Bob Herbert (NYT): Bush's Not-So-Big Tent

[Dudley_DUright]

Just as George W. Bush is on track to be the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a net loss of jobs, he is now the first president since Hoover to fail to meet with the N.A.A.C.P. during his entire term in office.

Mr. Bush and the leadership of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization get along about as well as the Hatfields and the McCoys. The president was invited to the group's convention in Philadelphia this week, but he declined.

That Mr. Bush thumbed his nose at N.A.A.C.P. officials is not the significant part of this story. The Julian Bonds and Kweisi Mfumes of the world can take care of themselves at least as well as Mr. Bush in the legalized gang fight called politics.

What is troubling is Mr. Bush's relationship with black Americans in general. He's very good at using blacks as political props. And the props are too often part of an exceedingly cynical production.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/opinion/16HERB.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1089950547-hBYQz6OPJPEtka6/bsv8gA

[Sean Reynolds]

1. haha, I thought they meant the 'other' tent....

You know, the morning one?

;-)

[blm]

2. ROTF....

nice one.

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Bush?

Not a chance. He over-compensates by starting wars and blowing shit up with his big missiles.

[phiddle]

4. Harry Belafonte

called Bush's main black stage prop (Colin Powell) the "house nigger". (Ouch)
Who needs a big tent when you've got big tentacles?