The GOP Doesn't Care About Black People

Tancredo gets standing ovation from NAACP for showing up

Interesting use of captions by AP vs. Reuters.


Republican U.S. presidential candidate Thomas Tancredo addresses the delegates during the candidates' forum at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) annual convention in Detroit, Michigan July 12, 2007. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. stands before the delegates at the NAACP convention in Detroit, Thursday, July 12, 2007. Tancredo was the lone GOP presidential hopeful at the forum. All leading Democratic candidates were expected to participate and candidates from both parties were invited. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

The rest of the pack must have decided the disenfranchisement of blacks is going well enough to totally snub a demographic they loathe.
And on the Democratic side....

Democratic presidential candidates from left, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. John Edwards, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Sen. Maurice Gravel, Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Christopher Dodd and Sen. Joseph Biden