Are the GOP pushing Rice for Affirmative Action?

[k8conant]

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/38623.htm
BYRD SHAMES THE SENATE

January 22, 2005 -- They say a leopard can't change its spots. Can a one-time Klansman change his, umm, sheets?

The way Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) acted this week, it's fair to ask.

Byrd was one of three Democratic senators who used a parliamentary maneuver to delay a full vote on the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be the next secretary of state.

Rice had been approved by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee by an overwhelming 16-2 margin. The only "nay" votes were from sore-loser John Kerry and loony lefty Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).


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Yeah, sure. So I guess that's why Bush nominated a black woman to replace a black man?? Apparently that she lies and acts uppity when called on it means that she can hide behind her skin--like Clarence Thomas and J. Kenneth Blackwell.

Robert Byrd's presence in the United State Senate is a continuing embarrassment to Democrats in general, and to that body in particular
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I am proud to have elected him from the state of West Virginia. I am proud when he stands up to the Republican bullies and media.

The mainstream media merely continues to be an embarrassment to itself.

Now there's one line I won't disagree with.

[Jade Fox]

1. Conservatives are happy to play the "race card" if....

it distracts attention from Condi's lack of qualifications for the job. This is
just so much crap. Rice has proven her imcompetence.

[moggie12]

2. What a piece of &%$#@ this editorial is!!

I'm a New Yorker and I'm firing off a letter to the Post saying I'm never buying their newspaper again because of this piece of garbage. (Idle threat: My IQ is over 70 so I never read it in the first place -- I'll misspell words and write ungrammatically to fake them into thinking I'm an actual Post reader).

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Opportunistic hypocrites. They find the most right wing minority nominees

for every position, and then when they are rejected for their ideas, the Right wing ideologues claim they are being rejected due to their ethnicity.
The sad irony is that these very same minority people do not realize how they are being used. If they were not members of a minority group, these right wingers would never even look at them since in most respects their accomplishments are quite mediocre in their field of choice. And, in fact, if it were not for the principle of affirmative action,which they reject, most of them would not even have gotten as far as they have.

[emulatorloo]

4. The whole cabinet is like Republican Colors of Benneton advert

Some of Rove's best work

[DemGirl7]

5. I knew this was going to happen....

I knew they were going to play the race card with Condi, and especially with Senator Byrd because of his past...but what do you expect from the sleezy GOP...they love it when someone has a not so great past so they can use it against them...except when it comes to a member of their own party.

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