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Friday, January 21, 2005 The racist DemsPosted: January 21, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern By Kevin McCullough © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com In the all too brief new legislative session, I've seen more bad behavior from congressional Democrats than in the previous two months combined. But the incredibly antagonistic attitudes that they have exhibited this week bring up some important realizations. The main one being liberal Senate Democrats are racists acting with the cover of the national media. To prove my point, try the shoe on the other foot for a moment. Pretend the nightmare of an Al Gore administration had come to pass. Pretend...

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National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, left, talks to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005, on Capitol Hill during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Rice's nomination to be Secretary of State. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

As a little girl in segregated Birmingham, Ala., 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 trusted confidants, Dr. Rice has overwhelmingly surpassed external expectations and diligently achieved internal...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended her integrity and honesty as she clashed with senators about the Bush administration's justification for the Iraq war and its exit strategy. Testifying at her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing Rice was questioned about the number of U.S. troops sent to Iraq, the adequacy of Iraqi forces being trained to replace them and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction that were the Bush administration's central justification for the war. Rice, whose confirmation as the first black woman secretary of state is all but assured, vowed to press diplomacy...

Is Condoleezza Rice a good choice for Secretary of State?

VOLUME 83 / NUMBER 9 / THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2005 | Caracas - General Accountability Office preparing study on reliability. The US is currently reviewing Venezuela’s position as a leading oil provider following damage to its reputation as a reliable supplier during the presidency of Hugo Chavez, according to documents obtained by Platts. Sen. Richard Lugar (Republican-Indiana), chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, has ordered the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to prepare a study on all aspects of the Venezuelan oil industry and the impact any supply interruption may have on the US. He also called for alternative oil...

Longtime presidential strategist Dick Morris had words of caution yesterday for those who say Hillary Clinton can't generate the kind of national support she needs to put herself back in White House in 2008. Not only will Sen. Clinton win her party's nomination in a walk, the former Clinton advisor contends that her chances of beating the GOP four years from now are "superb." Story Continues Below "She's so far ahead of Kerry and Edwards and any other possible nominee in the primaries that there really won't be a primary," Morris told Sean Hannity radio fill-in Dave Stone. "The problem...

Longtime presidential strategist Dick Morris had words of caution yesterday for those who say Hillary Clinton can't generate the kind of national support she needs to put herself back in White House in 2008. Not only will Sen. Clinton win her party's nomination in a walk, the former Clinton advisor contends that her chances of beating the GOP four years from now are "superb." "She's so far ahead of Kerry and Edwards and any other possible nominee in the primaries that there really won't be a primary," Morris told Sean Hannity radio fill-in Dave Stone. "The problem is," added the...

NEW YORK -- Embattled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will visit Washington tomorrow for discussions that likely will steer clear of a simmering oil-for-food scandal that has prompted congressional calls for his resignation. Agenda items for his talks with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice include preparations for elections in Iraq, violence in western Sudan, and peacekeeping in Haiti, according to U.S. and U.N. officials. The issue of calls for Mr. Annan's resignation "may just be noted," said a senior official at the State Department, which has defended Mr. Annan, "but we are not going...

Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's pick to replace Secretary of State Colin Powell, is studying up on the nitty-gritty of running a sprawling bureaucracy of 28,000 people. She's already started on the diplomacy by paying polite calls on the senators whose votes she needs to take the job.{snip} "I have concerns about truth-telling," Boxer said Friday. "The American people deserve to have a secretary of state who will tell them the truth, and I have a problem with Dr. Rice as I go over her many comments, most of them on television directly to the American people, leading up to the...

Still furious about the election, liberals are lashing out at blacks. First it was Condoleezza Rice. But calling a Ph.D. who advised a sitting president during war "Aunt Jemima" apparently hasn't satiated the Democrats' rage. Even the racist cartoons didn't help. So this week, they've turned with a vengeance to Clarence Thomas. Only the Democrats would try to distract from their racist attacks on one black Republican by leveling racist attacks against a different black Republican. If Democrats don't nip this in the bud, soon former Klanner and Democratic Sen. Bob Byrd will be their spokesman. In the past few...

Condi’s First Test: The Oil-for-Food Scandal Joel Mowbray December 9, 2004 Although the Iraqi elections on January 30 will top her incoming agenda, the first real indicator of Condi Rice’s tenure as Secretary of State will be how she handles something most in her new department would rather ignore: the United Nations’ oil-for-food scandal. On one side in Washington are those appalled by the ever-increasing evidence that Saddam bilked billions out of a program designed to help ordinary Iraqis, and they want accountability regardless of the impact on the U.N.’s credibility or long-term health. On the other side, however, are...

Article 1 of 78, Article ID: nwps212320041206 December 6, 2004, Newsweek, U.S. Edition By    Mark Hosenball Condi: Who Will Be Her No. 2? A popular parlor game in Washington is figuring out who Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice's top deputies will be. The diplomatic community is speculating that Rice and her transition team, composed of three White House aides--national-security adviser-designate Steven Hadley, legal adviser John Bellinger and communications chief James Wilkinson--will do the same type of housecleaning that President George W. Bush's new Central Intelligence director, Porter Goss, has done Unfortunately, to see the whole article "Newsweek" requires that you...

I magine this if you can: A white radio host calls Oprah Winfrey an ``Aunt Jemima'' during a broadcast. He later apologizes - to Aunt Jemima, not to Winfrey. You know what would follow. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP would demand he be fired or at least suspended for such racially insensitive comments. Boycotts would be threatened, and demonstrators would mass outside the radio station. In fact, a talk show host in Madison, Wis., made the Aunt Jemima comment a few weeks ago, but the target was secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice. The ``usual suspects'' to protest...

It's always a sad, and sometimes an uncomfortable thing to see someone who was once at the pinnacle of their game try to remain long after their days at the top have gone. Show me someone who doesn't wince when they see an over-the-hill Hollywood elite trying to recapture their glory days, dozens of facelifts stretching their skin over their skull like plastic wrap on a Tupperware container, and I will show you someone who is truly desensitized to their surroundings. Such is the case with White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Recently, in an impromptu interview with a NewsMax correspondent,...

In light of their reaction to the nomination of Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) as secretary of state, I gather liberals have gotten over their enthusiasm for multiculturalist milestones. It's interesting that they dropped their celebrations of the "first woman!" "first black!" "first Asian!" designations at the precise moment that we are about to get our first black female secretary of state. When Madeline Albright was appointed the FIRST WOMAN secretary of state, the media was euphoric. (And if memory serves, Monica Lewinsky was the first Jewish female to occupy her various positions on the president's, uh, staff.) With...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The White House spoke out Monday against the criticism of Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Since her nomination to become the highest-ranking African-American woman in American history, fourth in line to the presidency, Rice has been the subject of racially charged caricatures and extreme rhetoric. A Wisconsin radio talk show host, John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, referred to Rice as "Aunt Jemima" during a broadcast. He told the Associated Press that he used the term to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role...

The next feud between America's freedom and democracy hawks and old United Nations diplomats will likely develop this week with the release of a much-anticipated report. Ordered by Secretary-General Annan, it was prepared by a panel of 16 former world movers and shakers now in their 70s, who will undoubtedly be hailed at Turtle Bay as wise men, and derided elsewhere as has-beens. Men who held previous posts like Russian foreign minister and Saddam champion Yevgeny Primakov, British U.N. envoy David Hannay, or current Arab League chief Amr Moussa, are not going to excite anyone looking for fresh insights into...

American foreign policy will soon have a new face—and much of the world is already doodling in red horns and a curled moustache. President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state sent shudders down the world's spine. With his soft-spoken manner and moderate image, Mr. Powell was widely seen as the voice of sanity in American foreign relations. His successor, on the other hand, is viewed as a presidential clone, a hard-liner who believes America should run roughshod over the international community. "Among the most pessimistic conjectures made when George W. Bush gained reelection...