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Condi Rice schools a Stanford liberal (video)
Brutally Honest ^ | May 02, 2009

Posted on 05/05/2009 10:11:56 AM PDT by mgist

It's too bad we no longer have adults leading this country:

I urge you to watch this fabulous YouTube footage of the magnificent Condoleezza Rice being ambushed by left-liberal students at Stanford University with a series of "difficult" questions about torture, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and US foreign policy under George W Bush. (Hat tip: Andrew Hamilton.)

Her coolness under fire is magnificent, but more impressive still is her refusal to duck the issues. "Sorry we have to leave", an official can be heard saying off camera, but Condi isn't going to take the easy way out: she wants to stand up for her principles and put the pantywaists in their place.

"Let me tell you something: unless you were there in a position of responsibility after September 11 you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that we faced in trying to protect Americans," she says.

"A lot of people are second guessing now but let me tell you the second guessing that would have hurt me more is if there had been 3,000 more Americans dying because we didn't do everything we could to protect them."

"If you were in a position of authority and watched Americans jumping out of 80-storey buildings because these murderous tyrants go after innocent people then you would have determined to do anything you could that was legal to prevent that happening."

She is similarly robust when rebutting the suggestion that the US has no place dealing with regimes like Saudi Arabia: "You don't have the luxury in foreign policy of not dealing with a country because you don't like its human rights practices."

And she is quite withering when the pallid leftie student tries having a go at her about supposed torture at Guantanamo. "Did you know that Guantanamo was called a 'model medium security prison' by representatives of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe?" The student reluctantly concedes he hasn't.

"Maybe before you make allegations about Guantanamo, you should READ," says Condi, with exquisitely measured scorn.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: condirice; highereducation; leftismoncampus; pwn3d; stanfordu
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1 posted on 05/05/2009 10:11:56 AM PDT by mgist
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Condi Rice being ‘ambushed’ by Stanford undergrads .....talk about showing up to a gunfight carrying a butter knife. Those kids are probably to STOOPID to realize they got their arses kicked sideways.


2 posted on 05/05/2009 10:15:13 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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Gotta’ love idiotic college whelps trying to make a political statement...


3 posted on 05/05/2009 10:19:43 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Congrats Libtards! You've made history by electing our first Communist-in-Chief.")
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To: mgist

OMG! They asked hard questions of Condi! Racists!


4 posted on 05/05/2009 10:22:33 AM PDT by 14erClimb (Third world hell hole status, here we come!)
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To: mgist

definite ping for later.


5 posted on 05/05/2009 10:23:10 AM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: mgist
Man, she really broke it off in that kid's arse. You could tell he was steamed at the end of her dressing down. Especially after she leans in and whispers, “the Supreme Court.”
6 posted on 05/05/2009 10:28:08 AM PDT by Mathews (Ambition, absent a moral compass, is naked destruction.)
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To: mgist

$50,000 or so a year to get this stupid. Talk about a bad investment!


7 posted on 05/05/2009 10:30:59 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: mgist
Students who demand that Rice be terminated don't realize that they'll be gone in four years, but the university will remain long afterward.

Stanford needs fundraising that a Rice (or George Schultz before her) can bring in.

They might as well demand that the Hoover Institute be shut down.

-PJ

8 posted on 05/05/2009 10:36:50 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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To: mgist
Wow! That certainly fits on a site named “Brutally Honest.”

What a great and smart lady, Condi is.

What composure, teaching ability and class she has.

Thanks for posting.

9 posted on 05/05/2009 10:38:27 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: mgist

Direct link to video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/ijEED_iviTA


10 posted on 05/05/2009 10:39:08 AM PDT by Petronski (Learn about the 'cytokine storm.')
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Ouch. Big slapdown of the little kids by the schoolmarm.

She’s going to give that first kid a complex.


11 posted on 05/05/2009 10:39:19 AM PDT by HEM
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"Gotta’ love idiotic college whelps trying to make a political statement..."

Just think, they are the future leaders of this country. The beauty of it is they will only have themselves and the Marxists they worshiped to blame for the craphole the country becomes and they have to live in.

12 posted on 05/05/2009 10:39:37 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Stoat

*Condi ping*


13 posted on 05/05/2009 10:47:17 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: mgist

way to go Ms. Rice..that was great to watch..and while I was watching her dress down that idiot..I was thinking about what she said about regretting more deaths from another attack..because if, God forbid, a terrible second attack had occur..weenies like him would be screaming at her for not stopping the 2nd attack..no-win situation..


14 posted on 05/05/2009 10:48:49 AM PDT by BerniesFriend (no no..arrrrwwwhhh..as in surprise..)
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To: mgist

Stupid student brought a knife to a gun fight.<.P....but she still didn’t change his mind. Liberals are incapable of rational thought!


15 posted on 05/05/2009 10:51:31 AM PDT by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: FixitGuy

bad HTML...sorry


16 posted on 05/05/2009 10:52:20 AM PDT by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: mgist

bump for later


17 posted on 05/05/2009 10:54:04 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (Save the Hispaniolan Solenodon!)
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To: Petronski

Ping for viewing after work...


18 posted on 05/05/2009 10:55:28 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Congrats Libtards! You've made history by electing our first Communist-in-Chief.")
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To: BerniesFriend

It amazes me that Zero is idolized as an African American of outstanding accomplishment by the DBM. Condi is the Greatest African American Story Never Told...what a lady!


19 posted on 05/05/2009 10:58:33 AM PDT by Dansong
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Stupid student brought a knife to a gun fight.<.P....but she still didn’t change his mind. Liberals are incapable of rational thought!

Yes you are correct. I've destroyed liberals time and time again on any number of issues but I don't thing I've ever changed their minds. So it's very frustrating to argue with them. As Ann Coulter says... "if they were rational they wouldn't be liberal"... (I'm paraphrasing)

However we must keep up the fight. Sometimes spectators who might be a little more open can be helped.
20 posted on 05/05/2009 11:02:48 AM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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