[Southack]

This is just a plea for more money and power for herself.

If Brazile had been serious about the slights handed to Blacks by Democrats recently, then she would have at least mentioned the insult to Jackson when McAuliffe was bumped up over him to head the DNC, or that Page had been walked over by Mondale for the Senate nomination in Minnesota, or that Pelosi had dissed Ford for House Minority Leader, or that the leading Black candidate for governor of Louisianna had been snubbed by Landrieu.

If Brazil had been serious about Democrats losing ground to Republicans on the topic of promoting Blacks, she would have alluded to Clarence Thomas getting his Supreme Court nomination from a Republican President, or that Rice and Powell and Paige were in higher positions under Bush than any Black in Clinton's cabinet after Ron Brown.

But even though she isn't serious, she's flirting with fire. This issue could explode in the Democrats' hands.

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[AFPhys]

This is just a plea for more money and power for herself.

Exactly right, my friend... my absolutey first thoughts while reading this piece. Power, power, power... and by the way, money.

Whatever else, though, it is certain the Demodogs have major problems keeping this part of their "base" intact without alienating other major factions. Blacks are finally realizing Republicans have been working for the blacks' welfare, too, and they now see more progress toward an equal world than ever occurred under Demodog rule. This erosion of lockstep acceptance of the Demodog lines is real, and a serious cause for them to panic.

[hchutch]

If I am George W. Bush, and if I were to take politics into consideration on this sort of thing (just as a hypothetical), I'd have word leak out that Clarence Thomas is my first choice for Chief Justice.

I'd also have a list of two or three other African-Americans for the Supreme Court. And if the right justice were to retire (say, Stevens), Alan Page could easily be a pick.