I wonder how Condi Rice feels about the Voting Rights Act...

[ecstatic]

After all, she lived through it! I wonder why she isn't pressuring her "friend" to take serious action on this issue!

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Jackson quoted his son, Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), who attended a meeting of the Black Congressional Caucus in the White House and asked President Bush if he would support extension of the Voting Rights Act.

“I’m against statehood for Washington, D.C.,” the younger Jackson quoted the president. When it was clarified what the Voting Rights Act is, Bush allegedly replied, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, but when it comes to my desk I’ll deal with it.”

“But the President does know,” Jackson Senior told the press conference. “He was governor of Texas, which is a state under voting rights supervision.”



http://www.ncccusa.org/news/071105JesseJackson.html

[Greeby]

1. Maybe because

She's a white man on the inside! ;)

[Captain Hilts]

2. She has said the political stuff going on in Birmingham...

didn't really affect her directly because they didn't live near any of it and she was a kid.

[cosmicdot]

3. she's on the front cover of the current AARP magazine

something about how she became 'fearless' ... can't elaborate because I immediately threw it in the garbage


sorry to interrupt

[gademocrat7]

4. I read the same and threw up

then hurled the magazine in the recycle bin.

[babylonsister]

5. That shocked me; I haven't read it yet, but

did rip off the cover!:)

[orleans]

6. um....she was too busy practicing the piano while the rest of the world

was on fire?

she had to take singing lessons?

she was at the ice rink skating up a storm?

her mom was trying to convince her that she really wasn't a black girl in south?

she was too busy trying to breathe with her head buried in the sand?

[ecstatic]

9. Yes, she is very out of touch

As a black woman I have defended Rice's right to be a conservative, but her refusal to stand up for civil rights is just disgusting. She is a traitor.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Did he seriously say that???

He didn't know?! Of course not, why am I not surprised....

[Eloriel]

8. I have a pretty good idea how she feels about it: she's a NeoCon

She's a NeoCon, she doesn't have any opinion about it -- that's for the Little People, the stupid masses. She is a leader.

Here's a decent overview of how the PNACing Straussians, which she is one, believe:

Posted as OP here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1880285


This is from Power Down by Richard Heinberg. It's one hell of a great book on peak oil. I just this moment read the following on page 68. The chapter is about the GW Bush administration. My heart started pounding when I read this.

Neoconservatism is the intellectual offspring of Leo Strauss (1899-1973), a jewish scholar who fled Hitler's Germany and taught political science at the University of Chicago. According to Shadia Drury in 'Leo Strauss and the American Right' (Griffin, 1999), Strauss advocated an essentially Machiavellian approach to governance. He believed that:

A leader must perpetually deceive those being ruled.

Those who lead are accountable to no overarching system of morals, only to the right of the superior to rule the inferior.

Religion is the force that binds society together, and is therefore the tool by which the ruler can manipulate the masses (any religion will do).

Secularism in society is to be supressed, because it leads to critical thinking and dissent.

A political system can be stable only if it is united against an external threat, and that if no real threat exists, one should be manufactured.

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