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Now, Deborah Orin in the New York Post: “It\u2019s not just Republicans who are livid at how Democrats have ripped into secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. So are plenty of black Democrats who say their party now risks alienating its most loyal supporters — and it doesn\u2019t help that Howard Dean, the front-runner to be the new DNC chairman, cheered the anti-Rice crowd. Dean, after all, had to apologize last year for vowing to ‘court guys with confederate guys in their pickup trucks.'” Remember that? And, by the way, I saw a story, got it here in my stack somewhere. Dean is considered a front-runner for the DNC job, which is not what Hillary and Bill want and a whole lot of Democrats don\u2019t want it but he\u2019s considered the front-runner, this story says, in part because he has an ability to reach out to southerners. I don\u2019t know where this is coming from, but nothing could be further from the truth. You go down there and you talk about how we gotta court guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks? He had to apologize for that, yet he is considered their best liaison? If Dean\u2019s the best they\u2019ve got to court southerners they\u2019re in worse trouble than even I thought.<\/line>It also doesn\u2019t help that (New York democrat) Senator Schumer, “who voted for Rice, nevertheless used the battle to send out a fund-raising e-mail for Senate Democrats featuring Barbara Boxer who called Rice a liar. Democratic pollster Ron Lester, who is an expert on the African-American vote, said, ‘The Democratic attack on Condoleezza Rice was very foolish and potentially costly because it could backfire among blacks. A lot of African-Americans are watching this and they\u2019re wondering why Democrats are going after her so hard. She has an exemplary record. She\u2019s probably better qualified than most secretaries of state that we\u2019ve had. Besides, the Democrats have supported far less qualified blacks in other positions, and they\u2019ve triumphed and they\u2019ve tried to push them ahead on the basis of affirmative action.'” They believe in affirmative action, minority rights, and here comes a female African-American they\u2019re doing their best to sandbag her. Now, I don\u2019t want to go too far with this. This is not to say that Condoleezza Rice is a above criticism, nobody is saying that, nobody is saying that it is incorrect for people to disagree with her policies or this kind of thing just because these black doesn\u2019t mean she should get a pass. And that\u2019s not what the blacks are saying and that\u2019s not what anybody else is saying. <\/line><\/p>\n

What they don\u2019t understand is, that here you\u2019ve got this party that has swept qualifications and everything else aside to promote black people simply to promote black people and other minorities, women, and now all of a sudden here comes an eminently qualified woman and they\u2019re doing their best to destroy her personally. <\/emphasize>You know, they aren\u2019t allowed to call each other liars on the floor of the Senate. Senator X can\u2019t call Senator Y a liar, but they can do it when they talk to a witness or a nominee such as Condoleezza Rice. You know, so what you\u2019re having here is a mixed message to the very loyal African-American community, loyal to the Democratic Party. Even if they don\u2019t know Condoleezza Rice that well, they see an accomplished black woman being destroyed or attempted to be destroyed, by the Kennedys and the Boxers of the world who, in other branches of life, go out of their way to promote less <\/emphasize>qualified minorities. And so it\u2019s causing them to scratch their heads. “Another high profile black Democrat was even more blunt, saying the taxi on Rice featuring Ku Klux Klan kleagle Robert Byrd<\/a>, made me sick to my stomach,” unnamed high profile black Democrat. “Only 13 Democrats voted against Rice but party leaders were incapable of reining them in and so let them become the public face of the Democratic Party. The only black senator, Democrat Barack Obama [Osama] of Illinois, voted for Condoleezza Rice.” He was the only one.<\/line> <\/line>Now, what is this, “The party leaders were incapable of reining them in”? Don\u2019t believe this for a second, folks. Those 12 seconds were leading the charge for a bunch of other Democrats who are afraid to do it along with them! Harry Reid was in on this. This was all part of a planned scheme to raise money and to try to obstruct her ability to be secretary of state and her future opportunities as a candidate. This is right out of their playbook. For the story to hit now that these were renegades, out of control, that the party couldn\u2019t control \u2019em? Come on, folks! We didn\u2019t just get off a turnip truck yesterday. I\u2019ve never even been on a turnip truck. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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