Bush heckled at NAACP; O'Malley falls asleep   

By Robert "Rob" Redding Jr.

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WASHINGTON, July 20, 2006, 1 p.m. - President Bush was heckled today during his first address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Bush, a Republican who appeared before the Democrat-leaning group for the first time in five years, was heckled by two men.

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It was not clear who they were or what they were saying.

At one point during the speech, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, who has been perhaps the most vocal critic of the president, looked at Bush and asked if he should do something, but the president just continued to speak, an eyewitness told Redding News Review.

Meanwhile, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat who is running for governor of Maryland, caught a few winks during the last day of the convention, the eyewitness said.

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