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So it turns out that like most of us, Dr. Rice isn’t happy about how the whole Katrina thing worked out. Well, maybe not quite like most of us
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told hosts of ABC’s The View Thursday that she was angry with critics who charged that President Bush didn’t help victims of Katrina because they were black.
"What really did make me angry was the implication that some people made that somehow President Bush allowed this to happen because these people were black." Rice said. "And For somebody to say that about the President of the United States a President of the United States who I know well and a President of the United States who is my friend I was appalled and I couldn’t believe people didn’t challenge it."
Well, maybe people were busy (and really, read the rest)
Monday, August 29
7AM CDT — KATRINA MAKES LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE
MORNING — BUSH CALLS SECRETARY CHERTOFF TO DISCUSS IMMIGRATION
MORNING — BUSH SHARES BIRTHDAY CAKE PHOTO-OP WITH SEN. JOHN MCCAIN
11AM CDT — BUSH VISITS ARIZONA RESORT TO PROMOTE MEDICARE DRUG BENEFIT
4:30PM CDT — BUSH TRAVELS TO CALIFORNIA SENIOR CENTER TO DISCUSS MEDICARE DRUG BENEFIT
8PM CDT — RUMSFELD ATTENDS SAN DIEGO PADRES BASEBALL GAME
8PM CDT — GOV. BLANCO AGAIN REQUESTS ASSISTANCE FROM BUSH:
“Mr. President, we need your help. We need everything you’ve got.”LATE PM — BUSH GOES TO BED WITHOUT ACTING ON BLANCO’S REQUESTS
Tuesday, August 30
11AM CDT — BUSH SPEAKS ON IRAQ AT NAVAL BASE CORONADO
2PM CDT — PRESIDENT BUSH PLAYS GUITAR WITH COUNTRY SINGER MARK WILLIS
BUSH RETURNS TO CRAWFORD FOR FINAL NIGHT OF VACATION
Wednesday, August 31
11:20 AM CDT — FEMA STAFF WARNED BROWN THAT PEOPLE WERE DYING AT THE SUPERDOME
Three hours later, Brown’s press secretary wrote to colleagues complaining that Brown needed more time scheduled to eat at a restaurant: “He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes. We now have traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you.”4PM CDT — BUSH GIVES FIRST MAJOR ADDRESS ON KATRINA
7PM CDT — CONDOLEEZZA RICE TAKES IN A BROADWAY SHOW:
“On Wednesday night, Secretary Rice was booed by some audience members at ‘Spamalot!, the Monty Python musical at the Shubert, when the lights went up after the performance.”Thursday, September 1
7AM CDT — BUSH CLAIMS NO ONE EXPECTED LEVEES TO BREAK
CONDOLEEZZA RICE VISITS U.S. OPEN
“Rice, [in New York] on three days’ vacation to shop and see the U.S. Open, hitting some balls with retired champ Monica Seles at the Indoor Tennis Club at Grand Central.”CONDOLEEZZA RICE GOES SHOE SHOPPING:
“Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes (we’ve confirmed this, so her new heels will surely get coverage from the WaPo’s Robin Givhan). A fellow shopper, unable to fathom the absurdity of Rice’s timing, went up to the Secretary and reportedly shouted, ‘How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!’”
"I think at the time they [they?] probably thought things were going better than they were" Rice told the ladies of The View. By Sunday she knew better, and she got right on the defending her friend the president thing
Ms. Rice visited the Gulf Coast on Sunday, flying to Mobile, Ala., to attend a church service and meet with storm victims.
On the plane trip from Washington, Ms. Rice challenged accusations that the government had responded slowly because many of the victims were black.
"How can that be the case?" Ms. Rice said, according to The Associated Press. "Americans don’t want to see Americans suffer."
She added, "Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race."
So how’d that work out?
Ronald Joubert, 41, a member of the New Light congregation in Houston, was a bit more charitable [than Kanye West] to the president, though not much.
"The people are saying that that’s why the people in New Orleans didn’t get a more direct response, because they’re all black," Mr. Joubert said. "Me, I don’t blame Bush personally. I blame the whole government. But 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, people are still going to be blaming Bush."
So somebody did challenge it, Dr. Rice. It’s just that nobody believed you.
Enjoy the shoes.
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Kanye West was right.
Condi Rice is lying, again.
Maybe Rice is right. Maybe it was because Katrina victims were black AND poor.
Haley Barbour got the Mississippi casinos rebuilt right quick. There are priorities, you know. Oil Tanker Condi is the Uncle Tom’s Uncle Tom.
Or Aunt Tamsin? (gender conversion…)
FunnyDiva
Be gone, Dr. Rice, be gone.
(Author Kessler) mentions that (Rice) was linked to a man once — back in college. Even if Rice is heterosexual, however, it is fascinating and mind-boggling that this woman whose best male friend is an openly gay liberal and whose best female “friend” is a “liberal progressive,” would work for a president who has opposed every gay rights initiative and tried to enshrine religious hatred in the Constitution. What does it say about them as well?
makes ya wonder where all that “intelligence” thing is supposed to be lodged ..eh ??
condi is supposedly a very bright person .. so why does she say such stupid stuff ??
*sigh*
if only it were that simple.
Bush didn’t do anything cause it was too much trouble and would have interferred with his bike ride. He didn’t even KNOW that the victims were black.
Link:
http://www.signorile.com/2007/…..how-i.html
After she became secretary of state, she came to a party at Blacker’s (her best friend from Stanford U) house, kicked off her shoes, and began dancing through the night to rock and and roll. Blacker, who is gay, wanted to show his partner how tight her behind is; he postulated that if he aimed a quarter at her butt, it would bounce off like a rocket. He was right. Rice, who was dancing, didn’t realize what he had done until everyone began laughing hysterically. She was flattered — and proud.
Deflect off buy multi-thousand dollar shoes much?
blah blah President of the United States my friend blah blah President of the United States.
What did he give her a Colbert hug?
Digg it!
I think poor would have been enough.
HONEST TO GOD!!!
GO AWAY!!!!!
we are allll so over it and done with you.
till the war crimes trials, we’d like NOT to hear from or of you at all.
and don’t leave the country or change addresses.
don’t call us. WE’LL CALL YOU!
asshat gaptoofed imbecile war criminal.
…and because they lived in a state with a Democratic governor?
Bush’s New Orleans strategy worked like a charm. Killed Democrats, displaced Democrats, shifted mucho blame to Democratic Governor, got Republican governor Booby Jindall elected (one of the new Republibots). (Ray Nagin is a Republican posing as a Democrat.)
wouldn’t it be nice if Rice came to her senses, gained some perspective, got a clue, and tossed a few of those super-expensive shoes in the general direction of her former employer? (harmlessly, of course)
Yes.
Is it likely, no.
I Really Don’t Like Condi Rice
She’s Very Deluded, Not Nice
Defends Bush’s Crimes
and Bores Us At Times
Cuz Cheering Bush Is Really Her Vice
I think maybe the response had more to do with giving a Democratic mayor and a Democratic governor a black eye, myself, and doing damage to a Democratic city, but then I followed what happened when Jeb’s Florida had a much less severe hurricane right before his re-election.
People who didn’t actually live there got money for houses that didn’t exist, and FEMA people tracked them down to get it to them.
Like everything else, they saw keeping people safe as secondary to political goals and the spoils system. Nothing new or startling, just a complete misunderstanding of what would happen if people saw the deaths, and realized the safety net was gone for them too.
I wrote my own Dr. Rice poem once…
your joking, right? SMH
ahem…sneaking off to the closet to write more “Burmashave” poetry – that’s an awesome piece of poetry..Julia…you should put it here…or perhaps we should hold a contest, like we did with Stevens..
the muse hits every four years or so. I’d hate to make anyone wait for it…
Sure Condy
I believe you. Your
husban..uh, boss did all he could. Yea, right. And I believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy and …But these people don’t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2elYnsqG-MM
Condi doesn’t like it when bad things are said about her husban….errr, friend Chimpy.
Yeah, that was kind of creepy, because whatever’s behind it, that woman is intensely over-identified.
Particularly after he trotted her out as the face of the administration’s opposition to diversity programs, which she actually supported. Because she was the provost of Stanford. And on racial and gender issues, america turns to the provost of Stanford.
There are few to despise as much as RIce… and most of them were in W’s administration. But she really took the cake.
Colon Powell is another disgusting man who has no conscience whatsoever and is completely full of himself and narcissistic.
Humility is something unseen in republicans.
It’s not because they were black…it’s because they weren’t major contributors to the Republican Party.
If they had been this would never have happened (the Army Corps of Engineers would have been working 24-7-365 to make sure the highest efficiency pumps with backups were protectin’ that prime Real Estate).
So the lesson Condi is trying to make is “If you Black folks want to change your economic status while the Republicans are in power, vote Republican…it worked for me, look at my new Ferragamo’s.”
Florida maintained a slim majority (JEB! could tilt the board R where necessary with just a bit of tampering) of Republican voters to appease. Therefore, it was essential to FEMA-tize the state post haste.
Jane is upstairs with a new posting.
Here’s Dubya and McCain with McCain’s birthday cake – left to melt in the sun as New Orleans drowned.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/133551
Yeah. That was my take on it too.
They got a huge percentage of homeland security funds for their cruise ships. More than the shipping industry got.
One of the few things I really enjoyed during last year’s series of cliffhangers was the sight of the Republican party scrambling away from that picture.
Yeah, I’m so sure the people who wore the purple heart bandaids rolled bandages instead of partying. Until the sun went under the yardarm.
Pretty much- although I DO think that Clusterfuck was a lazy uninvolved president who only got involved when the CIA told him spy stories- I also have seen no evidence that he is a rascist.
Did anyone think to ask Rice why, if it weren’t that the victims were mostly black, Bush delayed his response so dramatically? I would like to know what her response would be to the question of why it was delayed rather than if the ethnic identity of the victims was involved.
This my poem:
There once was a gal named Condi
who never had heard of Gandhi
she said bombs away
and went to a play
til Hillary waved her a wandi.
Thank you.
clappity clap!
So, I’m confused now. Is Condi saying that Bush would have been just as happy to let white people die?
I’m willing to consider the possibility that Condi is right, and shrub’s murderous inaction on Katrina was not due to racism but rather due to monstrous, mendacious, and catastrophic incompetence and reckless disregard for human life and the very concept of compassion. I’m not sure this concession on my part speaks any better about shrub through.
Oh yeah- Clusterfuck is fine with anyone dyin- ceptin HIM!
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Jane’s upstairs
It would be interesting to find out how many of the dead were well to do. I suspect that it is the poor black people who are screwed.
I feel better knowing that Bush wasn’t a racist just a class bigot.
Poor people got no reason, Poor people got no reason, poor people got no reason to hope. (sang to the tune of short people) Perhaps the new Republican theme song.
I think the number is very near zero…The ones left behind b/c they could not get out, the 9th ward, etc.
She’s right — it wasn’t (simply) because they were black; it was because they were predominantly liberals (who happened to be black) with a Democratic governor and largely Democratic Congressional representation.
One of Bush’s responses was quick. He got Blackwater’s Israeli mercenaries there rather fast.
” Israeli mercenaries dressed in black and armed with M-16s. Two Israelis patrolling the gates outside Audubon told me they had served as professional soldiers in the Israeli military, and one boasted of having participated in the invasion of Lebanon. “We have been fighting the Palestinians all day, every day, our whole lives,” one of them tells me. “Here in New Orleans, we are not guarding from terrorists.” Then, tapping on his machine gun, he says, “Most Americans, when they see these things, that’s enough to scare them.”
” The men work for ISI, which describes its employees as “veterans of the Israeli special task forces from the following Israeli government bodies: Israel Defense Force (IDF), Israel National Police Counter Terrorism units, Instructors of Israel National Police Counter Terrorism units, General Security Service (GSS or ‘Shin Beit’), Other restricted intelligence agencies.” The company was formed in 1993. “
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/scahill/2
Maybe if Condi would watch this video, maybe she remember that Bush was briefed and decided to do absolutely nothing.
The URL contained a malformed video ID.
Bush surfaces..
***********
“While the national anthem was sung Bush looked a bit teary-eyed… almost nostalgic. “
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..62373.html
I was never convinced Bush was a racist. My impression on Katrina was that he simply hates black voters. New Orleans had a big concentration of them and now they’re still scattered all over the US. Amazingly enough, the bureaucracy Bush appointed to reconstruct New Orleans seems to be doing an extremely slow, casual, unhurried, lackadaisical job of getting enough money to people to rebuild their homes.
Bush freezing up on 9-11 was never really believable and Bush freezing up for days is even less believable!
I thought of that back at the time, but I’m glad you brought it up again. In light of what we now know about their anti-Dem-governor program it makes PERFECT sense.
Siegelman, Gray, Blanco, Blagojevich, Spitzer, Richardson and how many others might have been or were definitely targeted by the Bushies?
It’s outrageous!
Anyway, I should add I think they were also stealing land in NOLA for more of their goold ‘ol boys to develop.
That they don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves.
look, i hate to tell you this, but dr. rice is telling the truth. bush didn’t let new orleans drown because it was a black city.
calm down, let me finish!
bush let new orleans drown because new orleans is a blue city in a red state. gov. blanco was history shortly after the waters receded and the federal aid failed to flow in behind them. i doubt louisiana will see another democratic governor or senator in my lifetime. louisiana is now a safe, red state. the critical mass of democratic voters is dispersed to other states.
so yes, dr. rice is telling the truth, technically. ask her if it was about other colors than black and white.
Friends? Of Condoleeza Rice? First I’ve heard. She doesn’t deserve friends and probably doesn’t have them. With luck she’ll be swept up in the war criminal trials and end up where she belongs — in prison. She can spend her days thinking about Ferragamos and the glory days of shopping.
Please don’t dignify this witch with “dr.” I don’t care if she has a degree or not. It’s Condoleeza Rice, War Criminal. Repeat that.