president has not changed that. for african-americans, no doubt about it. they will vote for president obama in big numbers as they did in 2008. that s not going to change. the people that need to be moved are the people who haven t yet made a decision about who they want to vote for. those people are wondering how do i get a clear message from either campaign with all of this meanness. meaning all of this character assassination. how do i get a message about where this person really stand, putting me back to work, or more importantly, if i own a small business, like my buddy who owns a pizza shop in long island, i m not a republican or democrat. who is going to make the economy better? maybe or maybe not the answer will be in the convention. when we come back, we ll take a pop quiz about the convention. they are not boring, they are fun, great. when we come back. [ male announcer ] when a major hospital
the conservatism, where there were republican inroads in 2004 prior to hurricane katrina failure on part of the bush administration, was around religiosity. i am always a little surprised. it presume there is only one way to read a fundamentalist narrative of the bible and great gift of african-americans has been to trouble those narratives. the slave master says slaves, obey your masters and enslaved people say i see that whole moses story with let my people go. why would we assume that one way a fundamentalist reading of the bible would mean a drift toward republicanism? i am not a social conservative. i m pro choice, pro gay marriage. i m coming from the west coast for my upbringing and seeing a lot more african-americans registering independent and folks who don t feel they are
represented really by either party and want politics that is sort of less combative. when we were having this conversation, i m feeling as a black conservative, and this came out in the 2008 election, that it s a lot easier, in the 90s, these conversations were far more fraught, far nor fraushs, and really ugly actually. but there seems to be a liber e liberating thing that happened in 200. it s okay, we got obama. we don t need you anymore, black democrats said. we can have this conversation. feel free to do whatever it is you are doing over there. by the way, i m conservative too. meeting, 6:00. and we need to have a common conversation with african-americans, and say we know what? we speak the same language that you speak when it comes to
few moments ago is the essence of someone and by pulling yourself up by your boot straps makes you a stronger and better person. that isn t to say let me clear about this that isn t to say welfare and certain social programs are not needed, because they are. but inherently, i can t tell you how much when the government comes knocking on the door, i m inherently distrustful. and that distrust for african-americans has a lot of good history behind it. particularly at the local level. this is the fight i was having with how vice president ryan was introducing republicanism in the reading of the declaration of independence. rights are natural, you don t need government. i m sorry, actually vice president ryan. uh-oh. i m sorry. vice presidential candidate ryan. no, it s okay. oh, god, please help us. and just before we go. i know that you did do a poll