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To: Bob who wrote (11616)	7/16/2004 10:21:54 AM
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KERRY 'SWEARS' VICTORY TO NAACP July 16, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — John Kerry yesterday evoked Vice President Dick Cheney's use of the F-word, telling the NAACP he intends to make the Bush-Cheney team want to cuss on Election Day. "If [Cheney] needs something to swear about, John Edwards and I are going to give him something to swear about on Nov. 2," Kerry told the Philadelphia convention of the nation's largest group of black activists. Kerry sought to take advantage of Bush's feud with the pro-Democratic civil-rights group by gibing that the president "may be too busy to talk to you, but . . . he's going to have plenty of time after Nov. 2." <font size=4> Kerry also gave a raised-fist salute to the NAACP convention in a gesture that looked like the old "black power" salute from the 1960s. The Kerry campaign had no immediate comment on whether he intended to give such a salute.<font size=3> Bush is snubbing the NAACP to protest its leaders' attacks comparing him to the Taliban and racist Confederates, but will speak next Friday to another prominent black group, the Urban League. Kerry speaks there on Thursday. Bush spoke to the NAACP in 2000, but was coolly received. He took a serious hit when the NAACP ran a TV attack ad claiming Bush was soft on hate crimes like the Texas car-dragging murder of James Byrd Jr. Bush got just 9 percent of the black vote that year. "The current leadership of the NAACP has clearly crossed the line in partisanship and civility, making it impossible to have a constructive dialogue," said White House communications chief Dan Bartlett. Cheney made headlines a few weeks ago by telling Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) — who has repeatedly challenged Cheney's integrity and painted him as a war profiteer — to "go f— yourself" in a private conversation on the Senate floor. Kerry so far is the only candidate to publicly use the F-word — in an interview last December, when he told Rolling Stone magazine that he didn't expect the president "to f— [Iraq] up as badly as he did." Meanwhile, the Bush campaign went after Kerry on the values issue by raising the question of parents' role in teen abortions in ads on black-oriented radio stations in some urban areas like Detroit and Philadelphia, but not New York. The radio ads — along with a new TV ad in selected markets — says "Kerry voted against parental notification for teenage abortions. "Kerry even voted to allow schools to hand out the morning-after pill without parents' knowledge. He voted to take control away from parents by taking away their right to know." Values were on the table for Kerry's running mate John Edwards yesterday, who raised no objection to Slim-Fast's decision to drop Whoopi Goldberg as its spokeswoman after her X-rated anti-Bush rant at a Kerry-Edwards fund-raiser in New York last week. "I think that's entirely up to them," Edwards told Fox News Channel. nypost.com