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Will this be about Clarke's charges about Condi?

Clarke Could Tell From Condi Rice's "Expression" That She Never Heard of Al Qaeda

Ann Coulter bravely dares to make the point that we chickened out on. We're skittish about making racism-charges; isn't that what the other guys do?

Still, think about it: Dick Clarke accused Condi Rice, on the basis of her "facial expression," of having never heard of Al Qaeda.

No white men were similarly accused of such gross incompetency and ignorance, and surely not over something so ridiculous as a facial expression.

Let Ann take it from there:

Clarke claims . . .that in early 2001, when he told President Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her "facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the term before." (If only she used botox like Sen. Kerry!)

Sean Hannity has been playing a radio interview that Dr. Rice gave to David Newman on WJR in Detroit back in October 2000, in which she discusses al-Qaida in great detail. This was months before chair-warmer Clarke claims her "facial expression" indicated she had never heard of the terrorist organization.

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By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida. It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For Pete's sake, even the New York Times knew about al-Qaida.

Rice had been a political science professor at Stanford University, a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies. She had written three books and numerous articles on foreign policy. She worked for the first Bush administration in a variety of national security positions.

All this was while Clarke was presiding over six unanswered al-Qaida attacks on American interests and fretting about the looming Y2K emergency. But chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's "facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term "al-Qaida."

Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger --but the black chick is a dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals could map out the relative intelligence of various black government officials for us.

Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education? Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office Building at night before the president chose her -- not him-- to be national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial expression" on Maxine Waters --a woman whose face is no stranger to confusion or befuddlement-- left the "impression" that she didn't understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate crime.

Maybe a little too strident, yes. But think about it: Maxine Waters is, objectively, as dumb as a bag of chicken-beaks. We're not supposed to say so, but we all know it's true.

Condi Rice is an academic superstar and expert in international security matters. And yet this jackass accuses her of never having heard of Al Qaeda?

http://ace-o-spades.blogspot.com/2004_03_21_ace-o-spades_archive.html#108025381284940901