Franken-Lies-And-the-Lying-Liars-Who-Tell

URGENT NOTICE. Come out to Vote November 6. Before you Come out to vote-Pay
your parking tickets, motor vehicle tickets, your rent, and most important, ANY
WARRANTS.
The election, of course, was November 5.
So it's a balancing act. Pursue Nixon's Southern strategy: flog the flag in Georgia and
South Carolina, suppress votes in black neighborhoods, but feature the black Republican
school board treasurer from Monroe, Louisiana, at your national convention.
And, by all means, anytime you can, flaunt Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
In January, President Bush announced that his administration would file a pair of legal
briefs against the University of Michigan's undergraduate and law school admissions programs.
The White House told the Washington Post that Dr. Rice had been one of the "prime
movers" behind the President's decision and that after "a series of lengthy one-on-one meetings
with Bush, she drew on her experience as provost at Stanford University to help convince
him that favoring minorities was not an effective way of improving diversity on college
campuses."
The next day, The New York Times reported that a "dismayed" Rice was so "troubled
by [the] article in the Washington Post that she announced that she believed universities
should be able to use race as a factor in admissions policies, a view that may put her at odds
with Mr. Bush." In other words, the White House had been lying to the Post. And while Bill
Bennett and Sean Hannity told the Fox audiences that any use of race as a factor in admissions
was "abhorrent," the only two blacks that Republicans ever point to, Rice and Powell,
think it's an appropriate tool.
Perhaps Rice and Powell knew something about the world that the rest of the Bush
administration doesn't know.
When I give my corporate speeches, almost invariably I open up with this line:
"Looking out at your faces today, I can see that this group hasn't caved in to that whole affirmative
action nonsense." Sometimes, the audience of mid-to-top-level executives will look
around, see all the white faces, and laugh. Most of the time, they just burst out laughing right
away.
I had a baseball coach pose this question to me: "You have two guys run down to
first. They have equal times, but one has much better form. Which one do you choose?"