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Remember When Condoleezza Rice Was Called a ‘House Nigga’?
That didn’t take long. U.N. ambassador Susan Rice has yet to be nominated as secretary of state, but prominent Democrats are already denouncing opposition to her potential nomination as racist on the basis of remarks by Republican senators that she may not be qualified for the job. Would that they had been so sensitive to racial overtones back in 2004, when the African-American nominee for secretary of state, the Republican Ms. Rice, was denounced on the Senate floor and pilloried in racialist cartoons.
Rice’s nomination, noted the Washington Post, garnered “the most negative votes cast against a nominee for that post in 180 years.” As the Senate debated her nomination, Senator Barbara Boxer charged that Rice “frightened the American people” into supporting the Iraq War; Senator Jim Jeffords accused her of being part of an effort to “distort information” in the service of “political objectives”; and Senator Pat Leahy, who voted in her favor, endorsed her by saying that her tenure as national-security adviser lacked “strong leadership, openness, and sound judgment.”
But the remarks of Senate Democrats paled in comparison to the material served up by America’s humorists. Syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall depicted Rice proclaiming herself Bush’s “house nigga.”
Joe
November 22nd, 2012
Susan Rice can defend herself all she wants, even bring Obama in to defend her. She lied five times about Benghazi. That tells me she can’t be trusted. I didn’t ruin your career, Susie, you did. I do pray they don’t confirm you.
Joe
November 22nd, 2012
BTW, I have ordered 39 sets of the Barack Obama Collectible Pen Sets to give as gifts to all my conservative friends. Thanks.
Buffalobob
November 22nd, 2012
Susan Rice fights back against racist criticism. She stated that “she is a wise Latina or something”.
sTevo
November 22nd, 2012
Rice lied, four died.
Rick
November 22nd, 2012
sTevo,
“Four died, Rice lied.”
Ten Megaton
November 22nd, 2012
Now back to turkeys attacking people.
sTevo
November 23rd, 2012
Thanks Rick. Sometimes order is important.