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shawa
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 Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: Spike Fails To Derail Condi |
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Interesting speculation here, Condi leaving the door open??
| Quote: | Spike Fails To Derail Condi
As black film director Spike Lee attacks her back in the US, the Secretary of State displayed her deft political skills while on tour in Lancashire
Ned Temko
Sunday April 2, 2006
The Observer
Even in Blackburn, on a crisp spring Saturday afternoon, Condoleezza Rice knew she couldn't escape the war - the Iraq war at least. Yet as the chants of a few hundred demonstrators periodically intruded yesterday, all was quiet on another front: the extraordinary battle shaping up back in America between the most powerful woman on earth and black America's most famous, and ferocious, film-maker.
It's Spike - as in Spike Lee of Malcolm X fame - versus Condi. It's a showdown between aggression and cool worthy of Liston v Ali. And it's ostensibly about African American roots. In short, Spike thinks Condi has betrayed hers.
And the reason Lee is so angry, and for the cyber-war which his increasingly barbed comments have ignited on blogsites countrywide, is the same one that inspired the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to invite Rice to Liverpool and Blackburn: Condi as power politician. Much as she is seeking to dampen the speculation, there is a rising expectation that sooner or later she will become the first African American, and the first woman, to occupy the Oval Office.
Not if Spike Lee has his say. And since the beginning of this month, he has had lots to say on the matter. It all began with an interview in Stuff magazine in which he was talking about a documentary he is making on Hurricane Katrina. As the levees of New Orleans were collapsing, 'she was going up and down Madison Avenue buying Ferragamo shoes', he fumed, adding: 'I dislike Condoleezza Rice even more than Bush... She's gotten a free ride from black people.'
By last week he was in even fuller flow in an interview for the New York Observer, in which he said: 'African Americans will have to really, really, really, really, really, REALLY analyse the Secretary of State's record and get past the pigmentation of her skin. I'm not going to vote for that woman. No way!'
~SNIP~
They also suggest why there has been growing concern in recent months among Democratic Party political strategists, especially backers of Hillary Clinton for the 2008 race, at the prospect of Condi Rice as the woman to beat. |
Story at:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1745223,00.html
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LimaCharlie
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Condi Rice/Ann Coulter - 2008
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| LimaCharlie wrote: | | Condi Rice/Ann Coulter - 2008 |
On that choice I'm sending for my absentee ballot immediately!!!
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I'm sending in BOTH of mine!  |
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GenrXr
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A comparison can be made between the liberal self loathing black intellectuals of today and the Marx/Trotsky Jews of the 19th century. Both hated what they were and tried to come up with a solution which would eventually kill them off.
Spike Lee should go to Zimbabwe and check out Mugabe who is now begging 'whitey' to come back after having booted them out. Unfortunately for Mugabe, the 'white' farmers are in such high demand throughout Africa that Nigeria and Mozambique immediately gave them free land and resources to start over and he is now stuck with a completely failed economy and country. Complete ruin.
The problem is not Condeleeza Rice selling out to ‘whitey’; rather it is the problem of a self loathing mindset which places blame on all others as opposed to turning that mirror on themselves.
Wake up black America and stop reading those Communist newsletters placed in all your barber shops & churches. They give rise to pseudo-intellectuals such as Spike who are laughable by most and tragic to the rest.
Learn Aristotle’s rhetoric as opposed to Michael Moore’s Marxist dialectic sophistry.
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