'06 midterms comming, GOP scared, Bush to speak to NAACP for first time

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/18/AR2006071800776.html?nav=rss_politics

Bush to Address NAACP at 97th Gathering

By ERIN TEXEIRA
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 18, 2006; 9:51 PM

WASHINGTON -- President Bush plans to speak to the NAACP for the first time since he was a candidate, with the White House announcing the appearance days after the chairman of the civil rights group publicly urged him to attend.

The president had declined invitations to the NAACP's annual meeting for five years in a row, and has often been criticized in speeches by the group's leaders. But under new NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon relations have improved.

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Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said Bush decided to speak to the group Thursday because of "a moment of opportunity" for the president to tout his civil rights record and mend fences.

"He has an important role to play, not only in making the case for civil rights, but maybe more importantly, the case for unity," Snow said. "Because as long as we have a nation that's in any way divided along racial lines or where politics become a source of division rather one of civil debate and trying to perfect the democracy, that's a problem."

Bush's decision comes in a critical midterm election year, when Republicans fear losing control of Congress and Bush has been working to get more votes for the GOP. Bush received just 11 percent of the black vote in the 2004 election.

[knowbody0]

1. i hope they receive him as he deserves to be received

with Katrina on their minds,

[KeepItReal]

4. Oh, I thought you'd say "with their backs turned, heading for the exits"

After six years...now he wants to acknowledge them? Same treatment for the Congressional Black Caucus? Not likely.

[dajoki]

5. I hope they lock the doors n/t

[saltpoint]

2. Maybe somebody will write a readable speech for Dubya for this

but in the past, each time the man opens his mouth, he loses ground.

A lot of people in the NAACP audience will be listening to the little fool jabbering away and they'll be thinking about Barbara Bush's comment on New Orleans refugees coming to Houston's Astrodome (paraphrased) "Most of them are underprivileged anyway, so this is working out very well for them."

[klook]

3. Oh, so George Bush *does* care about black people?

I guess Kanye West will have to apologize now. :eyes:

[Janice325]

6. Thanks for the link.

I read the article, and this part struck me:
"The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is holding its 97th annual gathering at a convention center just a mile from the White House."
I guess Dimson is going to be in town then, and it's so close, so what the hell he might as well go.
Here's hoping he fucks up big time and it gets caught on audio tape and video.

[dajoki]

7. Here's hoping he fucks up big time...

He will!!

[Vickers]

10. "Some of my best friends are nigras..."

You *know* that's how he thinks, the fucking racist scumbag Yalie coward.

[calico1]

12. Right...or he will say something like:

"You are all a credit to your race." That kind of comment always goes over well with minorites. I know, I have had it said to me. :eyes:

[dajoki]

13. Well, he is that dumb n/t

[bdamomma]

8. I hope they throw him off the stage

[spanone]

9. I hope they all stand and walk out as his speech begins.

[calico1]

11. Touting his civil rights record?

What record would that be? Naming self loathing minorities to important positions? :eyes:

[win_in_06]

14. Gotta admit he has guts to face them. Funny thing is he is not doing it

for votes, since he is never running for office again. So why is he doing it? He usually chooses to speak to that other major black group, the Urban League.

[dajoki]

16. Midterms n/t

[a kennedy]

15. Is C-SPAN going to cover it??

:shrug:

[Cobalt-60]

17. the ring of despairation!

I love it when an enemy runs out of ammunition.
The Republican party loves to invoke Lincoln, but everybody knows they went fully racist in 1964.
They actually had a fair record on race before, but their open armed acceptance of the racist senators drummed out of the Democratic Party and the way they used them earned the party a pointy hood.
Couple that stuff with open class warfare and you have to be a pretty dim person of color to see Republicans as friendlies.