re: #354 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

They kicked her and Colin to the curb, and afaic won’t hesitate one second to do it to Cain, Thomas or anyone else who steps out of line.

1. Actually, I was referring to racial taunting of Rice by media-worthy whites and blacks: politicians and political operatives.

2. IMO it seems plausible that Powell was eased out as Secretary of State to make room for Rice, who was tight with Bush.

3. My respect for Powell increases as time passes. Rice, while a very high achiever, IMHO was a victim of the Peter Principle.

4. I get furious when self-anointed “patriots” attack the man who said this:

Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of preserving the rights of people.

And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, “Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us”? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are.