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July 17, 2003
Democratic Candidates Apologize To NAACP

They came, they saw, they sucked up. From Yahoo / AP:

Three Democrats apologized to the NAACP convention Thursday for bypassing a presidential forum in a political act of contrition.

Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt and Dennis Kucinich rearranged their campaign schedules to appear before the NAACP gathering and say they were sorry. The three White House hopefuls had drawn the wrath of the nation's oldest civil rights group when then skipped Monday's forum, earning the description "persona non grata" from the NAACP leader.

I also found this interesting:
Kucinich talked about his opposition to the war in Iraq and the nation's economic woes. Then the moderator goaded him into offering an official apology, saying: "We have heard the explanation, does the congressman need to say something else?"

Replied Kucinich: "I'm very sorry I wasn't able to be here, amazing grace, how sweet it is, once was lost, now I'm found."

Uhhhh ... yeah.



Posted by Alan at July 17, 2003 09:25 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Yahdahyahdahyahdah.

Jesse Jackson for KING! MY BAD?

Okay. Too bad Allen Keyes doesn’t like, go ‘undercover’, but then he’d have to give up his ‘moral standards’.

Next thing we’ll be doing is genuflecting at the altar of Civil Rights. It does say these dems did that, right? Entered the confessional of PCness, and said they were sorry. To a man. MY BAD?

Equality does not mean equalitarian.

Posted by: Dave Dubé at July 18, 2003 04:26 PM

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