Bush speaks to Urban League convention before heading for down-time in Tex

[Judi Lynn]

Bush speaks to Urban League convention before heading for down-time in Texas


WHITE HOUSE A week after spurning the N-Double-A-C-P, President Bush is speaking today to a different civil rights group -- the Urban League.

The president's addressing the league's annual convention in Detroit before heading to some down-time at his Texas ranch.

The White House cited scheduling conflicts and "harsh" political rhetoric from the N-Double-A-C-P leadership as Bush's reason for declining to speak to that group's convention in Philadelphia last week.

In Detroit, Bush's foe, John Kerry, spoke to the Urban League yesterday -- and got a warm reception for promises to create jobs, improve public education and address gaps in the health care system.
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http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2079193&nav=23ii2Pmv

(He must be exhausted......)

[GCP]

1. They should boo him offstage for dissing the NAACP

:grr:

[Yogi]

2. We can only hope

n/t

[ClintonTyree]

3. They're making fun............

of Bush about this on AAR. "Am I a homeboy, or a cowboy"?

[Kokonoe]

4. It's not black votes he wants , he does it so suburban

middle class soccer moms & dads will have less guilt voting for bush lies.

[noonwitch]

5. I had a thought while driving in to work today about the comments from

Jesse Helms or Strom or whoever about Bill Clinton and saying he better not visit in that state or else.

We are obviously the better people. I haven't heard anyone in Detroit say that about Bush, and he is pretty well despised in the city and about half of the suburbs.

[bif]

15. He isn't despised in the suburb where I live

But I am seeing a lot of Kerry bumper stickers and I saw the first Kerry lawn sign yesterday!

[silverlib]

6. Down time?

I thought he wasn't taking any more vacation days before the election. What happened to that? Is it like those weekly speeches he announced he would be giving?

I'm worried that his numbers will go up if he goes into hiding. We need to hear those great speeches! We need * to keep defeating *.

[AnnInLa]

7. he's going to the ranch to dig for bugs

[quaoar]

8. I wonder if he filled them in

On GOP plans to suppress the black vote in Detroit.

[MasonJar]

9. Down time...now we have a euphemism for vacation.

[TahitiNut]

10. Even though the winds are from the north ...

... there's an unmistakable stench coming from about 16 miles to the south of me. Yes, DimSon slithered into Detroit, it seems. I wonder how much the cash-strapped city will have to spend scrubbing away his slimetrail.

[wabeewoman]

11. What's with the

N-Double-A-C-P? I've never seen it referred to that way.

[maddezmom]

12. boy it's the room sure is quiet

not a lot of clapping now that the jokes are over.

[maddezmom]

13. brown fields, vital economy and taxes n/t

[Jade Fox]

14. citing "harsh" rhetoric from the NAACP? awwww....

..........................................:cry:

Poor Bush. Everyone is sooo mean to him.