Condi: The girl who cracked the ice

UK Times On Line ^ | November 21, 2004

[nwrep]

This is an awesome, powerful story.

[falpro]

She is about to become the most visible & powerful woman in the world. I hope she runs in 08' and becomes the next President of the United States.

The Dems are more threatened of Condi than any other potential presidential candidate. The minute her name comes up, they start to squirm. It's fun to watch.

[jocon307]

What a great post! I'm going to send to a friend of mine, we were both admiring Condi today, and there's some new stuff in here I think she'll find very interesting, the figure skating for one, my friend's a big fan of that sport.

Very interesting about Albright's father too. He didn't think women had it in them, and both his daughter and his pupil ended up as Sec'y of State. I guess the students were the true teachers in this case.

This from the Brits, and what do we get from American liberals? Nothing but slurs and slander. Yet they wonder why they continue to lose. In fact, they've lost their ability to think and now function at the level of feral beasts, clawing and scratching and eating their own.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Don't forget the racist cartoons let alone the incessant lies from Gore (the liberal genius) and Albright...

[Angry Republican]

Great article about a powerful woman. I'm really learning to enjoy getting to know Dr. Rice.

[weenie]

Ain't America great...I just wish the democrats could enjoy this moment.

[AmericaUnited]

is being spoken of as a potential president.

Ladies and gentlemen... This is the real reason why the demonrat attack machine is gearing up now. In their minds, Condi is the only real threat to Hitlery in 08.

[The KG9 Kid]

To replace the outgoing Secretary of Education, I nominate Dr. Rice's parents.

[goodnesswins]

Democrat's have built themselves their own trap....the PLANTATION domination of the black community....and it's backfiring in their faces.....Condi will help that domination become EVEN LESS as the years go by.....I'm sending this story on to others with young women....it's powerful.

[lilmsdangrus]

bump for classy, powerful woman

[EggsAckley]

when her father tried to register as a Democrat in 1952, the registrar told him he had to guess the number of beans in a jar correctly before he could do so. His reaction was to join the Republican party.

The Southern Democrats created the plantation, and they now see it slipping away, and fast. No wonder they slander Dr. Rice. She's proof that blacks CAN succeed, something they don't want to be known.

[230FMJ]

I have a liberal friend who, upon the mention of Condi, has to opine that "Her expertise is narrowly focussed on the Soviet Union, so she's out of her element in today's world".

I can't picture this lady's knowledge of anything being narrow.

I think the Dems are nervous.

[eagle11]

One quote that strikes me is, "her success did not arise from the civil rights struggle but from her own family legacy." This is powerful! The implication is that the Rice family, proud of their heritage, was the basis for her success. It takes a strong family (not a village). Contrast her story with the destruction of the black family thanks to the "War on Poverty".

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The memory of her father out on patrol lies behind Rice’s opposition to gun control today. Had those guns been registered, she argues, Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby removing one of the black community’s only means of defence.
“I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear arms,” she said in 2001.

Oh good! I wondered what her views on the subject were. She does truly understand what "Shall not be infringed" means.

Go Condi!

[sinanju]

"With the bombings came marauding groups of armed white vigilantes called “nightriders” who drove through black neighbourhoods shooting and starting fires. John Rice and his neighbours guarded the streets at night with shotguns.

The memory of her father out on patrol lies behind Rice’s opposition to gun control today. Had those guns been registered, she argues, Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby removing one of the black community’s only means of defence. “I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear arms,” she said in 2001."

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There is so much here it is impossible to do it justice. But I will single out that passage for remarking on. Not many people know about the southern segregationist gun laws or the role that privatly held firearms played in the Civil Rights struggle. Contrary to liberal mythology the gandhi approach was NOT the working model when it came to self-defence from racist violence.

[Theresawithanh]

Thank you for finding and posting this, it's an awesome story about an awesome woman!

[beyond the sea]

I’ve seen genius, and I’m not it.”

I gotta love that girl for that simple and wonderfully 'in depth' remark!

[glorgau]

it was her ability to break down complex issues to easily comprehensible tutorials that made her so prized in the Oval Office.

I see that she already being positioned as another Colin Powell. The underlying context of all foreign policy discussions is that Bush is an idiot.

[230FMJ]

"She does truly understand what "Shall not be infringed" means."

This is the first time I've seen this, and I have to admit (with my wife's permission) I'm in love with this woman!

Condi 2008!