Don White, you say "I have labeled people like ...Condo [sic] Rice as cannibals. Because they 'eat' their own kind to get ahead." Don, now by what conceivable grounds do you say that Rice is a 'cannibal' but Powell is not? Is it because Powell had issues with the Bush/Rumsfeld Iraq policy while Rice has not, at least publicly? Other than that, their profiles are amazingly similar. Both are black Republicans and super-achievers with compelling personal stories, who rose to serve as Secretary of State under GW Bush.
Simple. Colin was qualified. Condo is not. I dispute she is a super achiever.
She got both her WH jobs because she was black. To get ahead, she has cheerfully consented to be “used” by whites in this case GOPs. She has 5 books bearing her name - from her UC days where it’s publish or perish - but 4 of the books are co-authored. Which in layman’s terms means she paid someone to write the book. Aside: once she claimed to have a ‘special connection’ to the 16th Street Baptist Church, but it turns out she was only 3 years when the 4 much older girls were murdered. She dropped that one.
I will give her this much: She is smarter than or as smart as George W Bush. Often called Dumbya by his friends.
[edit on 1/19/2008 by donwhite]
