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Condi cons crowd in SF

by seniornude
... one queer's opinion of Rice speech ...
Despite protests, Dr. Rice spoke in SF on Friday, May 27.
A few hours later, I listened to her speech on public radio, KQED-FM, including interruptions by protesters.

Like Brit PM Tony Blair, she speaks eloquently. And, also like Blair,
she justifies the actions of inarticulate George Bush.

Personally, I admire Condi's intelligence.
Yet I must blame her for Bush's decisions about Iraq,
since she taught him what little he knows about world affairs.

After her formal talk, she was asked a question about
human rights for "gay citizens".
Her reply sounded very vague, at least to me.

-- SF queer
on Friday night

.......

Here's an SF Chron report
(which doesn't mention the gay angle):

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/28/RICE.TMP

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How has our great nation become so benighted?

If only Rice had played piano at Davies Hall, rather than deliver her soulless Neocon performance of lies!

Maybe she would be a happier person (her "under-fire confidence" strikes me as unhealthy).

Maybe our country would not be besmirched with a reputation as a major international violator of human rights. Maybe our country would not be seen as the greatest contributor to the total of this planet's suffering.

Maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent people would still be alive-- to decide for themselves a justice for Saddam Hussein (that is slipping away under American auspices).

Maybe our country would be safer from real terrorism rather than poorer and more vulnerable due to colossal waste and misdirection by an administration that capitalized on their plan for war after 9/11.

What did Rice mean (paraphrasing) by a "War without borders?" What did she mean by "putting one's head down to pursue aims without deflection or hindrance?" What did she mean by equating all US foreign policy goals to the pursuit of "freedom"?

What does she think Freedom means?

Why hadn't anyone asked her at the Commonwealth Club?

Isn't it telling that Rice would expound the glory of freedom of speech as Medea Benjamen and other protesters were cuffed and hauled away?

When will Medea be invited to Davies Hall to speak before the Commonwealth club?

by Socialist
A perpetrator of the 9/11/01 Inside Job, who admitted on CNN that she warned then "mayor" Willie Brown not to fly on 9/11/01 8 hours before he was to do so, and a promoter of all the heinous crimes against humanity at home and abroad of the Bush Administration, the administrative body of the capitalist class of the US, is profoundly stupid, has absolutely no integrity and talks like the childish idiot that she is. She has more blood on her hands than any Nazi ever could because the US is a nuclear power, and thus more dangerous. Condolezza Rice and the rest of the Bush Administration are best described as criminally insane.

I urge the peace movement to (1) increase the expose of the 9/11 Inside Job and (2) demand to have a celebration of peace at our beautiful, tax-supported symphony hall, without paying rent, as the City of San Francisco allowed this desecration to take place, against the will of the people of San Francisco, who voted in the last election for peace. It just shows the Democratic Party machine at City Hall is just as reactionary as the Republicans. After all, Pelosi, Feinstein & Boxer all voted for the latest $82 billion for Iraq and for the fascist "Real ID Act."
by left activist
"Nazi Rice is Not Intelligent or Eloquent",
says Socialist [May. 28]

....

S's thesis seems to go like this:

"(1) Rice is evil.

(2) No evil person can be intelligent or eloquent
( = evil persons must be stupid and inarticulate).

(3) Therefor Rice cannot be intelligent or eloquent."

.......

Let's agree, arguendo, that Rice is evil.

There's still no historical evidence for belief #2.
(Probably it's based on wishful thinking;
or on rhetoric demonizing one's enemies.)

Many evil persons have earned Ph.D.'s,
as Rice has done;
or MD's, as fascist Dr. Frist has done.

Saddam and Pope Benedict are intelligent;
no matter how evil they may be.

.........

When you underestimate your opponent(s),
you weaken yourself.

......

A radical's emotions are needed
to get him/her ready to act.

But then, to act effectively,
one must also use logic.

If you let your emotions
wipe out
your ability to think logically,
you weaken yourself
and your cause.
.....

Politics,
like judo,
is an art.

The rich and powerful can afford to play clumsily;
because they may still win.

The weak must make best use
of their scarce resources.
Starting with their own brains.

......










by Socialist
There is no intelligence in being a fascist. Saddam Hussein was just a fascist puppet of the US who got uppity and demanded to be paid in euros for Iraqi oil; hence the illegal invasion of Iraq. I suggest you read Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror, wherein he describes the crisis with the US dollar vs. the euro vis-a-vis oil. He also has lots of other useful information on the 9/11 Inside Job.

This is not gut reaction; this is objective reality. I do not know what she claims to have a Ph.D. in, but without human decency and culture, it is not worth two cents. She is a bloodthirsty, torturing, war criminal, from perpetrating the 9/11 Inside Job to supporting the torture perpetrated by the US everywhere to supporting the illegal invasion of Iraq. She was, after all, Ms. Standard Oil, with an oil tanker named after her. All she cares about is maximizing the profits of the capitalist class, for whom she speaks.

As to medical doctors, presumably like the Nazi Dr. Mengele, who may be medical doctors but profoundly evil, intelligence is not measured in being sufficiently good at math and science to be a medical doctor (which Rice is not, by the way). Intelligence is measured in how one treats humanity, and especially how one treats the workingclass. That is, intelligence is demonstrated in knowing right from wrong. Both Rice & Mengele fail any and all intelligence tests in that regard.

As to superstitious hustlers, whether they be popes, rabbis, preachers, imans or all the other parasites who insist on selling superstition to others who do work for a living, they are simply con artists. There is nothing intelligent about that; in fact, it is profoundly evil.

I have been among rich people who did well in school but were profoundly reactionary and poor people who never had a chance to go beyond high school, if that much, but demonstated profound intelligence and would not dream of committing the crimes against humanity Rice has perpetrated. Having a college degree does not demonstrate intelligence.

I too have heard her speak and she sounds like a childish idiot. There is no original thinking nor any decent thought coming from her criminal mind. She is obviously profoundly sick and evil, that is, she is criminally insane.
by montblanc
Ms Rice has not only demolished her own reputation among knowledgeable and decent folk. She has sullied as well the institutions that sheltered and fed her. It is sad that 'equal rights' in the United States failed to include a clause which, in some manner, prevented the beneficiaries of such policies from reproducing the evils upon others that they were meant to efface from their own experiences.

You see, 'women's rights' (or any other 'rights') mean nothing if they lead to enabling females to engage in conduct directed at oppressing others to the same degree if not worse than humans, including females, were subjected to within the USA (and without, given the USA's 200+-year-old history of imperialist savagery) before such statutes were approved.

Capitalist systems create situations of injustice which indeed can be blind to the minutiae of identity. Civil rights in such a context are only a prolegomenon to true rights for all. Reverend King was right on the ball when he stated, shortly before his murder, that (and I paraphrase) capitalism had to be trascended, and a reasonable manner of managing planetary resources in humankind's benefit was needed, urgently.

Nonetheless, I congratulate Ms Rice upon her accession to Ph D status (not always easy, folks!), and I would like to encourage her to renounce her affiliation with the repugnant institutions that named a ship after her and named her secretary of state of a criminal administration. Hands that can express the classical Western legacy of beauty ought to be able to demonstrate with rare finesse humankind's ability to set aside poor choices and rise, phoenixlike, to heights matters at hand require.
by Messenger
Intelligent??????

She allowed this administration to place her at the head of the National Security Administration as they planned a "New Pearl Harbor". How does it look that the worst attack on the US mainland
happened when the first "woman" was head of the NSA?

They are geniuses.......she is a complete MORON!!!!!!!
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