Condoleezza Rice at the Republican Convention: A REAL Major Political Star Is Born? (Video of full speech)
So far at the Republican convention, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is now considered to have flopped in his speech, Ann Romney delivered as expected and Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan hurled partisan red meat, sparked immediate controversy with the accuracy of his confidently-stated assertions, and tried to woo independent voters.
But if there is someone who is now being considered a full-fledged, real potential political star of the futur after speaking to the convention it is former Secretary of State Condoleezaa Rice. Yes, she was a partisan. But not a small-minded partisan: her speech seemed the kind of speech from an era when partisanship was an honorable thing — not a thing of flippant talk radio sound bytes, insulting emails, or party hack slogans that sound more like teasing than serious discussion. In a sense, her speech seemed oh, so 20th century in her desire to talk to and try and move minds, offer big-picture concerns and set the stage for serious debate — not merely hit emotional hot buttons.
View it here, and judge for yourself:
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Sweet, we will be invading Iran now? How we forgot her involvement in iraq already?
Apparently so. Forget about all the death and destruction she had a part in, try to concentrate on the pretty speech.
As far as speeches go it was very good.
They all believed he had them. All may not of voted to go to war, (Ron Paul) but many did. The 8 years of Clinton’s years said they did. I remember before the war there were Satelite photos of trucks leaving Iraq going into Syria. Did we ever find out what they were.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp
I thought she was great, and i’m generally not a big fan of hers. It’s funny how some people can transcend the prior knowledge you have of them, while others can’t. I notice that people who lean left and even some partisan Democrats are praising Rice even though she clearly is tied to a lot of what was wrong in the Bush administration. I was flipping channels last night and noticed Chris Matthews seemed starstruck over Rice, while others on his panel weren’t swayed.
Anyway, she connected well last night, good for her. I read one blogger touting her for Sec of Ed in a Romney administration, which would follow logically from her education comments last night.
I don’t know. If they are going to eliminate the Department of Education, maybe she could then move to Secty of State again. That went well the last time.
It is no shocker that Matthews was starstruck over her. There are people that are swayed by personality…CM. Then there are people that are swayed by record… ME!
I voted for McCain because of his bipartisan record. I was not swayed by Obama’s nice speeches and personality…not too mention that he only promised to be bipartisan and had no record to back that up.
Wow, SL, what now? Is this a harder choice?
dduck… I would have considered voting for Romney had the Republican party not gone off of the deep end. Romney is an extremely malleable personality and I really dont trust his record from a decade ago against the onslaught of insanity that is the Republican party. I wont consider voting for ANY Republican. I have never in my life voted down the line for one party… I have even not voted in contests where I wasnt well-informed, such as for water district manager.
But this election…I will vote Dem down the line.
Wow, again, Good luck.