Comments on: Minority Appointments: Bush vs. Clinton

By: floyd

floyd — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:14:57 +0000

so " the content of their character" really doesn't matter yet?

By: Jem

Jem — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:07:01 +0000

Before Bush took office, no minority had occupied any of the four highest-profile Cabinet positions â�� attorney general and the secretaries of the Defense, State and Treasury departments.

Won't Madeline Albright and Janet Reno be surprised by that news! I'm sure they believed they had served, respectively, as SecState and Attorney General before "W" took the oath. I'd say my impression of the story is that the use of numbers does not in any way connote greater realism--at least when reading the WaPo...

By: floyd

floyd — Tue, 09 May 2006 01:22:13 +0000

didn't they mean "not as perverse as clinton's"

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Mon, 08 May 2006 21:05:57 +0000

Bush is a conservative? LOL. The man spends like a thousand shopaholics on speed and has us engaged on a bloody, expensive and probably futile nation building exercise in Iraq.

Conservatives are appalled.

By: legion

legion — Mon, 08 May 2006 20:30:41 +0000

Competent? I've got a Presidential Daily Briefing here that says otherwise... In fact, Dick Cheney didn't think she was so hot as Nat'l Security Advisor either - he tried to yank her NSC authority away from the beginning of this administration. And wasn't there a brief period where she was given responsibility for runnin ght re-building of Iraq? Yeah, she's got a lot of successes inder her belt... not. Of course, the lumber in your eye prevents you from grasping that Bill was talking about Bush, but whatev...

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 08 May 2006 19:14:53 +0000

What are you talking about, Bill? I don't know of any notable conservatives that would oppose Condi Rice running for the republican nomination for president. She's a "black" "woman" you say? Hmmm...I was only thinking about the fact that she is a competent conservative member of the Bush administration.

By: Bill K

Bill K — Mon, 08 May 2006 19:05:15 +0000

Except when it comes to President of course.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 08 May 2006 18:54:58 +0000

Liberals are the racists, because they try and fill the numbers just to fill the numbers. Conservatives don't care about gender or skin color, they just want the best person for the job.