Bush Declines NAACP Invite to Speak

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040708/ap_on_el_pr/brf_bush_naacp&cid=694&ncid=2043

PHILADELPHIA - President Bush (news - web sites) declined an invitation to speak at the NAACP's annual convention, the group said.


The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites) expects more than 8,000 people to attend the convention opening Saturday.


Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) accepted an invitation to speak next Thursday on the final day of the convention, the NAACP said.


Bush spoke at the 2000 NAACP convention in Baltimore when he was a candidate. But he has declined invitations to speak in each year of his presidency, the first president since Herbert Hoover not to attend an NAACP convention, John White, a spokesman for the group, said Wednesday.

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[Scooter24]

1. Bad move...

[Baltimoreboy]

14. How so?

This is a lose/lose proposition for him. If he doesn't go, he looks bad. If he goes, he looks worse because it will be a hostile audience.

It's not like he's losing the black vote.

[Scooter24]

16. I know...

I was really looking forward to seeing him make an ass of himself..lol

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. He doesn't want to lose the KKK vote N/T

[dbt]

3. Where to START?

Of course, he could not risk an appearance in front of an audience that would call his lying ass OUT--on everything. The Old Sisters would be on him like chickens on a June Bug! It would be a more brutal experience than getting booed off the stage at the Apollo Theater.

Of course, Kerry will speak. He's a DEMOCRAT. Republicans still look at Black people as cattle.

There's that nasty comparison to Herbert Hoover again. How many parallels does this make?

bu$h is toast--and it's finally beginning to dawn on him!

:evilgrin:
dbt

PS: BWAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. So we can assume that speaking at MLK's grave was OK because...

...Dr, King was not in a position to talk back?



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3966413/

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As Bush arrived, the crowd booed and chanted “Bush, go home!” He placed a wreath on King’s grave before heading to a $2,000-a-plate fund-raiser in Atlanta.

Bush’s visit to observe King’s birthday upset some civil rights activists who said the president’s policies on Iraq, affirmative action and funding for social services conflict with King’s legacy. They also complained that the scheduling conflicted with their own plans to honor King.

“If Dr. King was here today, he’d be protesting too,” said Petite Hammonds, a protester from Atlanta.

Officials at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the organization found by King’s widow, said they extended no formal invitation to Bush but accepted his offer to come.

[Zech Marquis]

5. typical

I guess * couldn't find enough Black Republicnas to clap and smile for him :eyes: And what's the point of him speaking there anywway? "Ah'm gonna blow up some more terrarists wit nukecular bombs in Iran"? Or talk in circles about Condi Rice wiping the drool off his mouth during dinner? I'd rather have my wisdom teeth removed than be in the same room as *!

[demnan]

6. He's a big coward

He makes Richard Nixon look like a man with principles.

[DRoseDARs]

7. "I didn't want or need your votes from Florida in 2000..."

"...I don't want or need any of them now."

[Tommy_Douglas]

21. Of course he doesn't need the black vote in Florida...

They're not planning on counting them anyways...

[cthrumatrix]

8. I guess he thinks "his values" put him above speaking ..... and we call

this guy 'america's president'?

shameful

[MaineDem]

9. They can't afford the negative press

It wouldn't look good for him to face jeers.

What a chicken!

[iconoclastic cat]

10. "Why bother? Jeb will take care of them," says the chimp.

Wow, it's so strange to see a president implode.


on edit: Note the Hoover/Bush parallel meme!

It's Meme Week here at DU...

[colonel odis]

11. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, w.

for showing us what you're made of.

[The Zanti Regent]

12. Kerry sleeps in bedsheets, but Bush wears them!

That is the #1 difference between them!

What boils my blood is that Bush's anti semitic soul brother Nader is doing whatever he can to steal another election for the Nazi Republican Party!

[DaveSZ]

13. Values

This is what Bush is talking about when he says he'll win the South because of his "values."

[Wind Dancer]

18. I dare him to claim he represents my values!

Value was the token word yesterday while he was here, disgusting little coward throwing a temper tantrum because Edwards is getting some attention.

[lumpy]

19. Very good point, Dave.

We all know how some people in the south 'value' our black brethern.

[truthisfreedom]

15. that's very curious. Kerry and Edwards should make hay out of it.

that's pretty significant, really. since Hoover?

[Longhorn]

17. He can't put two words together coherently in front of a friendly crowd!

He'd be so nervous in front of the NAACP, he'd probably wet himself! I've never seen a president get so nervous making speeches or doing interviews!

[neuvocat]

20. I thought he was supposed to be a texas-style tough guy

but I guess the thought of being in place filled with people thinking about Robert Byrd was too much.

[NNN0LHI]

22. kick

[Shakespeare]

23. Nevermind that it's cowardly; more important: IT'S DISRESPECTFUL

It's the primary group representing African-Americans. This is just another way for Bush to say "who cares what you think."

Asshole.

[mtnester]

24. Sounds like

he is pretty confident he does not need any of the minority vote, he must be pretty damn sure he is going to disenfranchise enough minority voters to pull it off (Florida)

Despicable

[AspenRose]

25. Didn't Bush* say something recently about sharing "values" with

his base?

This is his way of demonstrating that. Codespeak.

He's too busy following the GOP order of courting the Latino vote anyway (which also isn't written in stone for republicans, either, but they don't know that yet). He knows no sane (black) person would vote for him.

Thread on Bush appealing to the Hispanic vote:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x673630

Why should republicans keep up the charade and pretend to care about the black vote...when we all know they don't.