Kerry's Lying
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| Tue, 07-13-2004 - 9:29am |
"We've got more African Americans in jail than we do in college. That's unacceptable," he added.In fact, it seems that there are more than twice as many African Americans in college than in jail.
U.S. Census Bureau (2000): African Americans in college: 2,224,181
U.S. DoJ Office of Justice Programs: "Prison and Jail Inmates at MidYear 2003" (p.11): "Table 13. Number of inmates in state or federal prisons or local jails" -- Black Americans in jail: 899,200.
Those nearly 900,000 incarcerated African Americans still represent a tragic waste of lives and potential. But fortunately, things are not nearly as gloomy as John Kerry wants to believe they are.
It's possible that Kerry is basing his claims on other data, but it would be interesting to learn what his sources are.
UPDATE: As a commenter notes below, this Kerry howler was already debunked a month ago. But then why is Kerry still making the same claim today? What kind of an echo chamber is his campaign that none of the staff read Kerry's sharpest critics? Not a good sign for those who look to Kerry to improve intelligence capabilities or cure government agencies of their dysfunctional groupthink culture.
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No, he never did. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30075
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Honestly, I forget, but it is what I read, oh jeez, I will look it up again
here it is, http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a5c7b4b071f.htm
it is a conservative forum.
Yeah, I read those too from time to time. I don't skip it because i think I may not agree.
good night.
Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
Saddam was still too dangerous to leave in power in a post 9/11 world, and the consequences of not acting pre-emptively against terrorists & their supporters is too great.
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That's nonesense. How long was it before the war started that The United States had anyone on the ground in Iraq gathering Intelligence on this 'Threat'?
5 years.
So you think it's ok, to rely on ANOTHER country's lame intelligence and send OUR OWN boys and girls to die?
Not one human being from the CIA on the ground in Iraq gathering Intelligence.
So, you don't know and neither did anyone, the level of this so-called threat in Iraq. Hey, millions warned Bush and people like you who follow him that Bush was wrong before the war started, but you people wouldn't have it.
Well, you reap what you sew. Iraq has hung Bush and he'll gone in November.
Hasn't anyone else noticed that everything was fine and hunky dory for Bush before Iraq and now it's all gone to the crapper for his Administration.
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