I instead think that Barack Obama just doesn’t take them all that seriously. The VFW, on the other hand? That group has votes that Barack Obama needs to have back; that’s why he went to the VFW convention, even though he didn’t go to the NAACP’s.
As for the doing this so openly, without explanation and/or apology? Well, that’s just Barack Obama’s casual contempt towards black people. Which is not really the same as hate, although a lot of people tend to get it wrong.
(Via, obviously, Instapundit.)
Moe Lane
Well, if he manages to move the VFW vote from say 45% to 50% but at the same time erodes the NAACP vote from say 90% to 85% it’s a net loss for him. Even if he doesn’t lose NAACP any support per se, but just fails to sufficiantly energize them to go out and actually vote, its a probably a net loss. This is a fairly obvious truth so I’m mystifiyed by Obama’s decision to skip the NAACP speech. It would have been an easy home run. Blog retoric asside, I don’t think they’re that stupid.