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Bush holds first NAACP meeting of his presidency
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| 12/21/4
| JENNIFER LOVEN
Posted on 12/21/2004 1:24:20 PM PST by SmithL
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To: KJacob; Howlin
I agree.. to a great extent..but politics is the art of the possible..yes, it would be a photo-op/figurehead post, but, maybe, Kwaisi's learned something..we do believe in redemption..don't we..?
THink cynically for a moment..otherwise, why would W meet with him in the WH? It's some type of signal..
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posted on
12/21/2004 1:43:23 PM PST
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her gene pool. Any volunteers?)
To: Howlin
He filled it.. but there could be other changes..
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posted on
12/21/2004 1:44:31 PM PST
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her gene pool. Any volunteers?)
To: SmithL
I just want to know what the IRS investigation of the NAACP finds out. The NAACP is a political organization and there is no way Julian Bond can dispute that. His record and his recorded statements speak for themselves. The only reason they havent been stripped of thier tax exempt status is because it would cause controversy. Well, the hell with controversy. BRING. IT. ON.
It seems we need controversy to bring to light the organizations that bring this country down. The ACLU, the NAACP, the UN, all do nothing but keep this country from achieving its potential. They should be banned. No ifs, ands or buts. BYE! Need help packing?
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posted on
12/21/2004 1:50:32 PM PST
by
libs_kma
(USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
To: rdb3; mhking; Trueblackman
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It's the waterfall effect. First, the Black Leadership of various powerful organizations such as the NAACP have noticed that Blacks have unlimited opportunities under President Bush (e.g. Secretary of State). Said leadership manages to cobble together the thought that previous Democratic Party opportunities were not available to them.
...then, a single Black leader jumps ship and finds a warm welcome in the Republican Big Tent. After that, two more jump, then still more. The waterfall begins.
We're almost there. Congressmen Ford hasn't missed the fact that Democratic leaders have snubbed him for promotions. Newly minted Senator Obama has already lept over him, as has lilly-White Nancy Pelosi.
Does Kweisi Mfume want an Ambassadorship to Angola? Such a switch could be the start of a waterfall.
Does Donna Brazile want to work for a Party that supports school choice vouchers, or does she instead want to be continually snubbed by the lilly-White New England elites who are frequently winning the Democratic Party's Presidential nominations over the years?
Hmmm...Party of Lincoln or Party of NE White Elites...decisions, decisions...
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posted on
12/21/2004 1:51:33 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: SmithL
Why reach out at all? The NAALCP doesn't want dialogue so that differences can be resolved...they want dialogue simply to score points off President Bush and Conservatives in general.
Ignore 'em.
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posted on
12/21/2004 1:58:08 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Oh yeah - and F the french too!)
To: reagan_fanatic
Why reach out at all? The NAALCP doesn't want dialogue so that differences can be resolved...they want dialogue simply to score points off President Bush and Conservatives in general. You don't read well, do you?
Mfume is leaving the NAACP. I don't agree with him on much of anything, yet this meeting slaps Julian Bond right in the kisser for one. To that I say, "Good!"
Stay tuned. Don't go flying off emoting instead of thinking. That's what RATS are for.
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:01:45 PM PST
by
rdb3
(Can I join the Pajamahadeen even if I sleep in the nude?)
To: SmithL
Of the two people in that meeting, which one has done more to advance the prospects for Blacks? </telling question>
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:15:15 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" HRC 6/28/2004)
To: dead
To: rdb3
I tend to agree..
Mfume has shown his dissatisfaction with Bond and the NAACP... He's leaving..
He has now extended a hand to Bush.. which was accepted..
Under what conditions, we do not know, but at least a "dialogue" was realized..
Mfume will return to Bond and NAACP with a message, possibly some recommendations, personal or passed on from the president...
How they respond to that message will be the question..
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:23:12 PM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: rdb3
You don't read well, do you? Mfume is leaving the NAACP. I don't agree with him on much of anything, yet this meeting slaps Julian Bond right in the kisser for one. To that I say, "Good!" Stay tuned. Don't go flying off emoting instead of thinking. That's what RATS are for.
Sorry I didn't make myself clearer. I wasn't referring to Mfume specifically but the the NAACP in general, Bond included.
Any face time with a Republican President by ANY of these so-called 'leaders' is just giving them more of what they really want - to puff up their own sense of self-importance and give them an opportunity to sport their latest anti-Conservative sound-bites for the evening news broadcasts.
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:24:37 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Oh yeah - and F the french too!)
To: Conservative Canuck
Well, the skin color doesn't mean a darn thing, IMO.
But a culture of entitlement is very much at odds with the ownership society.
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:32:09 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Big government is still a big problem.)
To: BenLurkin
"Well, the skin color doesn't mean a darn thing, IMO."
True enough. That was meant to be a joke (even if it is a little off-color - no pun intended.) :-)
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:40:20 PM PST
by
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(The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness)
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posted on
12/21/2004 3:35:08 PM PST
by
mhking
To: Sarastro
"Bush press secretary Scott McClellan said the president had looked forward to it
Like I look forward to a root canal
"
Ugh - why can't they just say what they mean? I'm so tired of the sanitized goodspeak that comes out of every "spokesperson's" mouth these days. I'd give just about anything to have someone just stand up there and say what's really on their minds and what's really happening with no sugar coating or doublethink.
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posted on
12/21/2004 3:46:24 PM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Mfume was booted and Bush was staying with a mandate.
If anything dissing the NAA"L"CP helped President Bush stay President.
To: gortklattu
"I wonder if there was a sole print on the soul man's backside when he left the meeting with W."
And I hope he left a few large sole prints on Quasi's ego, too.
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posted on
12/21/2004 3:52:25 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Wish me a Merry Christmas! I won't report you to the ACLU.)
To: sandalwood
No matter what President Bush does the leftists at the NAACP are going to call him a bigot anyway.
Wait a min.. isn't calling a person (with lots of pigment in their skin) -a colored person- a bigot?
Oh thats right it is do as I say not as I do with the NAACP folks.
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posted on
12/21/2004 3:53:18 PM PST
by
Diva Betsy Ross
(I am not NOT PC.. And Proud of it!: Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!)
To: rdb3
I don't agree with him on much of anything . . . And people can change too. Think Horowitz.
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posted on
12/21/2004 4:00:00 PM PST
by
Tribune7
To: SmithL; All
Does anyone know if this guy ever legally changed his name from Frizzell Gray? I'm sick of the press calling people what they want to be called. They interview me, I'm gonna tell them I prefer to be called Johnny Wadd.
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posted on
12/21/2004 4:01:58 PM PST
by
LibertarianInExile
(NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
To: ken5050
...what are the odds that W tries to find a place for Kwaisi in the administration.About the same as W trying to find a place for me in the administration, which is to say less than zero.
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posted on
12/21/2004 4:06:04 PM PST
by
Wolfstar
(Where are you, Miss Beazley?)
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