This article provides insight into the political calculations made by any major politician, even the liberals' beloved Obama. It reminds us that these politicians are out to win a race -- which means to gain votes, not love. This is actually only a medioce article from Pat Buchanan. He is usually much sharper than this (except when he gets on a pro-religion or anti-gay theme, at which his brain seems to sadly turn to mush.) What Buchanan seems to fail to recognize is that McCain *has* to appear before the NAACP unless he wants to invite comparisons with the way Bush snubbed them. So McCain pays the NAACP a visit early in the campagn, when his time is less valuable. I'd be surprised if he even remembered who they were -- much less talked with them again -- as the campaign gets into full swing. Where Buchanan is dead-on right in this article, though, is in the disinterest both candidates pay to Hillary Democrats -- the anti-NAFTA/pro border enforcement crowd. Obama tries to convey that he cares, but they (astutely) don't believe him. So why doesn't McCain go after them? My guess: he has surmised that they won't find him any more believable than Obama ... and rightly so.