BUSH AND THE NAACP: You know, maybe it's just me, but when someone makes a habit of going out of their way to kick me in the balls, I tend to avoid that person's company. Call me silly if you will, but that's just the way I feel.  Nor do I really understand why Senator Kerry bothers talking to the NAACP. He has their votes; the delegates to the NAACP convention would sooner gut their own mothers with a fish knife than vote for someone other than a Democrat, so what's the point of Kerry's pandering? To make Bush look bad?  Let's face reality: the Republicans know that they will never get anything more than a token vote from the black community so they dont care if Kerry and the NAACP badmouth them, and what's more, the Democrats know that for all the muttering from some blacks that they are being taken for granted, by and large the black vote is in the Democratic Party's pocket without the Democrats having to do very much to get that vote.  That's the price paid by blacks for putting all of their political eggs in one basket; it means that Republicans do not have to address issues of importance to the black community.  Why should they?  Political parties are in the business of winning elections and groups are judged by their ability to help the parties do just that.  Blacks dont help Republicans, so why should Republicans help blacks?