From 'Bombingham' to Bush: How Condoleezza Rice fulfilled King's dream

The Washington Times ^ | November 19, 2002 | Arnold Beichman

[xsysmgr]

Who would have predicted in 1954, the year of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, that in less than half a century two distinguished black Americans (and one of them a woman at that) would be sharing foreign policy decision-making with the president of the United States? Perhaps Martin Luther King might have included such a prophecy in his "I Have a Dream" oration.

[Tuco-bad]

At 48, Miss Rice has reached a peak in a career which, paradoxically, has just begun. She is already being talked about as a presidential candidate in 2008 against Hillary Clinton, 55. I can hardly wait.

Rice couldn't "connect the dots" prior to 9/11.

She's useless!

[TommyDale]

Is anyone else noticing the barrage of public relations releases about Condi Rice? Geez, one would think she is considering running for public office. Oh -- she is!

[areafiftyone]

Sorry but if Rice runs against Hillary she will lose. We need a strong male candidate. Condoleeza is a wonderful intelligent person but would be smashed by Hillary if she ran. Hillary is hated that is for sure but if she ran against another woman she would win hands down!!!

[BuddhaBoy]

I think you are daft.

Rice would clobber Hillary. No one in politics is more hated, and Rice only would need 20% of the Black vote to win if every other Democrat voted for Hillary.

[WaveThatFlag]

Rice is a lot smarter than you seem think, but she is currently not a viable presidential candidate. She's never been elected to any office.

[Lael]

The national security adviser is so superb a pianist

She cuts a wicked Double Axel in the ice skating rink.

[nevergore]

Last I checked the Black Community "Leaders"(i.e. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton et al) said that Condi and Colin weren't really Black enough...... more white then black....."Uncle Tom's"

NeverGore

[Tuco-bad]

Rice is a lot smarter than you seem think

She didn't do so well coordinating the work and infomation of our national security agencies prior to 9/11.

[Tuco-bad]

Condoleeza is a wonderful intelligent person

What has Condoleeza done so well for the Bush Administration and our country?

[WaveThatFlag]

That's armchair quarterbacking. Neither would have anyone else. Do you have a problem with how she is performing right now?

[areafiftyone]

I am not Daft. I talk to many Black Democreeps at work and they do not like her. She would not win the Black Democratic vote at all.

[sit-rep]

Becareful...

I called her a twit a few weeks ago on a thread and got lambasted...

I'll lurk this for a while and see how you do lol...

SR

[areafiftyone]

You are right she hasn't done much. But to her credit she is extremely devoted to the the president and like I said she is extremely intelligent. She would make a terrific ambassador or something like that. But she would never win a presidential election.

[sit-rep]

Infact, here ya go...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/776207/posts

SR

[Polybius]

Rice couldn't "connect the dots" prior to 9/11. She's useless!

Monday Morning Quarterbacks can always "connect the dots" after the fact.

Tell me which person, Republican, Democrat or Independent, could have predicted which Muslims in America would board which particular airline flight with that particular plan on that particular day.

If I were Emperor of the United States and trashed the U.S. Constitution, I could have prevented the attack by rounding up every Muslim in the United States and either deporting them or locking them up in detention camps.

Short of that, how could you have prevented 9/11?

Even simple ethnic profiling at security or at the flight schools would have raised cries of "Police State" from your Democrast friends and you, Tuco-bad, would be the first one to throw out those charges:

"Innocent Muslims Persecuted by Republican Police State Just Because They Want to Learn to Fly!!!!

What dots, exactly, did you want Rice to connect?

[Tuco-bad]

That's armchair quarterbacking. Neither would have anyone else.

You really believe that?

Do you have a problem with how she is performing right now?

Not sure what her input is now, but she sure did fail the American people on 9/11.

Keeping Rice in her post is equivalent to keeping Admiral Kimmel and General Short in their posts after Pearl Harbor.

[Tuco-bad]

I called her a twit a few weeks ago on a thread and got lambasted...

I truly believe that the "dots should have been connected" prior to 9/11, and Rice as National Security advisor should be blamed for 9/11.

[Tuco-bad]

She would make a terrific ambassador or something like that.

Fine with me; make her an ambassador or something like that, but don't keep her as National Security advisor, she failed America in that role.

[Tuco-bad]

Infact, here ya go...

Yep - thanks for the thread.