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[William S. Lear]

On Fri, January 8, 1999 at 00:22:18 (-0800) Chuck Grimes writes an
interesting thesis about Clinton the first black president:
>...
>The answer is,  that the Right sees him as the first Black President!
>...
>No, boys and girls Clinton isn't black to the black community. Clinton
>is black to a white community. That is, the white community of all the
>constituents who voted for the Right and Christian thing to do. Look
>who has systematically taken Clinton to task.  ...
>...
>No. The only thing that makes Clinton look black to these whitewing
>christians, is the real thing. ...

I like the phrase "whitewing christians".  I think I'll use that 
with Doug's Xtian form...

Be careful, though, with phrases like "the black community", as Doug
has warned.  We really need to examine these "communities" in more
detail to make sense of them.

One thing that I would suggest is to look at the funding of these
people --- which business sectors are supporting them?  A good place
to start is the probability that on most economic and social issues
these businesses (Republicans, whitewing Xtians) cannot compete with
other businesses (Democrats) who are willing to move a micrometer more
to the left.  So, the answer is simple: fund hatred.  Fund "morality".
Fund "family values".  Fund "individual responsibility". Fund anything
which gets the topic off of political and economic issues that you
cannot win, because you represent only a tiny sliver (even tinier than
the opposition) of the populace.

Bill