Posted on 07/15/2004 7:00:50 AM PDT by areafiftyone
BOSTON (AP) -- Democrat John Kerry is telling the NAACP that as president he will always talk with people who disagree with him - a slap at President Bush for declining to address the civil rights group.
"I will be a president who talks with everyone those who agree with me and those who don't," Kerry says in remarks prepared for delivery Thursday in Philadelphia before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Bush has not spoken to the NAACP since he was campaigning in 2000. He was angered when, during that race, the NAACP National Voter Fund ran an ad that portrayed Bush as unsympathetic to the dragging death of James Byrd in Texas.
Since the campaign, leaders of the NAACP have called Bush an illegal president, compared his anti-abortion views to the Taliban and called his trip to Africa a photo-op. A Bush spokesman blasted the NAACP on Thursday.
The president "has many friends who belong to the NAACP and respects their proud history of championing civil rights," White House communications director Dan Bartlett said. "Differences of opinion and opposing views are of course part of the national debate. Yet the current leadership of the NAACP has clearly crossed the line in partisanship and civility, making it impossible to have a constructive dialogue."
"Despite the current leadership's intolerant views, President Bush will continue to reach out to members of the NAACP and African-Americans from across the country," he said. Bush addresses the Urban League, another civil rights group, next week.
The leaders of the NAACP have said they are committed to helping Kerry defeat Bush this year. Kerry welcomes the help as he tries to stir blacks to get to the polls this year.
I will be a president who shares the values of people of all colors who get up and go to work every day, try to raise their families in dignity and want to leave this world a better place for their children," Kerry says in the NAACP speech. "I will be a president who when he is invited into your home, will always say yes."
In a statement, the Kerry campaign said Bush has failed to bring opportunity for blacks. It criticized Bush for failing to support affirmative action, for dropping employment among blacks and for cutting education and health care programs that disproportionately impact blacks.
Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said, "Kerry continues to campaign making fundamentally baseless assertions about the economy." He said minority homeownership is at record levels.
After his speech to the NAACP, Kerry was beginning his "Front Porch Tour" in Philadelphia suburb of Lansdowne. The Kerry campaign is putting a new spin on an old technique - trying to get the candidate more time sharing concerns with regular Americans.
While Kerry is visiting with voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania, his running mate John Edwards will be visiting voters on a front porch in New Orleans. Although Kerry and Edwards were officially kicking off what they say will be a regular feature of their campaign trips, Kerry sat with voters on their porch at least once before.
Last month in Columbus, Ohio, Kerry chatted with two sisters who brought out iced tea and talked about the struggles of raising their kids in a tough economy. The normal intimacy of a front-porch chat was somewhat disrupted by the glare of the flood lights brought in by the campaign and more than a dozen national journalists and staff who watched from the lawn.
Kerry said the importance of the porch visits is "going to the homes of ordinary citizens across this nation and talking with them about the values that matter most to them - values you live by every day - family, responsibility, service, opportunity, inclusion, fairness, faith."
Well, I know that! I'm posting what this creep is saying.
HE'S A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about the MILITARY who were being their RIGHT TO VOTE...when the RATS were trying to prevent THEIR VOTE from counting in Florida? Didn't hear Kerry coming to the defense of the MILITARY VOTE COUNTING.
Now Kerry wants to cure the world of AIDS but he must have forgot we're already broke according to him. This plan doesn't call for the cheap solution, abstinence. He wants the US to lead the UN to Sudan for humanitarian reasons. Isn't this the country that shot our helicopters down? Let them all starve until they get a brain!
For the first time in my life I feel the need to arm myself for self-protection. I am absolutely convinced that if he wins, we will have a disaster. And if he loses, we will have riots.
He is playing a very dangerous game. He is assembling lawyers. He is going to have teams of election observers, and "we will enforce the law."
Now how are they going to do that ...vigilante justice?
sw
Yes...I know; I heard him say what you posted. My comment, of course, wasn't directed to you, lol! : )
If I walked into a store, and was confronted by Lurch in full battle dress, like he is today, I'd turn on my heels, run like hell, and never even go down that street again.
This schuck is a real piece of work alright. The words don't do him justice. Take a look at that face as he delivers them.
He's like a walking talkng Dorian Gray image to counter Reagan's "kindly grandfather".
He is STILL on the voting issue.
Really using all the deceitful angles---harks to the elections of 2000 AND 2002 and says "never again".
Yes, a vote for a Republican is illegitimate in their eyes.
Now talking about getting people to the polls.
He's spending more time on this issue than any other.
President Bush is speaking to the Urban League. According to the NAACP member and Congresswoman on Fox this morning, that doesn't count because they don't "challenge him enough."
Oh, that's what they're planning on. It's called "the IRS."
That's it EXACTLY!!!
In dem world, votes for Republicans aren't legitimate, hence don't come under the "count every vote" umbrella.
Ah, what would a Kerry speech be without a reference to Vietnam. That's where he is now.
A band of brothers, he says.
Prayed to the same God, says he.
Was wondering where the Live Thread is - guess I found it! Pinging AM to see if we can change the title? ;)
Pretty please?
Kerry is speaking live now to the NAACP - speech excerpts are posted here
That's a lie. He won't talk with the KKK just like Bush won't speak to the NAACP.
"When I was in Viet Nam..."
sw
It's a sinister plan the RATS are executing, it's right out of 1930's Germany. From Al Gorebbels to The Pink Swastika (Hillary and her lesbian minions).
O Goody, now to vietnam. ( like that wasn't gonna come up)
This guy is no HERO. He's a SCHMUCK!!! Please God, SHUT HIM UP!!!
Now quoting Langston Hughes again. He is determined to use that quote, so I guess he is the one who chose it. Calls them to march again.
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