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HIPPI:
ATLANTA - Looking for election-year support from black voters in the South, President Bush (news - web sites) was greeted at Martin Luther King's grave here Thursday by noisy demonstrators who chanted "Go home, Bush!" after receiving a warmer reception at a run-down church in New Orleans.

As Bush placed a wreath on King's crypt, a low chorus of boos could be heard from across the street where 700 to 800 protesters beat drums and waved signs bearing slogans such as "War is not the answer" and "It's not a photo-op, George."

Bush's four-stop swing through Georgia and Louisiana allowed him to court two important constituencies — religious conservatives, who make up his base of support, and black voters, only 9 percent of whom supported him in 2000. Events in both states were paired with fund-raisers, which raised $2.3 million for his campaign account, already brimming with more than $130 million.


In this year's presidential race, Bush probably will garner only slighly more of the black vote, predicts David Bositis, a political analyst in Washington who focuses on black issues.


"Nine percent is the lowest for a Republican candidate since Barry Goldwater, he said. "When you get a zero on a test and you take it a second time, the odds are that you're going to do a little better."


The president, standing silently, his head slightly bowed, appeared unfazed by the protesters at King's tomb, where he laid a wreath of red, white and blue flowers to mark what would have been the civil rights leader's 75th birthday.


King Center officials said they extended no formal invitation to Bush but accepted his offer to come.


The president's critics dismissed his visit to the grave as a symbolic gesture that only underscored shortcomings in the administration's relationship with blacks.


Back in Washington, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (news - web sites), said not one policy decision made by the Bush administration — from the war in Iraq (news - web sites) to the economy, from education to the environment — has mirrored King's dream. "The president needs to be more embracing of elected African American officials and the entire African American community every day of the year, not just on January 15th," he said.

Now_Im_Not_Banned:
Bush hasn't shown love to the black community for shit...Everyone knows damn well he's doing this because election is coming...His head was probably filled with racism growing up in Texas...LOL

HIPPI:

--- Quote from: MC Sccit on January 16, 2004, 12:04:06 AM ---Bush hasn't shown love to the black community for shit...Everyone knows damn well he's doing this because election is coming...His head was probably filled with racism growing up in Texas...LOL

--- End quote ---

Of course man. Bush is a white southerner, hence a racist.

Trauma-san:
I applaud him going there DESPITE all the hate.  It shows what his true motive was, because he's obviously not getting any votes out of this, he might actually lose some.  Good for him to stick up for what he feels is right.

M Dogg™:
As the news reporters said, Bush is so far ahead in the white vote, it doesn't matter what anyone votes, Bush has this election clinched.

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