The Associated Press: Rice departs predicting a world free from tyranny
Rice said her own story — the first black woman to serve as secretary of state — showed how far the United States has come in making its ethnic, religious and racial diversity a catalyst for social progress.
"And that's why I know that one day there is going to be a world in which every man, woman and child will be free from tyranny," she said.
And Barack Obama’s election is why I know that one day is very very far off. In the name of crass venal politics, the first black president of the USA was chosen to preside over a nation that his backers made out to be buried under a mountain of problems that no one can solve to the point no one has any hope that trying is even worth it, and made out that he will solve it almost as soon as he enters office even though the man himself has basically said “whoa, no way, MAYBE two years out” and then presented a policy of even greater spending than that which he criticized his predecessor for, which he and his backers have all made out is the primary reason for this mess.
It’s as if someone said the Atlantic Ocean needs to be emptied, it can only be done with a teaspoon, the person who filled it was a reprehensible monster for doing so, and the person selected to empty it out is going to do it by dumping in another' ocean worth of water first and have it all done in less time than it took to fill it.
SAY FUCKING WHAT?!
Bareback O’Rama will be a prescient name for me to have chosen for him. I get the feeling that in a few short years he will in retrospect have been much better off as a swimsuit model or on a resurrected Baywatch. One of those.
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