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Criticize Ms. Rice's policies, but not her race or appearance By ROSE RUSSELL SOME say Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice's role in the Bush Administration is subservient. I just don't see it. She is more than qualified. Once confirmed - and it's likely that will happen after four years as national security adviser, not to mention her foreign affairs service in George H.W. Bush's administration - she will be the first black woman to head the U.S. State Department, a position that should curry pride and congratulations. Instead, Ms. Rice, who has a doctorate from the Graduate School of International...

How interesting it is to note the silence from the liberal women cheerleaders when a politically conservative woman "makes it to the top" — into a position of executive power. Example: Condoleezza Rice. More and more, with every passing year, Ms. Rice has been put into strategic speaking spots and administration positions, some concerning especially significant global issues. It is Ms. Rice who was the highlighted power mover in the Middle East. She represented parties concerned about peace. She stood for calm and reason. She deliberated with those in a most contentious situation. Ms. Rice dialogued with Israeli leadership. Likewise,...

FOCUS ON IRAN Powell's State Dept. opposes striking Iran; Condoleezza Rice plans changes The State Department has been adamantly opposed to the prospect of a U.S. military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. But officials said the department's position could change under Powell's designated successor, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. President George W. Bush nominated National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, one of his closest confidants, to replace departing Secretary of State Colin Powell. Rice was nominated by President Bush as part of what could be a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East and Asia, officials said. Such a...

IMAGINE a million angels united in delirious hymnal praise to wondrous goodness and you might be halfway towards the likely reaction if a Democrat American president appointed a black woman as Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice, however, was appointed by inarticulate oil-mongering Hitler-worshipper George W. Bush, so she must be vilified instead. “Condoleezza Rice is not a warm human being,” said Greens leader Bob Brown, whose own warmth isn’t exactly a threat to the polar ice caps. Australian-born cartoonist Pat Oliphant took a high-brow approach in The Washington Post, depicting Rice as Bush’s demented parrot: “Awwrk!! OK chief! Anything you...

In naming Condoleezza Rice as his pick for Secretary of State, President Bush is sending his most loyal adviser to his most disloyal agency: the State Department.  But no matter what changes she makes—and many are needed—the bureaucracy at State is entrenched almost to the point of being impenetrable, meaning real reform could well prove illusory.Ms. Rice will soon take the reins of a massive 47,000-employee operation that is literally sprawled out across the world.  It is an insular institution that operates remarkably similarly from one administration to the next, typically viewing presidents, as one Foreign Service Officer puts it,...

Civil rights Leaders Criticized for Ignoring Attacks on Conservative Minorities President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state has resulted in harsh liberal criticism that members of the black leadership network Project 21 consider racist. Along with their condemnations of offensive commentators and cartoonists, Project 21 members also are critical of self-professed civil rights leaders who are remaining silent on current and previous racial attacks on black Bush Administration officials. Over the past few months, and peaking this week with her appointment, cartoonists have been using Dr. Rice's race as a point of ridicule. Demeaning political cartoons by...

MADISON, Wis.-a radio host apologized Monday for calling secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice "Aunt Jemima," but refused to back down from his criticism that she is a "black trophy" of the Bush administration.

The Democratic Party’s ostensible monopoly over the African-American voter has often been referred to as the “Democratic Plantation;” not intended to be derisive, but descriptive of the Left’s racist attitude towards these voters. The racism of the Left is most clearly manifested towards African-Americans by its rancorous defamatory retribution perpetrated against those who dare to escape the confines of the Party’s Plantation, by the fear tactics used to motivate these voters, and by the total disregard for delivering any sort of meaningful service or reciprocation to them after the votes have been cast. For those African-Americans who refuse to tow...

Selective memories produce odd takes on reality. Consider people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Barack Obama, for instance. When we hear from these leaders and leaders like them, we hear them insist that blacks are held down by prejudice. Their evidence? Well, they personally remember prejudice when they were growing up in the 1950’s or 1960’s. And they will go back even farther, pointing to the history of black slavery common in America for the first century of our history. They will even point to the founding of the country, recalling the fact that many of the Founding Fathers,...

A coalition of black clergy Friday denounced recent "racial motivated attacks" by three editorial cartoonists, the Washington Post and the New York Times upon National Security Adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice, who was recently nominated by President Bush to serve as the next secretary of state. The Faith Based Leadership Council, a group of over 200 black clergy and members of the faith-based community, said cartoonists Jeff Danzinger, Pat Oliphant, Garry Trudeau, the Post and the Times have used racial stereotypes "to conduct their personal character assassination of" Rice's integrity because she chose to serve the Bush administration. "These cartoonists believe...

"Some have called her an insolent woman, like the dangerous anaconda snake that attacks anyone in its path. She is suited only to work at a nightclub or to make her bed in the heart of the jungles and forests of Brazil, as a predatory woman!"

Why Condoleezza Rice is the best black role model we've ever had Joseph Harker Saturday November 20, 2004 The Guardian OK, so she likes invading countries, killing thousands of innocent civilians, and imposing US-style capitalism across the globe. This modern-day Boudicca is probably the most evil woman the planet has seen since Margaret Thatcher. But, that aside, you have to admit it: Condoleezza Rice is one helluva lady. Even the US president himself looked terrified of her as he gave her a nervous, faltering peck on the cheek at the announcement of his new secretary of state. Condoleezza, aka the...

Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 9:36 p.m. EST Condi: Why I Support the Second Amendment Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice is a big supporter of the second amendment, a commitment cultivated during her days growing up in Bull Conner's Birmingham, Alabama, when the shotgun wielded by her father was often the only thing that stood between her family and the Ku Klux Klan. In 1963, racial violence was "turning her hometown into 'Bombingham' as Alabama’s governor George Wallace fought a federal court order to integrate the city’s schools," writes Rice biographer Antonia Felix. Story Continues Below In excerpts of...

GEORGE'S GIRL Washington For four years, she has been one of the most glamorous, interesting and powerful women in the world. As such, she has been scrutinised, intensively. Yet we know no more about Condoleezza Rice's views than we did four years ago. It is as if she has set out to be the humble handmaiden of the President and to ensure that in public his opinions would be her opinions. This apparent willingness to play a subordinate role has led to accusations that she is too passive. Among other things, the national securith advisor's duty is to ensure that...

Nearly two years ago the Bush administration froze out Yasser Arafat. Their reasoning was straightforward: Arafat had no real intention of facilitating peace. Stirring his people’s hatred is how he kept himself in power. In the post-Arafat era, the administration is again talking about the prospect of an independent Palestinian state. The person who will lead the historic accord will be the newly appointed Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. A strong advocate of multi lateral alliances, Rice will almost certainly reach out to Europe in the coming weeks, to launch a joint initiative aimed at strengthening ties between the United...

The life of Condoleezza Rice is the story of incomparable achievements and that of overcoming extreme obstacles. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, during a time of intense racist violence, Rice went on to join Phi Beta Kappa (graduating cum laude) and then to earn her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. Later, at Stanford University, Dr. Rice was a professor of political science (winning two of the highest teaching honors-Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching) and was...

BERLIN, Nov. 19 - European leaders have reacted to the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state with public optimism and private skepticism about the possibilities of a new start after the difficult days leading up to the war in Iraq. "Here's a prediction," Josef Joffe, co-editor of the weekly Die Zeit wrote in an editorial on Thursday, "relations with Europe will get better," adding that they couldn't get worse than they were in 2002 and 2003. But as Mr. Joffe's slightly barbed prediction suggests, for close and easy relations to develop between the United States and much of...

If the left-wing progressives can't understand why they lost the election, let them put a picture of Condoleezza Rice up on the wall and look at it very hard ("Calling Condoleezza," Editorial, Nov. 16). Now let them think about the way Rice has been depicted in the editorial pages, in cartoons and among editorialists. Where are all the women's rights groups praising her accomplishments? Where is the Rev. Al or Jessie with their adulation and praise? I don't care what color or gender you are — this is one amazing person. One would think that the radical movers and...

The Democratic party: Modern day slave master J. Matt Barber, November 19, 2004 As a little girl in segregated Birmingham Alabama, Condoleezza Rice, like so many other black Americans, often experienced systematic racism rooted in old-fashioned hatred. On a balmy September morning in 1963 that hatred manifest to sight, the vile portrait of pure evil. A group of radical white supremacists bombed a Birmingham church in a black neighborhood killing four little girls. One of those little girls, Denise McNair, was a friend to Condoleezza Rice. From her humble beginnings in the Deep South, to one of the President’s most...

MADISON, Wis. – A radio talk show host who called Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima" issued an apology Friday, but not to Rice. "It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima," John "Sly" Sylvester said on WTDY-AM in Madison. "She wasn't a self-serving hack politician who got up in front of Congress and lied. Aunt Jemima didn't kowtow to Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney."