Ravenwood - 11/07/03 07:02 PM
"Prominent blacks charged President Bush deliberately chose a conservative black woman so it would be harder for senators to vote against her." -- Andrew Mollison's article, Blacks say Bush played race card with court pick, in the AJC.
Taranto calls this the death of the civil rights movement.
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Talk about a double-bind! If Dubya were to refrain from nominating women or blacks, the very same critics would charge him with wanting to bar the door against anyone but his "white-bread cronies."
This isn't just the death of the civil-rights movement; it's also the death of anything remotely resembling honesty or integrity in politics. See also this.
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