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| 2004-01-17 |
| Long article on Condi that has some interesting insights and frequently veers into Democrat bashing. Severly EFL. Condoleezza Rice is a "true illiterate," said a patronizing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. This Marxist thug added that he had asked his comrade Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to mail Americaâs National Security Advisor samples of Cuban books now being used to teach Venezuelan children literacy to âsee if she learns to respect the dignity of the people and learns a bit about us." Apparently President Chavez is both a racist and a puny macho sexist to make such stupid remarks. His stunted manhood is threatened by criticism from this powerful woman. Condoleezza Rice, who recently called on Chavez to accept the democratic vote of Venezuelans in a legitimate election to recall him, is, as many have noted, "the most powerful woman in the world." Dr. Rice understands collectivist terrorist murderers like Chavez better than do most Americans, and not only because she is a highly regarded expert on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Most of us awakened to the threat of terrorism only on September 11, 2001. Rice as a 9-year-old African-American girl in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963 felt the ground shake from a racistâs dynamite bomb going off in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church only blocks away from the church where her father, John, was pastor. Among the four black girls murdered in that hate crime that shocked our nationâs conscience was Riceâs 11-year-old friend and schoolmate Denise McNair. She remembers their funeral and how small their coffins were. âIf youâve been through homegrown terrorism,â said Dr. Rice, âyou recognize there isnât any cause that can be served by it. ... Because what itâs meant to do is end the conversation.â Racism is a collectivist idea that denies human dignity by defining individuals as members of mythical collective racial groups. Socialism and Marxism are collectivist ideas that deny human dignity by judging individuals only as members of mythical class groups and by declaring all human beings to be slaves whose lives and labors belong to the collectivist state. But first, letâs look more closely at the âilliterateâ Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Leftists such as Hugo Chavez have tried to silence or discredit this âuppityâ powerful black woman with insults. The Leftist media inside the U.S. have tried either to ignore her or to diminish her with the most vicious, loathsome and toxic kinds of racist satire, mockery, denigration, insults and ridicule. Jamaican singer-limboist Harry Belafonte, an outspoken supporter of Fidel Castro and the Democratic Party, called Rice a âJewâ and a âslave who lived in the houseâ and âserved the master.â Belafonte is a moron Leftists engage in such verbal terrorism against Bush administration National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell out of fear, wrote distinguished African-American journalist and liberal Clarence Page. The Democratic Party depends on blacks for 18 percent of its votes. Its survival depends on keeping those voters as a solid, owned bloc of slaves, chained by dependency and fear, down on the plantation of the Democratic Party. A powerful, successful Republican role model such as Condoleezza Rice could show young blacks an alternative to dependency on Democrats. To prevent African-Americans from opening their hypnotized eyes to this self-evident truth and reconsidering why they vote for a party that chains and exploits them, Dr. Rice has been targeted for every kind of insult and attack possible. She must be politically assassinated. So, who is Condoleezza Rice, this bright black woman whose mere presence strikes terror into the hearts of Leftists? Condi, as friends call her, was born November 14, 1954, in what his 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would call âprobably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States.â During the Civil Rights struggle it came also to be called âBombingham,â with racist explosives killing not only Riceâs friend and three other girls but also shattering the home of black civil rights lawyer Arthur Shores and terrifying the African-American community. âRiceâs father went to police headquarters to demand an investigation,â wrote Dale Russakoff in the Washington Post Magazine. âThey didnât investigate,â Condoleezza Rice has said. âThey never investigated.â âJohn Rice,â writes Russakoff, âthen did what black fathers all over Birmingham were doing â what Alma Powell remembers her own father doing then, when she happened to be home with her babies during her husbandâs [Colin Powellâs] tour in Vietnam: They got out their shotguns and formed nightly patrols, guarding the streets themselves.â One of the many dirty secrets of the Democratic Party is that its passion for gun control began, and continues to be, from a desire to disarm African-Americans and thereby make them powerless and dependent. Russian expert Michael McFaul, writes Russakoff, âremembers [Condoleezza] Rice telling him she opposed gun control and even gun registration because Bull Connor could have used it to disarm her father and othersâ in 1963. Interesting! Her name, Condoleezza, comes from the Italian musical notation âcon dulceâ or âcon dolcezza,â meaning to play âwith sweetness.â I didnât know that! Condi was soon mastering figure skating, French, ballet, Latin and a host of other advanced skills. Playing Bach and Beethoven even before her feet could reach the pianoâs pedals, Condoleezza pursued becoming a concert pianist. At age 13 her family moved to Colorado, where her father became a University of Denver assistant dean. She enrolled there at age 15, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, at age 19 when most other youngsters are just beginning college. One day she found herself in a classroom fascinated by Josef Korbel, former Marxist Czech diplomat, as he expounded on the Byzantine nature of Soviet politics and Stalin. âThere was so much intrigue,â Rice says. âI decided I wanted to study the Soviet Union.â âIt was like falling in love,â she told Essence Magazine. âI just suddenly knew thatâs what I wanted to do. ... Soviet politics, Soviet everything.â Condoleezza went on to earn a masterâs degree in international relations at Notre Dame, then a Ph.D. at the University of Denver. The year she completed her doctorate, 1981, she was offered a teaching job at Stanford University. She is author or co-author of several scholarly books, including "Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army: 1948-1983," "The Gorbachev Era" and "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft." Her expertise on the Soviet Union soon earned Rice an advisory position with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1986 and, with the recommendation of Brent Scowcroft, a place on President George H.W. Bushâs National Security Council in 1989. When they first talked, she and George W. Bush, both big sports fans and devout Christians, hit it off immediately. âAmerica will find that she is a wise person,â the president-elect said when announcing her as his pick to become National Security Advisor in December 2000. âI trust her judgment.â From what I hear Bush is closer to Condi than any other of his advisors. Any chance she will be VP in 2004? As far as I am concerned her head and her heart are in the right place, and it would send a powerful message, and think of the fun we would have - over 4 years of the Left tieing themselves in knots. Iâd pay to watch that! Rice is part of a tiny Bush inner circle of brilliant advisers â including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State George Schultz and Pentagon analyst Paul Wolfowitz â nicknamed for their superior intellects as âThe Vulcans,â in the spirit of Mr. Spock and other Vulcans in âStar Trek.â Cool! Now, at age 49, Condi Rice has already become what Business Week magazine called probably the most influential National Security Advisor since Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. When she, as one of two top foreign policy advisers to the president of the United States, criticizes or challenges Hugo Chavez, it is no wonder that this nasty little Marxist tyrant shakes with fear and rage. The arabs will hate dealing with her, seeing as they are all racist misogynists. Chavez knows perfectly well that Dr. Rice is not illiterate. In fact, she is an expert on Marxism, the Soviet Union and the kind of tactics Chavez and his ally Fidel Castro are now using to subvert Venezuela as well as several other Latin American nations. Her expertise is helping shape the hard line that President Bush has taken against Fidel Castro at this weekâs summit of Western Hemispheric democracies in Monterrey, Mexico. Long rant on Cuban Education system cut, but i left this bit in cos it fits with my experience in Cuba. This school had a black principal â the only instance in Cuba where I saw a black person in a position of power. As Cuban-American author Humberto Fontova (whose current best-seller is "The Hellpig Hunt") explained to me, Leftist Hollywood movies about Cuba typically depict Castroâs revolutionaries overthrowing a blond, blue-eyed dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar. Batista, however, in real life was a dark-skinned mulatto of black ancestry from a poor farming family. It is Castro who embodies the white Spaniard colonial ruling class and whose father was a crime boss in Cuba ... just as Fidel is a crime boss today. And under Batista, Cuba had the third-highest standard of living in the Western Hemisphere, while today this Marxist prison colony is near or at the bottom. This, notes Fontova, is typical of the lies Americaâs Leftist media use to brainwash Americans. A second lesson: As Condoleezza Rice so admirably teaches by example, we must never permit the collectivist thugs, here or abroad, to stifle or end the conversation. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #24 Yes but all you red neck white guys would find an excuse to vote for a third party candidate, eg. Buchanan |
| Posted by: Seppo Basher 2004-1-19 5:50:18 PM |
| #23 Phil, you ceertainly spoke for me that time. I like Condi a lot, but she does need some elected office experience. A great opportunity would have been the recall election in California, but Arnie did okay. Next opportunity is against Barbara Boxer (Fienstein is in 06 but she's pretty tough). Giulani-Rice? Hmmm. HMMMMmmmmmm. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-1-17 9:45:10 PM |
| #22 Provost at Stanford - Hoover is a distinct institution |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-1-17 6:48:13 PM |
| #21 All good reasons why Condi won't be at the top of the ticket in '08 against HRH HRC. But a Giuliani-Rice ticket... |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-1-17 6:23:27 PM |
| #20 And IIRC Condi held a Dean role at Stanford for a while ... ?? ... someone come up with the facts on that & her role at the Hoover Inst. please. I should do it but have company here. |
| Posted by: rkb 2004-1-17 5:45:06 PM |
| #19 Wilson was governor of New Jersey from 1910-12. Grant was a disaster by all accounts. Eisenhower had experience as a diplomat and administrator in his role as the Commander of the Eastern Theater and NATO head. |
| Posted by: E. Brown 2004-1-17 4:18:39 PM |
| #18 She's never served in any elected office in her entire life. Okay... has it happened before? Eisenhower.... Wilson?..... Grant Anyone else? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-17 3:22:58 PM |
| #17 I remember reading on a site about the lies in "Bowling for Columbine" that during the sixties a black community in the south who was being harrassed and got weapons from the NRA. It stopped the attacks. But then the authorities disarmed them. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-1-17 3:10:49 PM |
| #16 Condi for VP. I like the idea but she has no real political experience. She's never served in any elected office in her entire life. Certainly she could slip in as VP but its gonna be a strike against her. On the other hand, that might be what the US needs. Someone serving in the highest office who isn't a life-long politician. I like Cheney, but his heart problems will be a serious issue in 2008 and I don't think he'll win the Republican Primary because of them. That would mean the Republicans lose the incumbant advantage and that's something they shouldn't give up lightly. I think Cheney should move on before it comes to that. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-17 2:17:15 PM |
| #15 Dcreeper Try looking before you leap - thats one thing folks here do: we question the source and the tacit beliefs behind a lot of "crap" the popular press puts out. I suggest you do a bit more research. A great many gun control laws, especially in the south, were aimed at disarming blacks. They were seldom enforced against whites. Its a matter of historical record. And I got the stuff below from several web pages on a quick google search (some are "conspiracy" sites, every bit as suspect as the left wing, but othersa are well researched and well reasoned). Read and learn: The Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy (Winter 1995) includes "The Racist Roots of Gun Control." The article documents the "historical record provides compelling evidence that racism underlies gun control laws -- and not in any subtle way." And this too... "You don't need that kind of gun to hunt with" and variations on that theme. In fact, hunters are quite often told that it is not their guns that are going to be banned. Well, in general, urban blacks don't hunt. Suburban and rural whites do. So what is being said is "We want to take the guns away from blacks". There are only two reasons why someone would want to accomplish such a thing. The first reason is to keep blacks subjugated. The other reason is a kind of paternalistic hope to protect blacks from themselves, a modern "White Man's Burden". While I think the first scenario is unlikely, the second one is no less offensive. There is KKK-type racism, easy to spot and also easy to dismiss as misguided. Then there is "stealth" racism, the kind that is seductive to those who feel, instead of think. The kind that, at it's heart, says "We need to take care of you, to protect you from others and yourself". So we come to find out that what most gun control advocates are trying to do is increase the hurdles for legal gun ownership so that it may be more inconvenient for whites, but almost impossible for urban blacks. Indeed, it is already like that in many large cities, where a permit is needed just to buy a firearm. The packaging may look nicer at first glance, but when you examine the contents they are just as rotten. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-1-17 2:03:54 PM |
| #14 ref # 11 Well said Phil. dcreeper, welcome to Rantburg. Lurk around for a few days 'til you get the flavor then jump right in. I've observed that opposing views are welcome, but as you may have noticed, attempts at censorship are not. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2004-1-17 12:28:07 PM |
| #13 I would argue that despite gun control, blacks pack as never before, and because they do, race relations in this country have never been better. Think about it. Do you ever hear about a bunch of good ole boys jumping in the chevy pickup truck and going to the black part of town to terrorize the populace? No. Wonder why? They don't know who is packing, but they DO know that their putative victims will shoot back, as well they should. Sooo, let the black comunity in this country defend themselves. Let us repeal gun laws. Cops and terrorist hunters can't be everywhere, but citizens can. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-1-17 12:22:32 PM |
| #12 IMHO - the gun-grabber theology is part of a campaign not against blacks, but against all Americans who value self-reliance vs. nanny state control. Guns represent an individual's right to self protection, which is why they're resented by the Dems. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-1-17 11:56:54 AM |
| #11 'I still see no validity for the claim about the fight over gun laws to be about putting down a given social group.. and I seem to recall some racist folks on the right, don see why a few on the left should surprise me..' dcreeper - the problem with arguing with the Left is that they specialize is confabulating multiple issues together and its generally not worth the effort to deconstruct their arguments to separate out the issues to achieve a rational analysis. Its like telling my 11 year old daughter that being cool is that not that important. More-or-less a complete waste of time. You may consider Rantburg some right-wing cesspit, but in fact, for the most part, its intelligent people trying to understand the world they live in. Sure we mock! But the alternative is fear and loathing. We would like to admire and respect people and Condaleeza is someone we admire and respect for what she has done and the positions she has taken. You may want to reduce this to a racial discussion but we would prefer not to. My apologies to the other regulars here for speaking on their behalf. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-1-17 11:55:28 AM |
| #10 dcreeper, Please read the bannner of this cite very, very, carefully. This is RANTburg not NEWSburg. As for the Democrats. They seem bent on keeping the minorities dependant (read: Addicted) on government programs (and thus, the Democratic party since only they have the minorities welfare (pun intended) at heart.) Notice how every time someone proposes a program to help people get off of welfare or some other dependancy program the democrats start crying how it is to 'throw people out on the street' and 'slash your benefits for the greedy wealthy.' |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-17 11:20:34 AM |
| #9 it aint news, it's a rant That may be so, but it's an informative rant, and provides insight on another aspect of the War on Terror. If you don't believe that Latin America is being used to fund, train, and aid the Muslim attacks on the United States, you're blind, deaf and dumb. There's quite a bit of evidence available to prove the point. Josef Korbel was a Marxist that got fed up with the system, and escaped. He used his position of power to do so - not the first, and not the only Marxist that followed that path. Just because he fled persecution doesn't mean he wasn't a Marxist. Remember what the Soviet Union did to the German Marxists after WWII: any with any credibility were quietly eliminated, and replaced with people loyal to the Soviet Union. There would be NO "independent" communist party anywhere - only those that were satellites of the Soviet party. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-17 11:12:02 AM |
| #8 By the way, Josef Korbel at the U Denver was Madeline Albright's Dad.... Not sure what the heck the author means by describing him as "Marxist"; as far as I understand, he fled persecution in Communist Czechoslavakia. |
| Posted by: Carl in NH 2004-1-17 10:46:36 AM |
| #7 JFM, even granting your argument as being 100% acurate... I still see no validity for the claim about the fight over gun laws to be about putting down a given social group.. and I seem to recall some racist folks on the right, don see why a few on the left should surprise me.. the entire post stinks of opinion, vry biased opinion, it aint news, it's a rant |
| Posted by: dcreeper 2004-1-17 10:19:51 AM |
| #6 Condi in '08! Time to remind the nation that the Republicans is the Party of Lincoln and elect the best candidate, not because she's black or female, but because she's the best candidate! |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-1-17 9:26:52 AM |
| #5 Mr dcreeper One of the many dirty secrets of the Democratic party is that it opposed abolition of slavery and that one of its senators has been in the Klan (but now he tells he didn't inhale). There is a class of liberals whose heart bleeds at the suffering of the pooooor |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-1-17 7:57:09 AM |
| #4 I vote for removal of this post Ahhh, democracy in action. The post will stay. Condoleeza versus Hillary 2008; I like the sound of it, not as much as President Condoleeza 2008 though. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-1-17 6:43:43 AM |
| #3 no offense... but this is opinion not news.. is as valid as the slurs thrown at rice.. "One of the many dirty secrets of the Democratic Party is that its passion for gun control began, and continues to be, from a desire to disarm African-Americans and thereby make them powerless and dependent" right. gun control is all about holding the black man down.. bull. I vote for removal of this post |
| Posted by: dcreeper 2004-1-17 4:50:53 AM |
| #2 I've no problem with Cheney as Veep in '04. I wouldn't mind Condi as VP either, followed by Condi as Prez in '08. Can you just imagine the Lefty Dems' reaction to the first black AND female Prez? "Oh my Gaia! She's a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! We can't allow that!" He He He...it will be fun to watch the political and rhetorical contortions the Dems will go through. |
| Posted by: Les Nessman 2004-1-17 2:01:22 AM |
| #1 Sorry Fred! My severe EFL obviously wasn't severe enough. Maybe you could out the stuff about Chavez. Who cares what some tin-pot marxist has to say anyway! |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-1-17 1:39:27 AM |