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I agree whole heartedly -- Condi said exactly the right things, and sincerely, too. The reference to "perfect union" was eloquent and meaningful. Maybe I shouldn't have written her off.

As well, did you catch what Dubaya said about the election, and looking forward to having the Obamas (with children) to the White House? It may have been Dubaya at his best. With the overtures to N. Korea, and now demonstrating warmness to an Obama presidency, maybe he has learned something after 8 years.

And her "who would have thought they'd use airplanes" incompetence.

And her not-so-veiled mushroom cloud threats about WMD's.

And her enabling of a Bush foreign policy that has resulted in a Trillion Dollars (that's $1,000,000,000,000.00) and 4,000+ US lives being poured down a rathole in the desert.

And her go-along-to-get-along behavior regarding violations of the Geneva Convention, and torture, and extraordinary rendition.

And her smugly ignorant portrayal as Secretary of State.

Condi's name was thrown about as a possible VP choice for McCain, and although I know he wanted to remove himself from "W" as far as possible, I thought she would have been a much better choice than Palin if he was looking for a historic running mate. She's far smarter, way more experienced, and both African American AND a woman.

It really touches me to think that she's not actually a neo-con robot. I'm happy that she's happy. And personally, I'm so happy I'm near tears all the time today.

Poor Rice -- even her smile is smothered by the mask she wears. That makes me sad, that thin line of a smile she's fighting to control in the face of history.

the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in September 1963 (and why don't we remember that as a domestic terror attack?)

That one's easier -- because hate crimes never seem to get recognized as terrorist acts, just as hate groups seem to evade classification as terrorist groups. Even when they bomb people, murder people, terrorize people, commit acts that are the very definition of terrorism (even using GW Bush's blinkered, self-serving conception of what "terrorism" is, hate groups surely qualify) -- somehow, they evade that tag.

The double standard of the right-wing law enforcement mentality keeps that tag from being applied to it, I think. For sure in 1963, when J. Edgar Hoover could've given a rat's ass about hate groups, when contrasted with chasing down communists and leftists.

I mean, Cuba's Alpha 66 is a terrorist group, too, but our government's fine with them, because they happened to inflict terrorist acts on Cuba. Terrorism is either always wrong, or it's never wrong -- much like torture, there's really not much gray area in place with it. Call them what they are, when they do what they do.

who'd a thunk it!

Ignorant? I hardly think so. Perhaps the Black race is the superior race.

They have surely learned in the School of Hard Knocks.

I'd hope to see Condi Rice on TV playing the piano.

She's a war criminal. don't give her too much sympathy and accolades, please.

...it's tempered by all of the harm she's done during the past eight years.

If we're all lucky, the president-elect that she so admires will soon put her, President Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld behind bars.

Then we can once again rejoice in all that this country has to offer.

It was very moving, and very genuine.

I will be excited when Condoleeza Rice is up on treason charges for her enthusiaistic support of the illegalities of Bushs' administration. She has pandered and pimped for him , and completely ignored her duty to the America that she professes to love. She should have been right in there slowing and cautioning Bush, prior to the start of hostilities in Iraq, not just enabling. She is disgusting.

I'm not so sure in the case of Bush

That a leaopard can so quickly change its spots

And as for foreign policy "expert" Madame Rice

I'm glad she can smile just like the best of the Bots

. . . than witnessing one who has been dishonest to herself? Has she pursued one form of bliss, to deny herself another, one more attuned to her own truer self, sensibility, desires? She has not sold her talents cheaply, but she has sold them more cheaply than may have been necessary. Sad, sad, sad . . .

And don't forget the shopping for shoes while New Orleans and the Gulf Coast was being blown off the face of the earth.

No one in that war crime administration gets any feel-good from me. They murdered hundreds of thousands of people by purposefully perpetuatin lies. Fuck Condi.

As a Southerner and a feminist, I've always been torn between utter disgust and disbelief at Condoleeza Rice's complete capitulation to the Bush agenda and pride and admiration for a woman who came from where she did, and has achieved what she has. It's both miraculous and horrifying, just as James Meridith's working for Jesse Helms was horrifying.

Yet of course she must be proud of Obama, just as I am proud of her.

Also, it occurred to me last night, as I watched the returns, that if it weren't for George Bush naming Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice secretaries of state, would the Obama presidency be possible? Couldn't it be that seeing a black man, and then a black woman, in that incredibly important position may have been the final straw to allow skeptics to believe Obama could be president?

As the saying goes, it's an ill wind that blows no good. Perhaps without the Bush presidency, the Obama presidency may not have happened.

An awareness that our shared humanity is a slow-moving behemoth, not a monoblock capable of lock-step changes. A feeling that at our cores we share a vision of peace but see it under attack, in each of our worlds around us, through our own set of blinders. Our challenge is to slowly remove our blinders.

That Condi Rice would show an unseen side of her humanity further affirms the notion that, however misguided, she performed her duties with a kernel of peace in her heart. I felt the same for John McCain during his concession speech. I swear he voted for Obama too.

It is as if McCain, Rice, even GWB tried their best, screwed it up and know that it is time for someone like Obama to have an opportunity to try and guide the behemoth further on it's way.

Besides, as it has always been, someone needs to rebuild the coffers today so that it may be looted again in the future.