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Bush gives right RSVP to NAACP
New York Daily News ^ | 7/14/04

Posted on 07/14/2004 2:15:06 AM PDT by kattracks

You've been maligned as appealing to the "underside of American culture." You and your political party "preach racial neutrality and practice racial division." Your "idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side." You have "selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."

You have led your nation into a "war of occupation" that is based on "the crass obstruction of the truth." Oh, and don't forget, you "want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."

Let's face it, folks: If the chairman of an organization used his platform to castigate you with that vehemence, would you make nice-nice? Not likely. Which is why President Bush is this week conspicuous by his absence from the NAACP convention in Philadelphia.

His foes say he has "dissed" the members and, by extension, all African-Americans. Which is a libel. He is merely refusing to demean himself with cheap favor-currying.

The quotes above come from speeches by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, including an address to the convention Sunday. Bond has hardly been ratcheting down the rhetoric and is not alone among the NAACP hierarchy in being highly critical of the President. He has every right to say, for example, that he was afraid Bush would "announce he was going to repeal the 14th Amendment." But Bond & Co. then must recognize that such over-the-top partisanship moves the NAACP a long way from the mission of advancing the causes of civil rights and racial equality.

Bond's speech Sunday was nothing less than a call to dump Bush and elect Sen. John Kerry over fundamental disagreements on issues as wide-ranging as tax policy, the environment and the war in Iraq. Again, that's fine if the NAACP desires to be a political advocacy organization along the stripes of Michael Moore.

And Bush has every right to respond however he wants without being subjected to holier-than-thou dudgeon. You don't demean someone and then expect him to show up at your house with roses.

Said Bush the other day, "I would describe my relationship with the current leadership [of the NAACP] as basically nonexistent." Which is the completely justifiable reason his attendance at its convention is nonexistent.

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Originally published on July 14, 2004



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush43; naacp
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To: Free Trapper

well, I do declare.


21 posted on 07/14/2004 3:04:14 AM PDT by GeronL (wketchup.com)
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To: kattracks

God bless President Bush. Without name calling or slandering the "leaders" of this movement like they have done to him, he simply turns the other cheek and tells the short, simple truth.


22 posted on 07/14/2004 3:14:37 AM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: GeronL

Sure thing,I've come to realize that all historical figures were Black and the White Man has just stolen Black History for thousands of years. HeHe ;)


23 posted on 07/14/2004 3:14:42 AM PDT by Free Trapper (Because we ate the green mammals first!)
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To: kattracks

The NAACP should be near the top of terror groups to watch!


24 posted on 07/14/2004 3:22:06 AM PDT by GLSchnJR (Justice was Served)
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To: Free Trapper

Maybe they've recently invented "flag origami".....:))


25 posted on 07/14/2004 3:31:04 AM PDT by Salamander (John Kerry: Schroedinger's candidate)
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To: GeronL; kattracks

The Daily News has been pretty good editorially since 9/11 I've noticed.

Also, Bush seems to be getting a good deal of sympathetic ink on his refusal to break bread with a group who has done nothing but slander and disdain him. There was a very good op ed, from a Philly paper posted here yesterday. The woman who wrote it is definately NOT a bush supporter, but she was in complete agreement with him not attending. She went on to discuss how black americans unshakeable devotion to the dems does them no good politically. Sorry I can't remember her name, it was a pretty good article from the left side.


26 posted on 07/14/2004 3:31:58 AM PDT by jocon307 (Nor forgive!)
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To: beyond the sea
They don't want the truth. And their "leaders" would only disparage him further.

If and when the black community wakes up to the scam that has been perpetuated on them, these guys would be out of a job. Rather than the welfare of the blacks, this is the leading concern of the so called black leaders.

27 posted on 07/14/2004 4:11:29 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: goldstategop

I wrote a month ago that the big surprise is yet to come..the Daily News will endorse Bush this fall..


28 posted on 07/14/2004 4:18:11 AM PDT by ken5050 (We've looked for WMD in Iraq for LESS time than Hillary looked for the Rose Law firm billing records)
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To: kattracks
well said..... said well..... take your pick.........Jesse Jackson - the fraudulent Reverand and, most importantly, poverty pimp.

For heaven's sake, the black people I am fortunate enough to be close to are smart and bordering on wise....... Who the hell is listening to Jesse Jackasson and his ilk?

P.S. Walter Williams is God ....... and a very handsome man, if I don't mind saying so! "Black by popular demand."

29 posted on 07/14/2004 4:19:16 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Maria Sharapova, please endorse G.W.)
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To: kattracks
So where's the news story on the Minstrel Show that Doctor Cosby was to have performed last night at the NAACP $75 a plate dinner? TWT reported that the NAACP had informed Doctor Cosby that he would have to limit his remarks to retelling Whoopi Goldberg's jokes from the Rat fest in the Radio City Music Hall, i.e., no more telling the black folks to take some responsibility for their lives.
30 posted on 07/14/2004 4:29:33 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Hey Slick Willy.....Pogue Mahone!)
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To: kattracks

Like the ACLU, the NAACP has become an irrelevance.


31 posted on 07/14/2004 5:31:55 AM PDT by ought-six
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To: beyond the sea

That's what I would have done. Throw down the gauntlet.


32 posted on 07/14/2004 5:33:50 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: kattracks

Pres Bush should notify the NAACP that he'd be glad to speak at their convention just as soon as he receives word that they'd fired scoundrels Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume and appointed Ward Connerly and Tom Sowell as new co-leaders of the org. That ought to work. (smirk)


33 posted on 07/14/2004 5:56:28 AM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: GeronL
If only Karl Rove were as creative as you.

That should be the anti-slogan attached to this ludicrous excuse for a presidential ticket.

The only possible combo that I can think of at the moment, which eclipses the disastrous duo, in terms of sheer intellectual vacuity, is the Mondale-Ferraro ticket of 1984.

And remember, that was actually headed by someone who was for all intents and purposes, a warmed-over corpse.

34 posted on 07/14/2004 6:30:41 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Whatever helps ya sleep at night, ya douche!")
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To: ken5050; kattracks
Don't believe so!

Though it would be a nice gift, I seriously doubt that Zuckerman would jeopardize his expansive business interests simply because he subscribes to President Bush's foreign policy.

I just don't see it happening.

35 posted on 07/14/2004 6:33:55 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Whatever helps ya sleep at night, ya douche!")
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To: beyond the sea

I think President Bush should tell them to pull themseves up by their own boot-straps like most Americans. I doubt if any the members of that organization could have been poorer than my family. Opportunties are there, if one will apply themselve's. Condi Rice, is an excellent example of courage and fortitude. There is the old saying, "Just because you start at the bottom, does not mean you have to remain there." If President Bush were to attend their conference, he would only receive ridicule and mis-placed blame. Those clowns will still be crying about slavery in the year 3000. The organization with victimology, as the grand platform. Let's Roll, Bush/Cheney 2004.


36 posted on 07/14/2004 6:35:40 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (These Colors Never Run)
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To: kattracks
Bond has hardly been ratcheting down the rhetoric

The NAACP has become just another group of well off lefty Democrats that meet once a year to have cocktails and eat lobster and shrimp. A feel good meeting where they can tell each other how righteous they are and how evil the others are.

What has the NAACP done lately for anyone other than the NAACP?

37 posted on 07/14/2004 7:26:22 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Here's why..the overriding issue to Mort is the safety, security..nay, the existence of Israel..It defines him...what he stands for..and he knows that the Dems, despite what Kerrys et al may say now..well, they're basically pro-Palestinian..and that Israel cannot afford a Dem administration..Kerry would bug out of Iraq..and that would tell the crazies that Israel stands alone..


38 posted on 07/14/2004 9:12:14 AM PDT by ken5050 (We've looked for WMD in Iraq for LESS time than Hillary looked for the Rose Law firm billing records)
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To: kattracks
They are, but lately their editorials have been very favorable towards President Bush. I guess common sense does break through to some of them eventually.

Their editorial is pretty good, their op-ed page is horrible, and their front-page stories are among the most deceiving, lying, anti-Bush stories around, constantly spinning stories to try and nail President Bush. Overall, a liberal rag.

39 posted on 07/14/2004 12:12:34 PM PDT by NYC Republican (Liberals are absolutely evil and despicable. SKerry is their leader, how appropriate.)
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To: ken5050
You're definitely on to something.

Still, I can't remember the last time "The Daily News" has endorsed a Republican presidential candidate.

Though I've been wrong about these things before.

Back when Giuliani was running for reelection as mayor, Ed Koch made the bold proclamation that the NYT would endorse his reelection bid.

I was initially very skeptical, but after reading their endorsement on their editorial pages, I realized that I had been proven wrong.

Though, just as I believe that the parochial business concerns of its owner overruled the ed. page's ideological predilections in that case, so too will Zuckerman maintain his longtime political/business associations in deference to his concern for longstanding U.S. and Israeli security policy.

This election is too big for Zuckerman to stab his best friends, and longtime patrons, in the back.

If he does endorse Kerry on the other hand, he will have burnt no bridges, and can easily support any Bush foreign policies in a prospective second term.

40 posted on 07/14/2004 10:23:18 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Whatever helps ya sleep at night, ya douche!")
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