Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Thank Goodness
MSNBC - Bush holds first meeting with NAACP leader: "President Bush met Tuesday at the White House with the outgoing head of the NAACP, the first meeting of his presidency with the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
"It was a very frank and a very open dialogue," NAACP President Kweisi Mfume told reporters afterward. "We both have real differences.""
I am pleased that they were able to sit down. Of the leaders of the civil rights groups, even given Mfume's past rhetoric, this is the one I would have chosen as well. He has shown himself, as of late, to be a practical and straightforward guy. Please don't make me eat those words, Kweisi. It may be a new beginnning to getting a dialogue between civil rights leaders and Bush.
"It was a very frank and a very open dialogue," NAACP President Kweisi Mfume told reporters afterward. "We both have real differences.""
I am pleased that they were able to sit down. Of the leaders of the civil rights groups, even given Mfume's past rhetoric, this is the one I would have chosen as well. He has shown himself, as of late, to be a practical and straightforward guy. Please don't make me eat those words, Kweisi. It may be a new beginnning to getting a dialogue between civil rights leaders and Bush.
