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Could this be part of a plan to eliminate Condi Rice as a potential opponent for Hillary! in 2008?

-PJ

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[areafiftyone]

The democreeps have hated Rice since the beginning. I just don't think Condi wants to run for president but that is just my opinion.

[TheDon]

It will be interesting to watch the Demorats engage in a "high tech lynching" on another prominent black American. It will be the final nail in the coffin for revealing the highly partisan nature of the Congressional investigation into 9-11.

[aruanan]

Rice is much too valuable to take the fall

What fall?

[Spruce]

Ms. Rice is going to wipe the floor with these pikers.

[RightWhale]

her days in politics are numbered

Right. The number is zero. She is a civil servant.

[americanbychoice2]

I would like to focus on the following:
The Bush administration was in office 9 months before 9/11 happened.
The Clinton Administration for eight years and despite repeated Terrorist actions against us and the world, he did nothing to stop it. He even let Bin Laden go when he was offered to him by Sudan. A total withhunt by the Media Elites who have the power in this country, instead of the people.
Since we are dumbing down America more and more it will become easier to influence and control the minds of the masses.

[neverdem]

Pardon me, but I don't believe these folks need to be excerpted. The LA Times does.

BTW, if anyone takes a fall, then I think it will be DCI Tenet.

[Cicero]

Well, I don't know anybody who thinks that Rice's days are numbered. More "divide and conquer" nonsense from the left.

[Bob]

Yet it will take much work to undue the collateral damage...

Aren't spell-checkers great? They help ewe right without errors.

[Spotsy]

The Dems have several disgraceful goals in regard to Dr. Rice:

1) force Rice's resignation

2) once Rice has resigned, excoriate Bush for making Rice take the fall and not accepting responsibility for the 9/11 attacks himself

3) play the race and gender cards with respect to #2

4) neutralize Rice's potential to run for any political office, including the presidency


The commission is going to ambush Dr. Rice at the hearings this Thursday. I have tremendous faith in Dr. Rice's abilities, but her performance won't change the Dem's plans. The Dems already have their conclusions drawn and they aren't going to let facts get in their way.

My hope is that the Dems' game will only cause Bush to draw Dr. Rice in closer - as it did in the summer of 2002, when the Dems first started calling for her resignation.

[cwb]

If Condi were a Democrat, some would say that what we have been witessing is another high-tech lynching. If you recall, anytime the mean, white Republicans dared to question the integrity of any of Clinton's minority appointments, it was assumed to be racial in origin.

[VRWC For Truth]

The whole system is broke. The irony is that no one could have predicted 9/11 just like no one can predict the future. This 3-ring circus is designed to make big government look like they're relevant. In reality, they are the problem, not the solution.

[dead]

Clarke vs. Rice in a credibility contest?

Hmmmmmm... wonder where the smart money's heading?

[Toespi]

Take the fall for WHAT??? Boy, are these people trying to create an image that the Bush administration has done something wrong and the horrible part is, it is working.

[cynicom]

I would say more of a "plan" to replace her with a neo-con.

[StriperSniper]

Bush officials have quickly circled the wagons around her. In their furious counterattack against Clarke, they have all but branded him a liar and a self-serving, book peddling opportunist,

Yes, they let Sen. Frist say it outright. :)

[Bernard Marx]

In their furious counterattack against Clarke, they have all but branded him a liar and a self-serving, book peddling opportunist

Earl O., Clarke IS a lying, self-serving, book peddling opportunist. He's also a disloyal s.o.b.

[WOSG]

"A White House damage-control effort has been busily under way, and Rice has dropped her opposition to publicly testifying under oath before the 9-11 Commission. Yet it will take much work to undue the collateral damage from Clarke's attack ..."

This whole media SPIN bothers me immesnely.

Clarke lied, or at least said stuff that was demonstrably false. The White House shouldnt have been the ones to correct this, the MEDIA should have. This description is devoid of the underlying TRUTH at stake: Clarke is simply false when he says that the Clinton administration was serious about terrorism for 8 years but Bush administration didnt do enough in 8 months - facts are stubborn things and they disprove him 100%.

Here we have the usual media stalking-horse technique for dragging the administration down:
1. Find a vehicle for lobbing an unfair attack. (Clarke)
2. Report on it without ANY COMMENT on its veracity, give it as much authority as possible (ie point out how Clarke has served in X many administrations, but fail to point out how he voted for Gore, supports Kerry, and has a book to sell and is possibly exaggerating to garner attention for himself).
3. When nobody in the press critiques it fairly wait for Bush administration to respond. Then label any such comments as a "furious" response and make it sound as political as possible.

The end result: You have succeeded in planting this as a plausible story which only 'Bush supporters' deny, even though the original charge is totally baseless. The media falls down on the job.

Isnt media bias charming?

[hope]

Oh yeah, this one could go far in the Republican Party and the rats can't stand it...