NAACP shows F9/11 at convention --- HAHAHA

[Mandate My Ass]

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/9151435.htm?ERIGHTS=-7640616607932001971philly:

Bush gives NAACP the brush-off

By William Bunch

[e-mail]


A FEW weeks ago, Vice President Dick Cheney made national headlines when he used a graphic, four-letter word to tell a Democratic senator what he could do with himself.
Now, many delegates to this week’s NAACP convention feel President Bush is saying — not in so many words — the exact same thing to them, with his historic snub of the civil-rights group.

Complaining he’s been dissed by high-ranking NAACP officials, Bush now officially becomes the first president since Herbert Hoover to go an entire four-year term without speaking to the organization.

Call it “f--- you” politics.


<snip>

“I would describe my relationship with the current leadership as basically non-existent,” Bush told reporters during his visit to Pennsylvania, admitting that the snub was intentional and not a scheduling snafu, as aides initially suggested. “You’ve heard the rhetoric and the names they’ve called me.” :cry:

<snip>

Last night, though, convention planners in Philadelphia gained a small measure of political revenge against the president.

They hastily arranged for a free, big-screen showing of Michael Moore’s anti-Bush screed “Fahrenheit 9/11.” :evilgrin:

[Baltimoreboy]

1. All they did was prove his point

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. They being the NAACP or *co?

[Bandit]

10. So you are suggesting the President should never meet with any group

that has ever had a bad word for him? What a small small man. How petty can he get? Do you believe this as well?

[Baltimoreboy]

24. I am suggesting

That he chose not to meet with a very partisan group. I doubt Kerry would speak in front of the Christian Coalition either.

Why go to some place where you expect boos and criticism?

[Mandate My Ass]

27. Because it's deserved

Because it's part of his job.

Because it demonstrates his inability to show up anywhere he cannot be absolutely sure of a fawning reception.

He's a lame-ass punk, and he proved it by not going and trying to mend fences with the NAACP. Clinton was heckled many times and he handled it like a man and a leader is supposed to.

He was the one who claimed to be a uniter... :eyes:

[Baltimoreboy]

33. You are avoiding the point

If he expects a wildly negative reception that will be broadcast on every TV network and be on the front page of newspapers around the world, why go?

Then, to prove his point, they go out and show F9-11. Sure, they are within their rights to do so, but when they are called partisan and anti-Bush, it will be used as evidence to prove the point.

[Mandate My Ass]

35. You've totally missed the point

What Bush did in snubbing them was a huge insult.

It was bad enough when he said his schedule wouldn't allow it since it is traditional for a president to meet with them at least once during his term, but then he insults them further by saying he didn't like the names they called him and he was avoiding them on purpose. What an infantile thing to do.

He is supposed to be a leader. He is not supposed to only go places where he is assured a warm reception. Clinton could go anywhere. How do you know the NAACP would have booed him? Maybe they wanted dialogue. Where do you get this shit from anyway?

[CatWoman]

38. Exactly, Monica

Exactly.

[Baltimoreboy]

40. He is supposed to be a politician

And he is running for office.

I won't begin to defend the GOP attitude toward blacks. However, the black attitude toward the GOP isn't exactly positive either.

For ANY politician to give their opponents such an opportunity would be unthinkable.

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[Mandate My Ass]

50. LOL

Some people just don't get it. :D

[Cannikin]

51. Ya'll aint right! LOL

[Tatiana]

59. LMAO! You KNOW you wrong fo dat! n/t

[Generator]

104. Ding ding we have a winner!

He most certainly is a politician. A dividing mean lying one, but really really good at it!

[GiovanniC]

30. Maybe If Bush Didn't Screw Black People

With a figurative 36 inch dildo every chance he got, they wouldn't boo and criticize him.

[ClassWarrior]

45. Because you're a leader and supposedly president of all Americans?

n/t

[Baltimoreboy]

47. Get back to me on that

When Kerry speaks in front of the NRA or some similar group after he wins in November.

[TeacherCreature]

46. He is their President too

Kerry is not President yet and the CC is not even near the same parr as the NAACP.

[sandnsea]

53. Did they ask?

I bet he would, if he were asked. The NRA too. He wants to talk to all people in this country and stop the lies and button pushing that is US politics today. He said on Larry King he'd like to have a mature discussion about unwanted pregnancies, but that you can't hardly do even that without people going off the deep end on both sides.

I can tell you for sure he wouldn't refuse to speak somewhere because "They were mean to me".

[kodi]

54. they are very partisan in the fight against racism, aren't you?

why should bush go there? to show he has the guts to face his critics in person. but bush has been a spoiled pussy his whole life and did what he alweays does in tough times, run away.

[Baltimoreboy]

55. Bush is spoiled, etc.

But no smart politician would do what many on this thread advocate.

It's career suicide.

[L.A.dweller]

62. In his "career" as president

it is in his interest to protect and serve ALL PEOPLE. When he took the oath of office this is what he claimed he would do.

[Baltimoreboy]

64. That doesn't commit him to attending an event

That much is obvious.

[noiretextatique]

66. no it doesn't...but his refusal is just as political as his acceptance

would have been. he's sending a message to his racist constiuents by declining the invitation, just as he did by going to bob jones university.

[Baltimoreboy]

69. Exactly

But by refusing, he keeps it a minor story. If he had gone, it would have blown up in his face and been a big story.

Actually, I keep saying "he" when I am sure it was his handlers who see far wiser.

[CatWoman]

70. I disagree

he has KEPT the story alive by refusing.

first he said it was a scheduling conflict.

then the true Bush comes out, and he insults them.

you live in bizarro world?

[Baltimoreboy]

72. There is no video

And video would have been horrible for him/them.

[CatWoman]

75. the pen is mightier than the sword

the written word is just as powerful.

[Baltimoreboy]

77. Not a chance

Millions watch TV. If he had bad video from the event, it would be everywhere.

This way, he simply didn't go.

[noiretextatique]

76. he has kept it alive...but there won't be any damage

among the majority of african-americans who didn't vote for his stupid ass in the first place, and won't vote for his stupid ass this time.
the snub was a message to his racist nitwit supporters and their friends.

[CatWoman]

81. BINGO!!!!!!

[noiretextatique]

73. he is acting as president

in addition to campaigning. his snub was for his racist nitwit constiuents...nothing more. you are correct about one thing: he has nothing to lose among black voters and NAACP members who most certainly will not vote for him in any case.

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[MundoQueGanar]

111. that's a good point

I agree, noiretblu.

[greenbriar]

117. baltimoreboy

get over it

move on over to freeper ville

[kodi]

113. career suicide? lyndon johnson was told the same about civil rights

johnson went back south in '64 and told white southern politicians to their faces that civil rights was going to happen whether they liked it or not.

that required a moral commitment and personal courage that george bush never had nor ever will have.

say whatever you want about johnson and the war, he stood up for civil rights when it counted.

bush stands for nothing.

[tom_paine]

13. Horseshit!

The Busheviks stole the election by calculating correctly that White Democrats wouldn't stand up to help to Black Disenfranchisement.

They also carefully and premeditatively concocted all aspects of Jeb Crow and the rest of the Florida Vote Theft (and ballot stuffing for Busheviks).

The Busheviks' ONLY point, as ususal, is half-truths and obfuscation.

And I am tired of observing decorum when those Totalitarian Fucks see no reason to do so.

Fuch them AND their whining.

Oh, and Bunnypants* confirmed they LIIIIIEEEEEEEDDDDD once again about WHY Bunnypants* didn't go.

Which only proves the point that MILLIONS of Free American have been making about Bunnypants*, that he is a liar and an odious fraud.

Any questions?

[GiovanniC]

18. Exactly -- Why SHOULD the NAACP Show Bush Any Respect?

After what he did to African Americans in the 2000 election, he should feel lucky they aren't attacking him WORSE.

And once they watch F9/11, they certainly won't feel bad about being mean to ol' Georgie, that's for damn sure.

[Baltimoreboy]

26. No politician will willingly walk into the lions' den

* isn't much of a politician, but apparently his handlers are wise enough not to let him do something that stupid.

By almost entirely voting for us, blacks have made it easy for the Republicans to ignore them.

[noiretextatique]

58. unlike many, black people have the common sense to vote their

interests, and against the party in support of disenfranshisement as an overt strategy. not much to vote for on the republican side if you are black.

[Baltimoreboy]

60. And probably from their perspective

Not much reason to try and get black votes either because it would be so tough.

[noiretextatique]

63. if they weren't so RACIST, it may not be so tough

therein lies the issue: THEY DON'T WANT BLACK VOTES...they prefer to use race to manipulate white voters.

[CatWoman]

67. so, it's a GOOD thing for Bush to tell blacks

to fuck off and he doesn't need them anyway?

Ever look at a Bush rally?

No diversity. None at all.

If "I" were president of the U.S. (not the White U.S., but the ENTIRE U.S.), I wouldn't want to foster that image.

[noiretextatique]

68. which came first? the racism or the common sense to see it

for exactly what it is? why should black people vote for the party of trent lott and the rest of 'em? if the party didn't welcome racist nitwits, perhaps they would have more black members.

[Baltimoreboy]

74. I never said it was good, just unsurprising

I don't know any politicians brave enough to go into the enemy camp.

[noiretextatique]

79. he is acting as pResident

which means he is even the pResident of people who don't like him...including black people.

[Baltimoreboy]

80. So?

You seem to have a very idealist viewpoint of how politicians should act. Who do you find who measures up to that gold standard?

[noiretextatique]

82. um, no...i think it's you who has it backwards

he is a public servant, not an emperor...one of the many problems with his misadministration....it deigns to ignore those it doesn't want to deal with. this is yet another example.

[Baltimoreboy]

83. Ideally, you are right

But I don't see anybody in D.C. who does what you advocate on a consistent basis.

[Generator]

106. WHAT? He's not the emperor?

You must notify CNN of this immediately.

[CatWoman]

85. why are you defending this racist idiot?

[Baltimoreboy]

87. If you read my posts you would know I am not

I am wondering why this surprises or upsets anyone.

It would have been disastrous for him to go, so why expect it? Do you honestly expect him to fall on his sword (or pretzel, whatever the case may be)?

[CatWoman]

90. It's a question of character. It's a question of leadership.

It's a question of credibility.


It would have been disastrous for him to go, so why expect it?

[Baltimoreboy]

91. Character?

You mean like not making personal attacks against other posters?

[noiretextatique]

93. perhaps it means not assuming that a non-partisan civil rights

organization with all colors of people in its membership =
black people.

[CatWoman]

95. I never attacked you

personally or otherwise.

I just pointed out the obvious.

Surely you can understand.

Like Bush -- why address people who won't vote for him anyway?

So why would I attack such irrational thinking? Just point it out.

[Baltimoreboy]

102. I guess it's a matter of opinion

Since the mods deleted the posts, I guess they felt you had.

[Mandate My Ass]

103. That wasn't why it was deleted

but I suspect I know why it was. The thin-skinned stick together and act the same when they get called for what they are. :cry:

[CatWoman]

107. na, na, na boo boo

my sense of humor tends to be a casualty at times.

[CatWoman]

20. and what would that "point" be?

that Bush is a petty, disgusting, small-minded, touchy, vindictive, no-class, sorry excuse for a leader?

hmmmmmmmmmm, you're on to something there..........

[Baltimoreboy]

28. LOL

Not debating that. I am wondering why anyone is surprised that he turned down the NAACP. As a response, all they did was prove they are an entirely anti-Bush organization.

Next time Republicans refuse to speak there, they will use this as the reason.

[calimary]

34. Well, then, why does he bother trotting out Contradicta and Colin

every chance he gets? And it's not just him doing this, either. They're the two people ANY of the republi-CONS mention when they claim to be so marvelously inclusive.

[Baltimoreboy]

41. It's just to deflect the media

Don't tell me you didn't know that.

[Baltimoreboy]

31. LOL

Not debating that. I am wondering why anyone is surprised that he turned down the NAACP. As a response, all they did was prove they are an entirely anti-Bush organization.

Next time Republicans refuse to speak there, they will use this as the reason.

[Mandate My Ass]

32. It was Bush who "proved" he was partisan

and a racist.

[CatWoman]

42. He had no problem embracing Bob Jones University

yet, he goes out of his way to insult the NAACP.

Go figure.

Now, who proved what now?

[Baltimoreboy]

48. He appears to have gone out of his way

To avoid them altogether.

That's less of an insult than an outright attack. It's also pragmatic.

[noiretextatique]

56. practical racism

certainly worked for him in 2000.

[Selwynn]

29. Good.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Kick ass NAACP!!

[mstrsplinter326]

4. I think the NAACP

After a little Jesse Jackson entanglement and a few years of following democrats down the road to freeperville have finially turned the titanic around and are begining to regain public trust and momentum.

[Ruffhowse]

5. No, I think they made a statement that was long overdue.

[SheBop]

6. That is beyond cool!

I have been reading all about the NAACP/Bush junk, but thank you for posting that the NAACP actually showed "Fahrenheit 9/11,"

:yourock:



:kick:

[Mandate My Ass]

12. tee hee. It made my day

I had to pass it along. :D

[Bozita]

7. The NEA showed it at their convention last week

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Did they? Awesome!

[kayell]

39. They're just a bunch of terrorists though.

[merh]

9. They will not drink the Kool-Aid! (n/t)

[Killarney]

11. Awesome!

:toast:

[Claire Beth]

14. ummm, george......

it isn't just the NAACP who call you names! KUDOS, to the NAACP for showing Fahrenheit 911 at their convention!!!! :kick:

[calimary]

37. His ENTIRE regime is a dirty word.

Just another lie.

I'm a uniter. Yeah, right, george. Compassionate conservative. Yeah, right, george. If you were so compassionate and such a uniter, you'd be trying to reach out to people who have a problem with you. IF you were a genuine adult, you'd be doing that, as well. If you weren't a spoiled, arrogant, thin-skinned, coddled, pantywaist, you might be able to do that.

But we all know the truth. (TRUTH, george. Something else you're clearly not familiar with, along with unity and compassion. Concepts like these are completely alien to you.) The NAACP ROCKS!

[GiovanniC]

15. I'm Sure Disenfranchising Thousands of Black Voters

Has nothing to do with the rhetoric, President Fuckwad.

I'm sure that your policies like "No Child Left Behind", your idiotic war that sends a disproportionate number of African Americans to bleed for your oil, and your economic and crime polices that make life infinitely harder on minorities and the poor have nothing to do with the names you're getting called, you Steaming Pot of Liquid Shit.

And I'm white, asshole. I can only imagine what the NAACP thinks about you.

[SheBop]

16. huh?

I have been misinformed *again*!

All this time, I thought the name was President Fucktard.

Oh, dear.

:evilgrin:

[GiovanniC]

17. Interchangable

I actually had "Fucktard" and changed it to "Fuckwad". Not even really sure why. It just felt right.

[SheBop]

52. Well, if it felt right,

I mean I'm a great believer in going with one's feelings, so:

Fucktard/Fuckwad

Both sound good to me.


O8)

[GiovanniC]

101. I Am Only Following Cheney's Example

It needed to be said, and I felt better for having said it.

[Generator]

109. How about Slimball?

I guess that's an attack on his err manhood. (Real men aren't afraid of the NAACP and of TESTIFYING by themselves before commissions)

I always think of it because years ago I was complaining about someone in an e-mail to a friend, and I wrote slimball instead of slimeball.

It has a ring.

[SemperEadem]

19. cute, shrub, but you forget one thing:

there is no "lese-majeste" in this country.

Yes, we've heard the names. But we've also seen the proof of your intentions by the direction in which you've chosen to proceed against your fellow Americans; which is as, if not more, vulgar as anything which you deem to be inadequate in offering you a measure of deference.

You should look to this. The beam in your eye is rather noticable, s0n.

[SpiralHawk]

21. The Chimp's "Hamartia" -- his thin skin

Hamartia is an ancient Greek term for describing someone's fatal flaw. While it can undoubtedly be argued that Bush has many Hamartias -- one that comes up repeatedly is his thin skin. He cannot handle criticism.

MEMO TO JOHN KERRY - Remember this, especially in the debates, should they occur (got my doubts). The Chimp can be encouraged to pop his top, and thereby reveal himself in Prime Time.

[Mandate My Ass]

22. Yes, so thin skinned

he blew his cover (not that he was fooling anybody with the scheduling "snafu" excuse) but this not only shows his extreme sensitivity to criticism, but his inability to be even minimally diplomatic when he feels slighted. His aides now have egg on their faces because he had to show he was indeed snubbing those who allegedly snubbed him. Quite childish.

[redqueen]

23. That's beautiful!

lol... I can't believe Bu$h expected to be treated nicely after he watched what his brother did in FL and he said nothing. Just more evidence he's a complete IDIOT.

[Lerkfish]

25. the only thing better...

would be if bush completely wacked out and revealed his racist roots on camera. The problem is, I think that's ALREADY his largest power base, racist rich and poor white folk, that I think it would have no discernible effect on his ratings. If anything, they'd probably applaud.

we really need to get rid of this guy. But that's only half the problem. THEN we have to clean up his mess.

[TNOE]

36. Yep

that was pretty much what I was going to say!

WElcome to DU :hi:

[Lerkfish]

49. great brain cells...

..die quicker when assaulted by alcohol.

:)

thanks for the welcome

[indigo32]

43. LOL

that is rich.

[robbedvoter]

57. Baltimore, dear, black people are constituents, citizens, Americans

NAACP IS a nonpartisan organization - Condi was honored in 2002.
I know you guys love to disguise your racism by calling them anything from special interest to hate group - but they are no more hate group than the entire America is when it comes to Bucho. I know you like his solution to cloister himself amongst his choir, but democracy requires that a president meets with his constituents - even the black ones (pictured on his website under "compassion")

[Baltimoreboy]

61. They are constitutents

But so few vote for them and everyone knows he was in for a hot reception if he had attended.

I just don't grasp why some are bothered by a typical example of politics Washington style.

And sorry, but the NAACP IS a special interest group. So is every other group in Washington from MADD to the NRA. No, they aren't a hate group, but few of those groups are.

Democracy doesn't require him to meet with his constitutents. It merely requires him to get enough votes from somebody.

[noiretextatique]

65. the NAACP is a non-partisan, multi-racial organization

and the oldest civil rights organization in the USA. if i'm not mistaken, bush is the first sitting president to decline an invitation to speak before that organization.

[Karenina]

86. Hey girl!

You got any incense? Sage might be better tho!

[noiretextatique]

92. LMAO...i have some sage

a good smudging is definitely in order :hi:

[robbedvoter]

97. Second. After Hoover. Interesting comonality there.

[noiretextatique]

100. thanks for the correction, rv...insteresting indeed eom

[Katarina]

84. Do you think Bush*

is the only president (cough) that the NAACP has criticized since Hoover? I don't think so and yet every sitting president since Hoover has attended their convention. I have a problem with that...really I do. He's the "leader" of our country and as so has an obligation to listen to all his constituents....not just the ones that pay lip service to him. If he get's his feelings hurt from criticism he needs to high tail it back to the pig farm ASAP.

[Baltimoreboy]

89. Times change and the nation is very polarized

And the election is close. Were the situation reversed, I doubt seriously if a Democratic president who was for gun control would go to the NRA convention. And that would lack the racial component this event would have.

[robbedvoter]

98. NRA is NOT an equivalent of NAACP. Nice try though.

Shows your priorities.

[CatWoman]

That's like asking Bush to go to a gay bar

apples and oranges.

[Baltimoreboy]

110. They are both partisan organizations

And the NRA lacks a racial component, so it's even less scary from a PR standpoint to ignore them.

[Mandate My Ass]

112. Scariness? PR?

Why would either of these factor into the decisions of the most powerful man in the world?

If he has to factor in scariness and PR effect of everything he does, I guess he should have stayed out of politics and just undeservedly ridden the gravy train fueld by Saudi money and his daddy's connections like he's done all of his worthless life.

[Baltimoreboy]

114. Probably wants to stay the "most powerful man in the world"

[Mandate My Ass]

116. Actually he's the most hated man in the world

and a punk too. :shrug:

[hippywife]

115. He was in for a hot reception if he attended

because he has refused to attend since he was running for the office. Had he attended all along, he might have done himself a little more good. I doubt it but it just shows his lack of respect for the largest civil rights group in the nation.

[Generic Other]

71. List of people Bush won't meet with...

NAACP

9/11 widows

families of dead soldiers

Democratic Senate and House leaders

Michael Moore to screen F9/11

elders of his own church who counseled against war in Iraq

the white house press corps

Richard Clarke

Anyone with memos relating to Osama bin Laden's future plans to attack the US

Any protestors whether contained in First Amendment Zones or not

Anyone who has not contributed to the Bush/Cheney re-election fund

Anyone who has free will and cannot be fired, busted in rank, or smeared for challenging him

Voters in a democracy

[noiretextatique]

94. he routinely snubs those he can't be bothered with

our imperial emperor and his court. thanks for adding some perspective.

[robbedvoter]

99. Jessie jackson wanted to see W - sent to Colon/Condi

I somehow doubt he had Secretary of State/nat Security concerns. I wonder why then?

[gatorboy]

78. Gosh! And I though Bush was a uniter not a devider!

Is it November yet? He's been in office waaay too long now.

[ikojo]

96. Bush IS a uniter.....

He united the Sunni Muslims and the Shia Muslims in Iraq.

[GSL]

105. That's hilarious

Stick it up the GOP ass...

[Jacobin]

108. I find it invigorating but slightly embarrassing that the only cohesive

group to stand up to the first coup d'etat in this country is the African American community. I am proud of their stand in the joint session of congress where they bravely fought back against the coup but couldn't get a single senator to sponsor their protest. Michael Moore did a great job of showing the courage, their fearlessness, their outrage and their grace.

I am ashamed of my race for capitulating in a coup of a government my forebears had a hand in creating.

The NAACP is merely speaking out against the tyrant who stole the office of president. They know to a certainty that a large part of his base views Smirk's anti-black policies and biases as their favorite part of his administration. They are outraged and they show it.

I am extremely proud of the African Americans in this country who stood up to the pretender to the throne, continue to do so to this day, and will brook no lip from the monkey in the WH.

:toast: