Condi’s Conversion?
Last week Condi Rice said race was not a factor in the response to Katrina.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended President Bush on Sunday against charges that the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina showed racial insensitivity.
"Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race," the administration’s highest-ranking black said as she toured damaged parts of her native Alabama.
Later, during a service at the Pilgrim Rest AME Zion church outside Mobile, Rice nodded in agreement as the Rev. Malone Smith Jr. advised the congregation, "Wait for the Lord."
"There are some things the president can do; there are some things the government can do," Smith told about 300 worshippers during a rollicking two-hour service. "But God can do all things. I want you to know he’s never late. He’s always on time."
Rice later echoed the call for patience.
"The Lord is going to come on time — if we just wait," she said.
Now she says something different.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the people who were stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are evidence that race and poverty can still come together "in a very ugly way" in parts of the "Old South."
"The United States should want to do something about that," Rice said in an interview Monday with the editorial board of The New York Times. "There are still places that race and poverty are a huge problem in the United States, and we’ve got to deal with that."
Of course it could be that she’s been catching up on recent polls, between shopping trips.
I don’t know if the Lord came on time or not, but it looks like the polling results sure did.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
and apparently Bush is taking responsibility for the failures of the federal response to the katrina disaster.
wow.. did hell freeze over?
or polls just hit all-time lows?
September 13th, 2005 at 9:57 pm
how putting together a committee to decide if she wants to run of her