Is President Bush pandering to his base?

[Reciprocity]

By not attending the NAACP is Bush pandering to his base of elitist?
BTW Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry will speak at the convention on Thursday.

NAACP Keeps Door Open For President Bush

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NAACP president and CEO Kweisi Mfume says as they push on with their theme "The Race is On," to get voters registered for the upcoming election, the invitation to the president to speak at the convention is still open:
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President Bush declined an invitation to speak, the fourth time that he's done so, continuing a rift, that started in 2000, when the White House contends some NAACP members made disparaging remarks about Bush.

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http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_193145938.html

[salinen]

1. Is President Bush pandering to his base?

Is a frogs ass Catholic?

[mourningdove92]

2. So in order to not offend the "have mores" he has opted

to tell the entire black community to cheney off?

I hope this one gets a lot of play.

[Zen]

3. What else is new - Bush is a conservative and conservatives are bigots

Yawn, let me know when something unusual happens, like Bush acts like a human being who understands that the US is not made up of fighting robots. Let's just hope that not too many robots vote for that fool.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Re: Is President Bush pandering to his base?

If he's smirking and breathing then he's as usual, pandering to his base!

What a walking CALAMITY Shrub is! He is flogging himself to save us the trouble I believe! Shrub is his own worst enemy!

[charlyvi]

5. Does King Kong like big bananas?

The base is all he has left. It's pitiful.

[lolly]

6. Too Insulated

My best guess . . .

He believes what his handlers have told him--that the NAACP doesn't really represent African-Americans. I think O'Reilly et al. keep repeating this talking point: African-Americans should support the Republicans, who represent them better then Jessie Jackson and those "radicals" who are only out to promote themselves.

Remember, this is a man who has no idea what is going on in the real world--he only knows what his people tell him.

[TA]

7. Bush only cares about "The Haves and The Have Mores"

[Reciprocity]

8. NAACP Keeps Door Open For President Bush

You would think that as many times that he has been to Philadelphia he would take out a few minutes to speak.
Oddly enough Bush did speak to the nation's largest Hispanic rights group, Thursday, via satellite.

[Panono]

9. He's a politician. What'd you expect? He has to pander to his racist base.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi Panono!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: