Kweisi Mfume, president of the NAACP, said it was "unbelievable" that Bush had declined an invitation to speak at the organization's annual meeting for the fourth consecutive year.
"When you are president, you are elected to be president of all the people," Mfume said at a news conference as the convention opened. "You won't do that if you refuse to talk."
He asked Bush to change his mind and promised that the Republican president would be treated with respect at the Philadelphia event this week even if many delegates oppose his politics.
... "I would ask the president to reconsider his unnecessarily harsh stance and to show America that he's bigger than that," he said.
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"When you are president, you are elected to be president of all the people," Mfume said at a news conference as the convention opened. "You won't do that if you refuse to talk."
He asked Bush to change his mind and promised that the Republican president would be treated with respect at the Philadelphia event this week even if many delegates oppose his politics.
... "I would ask the president to reconsider his unnecessarily harsh stance and to show America that he's bigger than that," he said.
Well, but he's not.
Mfume, a former congressman from Maryland, said Bush was courteously received the last time he spoke to National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites) at its 2000 meeting in Baltimore.
But, somebody once said something he didn't like....
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond last month said Bush and other Republicans were part of a "dark underside of American culture."
Truth to Bush is like sunlight to a vampire.
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