"C_S II" <cracked_slightly@bigmailbox.net> wrote in message
news:2f0cfeed.0307141135.2693023e@posting.google.c om...
> Strategists hoped Africa trip would boost Bush's appeal to black
> voters

Eveything Bush does is a political stunt.

>
> A USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken June 27-29 found only 31% of blacks
> approve of the job Bush is doing.
>
> Mon Jul 14, 6:24 AM ET
> Laurence McQuillan USA TODAY
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...714/pl_usatoda
y/5320220&e=4
>
> WASHINGTON -- President Bush's five-nation trip to Africa last week
> was part of his subtle courtship of black Americans, a political
> constituency seldom wooed by Republican presidents.

Interesting that, as per his usual circus, he is NOT facing ther black
voters here in America.

He has republican fund raisers, campaign speaches "preaching to the choir",
photo ops at defense sites and air craft carriers, and Washington -
"programed and controled" press conferences.

He cannot be called a "Man of the People", because he avoids all but
selected ones at all costs!

I'll be impressed when, instead of Africa, he tries to woo the black voters
by giving public speechs and answering public questions in Harlem.