The AP reports:
Julian Bond blasted the war in Iraq and conservative attacks on voting rights, yet the NAACP's chairman Sunday also urged President Bush to attend the civil rights group's annual convention.
''This year the convention has come to the president, and we hope and pray he is coming to us,'' said Bond, speaking about a mile from the White House at the city's convention center.
Bush has avoided the conventions since taking office in 2001, making him the first sitting president in decades not to have spoken to the group. His schedule for Wednesday lists an event with the notation ''TBA,'' or to be announced.
Amazing.The President is supposed to show up so he can be lambasted.Julian Bond is no ordinary democratic socialist.He was one of the honorees at
1993 Eugen V. Debs - Norman Thomas - Michael Harrington Dinner.Here's the words the Democratic Socialists of America used to praise comrade Bond:
You have spent a lifetime as a leader in the movement for social justice.
From your days as a student to your work as a scholar, your career has been marked by constancy and conviction.
From your opposition to the Vietnam War to your leadership in the fight for civil rights, you have recognized the link between peace and economic and social justice.
From your support of southern sharecroppers to your advocacy of Soviet Jewry, you have spoken out on behalf of others.
Writer, orator, activist. No living American better exemplifies the tradition of Eugene V. Debs, Norman Thomas and Michael Harrington.
For your dedication to the cause of working men and women, the Eugene V. Debs - Norman Thomas - Michael Harrington Dinner Committee hereby proudly presents you with its 1993 award.
How often do you read in the MSM Julian Bond called a socialist?
