Condi Is Strange

I try to stay out of the Condoleezza bashing that basically brands her an Aunt Jemima or an Uncle Tom. Those labels are overrated and overused. I simply disagree with the woman's politics and try to argue my points based on that. But, her fierce loyalty to George W. Bush does get my goat a more than a wee bit. The way she skirts around the obvious in order to avoid criticizing her commander in chief is rather disheartening as I had assumed that she was an independent thinker who would speak against him if needed. So, either she really and blindly believes in him or she is too committed to say otherwise. I find both options disappointing.

Rice said she found it very 'strange' that people have an impression that Bush would decide who gets disaster relief on the basis of race. She added that she herself had been a victim of discrimination and understood the problem.

No, she doesn't. Mostly, she has led a charmed life, which she has legitimately earned by the intellect and diligence she is lucky to possess but that is not universally shared.

She recalled being told by a high school teacher that 'maybe I was junior college material.'

Undervalued, poor thing. Professional bias against women, who were admitted to higher education in respectable numbers only because of federal civil rights laws, was as likely to be the culprit there as bias against the color of her skin.

Every ambitious woman I know of a certain age has run into some variation of that. Me too."

Well I've been called an Uncle Tom and an oreo too but that doesn't mean that I cannot call a spade a spade. She may not agree that Bush "doesn't care about black people" but I find it highly unlikely that she finds it "strange" that people (including many white people) believe this to be the case.

You've got to come up with something better than that, girlfriend.