Sparks Fly Over Black Vote - Kerry Tries to Communicate with Black Voters
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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]