I do hope people here recognize what Ed Gillespie is doing with these visits. While Kweasy Mofome whines about Bush snubbing the NAACP convention, Gillespie is quietly making huge inroads to real black leaders in cities across the country. It will pay off.
With all my heart, I hope it's true that at least some inroads are being made. I know this administration has tried harder than any administration in my lifetime to do substantive, practical outreach on the ground in black communities. I yearn for a fresh start between African-Americans and the Republican Party not for political calculus, but because Leftism is so damaging to all people.
My tagline until the election:
A vote for Kerry-Edwards is a vote for Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Jacques Chirac, the UN, and Hollyweirdos like Michael Moore and Whoopie Goldberg. A vote not cast, or a vote cast for a minority party, is a vote for Kerry-Edwards (unless youre a liberal/Leftist wholl vote for Nader, the Greens, or stay home.)