Comments on: Bush Meets with NAACP’s Mfume http://patterico.com/2004/12/22/bush-meets-with-naacps-mfume/ Harangues that just make sense Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:56:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Patterico’s Pontifications » L.A. Times Editors: It’s a Huge Mystery to Us Why President Bush Never Met with the NAACP Before! http://patterico.com/2004/12/22/bush-meets-with-naacps-mfume/#comment-60429 Patterico’s Pontifications » L.A. Times Editors: It’s a Huge Mystery to Us Why President Bush Never Met with the NAACP Before! Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:13:15 +0000 /?p=2498#comment-60429 [...] The editors also leave out the obvious reason Bush refused to meet with the NAACP in the past: the organization actively fought him in his two presidential elections. After Bush met with the group in 2000, the NAACP ran an unfair ad blaming him for a racist murder in Texas, and the NAACP’s chairman has explicitly called for the group to unseat Bush in 2004. As I explained in December 2004, when the president met with NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume: An AP story reported in July 2003: The leader of the NAACP [Julian Bond] criticized President Bush and his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, for challenging race-conscious admissions in colleges and vowed to work to unseat the president in 2004 . . . [Bond] also said the group intended “to uproot the bigger ‘Bush’ in 2004.” [...] [...] The editors also leave out the obvious reason Bush refused to meet with the NAACP in the past: the organization actively fought him in his two presidential elections. After Bush met with the group in 2000, the NAACP ran an unfair ad blaming him for a racist murder in Texas, and the NAACP’s chairman has explicitly called for the group to unseat Bush in 2004. As I explained in December 2004, when the president met with NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume: An AP story reported in July 2003: The leader of the NAACP [Julian Bond] criticized President Bush and his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, for challenging race-conscious admissions in colleges and vowed to work to unseat the president in 2004 . . . [Bond] also said the group intended “to uproot the bigger ‘Bush’ in 2004.” [...]

]]> By: Confederate Yankee http://patterico.com/2004/12/22/bush-meets-with-naacps-mfume/#comment-7126 Confederate Yankee Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=2498#comment-7126 Pat, you might want to cover Mfume a <i>little</i> slack. Mfume wanted to try to establish relations with the White House, and was fired for his attempt to reach out and find common ground with Bush. Julian Bond dropped the hammer on Mfume. I blogged it <a href="http://confederateyankee.blogspot.com/2004/12/naacps-slow-suicide.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://confederateyankee.blogspot.com/2004/11/next-get-bond-julian-bond.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. A newly independent Mfume might very well be a good liason between the White House and the African-American community, rendering the NAACP even more irrelevant while improving the actual political collateral of American Blacks. Pat, you might want to cover Mfume a little slack. Mfume wanted to try to establish relations with the White House, and was fired for his attempt to reach out and find common ground with Bush. Julian Bond dropped the hammer on Mfume. I blogged it here and here.

A newly independent Mfume might very well be a good liason between the White House and the African-American community, rendering the NAACP even more irrelevant while improving the actual political collateral of American Blacks.

]]> By: Legal XXX http://patterico.com/2004/12/22/bush-meets-with-naacps-mfume/#comment-7127 Legal XXX Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=2498#comment-7127 <strong>Aural Six</strong> Patterico on Bush's meeting with Kweisi Mfume. Aural Six
Patterico on Bush’s meeting with Kweisi Mfume.

]]> By: hubs and spokes http://patterico.com/2004/12/22/bush-meets-with-naacps-mfume/#comment-7128 hubs and spokes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=2498#comment-7128 <strong>The funny thing is...</strong> ...I had always just assumed that the NAACP was a completely political organization. The idea that it was a tax-exempt organization never crossed my mind. Being aware of that fact, however, makes me think it shouldn't be.... The funny thing is…
…I had always just assumed that the NAACP was a completely political organization. The idea that it was a tax-exempt organization never crossed my mind. Being aware of that fact, however, makes me think it shouldn’t be….

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