Condi Rice on the race card

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Herman Cain should not be playing the race card in an interview aired after the former pizza executive said he is being attacked by liberals for his race but not by conservatives.

"I actually am someone who-- doesn't believe in playing the race card on either side. I've seen it played, by the way, on the other side quite a lot too. And it's not good for the country," Rice told CBS' Norah O'Donnell in an interview that aired on CBS' "The Early Show" on Wednesday.

Asked on Tuesday if race had anything to do with the allegation of sexual harassment more than a decade ago, Cain told Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer "I believe the answer is yes, but we do not have any evidence to support it."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_...oleezza-rice-to-cain-dont-play-the-race-card/

OK, let me get this straight, you say don't believe in playing the race card, yet in the next breath, you do exactly that.
 
I agree with Alferd on this. Rice said that race had something to do with the allegation of sexual harassment more than a decade ago. I assume that means but for Cain's race, no allegation would have been made. I'd call that playing the race card (by Rice).
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
Rice said that race had something to do with the allegation of sexual harassment more than a decade ago.
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did she? the quote in the OP about race and accusations of sexual harassment is from Cain not Rice, I presumed that was the quote she was responding to with her comments,
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
I agree with Alferd on this. Rice said that race had something to do with the allegation of sexual harassment more than a decade ago. I assume that means but for Cain's race, no allegation would have been made. I'd call that playing the race card (by Rice).
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Could you quote where Rice says that please?
 
"I actually am someone who-- doesn't believe in playing the race card on either side. I've seen it played, by the way, on the other side quite a lot too. And it's not good for the country," Rice told CBS' Norah O'Donnell in an interview that aired on CBS' "The Early Show" on Wednesday.


Asked on Tuesday if race had anything to do with the allegation of sexual harassment more than a decade ago, Cain told Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer "I believe the answer is yes, but we do not have any evidence to support it."
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quoted from the OP with my bolding.
 
brodski said:
did she? the quote in the OP about race and accusations of sexual harassment is from Cain not Rice, I presumed that was the quote she was responding to with her comments,
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D'oh! My bad. I misread that as being Rice's answer to Krauthammer's question.

:blush:


I retract my support for Alferd's statement.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
D'oh! My bad. I misread that as being Rice's answer to Krauthammer's question.

:blush:


I retract my support for Alferd's statement.
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I know that people have trouble distinguishing facial features from people of other races, but I never knew it could be applied to misreading their names too :p:p:p

"Yea, their names all sound the same to me"
 
Newtons Bit said:
I know that people have trouble distinguishing facial features from people of other races, but I never knew it could be applied to misreading their names too :p:p:p

"Yea, their names all sound the same to me"
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:D

The problem is me reading the first part of one paragraph and the last part of the next paragraph without reading the intervening stuff.

For some reason I had the image in my mind of Rice being interviewed on TV and just assumed any quote I was reading came from that interview.

Just laziness.
 
I'm sick of this expression, one made even worse when someone says, "they played the race card, and they dealt it from the bottom of the deck." A really good card mechanic can deal it from the center, or execute a Greek deal (i.e. second from the bottom).
 
the race card n. Any mention of race by a member of a racial minority without the advance permission of the majority group to do so
 
There is some sickness loose in the country when I find myself fully on board with Rice.

If he is sleazy enough to turn off a ruthless party hack like Rice, Cain has got some serious re-branding to do before January.

And then there is that idiotic appeal to sympathy that he made, comparing what the press are doing to him and what they did to that nitwit Thomas.

Message for both Thomas and Cain:

Dudes, people don't hate you because you're black. They hate you because you're nasty.
 
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