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.
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.
Gotta’ love idiotic college whelps trying to make a political statement...
OMG! They asked hard questions of Condi! Racists!
definite ping for later.
$50,000 or so a year to get this stupid. Talk about a bad investment!
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
What a great and smart lady, Condi is.
What composure, teaching ability and class she has.
Thanks for posting.
Ouch. Big slapdown of the little kids by the schoolmarm.
She’s going to give that first kid a complex.
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.
*Condi ping*
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..
Stupid student brought a knife to a gun fight.<.P....but she still didn’t change his mind. Liberals are incapable of rational thought!
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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!
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