By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 16 hrs ago Condoleeza Rice (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
At super PAC fundraiser, Condoleezza Rice knocks Obama for immigration move and predicts Romney victory
WASHINGTON-- As a former Secretary of State and National Security adviser, it's not every day Condoleezza Rice chooses to talk domestic policy over foreign issues. And as a scholar with a Ph.D. in political science, it's not every day that she chooses to talk politics over policy.
But on Monday night during a super PAC fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Club, a private hangout for Republicans only steps from the House office buildings, Rice wasn't shy about diving into both.
Rice, whose post-Bush years have been spent mostly at Stanford University, is making her voice heard in political circles again. Just days after reportedly bringing down the house with a powerful speech at a Utah retreat with Republicans donors for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, Rice flew to Washington to headline a fundraiser for ShePAC, a new super PAC that supports conservative female candidates. The appearance was notably her very first DC fundraiser for a political outside group, complete with a private foreign policy briefing with sitting female lawmakers and Republican House and Senate candidates from across the country.
While Rice spoke to the candidates on the third floor of the club, about 150 ShePAC supporters waited in a reception room downstairs, noshing on a spread of roast beef, glazed ham, sweet potato puffs and watermelon soup while bartenders poured glasses of whiskey, vodka and wine in the back.
Introduced as "the smartest woman in the world," Rice emerged from a side kitchen to address the group.
Over the course of about 10 minutes at the lectern, she focused her speech on a need for domestic reforms and called for a change in executive leadership.
"This is a truly consequential election. This is perhaps a turning point for the country. I'm very often asked to speak about the foreign policy aspects and there are some key important foreign policy issues before us," Rice said before briefly listing a series of challenges abroad. "There are many foreign policy issues on the agenda, but we are not going to address any of those international challenges unless we get it right at home. And it's not right at home right now, and the American people know it."
She went on to tell her own story of a child who grew up in the segregated South whose parents encouraged her to seek an education. Rice lamented what she sees as changing attitudes about opportunities for success in the United States and--without calling him by name--criticized President Barack Obama for announcing that his administration would selectively enforce immigration laws.
"Americans who come here from other places to be a part of that belief that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things, which is why we need an immigration policy that works," Rice said. "But, by the way, we need one that the Congress and the president work out together, and we need to do something about access to education."
Rice, whose name is increasingly coming up as a possible candidate to become Romney's running mate, ended her talk with a shout-out to the former Massachusetts governor.
"America has a way of making the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect, and we're going to do it again," she said. "We're going to strengthen ourselves, our democracy at home, we're going to strengthen our economy, we're going to do it with great leadership like the people in this room and like Governor Mitt Romney, who will be a terrific president."
When she finished, Rice promptly exited through a side door without talking to reporters waiting nearby. As she walked toward a vehicle waiting in an alley, an aide said she would not be answering questions because she had a scheduled appearance on Fox News later that night and wanted any new comments to be exclusive to the network.
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Not Even the Degradation of Condi's Character have slowed her Ignorance for Power
Once, I admired Condoleezza Rice as being a impressive person when she first came on the scene at the beginning of the Bush Admin.
She reminded me of my second wife, educated, feminine, and poised.
However, similar to my firing my second wife for her "Flawed Character" Condi Rice is equally as delinquent in content of character as my second wife.
Former President Bush, not only brought this entire country to the brink if destruction, morally, monetarily and ethically, he also degraded this countries value to the world,with respect to "Honor & Justice For All" as displayed in his own lack of subjection to equal justice here in the United States, as well as not being tried on the international stage. The U.S. is hated for it's "do as I say, but not as I do behavior" for the past 80 years.
Condoleezza Rice, and Collin Powell, both,were well respected human beings, yet, both are known not for their history of accomplishments, but for their willingness to serve a flawed leader who led Condi and Collin to the degradation of their reputation by participating in the Bush Admin's illegal attack of a sovereign nation.
Fortunately for Collin Powell, he left the Bush Admin after 4 years, but, Condi went for the whole "corn dog", and the content of her character can be no more than her past actions or her past refusal to act with convictions.
Now, the same black woman that stated at one point, that she never found herself subjected to a racial situation during her life, then later admitting that she did experience racism in her past, is on the same stage with the same Republican Party, demeaning the first Black President's actions with respect to foreign policy.
Condoleezza Rice Represents the worse type of character a human being can have.
She is a Black Woman, supporting a party that values white men above any and all other human beings on earth.
She is a cheer leader for the Republican Party, the party that is anti immigration of Hispanics.
She is a fool for the Republican Party by providing a "Black Elite" that has the audacity to down the first Black President.
She walks with racism, bigotry, and men of mal character as if she is immune.
She smiles in the faces of those who would "rape" her on the same podium that she demonized Obama on, and call her a nigger as they wipe their semen on her flawed lips.
Yet, I find that Condi has chosen her side, she is fully aware of her actions, she is in complete understanding of her position, how her actions affect others, and how her willingness to speak against Obama, and for the Republican Racist Party, how it impacts this election, not for the Republicans with respect to gaining black votes, but how her actions is a statement that she chooses the Republican Party, irregardless of all the racism that she suffered in the past, irregardless of the racism that is being imposed on the Hispanics and Latinos in the U.S. today.
Condeleezza Rice is fully aware of her acts and actions.
I say to Condi Rice:
When you hear the word nigger in the background..., who do you think the word is directed at?
When you are among groups of white men and you feel that extra brush up against you ass, why do you think it happened?
When your not allowed in certain areas of a meeting or a building, don't wonder why?
When you are told to stay in your place...., or minimized..., don't sweat it?
Because as these things, and more, happen to you as you venture out from your wonderland, and harsh reality will become a part of your consciousness, which will be..., your nothing more than a woman who served their purpose.
Condeleeza Rice..., your the worse type of Black Woman that walk this earth. You have no convictions, and you have chosen not to value your history or the honor of your families suffereing.
Education didn't enhance you, it destroyed your core.
In My Opinion
ASMFMB
6/26/2012
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