NYT: White House Door Opens for Some Black Critics

....Wednesday, the new president of the N.A.A.C.P., Bruce S. Gordon, and another prominent black leader - Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore's campaign for president in 2000 against Mr. Bush - joined 30 people at the White House to talk with Mr. Bush about the rebuilding effort in New Orleans.

For Mr. Gordon, the meeting was the third with Mr. Bush in just three months, starting with a private one-on-one session in the Oval Office in September and then a smaller meeting with other black leaders earlier this month.
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"I can't sell his tax cuts, I can't sell his war," Ms. Brazile said. "But on Katrina, if I can establish assistance and help - I mean, forget partisanship, I can be partisan my whole life. This is where I'm from, this is family. And if I have access to the president of the United States and don't take advantage of it. ..."

"'I know some Democrats won't agree with me," Ms. Brazile said. "But then again, their families didn't lose anything."

She described Mr. Bush as very informed on what had taken place. "He gave me information. Like I didn't know that prior to Katrina we may have had too many hospital beds instead of enough," she said. "He put that information into my head."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/politics/22naacp.html

NOthing like posing with black people to get apast this little bitty problem with the NSA. Donna Brazille is friends with the soon-to-be-indicted Rove.

black leaders who they could "work through" and ignored NAACP and like groups.

Means they have had to retool that plan.

Perhaps they realize they cannot take over the world and put "workable leaders" to replace traditional ones.

I hope.

Didn't work in Iraq. Didn't work in Bolivia. Not working anywhere. Someone expell these neocon assholes out of school (I mean the WH). Utopians are nuts.

... lost anything. what sanctimonious claptrap! She's claiming the moral high ground, pre-emptively dismissing all criticism by claiming that all potential critics had nothing whatsoever lost in that hurricane. As if all the survivors would lick his fetid feet like she did.

"He put that information into my head."

Jesus christ. Well, on the plus side - at least we don't have to watch Judy Woodruff talking to her any more.

This woman is either being devious or dangerously stupid - I can't believe she'd believe that Rove honestly considers her a friend rather than a "resource." Now she thinks Dubya is informing her. Aghghghgh!