Sparks Fly Over Black Vote - Kerry Tries to Communicate with Black Voters
Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 11:11AM
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"The
president may be too busy to talk to you," Kerry told the partisan
crowd, "but I have news for you: He's going to have plenty of time
after Nov. 2." Mr. Bush rejected an invitation to address the NAACP. He
has not spoken to the civil rights group since the 2000 campaign, when
the NAACP National Voter Fund ran an ad that portrayed him as
unsympathetic to the dragging death of James Byrd in Texas. Since the
campaign, leaders of the NAACP have called Mr. Bush an illegal
president, compared his anti-abortion views to the Taliban and called
his trip to Africa a photo-op.[more]
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