Il Dunce at DC Convention Center Yelling at the NAACP audience

[Stinky The Clown]

He's got that whole faux Texan thng going on ...... and trying to sound as if he has some affinity for the audience.

I have NO idea what he's saying because I can't bring myself to apy attention to his yammering and yelling.

Hey George ...... ? You're not a black southern preacher .... okay?

[Totally Committed]

1. Did they applaud him when he took the stage?

Have they applauded anything he's said? I'm dying to hear the details.

TC

[babylonsister]

2. Yes, they applauded, perhaps solely out of politeness.

He is being rather strident. Ugh. You're not missing much. I can't take much more; everything he spews is suspect.

[Ian David]

3. I think he's gonna try to sell them on abolishing the estate tax. n/t

[babylonsister]

4. If he's so concerned about home ownership for African Americans,

I wish he'd explain the lack of any progress in NO. :eyes:

[Ian David]

5. Yep! I called it! Eliminating the estate tax... and,,,

privitizing social security????

[prole_for_peace]

8. well remember "they" die younger than we do.

wasn't that one of his "reasons" for ss privitization?

[Ian David]

10. Someone is heckling him, but I can't hear it...

flipped over to Headline News to see if they had better audio...

They were replaying his big applause line, "I understand that many in this room do not trust my party.."

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Yeah, he's starting on the 'death tax' riff ......

.... what horseshit

[leesa]

7. To the NAACP?? Did he get his audiences mixed up?

Too funny!

[Ian David]

14. Someone came up behind and whispered somethihg in his ear...

and bush said, "That's okay..."

What happened?

[tridim]

9. Seems like there's some action in the audience

I can't hear what they're saying.

[babylonsister]

12. A heckler, I'm hoping, and also hoping someone's catching

that action.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Sounds like there is a disturbance in the crowd as Bush speaks

Julian Bond looks worried.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Now he drags in the sainted name of Condiliar ......

... and how her father had to fight to register to vote ......

[femmocrat]

15. Is there heckling from the audience?

Hard to tell... getting some applause, though. He sounds like he is getting annoyed with the voices coming from the floor. Trying to talk over them.

[footinmouth]

16. Talk about a "smattering" of applause

It sounds like they paid about 5 people to come in and applaud. I don't think anyone applauded when he wanted to set up something to help folks read the fine print on a mortgage document. How condescending. The most applause I heard was when he said that his party has the reputation of not caring about the black americans. He doesn't seem to be winning a lot of fans today.

[Ian David]

17. Watch continuing live coverage here...

http://www.naacpwebcast.com/naacp2006/player_naacp06_01.asp

[Virginia Dare]

18. Did he start his "speech" with...

yo, what up homedogs, heh heh heh?

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[Ian David]

20. Chairman Bond's Address to 97th NAACP Convention

Chairman Bond's Address to 97th NAACP Convention

By
Julian Bond
Chairman, NAACP National Board of Directors

<snip>

We are delighted that the President may be coming - we think he's doing a heck of job.

You should know as we begin our week in Washington that a different language is spoken here, a sort of Orwellian code.

"Bi-partisanship," for example, in Washington means "when the other side caves in." "Spreading peace" means "pre-emptive war." "Staying the course" means "to relentlessly pursue a disastrous policy regardless of the consequences." "Compassionate conservatism" translates into "tax cuts
for the rich." "Endangered species in need of government protection" are "the rich people's families who inherit mega estates."

"Activist judges" are "jurists who do not belong to the Federalist Society." "Non-partisan judicial appointees" are "jurists who do belong to the Federalist Society." "Faith-based initiative" means "passing out money and saying 'trust me'".

"Moral values" equate to "keeping homosexual illegal immigrants from burning flags." And "racial discrimination", of course, is "a problem of the past which no longer exists."

Those who say that "race is history" have it exactly backward - history is race. America, scrambled, after all, spells "I am race."

And America is race - from its symbolism to its substance, from its founding by slaveholders to its rending by civil war, from Johnnie Reb to Jim Crow, from the Ku Klux Klan to Katrina.

Those who engage in declarations and denials to the contrary do not serve our country well.

For example, late last summer the Justice Department conducted a study of racial profiling, which President Bush had vowed to end in America. In the news release describing the study, the administration tried to eliminate any reference to the racial disparities the study found. When the person responsible for the study balked at this, he was removed from his job.

Apparently, the way to end racial profiling is to deny it exists.

More:
http://www.naacp.org/news/chairman/2006-07-16.html

[semillama]

21. That first line you quoted is awesome

I only wish that was how Bond introduced Bush today.