Civil Rights Act of 1990. In doing so, the senator found himself at odds with majorities in both chambers of Congress, most senior African Americans within the Bush administration, and the Republican-led U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He also helped Bush became the first president ever to successfully veto ...
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