Vice-President Joe Biden to give the Keynote Address to NAACP Convention Thursday

[Tx4obama]

(CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden gives the keynote address at the NAACP convention in Houston on Thursday, a day after presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke there and as President Barack Obama takes a pass.

It will be Biden's first time addressing the convention as vice president, the NAACP said.

"The vice president is a longtime friend to the NAACP," said Roslyn Brock, the group's chairwoman. "He has been a strong advocate for justice and equality over his decades of service in the Senate and the White House."

The president will miss the event due to a "scheduling conflict," his campaign said.

"We declined a few weeks ago, and (the) NAACP was pleased (Vice President Joe Biden) was able to attend," an Obama-Biden campaign official told CNN.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/12/politics/naacp-biden/index.html

[DCKit]

1. The contrast will be amazing. nt

[Tx4obama]

2. This is one Biden speech that I am really looking forward to :) n/t

[oldhippydude]

3. what a perfect place..

to address the voter suppression issue..... Go Joe!!

[LiberalFighter]

4. Actually, I believe that Eric Holder already addressed that issue when he spoke there.

Of course, that doesn't mean that Biden won't too.

[LiberalFighter]

5. CNN just had to make up a story when they wrote it

that "President Barack Obama takes a pass". Knowing full well that there is a big difference when the President has other duties to perform.

[NYC_SKP]

6. This turned out to be a brilliant move. Joe can say things that Obama can't.

And he did!