Walters is unbelievable. After Whoopi raises a question about whether or not Condoleezza Rice would be a possibility as a VP candidate, Barbara demonstrates her ignorance:
BW: Let’s face it- they get a Black and a woman, alright- if they have her as a Vice President. I think that’s the major thing. Other things he has to worry about- will the vice president bring a particular state? You know that’s very important. Will it bring a more conservative point of view because McCain needs to get that conservative vote? But if you talk about Condoleezza and you have a Black candidate and you have a female candidate on the democratic side you get two for one (she pounds the table for emphasis)
Is BW so out of touch that she is oblivious to the efforts of many individuals and groups who tried to convince Dr. Rice to run for the presidency? These efforts began long before Obama was on the scene running against Clinton. These efforts began because anyone who has ever actually listened to Rice speak, or read her work, realizes her potential to lead has not yet been realized.
This woman, who has been vilified by liberals for being conservative while Black, is dismissed by the likes of the far less educated women of the View.
The irony here is that it is the Democratic Party that has chosen to put a woman and a Black man up for nomination based on gender and race. Neither Obama nor Clinton has a resume that would merit a CEO job at a large publicly held corporation. The fact that they are the best the Democratic Party can offer should sadden all of us. Perhaps this is the natural result of a weakened educational system that passes failing students and increasingly spends limited resources exposing students to ideological rather than academic lessons.
In short, Obama has found success for a simple reason: The Democratic Party decided in 2004 to push Obama as a national candidate. While a relative unknown, he was given an incredible opportunity to speak at the national convention, setting him up for his Senate run in 2006. His speech opened the floodgates for donations and media attention. Obama had not earned that speaking slot- he was selected because those in power thought he would appeal to the Democratic audience. That’s politics.
Hillary Clinton would have never been elected to the Senate if she were not the wife of Bill Clinton. That is reality.
Both have risen to their positions in the Senate for all of the wrong reasons- Obama has no experience in the Senate of note and his contributions to the Illinois senate certainly didn’t seem to stand out. It is ridiculous for anyone to say that he would be where he is today if he were not Black. Geraldine Ferraro was correct in her assessment of Obama's success. (Click here for NYTimes Article)
I wonder if anyone will question BW's comments as devisive or racist- she said the same thing Ferraro said about Obama, only in reference to Rice. I am pretty sure everyone ignored BW's comments- the media only cares when the qualifications of liberals are questioned.
If you added the accomplishments of Clinton and Obama together and then doubled them, they still wouldn’t equal those of Condoleezza Rice before she became the Secretary of State. Rice did not rise to power because of her race- she built a career that did not culminate in being a law professor- she was Stanford University’s Provost for six years and oversaw a budget of $1.5 billion and 1400 faculty members. (Let us not pretend either that Stanford University is a conservative institution or that Rice could have successfully handled this position without an amazing amount of talent.)
Neither H. Clinton nor Obama have any executive experience or achieved any accomplishments that seem worthy of the most important job in the world. How sad that in the United States, today, nearly half of our country seems unable to tell the difference between merit and media hype…
Joy then, in her infinite wisdom throws out: What is the Ku Klux Klan going to do in this election?
Whoopi- trying to sound intellectual asserts that she can’t understand why they would do this because “It would be quite transparent.”
Elisabeth tries to correct the record: Don’t shortchange her either in terms of qualifications. She’s been a woman who is incredibly powerful and I’m sure has a lot of information than maybe another candidate would in terms of the Democratic, I mean Republican, Vice Presidential seat. She’s been there, I mean look, if you’re going to take away from her qualifications I don’t think you can just say “It’s good because you would have a Black person and a woman.”
Whatever-at least she tries to take the correct position...
Whoopi and the others then quickly reiterate the move would be too transparent, Joy makes a joke about Condoleezer and the Geezer and they all laugh their way to the next topic.
A brief biography of Dr. Rice- who has a master’s degree from Notre Dame and her Ph.D. from the University of Denver- can be found by clicking here.
I now remember why I started to blog on these people’s “Views” and am sorry I stopped…