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[fpb]

I am not saying that the points I am going to make are very politically significant or have any great value in terms of good and evil. At best they are an indication of how the Republican Party of the US deals with particular situations

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[patchworkmind]

I have to know. I can understand the whole thing about Bush being an underintelligent, but...

... Rice is an African-American woman and quite likely a lesbian.

Where does that come from? I could be in the dark and simply ignorant, but... I've yet to see that indicated in any way.

I don't rightly care, but I am really curious about it. It isn't the first time I've heard it thrown out into discussion.

[fpb]

The way I hear it, there are no men of any kind in her known past, and she has cohabited with another woman for ten years. My point is, this means nothing to me - on the political side - and pretty much to everyone, but it is like what it was like to be a Jew or a German in the 1970s: just close enough to times of prejudice and hate to carry a little frisson of alienness.

[patchworkmind]

I was wondering because frequently news and such makes its way around Europe without touching down in the states, and quite often it turns out to be correct.

The U.S. press tested the waters a while back, on the op/ed pages of course, and it received a very negative reaction from the general public as well as certain outspoken Rice/Bush opponents in Congress who were kind of put on the spot because of it.

I didn't know of there was something (again) that was circulating over yonderways that was waiting to hit here. While this odd little press phenomenon is sometimes a bit irritating, because it points out glaring deficiencies in the principles and practices of American journalists in general, I do not find it at all surprising.

[goreism]

*scratches head* ... soooo, you're saying Rice is bombing Syria without telling us?

[goreism]

Hey, do you remember that Doonesbury (sometime around the time of the hostage crisis) where Honey is in Kissinger's class? Something like "Is he still sore about being a war criminal?"

[fpb]

Dunno. But if she is ever caught accepting a Nobel Peace Prize along with Ahmedinajad's foreign minister, I will begin to wonder.

[neigedens]

Kind of like "Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln and Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy" and all that.