Posted on 10/20/2002 11:39:38 AM PDT by Pyro7480
On "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, our National Security Advisor Condi Rice was giving an excellent interview, explaining why it was North Korea who complicated the situation concerning nuclear weapons, not the U.S. (all of the pieces fell into place BEFORE Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech). At the end of the interview, Wolf asked her about Harry Bellafonte's comments on Powell and herself, and played the clip from Larry King Live. Her resonse:
"I don't need Harry Belafonte telling me what it means to be black."
Hell no!! Powell is fine as Sec. of State, because with Bush, Cheney, Condi and Rumsfeld, Powell is relegated to appeasing the limp-wristed folks at State. Let him stay there - or retire.
I want a President with cajones. Rice has them, Powell doesn't.
The Bronx. He grew up in The Bronx, where he learned more Yiddish than this Yid did, growing up on Long Island.
Then again, some are just never-learners.
Dan
You need to get out of New York. Giussolini will NEVER be the GOP nominee. Rice has more positives (and other than abortion) more conservative bona fides than Giussolini. Besides, Rudy's "Brooklyn by way of Lawn Guyland" accent just doesn't work for a Presidential Candidate. I HATE that accent and I myself speak that way!
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You need to get out of New York. Giussolini will NEVER be the GOP nominee. Rice has more positives (and other than abortion) more conservative bona fides than Giussolini. Besides, Rudy's "Brooklyn by way of Lawn Guyland" accent just doesn't work for a Presidential Candidate. I HATE that accent and I myself speak that way!
Do I know you? Do I wanna know you?
Seriously, Clemenza, although I hate Giuliani's accent, I think he is one New Yorker who could click with folks in flyover country. His diction coach just has to train him to say "pop," instead of "sod-er."
Sheesh, I would have expected better from the guy who taught me how to make spaghetti sauce!
Excuusee meeee????
Giuliani=RINO
In all seriousness, Rudy's being turned into a god by the NY based media won't make him president. Better he run against Schumer in 2004. Unfortunatly, the NY GOP will probably run IRA supporting RINO Peter King, who will be soundly trounced.
For those who don't know, Condi Rice isn't pro-life:
An excerpt:
Much of the current debate about Rice's VP chances in 2004 revolves around her position on abortion and whether it will be palatable to conservatives. Rice has been pretty coy on the subject. And who can blame her? She's not a politician (yet)--she's a foreign policy wonk, for heaven's sake. In 1999, after stepping down as provost at Stanford to work for Bush's campaign, she told the San Francisco Chronicle that despite her devout Presbyterian background, she is a "pro-choice evangelical," and that "there's a lot of room in the middle [on abortion]. . . . I don't think Americans think abortion is something you do lightly." Later that year, she told National Review's Jay Nordlinger that she is "mildly pro-choice," and more generally, an "all-over-the-map Republican" whose views are "hard to typecast."
These vague statements have a few conservatives muttering nervously. Which, in turn, already has some socially libertarian bloggers screaming that conservatives are intolerant troglodytes who will let the abortion issue disqualify even someone as appealing as Rice from the national ticket.
This is unfair and ridiculous, of course. What irritates pro-life conservative Republicans isn't the existence of pro-choice Republicans per se. What irritates them are pro-choice Republicans who constantly raise the issue merely to bash their own party and win valentines from the overwhelmingly pro-choice media. (See Dick Riordan, Christie Todd Whitman, Colin Powell.) But no matter how much these pro-choice Republicans whine, the GOP will always be a pro-life party. Why? Because the abortion issue goes to the heart of what both major parties are about. For Democrats, it's a proxy for their entire worldview regarding sexual freedom and unfettered moral autonomy. For Republicans, being pro-life is about remaining the party of Lincoln: Just like slavery, unlimited abortion on demand threatens equality (and thus liberty) by denying a class of human beings their inalienable rights and equal dignity merely because it is convenient to do so.
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