Bush did a lot to undermine his own silly ass.
Learn more about Rice and many other Bush administration officials in this book:
Posted on 10/16/2010 6:35:16 AM PDT by maggief
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Later, at an evening appearance at the Aspen Institute, Rice said she and Obama "covered the waterfront." "Despite the fact there are changes and tussles, there is still a foreign policy community that believes that foreign policy ought to be bipartisan," she said. "It was really great that he reached out in that way."
Rice rolled her eyes at the notion that Obama is a closet Muslim, and she defended him from criticism - led by former vice president Richard B. Cheney - that Obama has weakened the country. "Nothing in this president's methods suggests this president is other than a defender of America's interests," Rice told an audience that included presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett.
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Speaking to Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, she lavished praise on her successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton: "I think she is doing a lot of the right things. . . . She is very tough. . . . I think she has done a fine job, I really do."
Rice even chastised former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) for his assertion that Obama has a "Kenyan, anticolonial" worldview. "That's over the top, and I don't think very helpful," she told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC.
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Bush did a lot to undermine his own silly ass.
Learn more about Rice and many other Bush administration officials in this book:
She should have used her former’s boss’ response ‘they deserve my silence’. I was disappointed when she went to the State Dept and started softening to the Leftist stance. I was also diappointed when, on FoxNews, she answered that her parents registered to vote as Republicans because they were the only Party registering Blacks in the South. But she added ‘it didn’t change their political positions’ (paraphrase).
Exactly. Because of her comments, her book will end up in the Costco sale pile pretty quickly. The left wasn't going to buy it anyway and the right definitely won't buy it now. And the middle? There are plenty of other books out there worth buying that are competing with hers.
“Bipartisan” is supposed to mean “two parties”. But politicians like Rice mean “one party — the ruling class”. To them bipartisan means “Republicans agreeing with Democrats”.
Rice met with Obama. She is probably looking for a job. With Gates leaving soon, Obama needs a Republican on his team to shield him.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254502,00.html
Transcript: Condoleezza Rice on ‘FOX News Sunday’
Sunday, February 25, 2007
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WALLACE: We have a couple of minutes left, and I’m not going to let you go without talking about a little politics. What do you think of Barack Obama?
RICE: Well, I know him. I think he’s very appealing and a great person. He’s on my committee. And we’ve always had good exchanges. I think he’s an extraordinary person.
WALLACE: When you say he’s on your committee, you mean the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
RICE: Yes, he’s on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. That’s right, that’s right.
WALLACE: Do you think he has enough experience especially in foreign policy to be president?
RICE: Oh, I’m not going to make that choice. The American people are going to make that choice, Chris. And I think it’s also going to be a choice based on whether or not the American people think with any presidential candidate that they are capable of carrying out the responsibilities on terms that the American people agree with.
I think it’s going to be a question of does that person share my values, does that person seem to represent my interests. It will be the same questions that have been asked about presidential candidates since we began this process.
WALLACE: I want to show you a recent Gallup poll, though. Take a loot 94 percent of Americans would vote for their party’s African-American nominee for president, more than would vote for their party’s woman nominee or their Mormon nominee.
I suspect you disagree with Senator Obama on some policy issues. But what do you make of the fact that so many Americans would consider him or any African-American seriously as a presidential candidate?
RICE: I think it just shows that we’ve come a very long way. I do think we’ve come a long way in overcoming stereotypes, role stereotypes about African Americans. I will say race is still a factor. When a person walks into a room, I still think people still see race.
But it’s less and less of a barrier to believing that that person can be your doctor, or your lawyer, or a professor in your university, or the CEO of a company. And it will not be long, I think, before it’s no longer a barrier to being president of the United States. And as I often to repeat to people ...
WALLACE: When you say not so long — well, excuse me. I didn’t mean to interrupt you.
RICE: No, no, no, I was just going to say I repeat to people all the time, you know, if I serve my full term, we will not have had a white male secretary of state for 12 years — a white woman, black man and a black woman. That’s as far as our country has come, even though we can’t deceive ourselves. Race is still a factor in this country.
Condi was born into the segregated South, I imagine it’s hard for her not to feel some pride at the thought of a black President. Her life experience has probably taught her that it’s better to stick together rather than fight over philosophical or political differences.
I don’t think the next generation of black politicians will feel this way, but for now she is a microcosm of the black community in general.
Yeah Condie, HRC did a great job with the Israeli-Pali situation.
HRC’s big announcement was a FAIL.
Silly me.
Mmm ... mmm ...mmmm ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/06/nation/na-rice6
Rice hails Obama’s win as a ‘step forward’
The secretary of State, raised in the Deep South, says, ‘As an African American, I’m especially proud.’
November 06, 2008|Matthew Lee | Lee writes for the Associated Press.
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She called the Democratic president-elect “inspirational” and said his victory was proof of America’s promise.
“This was an exercise in American democracy of which Americans across the political spectrum are justifiably proud,” she said.
“As an African American, I’m especially proud,” said Rice, her eyes glistening with emotion, “because this is a country that’s been through a long journey, in terms of overcoming wounds and making race” less of a factor. “That work is not done, but yesterday was obviously an extraordinary step forward.
A must read for all of those posters who inexplicably think Condi is a conservative, race neutral, super smart and would make a good president.
These few words put those unfounded notions to rest.
Add to that list Juan Williams. Even though not an Obama opposer, he defended Limbaugh over something and was asked to ‘return to the porch’ by some black guest on Fox.
“”Damn and I used to like her.””
WHAT A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT! I saw her on Greta on Thursday night but the interview wasn’t very interesting. Then yesterday I checked the daily schedule of the WH and saw that she was scheduled to meet with obozo at 3:45 and my mouth fell open. I guess it’s not difficult to understand now why she was at the WH. I don’t think there’s anyone we can trust anymore!!!
You aren’t the only one. :)
Sounds like she has some investments somewhere. Got to have her bigger piece of pie than the regular joes.
Also, there wasn’t any Democratic “bipartisan” praise and respect for Condi Rice when she became the first black female Secretary of State. No Democrats had anything good to say about her. Instead they attacked her: her personality, her clothes, her brains, everything.
Republicans vs. Democrats is like:
lambs vs. sharks
boy scouts vs. a motorcycle gang
The democrats fight like a junk yard dog. Republican politicians roll over like they are bought and paid for.
I feel betrayed: Laura, Colin, now Condi...
are we stoopid or what?
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I hear you. So discouraging.
Rice has been a liberal for quite a while. She was always pro abortion, against Israel, loving that affirmative action. I am not surprised she loves Obama.
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