Posted on 05/02/2009 5:53:17 PM PDT by fiodora
If ever you needed further proof of the "person of color" America really needs in charge right now, I urge you to watch this fabulous YouTube footage of the magnificent Condoleezza Rice being ambushed by left-liberal students at Stanford University with a series of "difficult" questions about torture, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and US foreign policy under George W Bush. (Hat tip: Andrew Hamilton.)
Her coolness under fire is magnificent, but more impressive still is her refusal to duck the issues. "Sorry we have to leave", an official can be heard saying off camera, but Condi isn't going to take the easy way out: she wants to stand up for her principles and put the pantywaists in their place.
"Let me tell you something: unless you were there in a position of responsibility after September 11 you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that we faced in trying to protect Americans," she says.
"Maybe before you make allegations about Guantanamo, you should READ," says Condi, with exquisitely measured .
Condi, you are a star and if America won't have you as our next president, please will you come over and be our next Queen instead?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I thought you might like to compare our media versus UK.)
Holding out for that football dream job? ;-)
While undoubtedly better than Obama, he track record as Secretary of State was underwhelming. She is rather a liberal on many domestic issues, and refused opportunities to hammer Obama before and after the election.
I do NOT want her for President!
I’m very proud of my kids and grandchildren. Four each and all vote Republican. I know you didn’t mean all our kids are mush heads, I just want to remind can’t put them all in one basket....
I agree wholeheartedly; unfortunately, the LMSM, would've savaged
her far far move than they did to Gov. Sarah Palin. 
People here are conveniently forgetting just how unpopular George Bush was last year. Condi was popular, indeed, McCain did consider her as his running mate and went in to interview her. But she told him no, that the Bush legacy would drag him down. Condi was the only popular member of the Bush team.
Remember, Bush was at 28 percent because he was leeching Republicans on spending, borders, and the war. He had lost independents and the D's years before the campaign, after Katrina.
You do understand that she would have destroyed Joe Biden in a debate. It would have been much worse that what she did to that nice young man she had the conversation with in Roble Hall.
As this Administration continues to look feckless, it will continue down the path of McCarthyism. It almost can't help itself: it fears that if the U.S. is attacked, it must of needs be bring into disrepute those methods that might have forestalled such an attack prior to such an attack so that Obama might be held blameless. To that end, Holder is probably going to prosecute people or hold Show Trials. Obama will keep his hands clean, claiming he can't control his Attorney General without violating the law.
People like Rice will have to defend themselves, and do so publicly. It's when that happens that the Administration will run into a brick wall and a backlash from the public.
Best,
Chris
Well, she isn't and will never seek the job so you should be happy with what we have.
Think about it. The stupid, pompous, self-righteous kid is about 20 years old. That makes him 12 when September 11th happened. It was just a video game to him. It does not help that the press would not show pictures of people jumping from the towers.
I won't even go into the idiotic comparison the stupid, pompous, self-righteous kid brings up comparing captured German soldiers to Al-Qaeda members. The stupid, pompous, self-righteous kid has no clue about international law, the laws of war, or the Geneva Conventions.
Now that you mention it... A UK blogger seems more professional and less bias than the super-journalist in the prestigious WP.
WP [tendentious]: “While Vice President Cheney has publicly defended...”
UK blogger goes directly to the point of our pathological need to be PC...
Thanks again!!!!!!
Watching this fine mind work and get her points across in a systematic, rational, I will not hide manner, makes one wonder what Descending Colon Powell would have said in the same situation.
She is one sharp lady!
Why would my dislike for Condi as President mean I should be happy with what we have?
She would never have gotten the nomination, nor would she have beaten Obama in the general. The MSM would have treated her like they treat Clarence Thomas, only with more justification.
“The stupid, pompous, self-righteous kid has no clue about international law, the laws of war, or the Geneva Conventions.”
That stupid kid spent his entire life in “0-like” training camp!
That, and watching Jon Stewart.
That student is a MORON. Nazi Germany was the greatest threat ever? *LMAO* What an idiot. Condi absolutely showed him up! “Maybe before you make allegations about Guantanimo you should read”
GO CONDI.
That isn't the reason you don't want Condi for president.
Apparently you are looking for perfect, there is no such man or woman. This time around anyone would have been better than obama.
Yes, even McCain.
In fact I would have voted for anyone of the Pubbies that ran to keep this muslim out of the White House. Even Ron Paul!
GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want this woman for President!
She cleaned his clock.
Sady you're right. Our only hope is that BHO causes the next Reagan to emerge.
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