I’m shocked.....are you sure she wasn’t referring to herself?
Some people actively campaigned for her as VP. I challenge anyone to point to one policy that she’s supported that is even remotely conservative or even libertarian in principle.
She benefited from GHWB and then her association with the Stanford “mafia”. Maybe for Stanford she’s a repub, but everywhere else she’s a true blue Dem.
Amazing how the affirmative action wing of the Republican Party wanted this second rate pedant as the Vice President.
WOW, Condi Rice just endorsed the Obamessiah retroactively. I knew she is a RINO but this is too much. More race-based pandering..... I guess she is preparing her way to try to receive a better reception in academe if she returns to Stanford or takes any other university post.....
What? Condi is no RINO???
As a matter of fact if that is what she said I tend to agree with her. The country is Bushed mainly because the wackoo’s on the left would not stand behind him when he needed the country to be together but hey... What possibly can Obama say to the families of those American Citizens that die in the next terror attack on our shores...
All that change is most likely the wrong medicine for the country at this point but hey America went on a drunken tear on nov 4th, drunk off of the BDS liquor that the MSM shoved down their collective throats. I just hope when they finally wake up there is something left of the country to salvage.
but so far Obama is doing pretty good at being Bush’s 3rd term liberals are really that stupid.
What little respecyt I had left for her is all gone. And to think at one time I was a big supporter of hers, going back to the late 1980s when she was with Bush I as an advisor.
Welcome to Free Republic.I assume you didn’t take her remarks oout of context.[Or did you?.]
I wasn’t impressed by many aspects of the Bush administration, to tell you the truth. Rice was not an exception.
Since you only joined FR in the last 4 days, I’d love to see her statement in context.
Two terms is a limit. It’d be nice to see that for Congressman and Senators, too.
Umm...no that is not what she said jerkoff.
Aren’t you really Mugabe, a “socialist” like Obama?
Welcome to Free Republic. Cute vanity. ;o)
Since both McCain and Obama campaigned on a “change” platform, her comment sounds more an endorsement of our democratic system of voting for President, and requiring a new one at least every 8 years, than a criticism of Bush or McCain.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/07/le.01.html
The Exchange:
BLITZER: You have confidence in this new national security team that Barack Obama is putting together?
RICE: They’re all people I know and they are all people of substance. And the most important thing is that they are all people who are going to have the fundamental interests and values of the United States at the core of what they do.
BLITZER: I know you were watching when we reported that Barack Obama would become the 44th president of the United States. What went through your mind as you saw that dramatic historic moment in the United States?
RICE: Well, I’ll tell you, from — a kid from Birmingham, Alabama — in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, it was quite a moment. It means this country has come an enormous distance.
It means that the United States of America is what it claims to be, which is a place of opportunity for all. I don’t think, by the way, that we’re still color-blind. It’s remarkable that we have an African-American president. We’ve had back-to-back African-American secretaries of state. We have African-American heads of major corporations.
But still, we see race and that’s fine. But increasingly we don’t see race as all-defining, of who one is and what one can be. As long as we pay attention to opportunity — to making educational opportunities available, which is really what got me to where I am and I think President-elect Obama would tell you the same thing.
BLITZER: So if he asks you for some help...
RICE: I think we’ll do — I think America will do all right.
BLITZER: But if he asks you for some help, would you be more than happy to help him?
RICE: Well, he is not going to need my help. He has got plenty of help. But of course, he is someone that I admire. He was on my committee, the Foreign Relations Committee. We have talked a number of times. He is going to do very well for the country.
But eight years is a long time. The American people are wise in wanting change. Two terms is plenty. And I’m going to go back to California and on to other things.
BLITZER: Good luck to you.
I'm not looking forward to Obama, yet at the same time I am very happy to see Bush go.
Eight years of his "compassionate conservatism" crap, which was neither compassionate nor conservative, has been enough to last me for a lifetime.
Is a troll amendment to the title appropriate here? Ms. Rice’s comments were taken totally out of context, as can be seen in post #29.
Don’t fret. We lost Condi some time ago. To bad but that’s life.