"From the moment Bush took the stage of the Washington Convention Center on Friday morning, it was clear he would rather have been somewhere else. Anywhere else. Bush had come to the convention of Unity: Journalists of Color not because he wanted to, but because he had to. When he snubbed the NAACP’s annual convention last month his absence made headlines. Not a good thing in a closely contested election where every vote counts, not only among minorities but—more importantly—among the white swing voters who value tolerance and diversity. So when Unity, the largest journalist group in the world, invited the president to address the meeting it holds every five years, Bush couldn’t afford to look like he was dissing the entire American minority press corps."
Listen to the audio of Bush responding to a question at this conference from a Native American journalist.