10/24/2004 05:09:36 PM|||Nathan Moore|||OK, so no one with any grasp on the rational believes that "millions" were disenfranchised in 2000, and certainly not a nice and square number of 1 million black voters in Florida. So without further ado, neither do the black leaders in Florida
Last election, 27,000 of us voted, most of us for brother Al Gore," said Rev. Tom Diamond, of the Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church. "The Republican Party threw out 27,000 African-American votes. By all rights brother Al Gore is the president-elect.
OK, so now we're only 973,000 disenfranchised short. Just round up to the nearest million, I suppose.
Al Gore was there, and added his own tidbits of wisdom
"When there's a judgment on the part of the people that there is no vision on the part of those in charge, the people have a chance to make a change," Gore said.
Hmm. Nice. And the blue cow bleats with fervor when the moon reaches the apple's eye. I suppose Al Gore hasn't spent all this time "unemployed" taking speech lessons.|||109865613690413901|||Shrinking Stats