[areafiftyone]

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.

BWWAAAAAHAAAHAAA Kerry and his photo-ops! BWAAAHAAAHAAA!! He is such a PHONEY!!

[plain talk]

"I will be a president who talks with everyone those who agree with me and those who don't,"

That's a lie. He won't talk with the KKK just like Bush won't speak to the NAACP.

[Txslady]

WSJ had a pretty good article in the Opinion section by Ron Paige "Naked Partisans" in regards to the NAACP.

Too bad I don't have an online subscription - or I would have posted it.

[cake_crumb]

I commend the president for not walking in and playing doormat for people who hate him.

[Steve_Seattle]

I talk to my cat, but I don't expect an intelligent reply. I think Bush has reached a similar conclusion about the NAACP.

[Mo1]

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.

What's the matter Johnny ... Can't visit the folks in West Philly???

[cake_crumb]

Floodlights, camera and hoards of reporters..yeah, real "intimate."

[Just mythoughts]

JFKerry's speech was like one of those out of a mosque in the middle east --- a call to arms.

[Redcloak]

How nice to know that King John would deign to grant an audience to the little people.

[sharktrager]

The Dems have had a "dialog" with the NAACP for years.

NAACP: It sucks being black in America.

Dems: I'm sorry. You really should put some ice on that.

[Smartaleck]

"Bush has plenty of reasons to turn down the NAACP"

Good article by a Baltimore Sun reporter...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-md.kane14jul14,0,7772448.column?coll=bal-election-headlines

...Late October 2000: The NAACP Voter Education Fund responds to Bush's olive branch with one of the most despicable ads in presidential campaign history. With about a week to go before the election, the ad shows a pickup truck pulling a chain. The voice of the daughter of Texas lynching victim James Byrd

...The first months of 2001, in the early days of the Bush administration: Bond goes on the first of his patented anti-Bush rants, saying that members of the president's Cabinet hail from the "Taliban wing" of American politics.


Published: Jul 12, 2004
Bond urges NAACP to oust Bush
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1419795p-7543839c.html

Letters | A DIVERSITY OF OPINION ON THE NAACP CONVENTION
The Philadelphia Inquirer - 6 hours, 42 minutes ago
THE Daily News quoted NAACP chairman Julian Bond as saying his organization has "always been nonpartisan." Sure! That's why the NAACP is providing a free showing of the highly inaccurate and Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11" as part of its convention's agenda.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/9159887.htm?1c

From the Fox News site...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125522,00.html

BILL O'REILLY HOST: In the"Unresolved Problems" segment tonight: There's no question the NAACP does not like President Bush, in general. Here's what Chairman Julian Bond (search) recently said about the Republican Party.

JULIAN BOND, CHAIRMAN, NAACP: Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the confederate swastika flying side by side. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics .And now, they want to write bigotry back into the constitution.

[counterpunch]