Ann Coulter
In light of their reaction to the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, I gather liberals have gotten over their enthusiasm for multiculturalist milestones. It's interesting that they dropped their celebrations for the "first woman!" "first black!" "first Asian!" designatoins at the precise moment that we are about to get our first black female secretaty of state.
When Madeline Albright was appointed the FIRST WOMAN secretary of state, the media was euphoric. (And if memory serves, Monica Lewinsky was the first Jewish female to occupy her various positions on the president's, uh staff.)
With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack soley for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.
But the girls in the mainstream media were too smitten with Albright's brooch collection and high heels to notice the shambles she was making of foreign policy.
The New York Times raved about Albright's brooches in an article titled, "A Diplomat Who Says 'Read My Pins." Perhaps Rice could impress American journalists if she talked more about her accessorizing.
But Bush nominates a brilliant geopolitical thinker who happens to be black anf female and all of a sudden she's Butterfly McQueen, who don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no Middle Eastern democracies.
Apparently, liberals beleive Rice compares unfavorably to madeline Albright, whose principal accomplishment before becoming secretary of state was managing to attain the age of 60 without realizing she was Jewish. That was raw competence.
Or how about Clinton's first secretaty of state, Warren Christopher, a lawyer whose dazzling foreign policy consisted of being President Carter's cheif negotiator for the hostages in Iran? That's almost as impressive as a resume entry as "Chief Iceberg Lookout, the Titanic," "Senoir Design Engineer, the Edsel," "Navigator, Exxon Valdez," or "Writer?Executive Producer, 'Alexander."
The closest black woman to Bill Clinton was his secretary, Betty Currie-whose principal function was penciling in "Monica" on Clinton's "To Do" list every morning.
George Bush chose a black woman to be his top advisor on antional security. Now he wants her as his secretary of state. and when she becomes the first black female secretary of state, Rice will replace the first black secretary of state-both appointed by right-wing Republican George Bush...................
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In light of their reaction to the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, I gather liberals have gotten over their enthusiasm for multiculturalist milestones. It's interesting that they dropped their celebrations for the "first woman!" "first black!" "first Asian!" designatoins at the precise moment that we are about to get our first black female secretaty of state.
When Madeline Albright was appointed the FIRST WOMAN secretary of state, the media was euphoric. (And if memory serves, Monica Lewinsky was the first Jewish female to occupy her various positions on the president's, uh staff.)
With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack soley for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.
But the girls in the mainstream media were too smitten with Albright's brooch collection and high heels to notice the shambles she was making of foreign policy.
The New York Times raved about Albright's brooches in an article titled, "A Diplomat Who Says 'Read My Pins." Perhaps Rice could impress American journalists if she talked more about her accessorizing.
But Bush nominates a brilliant geopolitical thinker who happens to be black anf female and all of a sudden she's Butterfly McQueen, who don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no Middle Eastern democracies.
Apparently, liberals beleive Rice compares unfavorably to madeline Albright, whose principal accomplishment before becoming secretary of state was managing to attain the age of 60 without realizing she was Jewish. That was raw competence.
Or how about Clinton's first secretaty of state, Warren Christopher, a lawyer whose dazzling foreign policy consisted of being President Carter's cheif negotiator for the hostages in Iran? That's almost as impressive as a resume entry as "Chief Iceberg Lookout, the Titanic," "Senoir Design Engineer, the Edsel," "Navigator, Exxon Valdez," or "Writer?Executive Producer, 'Alexander."
The closest black woman to Bill Clinton was his secretary, Betty Currie-whose principal function was penciling in "Monica" on Clinton's "To Do" list every morning.
George Bush chose a black woman to be his top advisor on antional security. Now he wants her as his secretary of state. and when she becomes the first black female secretary of state, Rice will replace the first black secretary of state-both appointed by right-wing Republican George Bush...................
www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/printac20041202.shtml