Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during remarks to volunteers working at the Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado to distribute food to those affected by the wild fire at the on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

HOUSTON | Republican Mitt Romney is telling black voters that he’s a better choice than President Barack Obama to help build their neighborhoods and lessen unemployment among African Americans.

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during remarks to volunteers working at the Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado to distribute food to those affected by the wild fire at the on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

But Romney was greeted with boos from attendees at the NAACP’s annual meeting Wednesday in Houston when he pledged to repeal “Obamacare.” That’s the name Republicans have given the health care overhaul that was passed by Democrats and recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Romney said he wouldn’t be running for president if he didn’t think he could do a better job than Obama, the nation’s first black president.

But Romney is unlikely to win the black vote. Some 95 percent of black voters backed Obama in 2008.

Romney was heckled at another point in the speech when he criticized Obama.

2 replies on “Romney draws boos from NAACP when he dings Obama”

  1. I don’t even know why he bothered with this group.  The blacks vote with their Democratic backgrounds of entitlements and of course in this guys case, he’s also black.  Why bother?

  2. Now if you know exactly what he said…….he said he was going to get rid of  obamacare…..ask anyone that this would have a affect on..buss or individ….it’s bad news …whats this tell you of the intelligence of these boneheads…they are just all about color and hate the white man…personally i would have just whipped it out….took a piss over the podium and left shooting those people a bird.

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