*'s talk:audible sighs,long stretches of silent disagreement, head-shaking

[dajoki]

Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4062093.html

July 21, 2006, 12:58AM
Chilly reception for Bush in first speech to NAACP
Entreaties met with more sighs than cheers after years of declining group's invitations


By PATTY REINERT
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Recalling a Houston teacher's complaint that his ninth-grade students couldn't read, President Bush acknowledged fractures between blacks and the Republican Party as he told the NAACP on Thursday that he and the association should work together to improve education.
Bush spoke to the NAACP annual convention for the first time as president after declining five consecutive invitations from the civil rights group.

The president was greeted with polite, reserved applause. But his 35-minute talk drew audible sighs and long stretches of silent disagreement and head-shaking from the audience of thousands packed into the Washington Convention Center.

The crowd reacted enthusiastically twice — when Bush promised to sign the extension of key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and said that "many African-Americans distrust my political party."

[wordpix2]

1. OK, *, where's your plan to end poverty so the schools will improve?

Friggin asshat :grr:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. trickle down

well, what trickles down his leg if he doesn't shake and squeeze.

[babylonsister]

2. From the HOUSTON Chronicle, no less! nt

[dajoki]

6. Yes, that makes it even better n/t

[Maraya1969]

3. Yea work together; like meet every 6 years.

What an asshat.

[acmavm]

5. I see he said 'my' political party. As always, he is the be all

and end all of everything. His party. The people ain't shit. It's his party (and he'll cry if he wants to, cry if he wants to'...)

[butterfly77]

7. They showed the audience last night on c-span

They were yawning and mumbling to each other and there were a lot of empty seats,. He thinks that when he goes before a black audience he has to name all of the problems he believes are associated with the black community. The black community know what the problems are and they know how they occurred and who contributed to them or made them worse. Does he go any gatherings of other races and talks about social problems,such as crystal meth, divorce rates, teen pregnancy, spousal abuse, pedophila,etc...

[Supersedeas]

8. How did the broadcast network media get it so wrong???

[dajoki]

9. Not wrong; propaganda n/t