Donna Brazile praises Condoleeza Rice in Time magazine puff piece

[Bjorn Against]

Why should be allowing someone who writes something like this to have any serious influence in the Democratic Party?

Condoleezza Rice
By Donna Brazile
Condoleezza Rice knows who she is and remembers where she came from. Early in her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State, she brought then British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to her home state of Alabama. She took him to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where four little girls had been murdered by an act of racist terrorism. She took him to the Civil Rights Institute, the South's finest museum of its worst embarrassment. And she took him to attend services at the church where her father served as pastor during the turbulent 1960s.

As a child, Condi experienced personally what it is like when citizens are denied equal rights because of the color of their skin. When one of her heroes, Rosa Parks, died, Condi was in the front row at her funeral, paying homage to the woman who took a seat on a bus so that all Americans could earn a seat at the table. As Secretary of State, Rice, 52, has consistently communicated to the world that although the U.S. is a great nation, it is not perfect. While she and I don't always agree politically, I admire her courage as well as many of her values and accomplishments. She balances her active career with devotion to her family, friends and community. And she makes time to stay in touch with her Southern roots.

Brazile is the author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615513_1614667,00.html



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I am sorry to post such praise for a monster like Condoleeza Rice, but this is being spoken by one of the most influential consultants in the Democratic Party. It is time we stood up and said this is our party, and we don't want our consultants praising a war criminal.

Which of Rice's "values" are admired by Donna Brazile? Is it the values which brought an early death to over 600,000 Iraqis? Is it the values that led to limbs being blown off, people being tortured and homes being destroyed? Was it the values that led her to stand up and lie to the American people?

I do not want anyone who admires Condoleeza Rice to have any role in selling Democratic candidates to the American people. It is time that the Democratic leadership stands up and shows this woman the door, no war criminal apologist will ever represent us.

[journalist3072]

1. Donna Brazile needs some serious debunking here. And I'm happy to do it

When it comes to the issue of her having grown up in the civil rights era, Condi Rice has contradicted herself.

She has said before that she was friends with one of the four little girls killed in Alabama.

But, she also told Fox News that she was only 12 or 13, and that she was too busy to feel any real impact from what she called the "counterculture." She said her focus “was play the piano and ice skate."

How can you say that you were friends with one of the little girls killed in a disgusting act of violence during the height of the movement, and yet you say you were too busy playing the piano and ice skating to really care?

[journalist3072]

4. Secretary of State says ice skating, piano occupied her during 1960s

Donna Brazile, does this sound like someone who remembers their roots and from whence they came??


Secretary of State says ice skating, piano occupied her during 1960s

3:01 p.m. September 28, 2005

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was too young and too busy to feel much effect from the social changes of the late 1960s.
"I was very young at the time of the counterculture. I was 12 or 13," Rice, 50, told an interviewer this week. "And I was a music major. All I did was play the piano and ice skate. And so I don't think I focused very much on the counterculture. "

Rice did not answer Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen's question about whether she ever did drugs. She suggested he return to asking questions about foreign policy.
But Rosen was on a roll. He also asked Rice whether she would like to have any superpowers.

"Superpowers?" said Rice, the most powerful woman in the Bush administration and arguably one of the most powerful people in the world, period.

Rosen tried again, and got this response: "I'd like to be able to see through walls."

[The Count]

12. So, MLK was "counterculture?

[journalist3072]

17. Exactly! I've always been curious on why

She used that particular term to describe the civil rights movement.

[FourScore]

18. Ice skating in Alabama???

I'm from the south. Ice skating???

Anyway, I lost ALL respect for Donna Brazile when she praised President Bush after Katrina. Just read the WP op-ed she wrote. The b*tch is a republican shill. (Betcha anything she was the one constantly changing Al Gore's "look" in the 2000 race. Can't stand the woman.)

"On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast."

:puke:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091602167.html

[JohnLocke]

2. Donna Brazile is an idiot

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/17/155746/665

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. "I admire her courage as well as many of her values and accomplishments"

What accomplishments, I wonder? Taking Jack Straw to a church and calling Rosa Parks her hero is hardly an "accomplishment" of her own.

The only accomplishment I could admire in Condi right now would be if she stopped ducking subpoenas, quit her position as Secretary of State and completely came clean with the American public about 9/11, the Iraq War, and the many criminal acts of the Bush Administration. If she announced a press conference on national television at which she read a long list of the many outrageous acts to which her bosses in the White House had involved her, and if she asked for forgiveness of the American people and called upon Bush himself to resign, I could perhaps start entertaining the notion that she's made at least some accomplishments in her life.

[Cha]

9. donna brazille is so fucked

up on Koolaid.

[DeepBlueC]

5. How COULD she?

[ReadTomPaine]

6. How about supporting a Democrat, Donna? n/t

[Zodiak]

7. Brazille openly claims to be a friend of Karl Rove

that's her record of knowing another's values and accomplishments.

She is an albatross around our necks every time someone gives her a mass medium.

[Cha]

19. You got that right..A

Big Fucking Albatross!

[Cha]

8. donna fucking brazille

is a tool and not the brightest one in the shed.

[goclark]

13. She and Condi are in bed with the Rethugs big time

That's why they have her as a commentator for the "MAIN RETHUG MEDIA."

[Colobo]

10. I will say it, and attack me if you want

but I liked the article.

[LittleClarkie]

11. Why is she still influencial when she was so ineffective

as Gore's campaign manager.

I don't trust the woman frankly. It sounds like she's friends with Rove. And she was an ass to Kerry right after the election.

[otohara]

15. She Is & Has Been Friends w/ Rove For Quite A While

Few would suspect that Rove regularly trades tips with Donna Brazile, Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager; she tells Rove how Bush's proposals are faring among Democrats, while Rove makes sure her clients are included in White House events.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2674-2003Mar9

She's like Mary Matelin only single....

[mopinko]

14. a complete tool. "news and notes" on npr

donna was a regular on the most despicable show ever to air on npr- news and notes. i never could decide if it was taped in the white house basement, karl rove's living room, or at foggy bottom.

[AtomicKitten]

16. The article invoked my gag reflex.

In the past, the hideous nature of some of the cons was more obtuse, now it's out there in the sunlight. I understand some people were brought up to be gracious and civilized, but the thugs in this White House don't deserve that courtesy. I have always liked Ms. Brazile, but this bit of fluff is just unpalatable.