After 5 years of rejection, and point blank refusal to address the NAACP, now the Republican party is in tatters and they need every vote, does this man think we are silly and stupid?
2006-07-20 08:32:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Woody, I take your point, but 120 years on surely we must be able to take for granted that our president stands for ALL the people of America, not just those he can garner votes from.
2006-07-20 09:32:13 · update #1
30 dolla ho, I thought I told you not to bother answering my questions. Reading your other answers, you are obviously intellectually challenged and don't add much to the debate. I don't want you lowering the tone. Thanks
2006-07-21 00:08:24 · update #2
Six is the number of times that NAACP Chairman Julian Bond has invited President Bush to speak to the NAACP convention. Zero is the number of times that Bush has spoken. Each time, Bush took the easy way out and cited a scheduling conflict or simply ignored the NAACP's invites.
Who is he trying to fool? Maybe just himself.....What a shame he is.
2006-07-20 12:51:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the president dodged the NAACP for 5 years because of hostility. he knew it would be counter-productive to talk to the NAACP while the rhetoric was still at such a fever pitch. any appearance by him would have been jeered into a non-appearance.
also now, the NAACP's leadership has changed and bruce gordon is going along a line that would open more discussion. there is certainly nothing wrong with hearing what the president has to say.
that is not to say i approve of him, but once he presents himself, individuals may decide for themselves
like woody says, we shouldn't throw all our eggs in one basket.
sometimes the words "republican" and "conservative" themselves are threatening to blacks.
i am not threatened by republicans, conservatives or the president on a racial level. but i do disapprove with a lot of choices he's made and things he's done.
it's important that a dialogue be opened no matter how much you may dislike the person doing the talking.
instead of waiting for them to come address us, why not go to them and make yourself heard. this would be more likely to happen if we stopped throwing everything behind the democrats and begin to explore other parties, other views, other philosophies.
we need to branch out because a lack of political, philisophical, and intellectual diversity will kill a group's voice and power as quickly as anything.
and it's stupid that in this country there are only two real political chioces.
2006-07-24 11:11:37 · answer #2 · answered by agrissom1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it the other way. Should blacks put all their eggs in one basket? Why not woo the President and other conservatives that there is a chance to get their votes? Many Blacks support conservative social values.
120 years ago Utah was trying to gain statehood. Demopcrats supported it and Republicans were opposed. Each party was basing support on the benefits they would receive as much as the issues. The issues included not only polygamy, but Utah permitted Universal Sufferage. LDS church leaders discontinued supporting one party, and encouraged members to go to both. In a few years they were admitted as a State.
2006-07-20 15:56:32 · answer #3 · answered by Woody 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just goes to show you how desperate the Republican party is for votes come this November. They should have booed him when he was talking because he insults their intelligence. Anyone with at least half a brain knows his speech today was to gain votes, even though black are not stupid like he thinks.
2006-07-20 16:01:35 · answer #4 · answered by Dan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, let's be honest here. There isn't a person in the room who thought this was going to garner Republicans any votes. Everyone was politely playing a game.
2006-07-20 15:36:16 · answer #5 · answered by WBrian_28 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's not give the NAACP a walk on this one please. They ran a very derogatory, untrue campaign ad about him in the first election. They were also quite rude to him at Kings widow's funeral. Why should he go? Personally, I think the NAACP has become a racist group itself. This "man" is the President of the United States, and treats Blacks with more respect than liberal leaders do. Thanks
2006-07-20 16:05:16 · answer #6 · answered by rosi l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he was addressing the educated, hard working, and conservative blacks who know that you have to depend on yourself to better your lives and not depend on the gov't for everything. I think we all will be surprised by how much of the black vote conservatives get. There are excellent black conservative candidates out there - Lynn Swan, Michael Steele, Kenneth Blackwell, Keith Butler and Vernon Robinson are just a few to watch for.
2006-07-20 15:50:47 · answer #7 · answered by therandman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
Bush just like the way Benjimin Hooks does that "coon dance" slapping spoons on his knee and tap dancing.
Oh I'z wend dow'nt ta Georgia an I'z stole a Chicken. Now my Mammy is a giv'un me a lick'un
2006-07-20 15:44:46 · answer #8 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not black and I think this man is such an idiot, and thinks the rest of us are too.
He didn't even attend Rosa Parks funeral. What an egotistical moron. He's a redneck from the south,k of course he thinks blacks are stupid. I just can't believe the audacity
of that man. I appoligize for the white race.
2006-07-20 15:38:56 · answer #9 · answered by sassyk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a shameless showing for America's worst president ever. DUH-bya doesn't know what to think, that's what Condi and Cheney are for.
2006-07-20 16:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by Dr.Feelgood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋