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Photo: Empty room minutes ahead of Biden’s NAACP speech

July 12, 2012 | 11:20 am
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President Obama skipped the NAACP convention, but sent Vice President Joe Biden to speak to them instead. Did the NAACP skip Joe Biden?

“Seats are pretty empty minutes before Biden is set to speak,” CBS reporter Rodney Hawkins tweeted along with this photo. Hawkins added that an “NAACP representative” told him “the rain is to blame…People are slowly coming in.”

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