Showing posts with label Condoleezza Rice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Condoleezza Rice. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Condoleezza Rice, Darla Moore First 2 Female Members At Augusta National
In a historic change, Augusta National invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first female members since the club was founded in 1932.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Condoleeza Rice On Hurricane Katrina: 'I Should Have Known Better'
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeCondoleezza Rice says she "should have known better" than to leave Washington as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans in 2005, writing in her book, and admitting in a telephone interview Wednesday with theGrio, that she let the president down.
In her book, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington, former George W. Bush National Security Advisor and the nation's 66th Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice chronicles the highs and the lows of her time in the Bush administration, describing her pivotal role in shaping policy and trying to stave off crises at the White House. In the case of Hurricane Katrina, she admits she didn't succeed at the latter. CONTINUE....
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Former Secretary of State Plays With The Queen of Soul
Image via Wikipedia
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama in new audio message
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and LEE KEATH
CAIRO,Egypt (AP) — Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
Al-Zawahri also called Obama — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama in new audio message....
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
MCCLELLAND BOOK HIGHLY CRITICAL OF RICE: Author says Condoleeza, despite being highly intelligent, chose to be Bush's yes-person.
The controversial new book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is harshly critical of Condoleezza Rice – the nation’s second African American secretary of State.
The book is entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception."
It portrays Rice essentially as a s ycophant or yes-person who basically sought to agree with President Bush even when he was wrong.
STORY....
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
