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Rice congratulates Obama
AP via Yahoo! ^ | 11/5/08 | MATTHEW LEE

Posted on 11/05/2008 11:12:54 AM PST by Undertow

WASHINGTON – An emotional Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reveled Wednesday in Barack Obama's election, calling it an "extraordinary step forward" for the nation.

A child of the segregated deep South who became the highest-ranking African-American woman ever in American government and was once considered a potential Republican presidential nominee, Rice called the Democratic president-elect "inspirational" and said his victory was proof of America's promise.

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To: Perdogg

Yes, and really about the ONLY one. Condi is another who can go to hell. We are at a point where it doesn’t matter anymore and I will not tolerate those who have contributed to this country’s demise.


61 posted on 11/05/2008 1:15:36 PM PST by bushfamfan (United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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To: Undertow
Well, she ran the State Department like a democrat, so I’m guessing she voted for the marxist quisling as well.

Rice was never a real Republican any more so than about half of today's registered Republicans are. Ronald Reagan defined what a true conservative Republican is, and very few on today's political scene can measure up to that standard. Now maybe Rice can show her true colors, and I don't mean her skin color, by coming out in full support of our new Islamic/Marxist president as he and his traitorous collaborators in Congress proceed to dismantle what little is left of what was once the greatest and free-est nation that God ever allowed to exist on planet Earth.

Someone once wrote that a democracy can only exist until the poor majority discovers that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury that was put there by the industrious, hard working segment of the population. That was proven to be true in spades by yesterday's election of a barely disguised Marxist as the Chief Executive of the nation. It doesn't matter to me what color his skin may be, it only matters what he believes about the legitimate role of government in a Constitutional Republic and I think he has made that abundantly clear by his own words and his record in government. If the US is lucky enough to still exist in some form 20 years from now it will be a pale copy of today's UK, another once great nation that has been brought to ruin by unrestrained pure democracy, one of the worst of all systems of governance that have ever been tried.

62 posted on 11/05/2008 1:19:11 PM PST by epow (My pastor prays God BLESS America , Barrak HUSSEIN Obama's pastor prays God DAMN America)
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To: Perdogg
Michael Steele is one.

And so is Thomas Sowell. If Dr. Sowell had been elected president yesterday I would be in the street celebrating along with the blacks. But because of Dr. Sowell's conservatism and his uncommon amount of common sense he would probably be seen by most other blacks as an Uncle Tom and a traitor to his race.

63 posted on 11/05/2008 1:32:29 PM PST by epow (My pastor prays God BLESS America , Barrak HUSSEIN Obama's pastor prays God DAMN America)
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To: madison10
There is the second, and that is that BHO is a Marxist.

That's where I have to disagree, not that Obama is not a Marxist, but that blacks will find that offensive.

IMHO many, perhaps even most, American blacks are Marxists at heart even though they don't realize it. Of course many poor and lower income whites are also Marxists at heart, the idea of getting something of value that was taken by force from people we envy is a common but nevertheless despicable human trait.

64 posted on 11/05/2008 1:46:25 PM PST by epow (My pastor prays God BLESS America , Barrak HUSSEIN Obama's pastor prays God DAMN America)
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To: Undertow

For those of you who are still around defending Bush’s (you bushbots) in our demise...he is yet another example. He surrounded himself with liberals and moderates and they neutered him.


65 posted on 11/05/2008 1:52:45 PM PST by NELSON111
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To: Chet 99
For 97% of blacks (going by exit polls), race seems to trump everything else.

Yet they won't admit racism being a factor. Mike Tyson could have been on the ticket and the turnout would have been as high if not higher.

66 posted on 11/05/2008 2:00:49 PM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: Chet 99

Makes it easy to pick out at least *some* supporters of The Marxist.

I made a decision today. Instead of buying lunch from a company who employs Obama supporters (borne out both by their appearance as well as the campaign buttons they were wearing), I’ll be brown-bagging it. I stopped and bought a bunch of lunch meat and cheese today. My expenditures will drop to 10% of what they were and they don’t get a dime.

Turnabout is fair play.


67 posted on 11/05/2008 2:07:30 PM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda arm.)
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To: Undertow

Bush should fire her sorry ass right this minute.


68 posted on 11/05/2008 2:07:45 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: JustaCowgirl
And the first President to flip the bird, and in a slimy underhanded manner at that, to two of his opponents. Utterly crass hooligan behavior, and totally unworthy of a candidate for office at any level

Not to mention that he will be the first president to refuse to wear Old Glory on his lapel. I wonder if he will order the flag removed from Air Force One when he takes it over? To me even him riding in that plane is a desecration of the flag and all of our US Armed Forces which he hates and as CinC will no doubt undermine and weaken in any way he can.

B. Hussein Obama now owes his soul to America-hating people like George Soros and other globalist billionaires who financed his campaign and who expect to be rewarded, and those people aren't the kind who will take it lightly if their largesse is not repaid by being allowed to be a major influence on Obama's policies and positions on national and world affairs.

69 posted on 11/05/2008 2:12:42 PM PST by epow (My pastor prays God BLESS America , Barrak HUSSEIN Obama's pastor prays God DAMN America)
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To: itsahoot
If GW reads the Bible he skips some very important parts.

His Christian experience has all been in the very liberal, apostate United Methodist Church denomination, which is very anti-Israel and doesn't believe that present day Israel is a restoration of the real Israel of the bible.

I don't believe that a committed, bible-believing evangelical Christian could be elected in today's America, and that's just one reason why I believe that America isn't mentioned anywhere in bible prophecy. I believe that the US will either be destroyed before AntiChrist takes over, or will be such an ineffective and unimportant nation that it will play little or no role in end times world events. That seems almost impossible to most people, but then very few people thought that the old USSR empire could fall apart as it did.

The bottom line is that God sees the end from the beginning, and if we are His adopted children through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ we will be the only winners at the rapidly approaching culmination of human history and the beginning of Jesus Messiah's eternal Kingdom. Jesus told His disciples to look up for their redemption was drawing nigh, how much nearer is our redemption now that 2000 years have passed?

70 posted on 11/05/2008 2:35:29 PM PST by epow (My pastor prays God BLESS America , Barrak HUSSEIN Obama's pastor prays God DAMN America)
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To: Undertow

Heard this during a Rush break. Apparently, she failed the Dr. MLK litmus test. She judged on the basis of his color; not on his character (of which he has none) ....//


71 posted on 11/05/2008 4:50:21 PM PST by Tucson (Jesus is just alright with me ....)
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To: Tucson

Im speculating on this. I think she voted for him.


72 posted on 11/05/2008 4:52:30 PM PST by Lady GOP
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To: Lady GOP
Video of Condi
73 posted on 11/05/2008 4:56:52 PM PST by Lady GOP
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To: epow

What absolute garbage, as are most of the posts written on this thread about Rice.

Condi Rice joined the Republican Party because of Ronald Reagan, not in spite of him. The notion that she should not be proud that an African-American has become President of the United States after what she went through as a child is utter and complete nonsense.

I will bet that no one here at Freep was ever denied service at a lunch counter because of the color of their skin. Rice and her family were. Allow her that simple moment of pride without denigrating her membership in the Republican Party. All through this campaign, she had to remind liberal interviewers that she remained a Republican. I, for one, am proud of her and her service, and she showed a lot of poise and grace today, given the fact that the Republican ticket went down to defeat.

Be Seeing You,

Chris


74 posted on 11/05/2008 8:07:17 PM PST by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: section9
I, for one, am proud of her and her service

You can be as proud of her as suits your fancy, but don't expect me or any other hard core conservative to join you in praising her non-existent conservatism just because she may have experienced racial bias as a child in segregated Alabama. Ms Rice is a member of a prominent AfroAmerican family, and her parents were both well respected and relatively affluent college professors in Birmingham's minority community. She moved away from Alabama when she was a very young teenager 6 years after the 1964 Civil rights Act was enacted and enforced, so I seriously doubt that she was ever denied service at the best restaurants in either Birmingham or her new home in Colorado.

Ms Rice describes herself as a "moderate" Republican, not a conservative Republican, and if she was white she would be known as a RINO on FR and any other conservative/Republican forum where RINOs are recognized for what they are. If she is so very, very thrilled by the election of a Marxist black president who everyone with half a brain knows will do his dead level best to destroy America's unique constitutional-republic form of government and turn America into every Marxist's wet dream, she isn't any friend of conservative American patriots no matter what else she claims to be.

Bush tried to demonstrate his colorblind racial views by appointing first Colin Powell and then Ms Rice to what is by far the most important cabinet post in any administration, and all he got for his attempts to placate the insatiable AfroAmerican community was more hatred and undeserved accusations of racial bias. And now we are expected to honor and praise both Powell and Rice for their highly questionable "service" to the nation as part of the incompetent Bush administration?? AFAIC they can forget about being honored, all I need to know about either of them is their joyful celebration of the news that a despicable out and out Marxist who happens to also be half black, and is almost certainly a sympathizer with Islamic terrorism to boot, has become the first minority president of the once great American republic.

75 posted on 11/05/2008 11:47:18 PM PST by epow (My pastor prays God BLESS America , Barrak HUSSEIN Obama's pastor prays God DAMN America)
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To: epow
Jesus told His disciples to look up for their redemption was drawing nigh, how much nearer is our redemption now that 2000 years have passed?

Amen! Do you keep up with Hal Lindsey, on line?

There are some Methodists that have not gone all mush headed. But I remember well when the Methodist Minister in San Francisco, danced down the isle with the Black Panther killer whose name escapes me.

I have known all along that GW was a one worlder, just hoped he would be better than the alternative.

I guess we as a Nation have earned God's wrath, I may not live to see it, but Jesus will come soon, of that I am persuaded.

76 posted on 11/05/2008 11:53:40 PM PST by itsahoot (We will have world government. Whether by conquest or consent. Looks like that question is answered)
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To: Undertow

don’t worry they’ve already found another non white to trumpet

though this one is more qualified than Rice


77 posted on 11/05/2008 11:55:41 PM PST by wardaddy (I'm looking for a new Danelaw to move my family to...)
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To: epow

ditto epow


78 posted on 11/06/2008 4:23:42 AM PST by Undertow ("I have found some kind of temporary sanity...")
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To: SoftwareEngineer
I am sure in 1950, not a single black believed that a black could ever be Secretary of State. In 58 years, the United States have had two yet both were not recognized of being officially black because they served in Republican administrations. Well, Colin Powell has now solved that for us.

I am sure in 1950, not a single black believed that a black could ever be a Supreme Court Justice. In 58 years, the United States have had two yet one has never been recognized of being officially black because he is a conservative.

Please spare me your rationalizations. It's not just being black. It's about being the right kind of black. Blacks lift up the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons and crap on the Michael Steele's and Thomas Sowell's.

In Calvert County, Maryland, there was a black woman by the name of Rani Franklin running for the school board. She labeled herself a Republican and was going to all the Republican meetings and fundraisers, raising funds and trying to get votes. A couple weeks before the election, she was caught holding a fund raiser for Obama. The head of the GOP in the county fired off an email stating to remove all her literature and not book her anymore. That is also what we need to do nationwide. Any Repubican that supported Obama or any Dem needs to be removed from the party.

79 posted on 11/06/2008 4:37:24 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: 7thson

7thson,

Thank you for your post. Once again, as I mentioned multiple times, these are NOT my rationalizations. I could not give a flip either way what race my President is. I would gladly support Jindal and he is of Punjabi ethnic descent.

My post was simply to give people an alternate point of view FROM the perspective of Blacks. I did not say that one had to agree with it. All I said is this is what it is.

It is like saying New Yorkers like the Yankees. That may bug the crap out of you but it is what it is and all I am doing is stating what New Yorkers think about their favorite baseball team


80 posted on 11/06/2008 5:11:40 AM PST by SoftwareEngineer
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