[rdb3]

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.

[Drammach]

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..

[reagan_fanatic]

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.

[Tribune7]

I don't agree with him on much of anything . . .

And people can change too. Think Horowitz.