Tough questions from the President to the Urban League

President Bush spoke to the (mostly black) National Urban League in Detroit today, and while he joked around with the audience and tried his best to charm them, he wasn't above asking a few provocative and oh so challenging questions (All the questions not in the Yahoo story, but they were posted on Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit blog):

Does the Democrat party take African American voters for granted?

Is it a good thing for the African American community to be represented mainly by one political party?

How is it possible to gain political leverage if the party is never forced to compete?

Have the traditional solutions of the Democrat party truly served the African American community?

Does blocking the faith-based initiative help neighborhoods where the only social service provider could be a church?

Does the status quo in education really, really help the children of this country?

Does class warfare -- has class warfare or higher taxes ever created decent jobs in the inner city?

Are you satisfied with the same answers on crime, excuses for drugs and blindness to the problem of the family?

Hmmmm...maybe President Bush should have gone to the NAACP convention, given this speech, asked these questions, challenged the NAACP's assumptions (predjudices?) and then sat back and watched while the race hustlers tied themselves in rhetorical knots.

I doubt it'll have much impact on this election; the Dems will doubtless get their usual 90% of the black vote. But after just now hearing on the radio the applause that repeatedly interrupted the President delivering his list of questions, one can't help if maybe - just maybe - a little realization that blacks are being so badly served by the Democrat Party is finally sinking in...