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“Do your homework, first:” Condi Confronts a Critic

April 30, 2009 by GayPatriotWest

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confronts a misinformed critic of the Bush Administration:

Wish more of her colleagues had challenge critics as directly as she did above and wish that the Bush White House had done more to promote such challenges.

Had W had Obama’s public relations commitment, he would likely have left office with much higher approval and the angry left would find less traction in the MSM for many of their allegations, nearly all of which are based on an incomplete knowledge of the facts.

(H/t:  Reader Leah.)

Filed Under: Bush-hatred, War On Terror, Where W went wrong

Comments

  1. Julie the Jarhead says

    April 30, 2009 at 8:17 pm - April 30, 2009

    And she’s single! I have a weakness for that “space in the middle of the front teeth” thing.

    Seriously, she’s a better woman than I. I would have taken the little punk over my knee for a serious paddling. And he would NOT have liked it.

    Thanks, Leah!

  2. Darkeyedresolve says

    April 30, 2009 at 8:29 pm - April 30, 2009

    Wow, that was pretty amazing…she took him to school. She has been my favorite person of that administration and I wish she would run for elected office. I totally love the part about the Supreme Court, oh she is a bad ass.

    I miss her, run in 2012 Condi..please..

  3. ILoveCapitalism says

    April 30, 2009 at 9:23 pm - April 30, 2009

    Totally worth watching and answers all the petty, hateful and *wrong* critics out there beautifully.

  4. Gene on Pennsylvania says

    April 30, 2009 at 10:20 pm - April 30, 2009

    Compare the style and respect accorded the questioner to the recent Barney Frank dialogue with the Harvard student. Note Barneys use of the straw man technique.
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/04/07/harvard_student_takes_on_barney_frank_over_economy.html

  5. Gene on Pennsylvania says

    April 30, 2009 at 10:23 pm - April 30, 2009

    One of the reasons I don’t mind former VP Cheney out there defending the Bush administration. Clear headed, straight talking defense of the past administration is possible from those with straight backs and the intellegence to stand and argue a point and not just try to make a 10 second sound bite like the liberals. Republicans are often too lazy to try to do what Sec Rice did with this young, brain washed student.

  6. Peter Hughes says

    April 30, 2009 at 10:25 pm - April 30, 2009

    I knew that video looked familiar! Thanks for sharing it, Leah.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  7. Steve says

    April 30, 2009 at 10:56 pm - April 30, 2009

    How tha hell can you be gay and conservative at the same time??? Conservative people hates gays! You must be out of your mind.

  8. meli says

    April 30, 2009 at 11:20 pm - April 30, 2009

    “How tha hell can you be gay and conservative at the same time??? Conservative people hates gays! You must be out of your mind.”

    How sad that some people cannot think for themselves.

  9. Leah says

    April 30, 2009 at 11:54 pm - April 30, 2009

    I can understand why Condi couldn’t speak like that while at State – but someone else in the former administration could have! The left wouldn’t have liked us any better, but there actually might have been a few minds changed.

    Not Steve of course, too much hate on his mind. Here’s a question for you. Many gays know real conservatives and don’t complain about hate. Steve have you ever met a conservative and given him/her the time of day to actually be themselves before your hatred and bile lashed out at them???

  10. North Dallas Thirty says

    May 1, 2009 at 12:24 am - May 1, 2009

    Conservative people hates gays!

    Well, I think that says it all for the intelligence of that troll.

  11. Levi says

    May 1, 2009 at 1:11 am - May 1, 2009

    Okay, I’m about 5 minutes in, and I’ve seen nothing here but a former Secretary of State absolutely humiliating herself. All she’s done so far is oscillate between stonewalling and rambling – it seems as if she actually thinks that this kid isn’t aware that the Nazis never attacked the homeland. She’s just hiding behind her position and incoherence to be really, really condescending for no reason at all. And while homeboy there didn’t know that the Supreme Court prevented those ‘trials’ from taking place, she fails to mention that those trials were stopped because they were a joke designed specifically to continue the indefinite detention of the detainees.

    I mean, it’s pretty mind-blowing to see someone defend themselves by pointing out that the Supreme Court ruled that what they were trying to do was illegal. Shorter Condi: “Yeah? Well we were gonna do something about those detainees, but the highest court of law in the land ruled that our plan was unconstitutional! So there!”

  12. North Dallas Thirty says

    May 1, 2009 at 1:18 am - May 1, 2009

    Okay, I’m about 5 minutes in, and I’ve seen nothing here but a former Secretary of State absolutely humiliating herself.

    In other words, she ate that leftist Obama shill’s lunch.

    This is what a competent black person looks like, Levi. Watch and learn, and maybe you won’t have to make so many excuses for why your Obama lies and supports the same “torture” policies over which you shriek Bush and Condi should be criminally prosecuted.

  13. Levi says

    May 1, 2009 at 1:28 am - May 1, 2009

    In other words, she ate that leftist Obama shill’s lunch.

    This is what a competent black person looks like, Levi. Watch and learn, and maybe you won’t have to make so many excuses for why your Obama lies and supports the same “torture” policies over which you shriek Bush and Condi should be criminally prosecuted.

    Again, this idiot just tried to use the fact that the Supreme Court ruled that their plan was illegal to prove a totally incoherent point to a college student. That’s competence to you?

    And my favorite part came towards the end, when she said ‘The United States was told.’ I’m trying to figure out what the hell that’s supposed to mean. Any ideas?

  14. ThatGayConservative says

    May 1, 2009 at 1:53 am - May 1, 2009

    she fails to mention that those trials were stopped because they were a joke designed specifically to continue the indefinite detention of the detainees.

    And you fail to mention that those trials aren’t even required under Geneva.

  15. North Dallas Thirty says

    May 1, 2009 at 2:04 am - May 1, 2009

    Again, this idiot just tried to use the fact that the Supreme Court ruled that their plan was illegal to prove a totally incoherent point to a college student.

    Again, the Obama Party shill who tried to argue that Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy believes that by screaming loud enough, he can impose his view of reality on the rest of the world.

    Obama Party members like you lie, Levi. You admitted that you lied to the rest of the United States when you claimed Obama was going to cut spending, and you don’t see anything wrong with it. We know you lie, and we’re calling you on your lies. You’ve never had that happen before, have you?

  16. The_Livewire says

    May 1, 2009 at 8:17 am - May 1, 2009

    Levi,

    Please click the link embedded in the post and stop watching Madalyne Albright videos.

  17. dts says

    May 1, 2009 at 8:19 am - May 1, 2009

    Yeah Baby – Gimme the NSC Condie over the SoS Dr. Rice any day. Is it just me, or does it seem to you that one of the requirements for being Sec of State is to check your spine at the door.

    I love seeing a know-it-all have his ignorance exposed.

  18. Peter Hughes says

    May 1, 2009 at 11:36 am - May 1, 2009

    #16 – Eww, talk about needing brain bleach after seeing Miss Not-So-Bright doing the hoochie-coochie with Kim Jong Il.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  19. Annie says

    May 1, 2009 at 11:51 am - May 1, 2009

    I is a Conservative and I don’t hates Gays! I hates peeple hoo tell me I is a gay-hater for being a Conservative!

  20. Juju says

    May 1, 2009 at 12:19 pm - May 1, 2009

    Thanks for the link, Leah. Love Condi! And she can speak without a Teleprompter. It constantly amazes me that the black community does not embrace this highly intelligent and accomplished woman.

  21. Jen says

    May 1, 2009 at 12:26 pm - May 1, 2009

    Condi is my hero. I love that woman. I know several people who are Democrats who think she is awesome and would vote for her no matter what she ran for. Oh and by the way I am a conservative Christian and I don’t hate gays. Anyone who says that must have just called out from under a rock

  22. Peter Hughes says

    May 1, 2009 at 3:37 pm - May 1, 2009

    #21 – “I am a conservative Christian and I don’t hate gays. Anyone who says that must have just called out from under a rock.”

    Hey Levi and meli – it’s for you.

    Checkmate.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    PS – Hi Jen and welcome to the site! Make yourself at home and please feel free to ignore the lower-case-losers.

  23. BC says

    May 1, 2009 at 4:35 pm - May 1, 2009

    Awesome post! Love the beginning when she schooled that kid about the 3000 Americans! I agree. More people from the past administration have to come out and say it exactly that same way. Make it clear that in the chaos and the fear, tough, rational choices had to be made to avoid another attack. ARRRGGGHHH!! I can’t stand the libs!

  24. OutliciousTV says

    May 1, 2009 at 7:33 pm - May 1, 2009

    Damn! She throws down. She earns points for even taking the time to address these armchair critics. B.O. would just brush them off and then the media would make them out to be lunatics.

  25. SoCalRobert says

    May 1, 2009 at 7:46 pm - May 1, 2009

    Condi makes a point that seems to slip right by too many people: the decisions made by the Bushies were made from a position of RESPONSIBILITY. As I’ve written previously, GWB and his team weren’t debating hypotheticals and abstractions; they were making decisions that had the potential of fending off further attacks or opening the door for further attacks.

    I would point out to that student (and to Levi, et al) that in previous wars, illegal combatants (out of uniform, deliberately targeting civilians with no strategic value) were, in many cases, shot in the field (perfectly legal).

  26. SoCalRobert says

    May 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm - May 1, 2009

    Filtered again.

  27. Levi says

    May 1, 2009 at 8:09 pm - May 1, 2009

    I am in awe at what you guys are saying about this video. This is a George Bush-on-a-bad-day level of performance. She loses her cool and tried to shut down the kid asking her questions.

  28. The_Livewire says

    May 1, 2009 at 9:00 pm - May 1, 2009

    I’m not surprised at you though Levi,

    That a person who doesn’t understand the constitution doesn’t understand a beat down by someone who does… doesn’t surprise me at all.

  29. Charles says

    May 1, 2009 at 10:14 pm - May 1, 2009

    Sorry to comment off topic – But I need some help.

    Every blog that I read on a regular basis that has a post with an embedded Youtube video seems to hijacked on my computer with another video. Every blog seems to have the same video regardless of what the poster intended, but the videos change each day.

    I have cleared my internet cache, rebooted, both several times and run my Norton anti-virus scan. Nothing seems to work. – any suggestions?

  30. BC says

    May 1, 2009 at 10:57 pm - May 1, 2009

    Levi – she was informing him that he was wrong in his information. He gets his info, like you, just from Keith Olberman and his buddies. Doing no research whatsoever. Think about it Levi – pretend she was talking to you. If on “your watch” you had some power while 3000 Americans died and a lot of them died by JUMPING to their own deaths to avoid being burned alive – you wouldn’t do anything in your power to stop it? Think LOGICALLY Levi!

    But then again it really doesn’t matter. Because IF we get attacked again at ANY point in Obama’s reign of power, you guys have it all figured out right? It will be Bush’s fault. The script is already written in that event. Pelosi, Reid and Levi are ready to point the fingers. So I guess that is why you would not want us to find out about other attacks. It just reinforces your arguments.

  31. Gene on Pennsylvania says

    May 1, 2009 at 11:25 pm - May 1, 2009

    BC the liberals didn’t give a damn about the Americans leaping to their deaths from the WTC. They lept to prevent themselves from dying in the flames fumes and smoke. The plunged to their deaths in shear terror. And these faux feeling liberals still don’t give a damn. I think if it were their mothers and sisters jumping from the WTC they still wouldn’t give a damn.

  32. Levi says

    May 1, 2009 at 11:29 pm - May 1, 2009

    Levi – she was informing him that he was wrong in his information. He gets his info, like you, just from Keith Olberman and his buddies. Doing no research whatsoever. Think about it Levi – pretend she was talking to you. If on “your watch” you had some power while 3000 Americans died and a lot of them died by JUMPING to their own deaths to avoid being burned alive – you wouldn’t do anything in your power to stop it? Think LOGICALLY Levi!

    He wasn’t wrong with his information – she just deflected all of his questions and started babbling incoherently about things he wasn’t asking questions about. And yes, I would do anything in my power. The problem with the Bush administration is that they grabbed a bunch of powers they didn’t have. I also would have tried a little harder to stop 9-11 in the first place, Condi and the rest of the administration were not on the ball.

    But then again it really doesn’t matter. Because IF we get attacked again at ANY point in Obama’s reign of power, you guys have it all figured out right? It will be Bush’s fault. The script is already written in that event. Pelosi, Reid and Levi are ready to point the fingers. So I guess that is why you would not want us to find out about other attacks. It just reinforces your arguments.

    When 9-11 occurred, Republicans put all of the blame on Clinton, so why wouldn’t that be prudent in a future terror attack?

    By the way, there isn’t going to be another terror attack. 9-11 was a total fluke that only occurred because Bush and Co. were asleep at the wheel. Obama won’t preside over a terrorist attack, and neither will the next President, and neither will the President after him/her. All of this will only reinforce the notion that 9-11 was the fault of lazy, negligent Republicans.

  33. Levi says

    May 2, 2009 at 6:01 am - May 2, 2009

    http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/05/01/john-dean-rice-may-have-admitted-to-conspiracy/

    Looks like Condi’s the one that needs to do her homework first.

  34. SoCalRobert says

    May 2, 2009 at 2:06 pm - May 2, 2009

    #11: Levi – I can’t get past the filter but, FYI, the Nazis did attempt to insert saboteurs into the US (eight if them, I think, in early 1942).

    They were caught. FDR ordered military tribunals. They were quickly convicted (late June of ’42). Six were executed six weeks later; the remaining two did years in prison.

  35. BC says

    May 2, 2009 at 8:06 pm - May 2, 2009

    Levi – REALLY???? Come on!! BUSH did not blame Clinton. Some crazy far righters did but the adminstration stayed focus on what they had to do and did it. With the first 100 days of this administration constantly pointing the finger backwards, its inevitible that it would happen if there is another attack. Here’s the not so funny thing – when Pearl Harbor was attacked no one blamed the sitting president or the previous president. They blamed the Japanese. Because they did it.

    And, if you are THAT ignorant to believe that another attack is not possible, you are the one asleep at the wheel.

  36. The_Livewire says

    May 3, 2009 at 10:02 am - May 3, 2009

    BC, Levi and facts don’t mix. Like sunlight and vampires, water and sodium, President Obama and responsibility.

    Levi. I’m sure you can provide links to back up your statements. Like you always do.

  37. thestraightaussie says

    May 3, 2009 at 9:28 pm - May 3, 2009

    This Aussie conservative says “Condi for president”. Damn she is good.

  38. Baggio says

    May 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm - May 23, 2009

    Somewhat agitated, defensive and visibly aggravated, Rice proceeded to chide the questioner in a reprimanding tone, telling him to “next time, do your homework first !” Her message, rather than a straightforward reply to an innocent inquiry, carried the subtlety and nuance of a calculated rebuttal warning any who second-guess the decisions of the former Bush Administration to “be careful what you ask, you just might get answered.”

    Although the question had been posed rhetorically over and again, from left to right, it perhaps came as a shock to her that anyone would have the audacity and the blatant disregard for protocol to ask it to her face. Rice, however, stood her ground propped by her unwavering pride that few persons on earth are privileged to enjoy. Yes, the indefatiguable truth that she had once served as Secretary of State of the United States of America, afforded her the confidence to take on and fend off this daring nay-sayer in a cool, collected and Condoleeza manner.

    Good job, Madame Secretary!

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