Rice commemorates 4 slain Birmingham girls(rights fight =Iraq Bushwar)

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/base/politics-8/113000994715030.xml&storylist=washington

Rice commemorates 4 slain Birmingham girls

10/22/2005, 4:08 p.m. ET
By GEORGE GEDDA
The Associated Press

...Rice drew a link between Birmingham's successes and the problems she monitors daily in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Only with democracy is there hope for a better day, she said.

She said the city might not have escaped its racist ways were it not for democratic institutions that enabled compromise to prevail over conflict.

"At one point, not that long ago, the promise of democracy seemed distant here in Alabama and throughout the American South," she said in her Tuscaloosa speech.

"But when impatient patriots in this country finally demanded their freedom and their rights, what once seemed impossible suddenly became inevitable," she said. "So it was in America. So it was in much of the world. And so it will be in the Middle East.

[bluestateguy]

1. They couldn't find a black speaker, so they invited Rice?

Geez.

[spooked911]

2. now now, she's black at heart-- or she has a blackheart.

one of those.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Everything Condi touches turns to shit

How does she dare equate the fight for civil rights in this country with our criminal invasion of Iraq?

[Skittles]

13. it is pretty f***ing low

despicable; the families of those girls should be outraged

[MasonJar]

4. The poet laureate of Kentucky has a novel about the church

bombing that killed the four little girls. The title is The Four Spirits; she is Sena Jeter Nasland. You may have read her earlier novel, Ahab's Wife. Sena is from Birmingham and has a wise perspective. I recommend the novel. As for Condi, what has she done of significance to help her people? Her sister Constance seems to be an entirely different story.

[Skittles]

14. Constance?

what can you tell me

[goclark]

15. Thought they were cousins -- Connie Rice from California

is brilliant!

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. So... Lice equates the civil rights movement

in the South to invading a country and forcing Mer'kin democracy on it?

Reverse revisionism?

[Algorem]

6. I had to add that to headline.She can sure catapult that sick propaganda.

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[butterfly77]

8. what successes?

[LynnTheDem]

9. Can they only use small stones in Birmingham, too?

Fuck off with the bullshit already, rice.

[0007]

10. I just seen Condi Rice with Jack Straw at the Tennessee

and Alabama football game.

[MisterP]

11. we're Bull Connor--I KNEW it!

and didn't she say the CRM "didn't affect" her much? She grew up in Bombingham!!!

[malaise]

12. Too late to suck up

to black people. Go to hell Condi and take uncle Colin with you.

[Cocoa]

16. I guess Chalabi is Iraq's Martin Luther King

[daleo]

17. Establishing a theocracy in Iraq is like the U.S. civil rights struggle?

Even for Rice that one's a doozie.

[pinniped]

18. Democracy this, democracy that, give it a FN rest already.

Before the keyword was "sovereignty," now it has magically morphed into this democracy crap.

Hey, is Condosleeza secretly on the side of the Iraqis who wish the US to exit their "sovereign" country?

--But when impatient patriots in this country finally demanded their freedom and their rights, what once seemed impossible suddenly became inevitable,"--

The more I read this article the more I think she's on some serious medication.

[NVMojo]

19. Clever ploy, shame on Rice for the exploitation ...

[pinniped]

20. The article doesn't mention anything about Condosleeza being...

in Birmingham last year. Wasn't there an anniversary last year as well?

These * freaks sure spend a lot of time trying to make absurd comparisons to other events and leaders in history.

They fail miserably ever single time.

[Peace Patriot]

21. Lizards and spiders come out of her mouth, and the vomit of the...

...tortured, and the blood of the babies she has blown to smithereens. She speaks abominations. If Martin Luther King were alive today, he would be marching against her and withering her wicked, reedy falsehoods with the power of the truth, thundered from the mountaintop. Never since the days of the slave ships and the whipmasters and the lynchers has such horror and injustice been visited on any people, as have been inflicted by this woman and her cohorts on the people of Iraq and on the people of another faith. Dogs set upon them; their bodies piled naked in pyramids; tens of thousands slaughtered in a day; limb torn from limb, mother from child; innocent men driven insane by indefinite imprisonment on no charge; secret torture chambers, where human beings scream in pain and are beaten to death; chaos, looting, murder and massive theft, while the poor of our own land are left to rot and to die in the flooded streets of New Orleans.

Oh, he would rake her over the fires of hell with his mighty voice, and she would blow away like the empty little suit that she is, her pinched, ghoulish little face fading into the night.

Arise, Martin! Arise again, and banish this nasty little viper from out midst, who insults the dead and seeks to ride the struggles of the poor and the oppressed into the master seat of white power.

[fasttense]

22. Yeah, and where were her neocon friends?

Where was the conservative right when the left was fighting for democracy in Alabama? Weren't all those conservatives she supports marching in the streets for civil rights? Weren't all those Christians she has helped out there protesting Jim Crow laws?

""At one point, not that long ago, the promise of democracy seemed distant here in Alabama and throughout the American South," she said in her Tuscaloosa speech. "But when impatient patriots in this country finally demanded their freedom and their rights, what once seemed impossible suddenly became inevitable,""

Yeah no thanks to people like her and no thanks to her political party. None of that fighting for democracy would have happened if her and her ilk could have stopped it.