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Rice: Obama election encourages people worldwide
My Way News ^ | 29 Deec 08 | JESSE J. HOLLAND

Posted on 12/29/2008 4:59:54 AM PST by SkyPilot

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the country is not "race-blind" and "we shouldn't deceive ourselves that we're race-blind," but said the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a key moment in history.

"I think all Americans were quite taken with the fact that we were able, after the long history we've been through, that initial birth defect of slavery, that we've elected an African-American."


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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jobs; obama; obamatransitionfile; obarf; rice
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To: Ulysse

The best than can be said about Condi Rice at this point is that she was an improvement over Colin Powell. And horse crap stinks less than cat crap.


61 posted on 12/29/2008 8:03:12 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

I do think many “average” Americans are encouraged by Oprah’s Choice. Many think this will make it easier for them economically though there is no real way that can be the case. In politics, perception is reality, as Reagan once noted. Remember, there was an African American woman in FL who said in October that Oprah’s Choice would make it possible for her to keep her house and put gasoline in her car. People do have high expectations, and Oprah’s Choice will not be blamed when it all turns out to have been a hoax. The American people don’t like to admit they were taken as suckers.


62 posted on 12/29/2008 8:31:48 AM PST by Theodore R. (GWB is neither "compassionate nor conservative.")
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To: headstamp 2

I am hoping that since we survived Albright, Powell, and Rice at State, maybe ol’ Hill won’t be able to throw up the white flag of surrender, but we never know about the American people and their choice of “leaders”.


63 posted on 12/29/2008 8:38:11 AM PST by Theodore R. (GWB is neither "compassionate nor conservative.")
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To: Vigilanteman

Was Charles Curtis then half white?


64 posted on 12/29/2008 8:39:20 AM PST by Theodore R. (GWB is neither "compassionate nor conservative.")
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To: Theodore R.
Genetically, I suppose that was true. However, since he was actually raised by his maternal grandparents (the Native American half) on the Kaw Reservation, that makes him more Native American than it would make BO black, who was mostly raised by his maternal grandparents (the white half) in Hawaii.

Even BO's father's side is, at most, 3/4th black, the other 1/4th being Arab. So, genetically, BO is only 3/8th black, at most.

65 posted on 12/29/2008 8:45:02 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: All

I am up to my ears with people of color insisting we don’t speak of it or notice it - that we are all equal and in the same sentence they define their own differences with their own words.

You are American, born or legally reside in the United States of America, no matter your ancestry or whatever else you claim as your ‘heritage’ - you are American.

Never seen so much racism as the African descendents practice.


66 posted on 12/29/2008 8:48:18 AM PST by imintrouble
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To: Vigilanteman

Charles Curtis, Hoover’s VP?


67 posted on 12/29/2008 9:03:46 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Wakka-ding-hoy - battle cry of the Plexus Rangers!)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

Yes.


68 posted on 12/29/2008 9:05:32 AM PST by kalee
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To: paudio

There are several problems with your story:
(1) Obama’s father came to the U.S. to get his bachelor’s degree from University of Hawaii and later his graduate degree from Harvard;
(2) We don’t know if he really married a white American woman...that is still a mystery; and,
(3) No one knows if O’s ancestors came to the U.S. as a slave.
As for his experience being closer to Asian-Americans than African-Americans, well, I don’t know about that. I don’t know any Asian-Americans (you can guess that I came from that milieu) who would let his own brother, albeit half-brother, live in squalid conditions and who would not attend his own grandmother’s funeral when he has the means to do so. Asian-Americans, with rare exceptions, are very tender and loving about their family.

Enough said.


69 posted on 12/29/2008 9:06:07 AM PST by Ben Reyes (Palin 2012)
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To: SkyPilot; F15Eagle

Memo to Condi: Oh honey, puleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!


70 posted on 12/29/2008 9:28:27 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (RINO = Big government, blue blood, country club Vichy Republicans)
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To: Notasoccermom

[quote]Moreover, is he the first POTUS born to a non-American citizen? Would the same hype have been given if one of our previous president’s parents was never an American citizen? Just wondering...[/quote]

No, that distinction would belong to George Washington, as well as the next three presidents.


71 posted on 12/29/2008 9:45:07 AM PST by DE88
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To: SkyPilot

“I think all Americans were quite taken with the fact that we were able, after the long history we’ve been through, that initial birth defect of slavery, that we’ve elected an African-American.”

The only people who think Obama’s election is anything special are the people who still believe America is a racist nation. If MLK’s dream had really come to pass, Obama’s election wouldn’t be any different from a white man’s.


72 posted on 12/29/2008 9:45:10 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("Let 'em learn the hard way, 'cause teaching them is more trouble than they're worth,")
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To: RWB Patriot

How right you are. I’m so sick of hearing about race. It’s all they talk about and he is half black, he isn’t the average Afro-American. It’s getting old real fast. I wonder what people would say if he called himself Caucasian since he is half white, then harped on that all the time. It’s getting ridiculous.


73 posted on 12/29/2008 10:33:58 AM PST by Kara1000
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To: SkyPilot

...encourages them to vomit, maybe...


74 posted on 12/29/2008 10:53:55 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Kara1000

Obama is half white and one quarter black and one quarter arabic.


75 posted on 12/29/2008 11:10:10 AM PST by imintrouble
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To: SkyPilot

The Obamanation “encourages” fraud artists everywhere....

“hey, if that guy can pull off such a monumental scam on so many people, well, the sky’s the limit!”


76 posted on 12/29/2008 11:36:08 AM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: SkyPilot

Rice: Obama election encourages people worldwide (to hurl chunks)

There, that’s more like it.


77 posted on 12/29/2008 11:45:40 AM PST by usmom
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To: Northern Yankee

Thank you, Northern Yankee. I keep thinking about what MLK Jr. said, and this is NOT what happened. This was a giant step backward, not forward. Wrong again, Condi. All the education in the world doesn’t make you smart.


78 posted on 12/29/2008 11:49:29 AM PST by La Enchiladita (Gloria in Excelsis Deo)
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To: Alia

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79 posted on 12/29/2008 11:49:31 AM PST by seoul62
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To: DE88
No, that distinction would belong to George Washington, as well as the next three presidents.

Gee, I hadn't really thought back that far. Thanks for the history reminder.
80 posted on 12/29/2008 12:18:18 PM PST by Notasoccermom (.)
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