Tom Tancredo To NAACP

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: July 13, 2007
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All eight Democratic hopefuls and a lone Republican candidate, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, addressed the NAACP convention. The Democrats focused their criticism on the administration’s record on race relations and poverty.

Tancredo said he accepted the invitation to speak because his message is for all Americans. A vociferous foe of illegal immigration, Tancredo said the wages of black workers suffer because of illegal workers.

The topic of voting rights drew an impassioned response from the candidates, many of whom spoke of the disputed 2000 election in Florida that saw many black voters disenfranchised.

“The American people don’t feel that when they go vote their vote counts,” New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said.

John Edwards touted his commitment to fighting poverty, calling it “the cause of my life.” Edwards will launch a tour Monday in New Orleans to spotlight the millions living in poverty.

After this Edwards will be in Tucson and LA speaking spanish and sharing a burrito recipe, then hes off to a Veterens meeting to state his support of the American Flag, then off to a nursing home to state his support for free prescriptions, then perhaps off to Little Italy to proclaim Italian food the best nutritional source in the world!

The pandering in this story is earth-shattering.

Dodd praised the NAACP for holding a burial ceremony for the “N-word” earlier this week.

“We ought to have more burials. Why not bury neglect? Bigotry? The failed policy in Iraq?” Dodd asked, adding that he believed every Democrat on the stage would be a better president than Bush.”

http://www.ketv.com/politics/13673192/detail.html

Tom Tancredo addressed the NAACP as the only republican in attendence