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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Well, I realize this is current politics. I do disagree however, that this is right wing politics. The left caters to special interests just as much. However, I don't blame Bush at all for not going to the NAACP earlier, as there is really no reason to. It is highly unlikely he'll pull any of the NAACP vote, despite any efforts. The NAACP works pretty diligently to discredit Bush at every turn, so why would he go to them with nothing to be gained from it? It seems you understand politics, so naturally you understand how it would look for a president to be essentially pressed into making an appearance. It is obviously weakening.
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I agree that he doesn't have to speak before the NAACP;but if he does it may be a sign that, against the grain of today's politics he is elevating himself to the position of a statesman. Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, who for the sake of what was RIGHT, for the future of their nations and not their careers,took courageous stands, and paid for it with their lives, by their own people, when it was not "politic" to do so. This is very rare;it takes true courage and not simply canned rhetoric and symbolic actions of playing to one's own base all the time.