Thread: Rice breaks with Bush over anthem

Rice breaks with Bush over anthem
From: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Washington

May 01, 2006

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18 ... 09,00.html


US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a rare public break with her boss, saw no problem with a Spanish-language version of the national anthem criticised by US President George W. Bush.

Mr Bush last week added a new dimension to a debate over immigration by rejecting a Latino recording of Nuestro Himno (Our Anthem) and declaring the Star-Spangled Banner should be sung in English.

But Dr Rice, one of the president's closest aides who has backed him down the line on every issue from Iraq to national security wiretaps, took a different tack on the anthem.

"From my point of view, people expressing themselves as wanting to be Americans is a good thing," she said in an interview on CBS television's Face the Nation program.

"I've heard the national anthem done in rap versions, country versions, classical versions. The individualisation of the American national anthem is quite under way," she said.

The chief US diplomat suggested the language of the national anthem was less an issue than the growing polemic over immigration reform in the United States.

"I think what we need to focus on is an immigration policy that is comprehensive and that recognises our laws and recognises our humanity," Dr Rice said.

"From my point of view, people expressing themselves as wanting to be Americans is a good thing," she said in an interview on CBS television's Face the Nation program.

By the light of the dawn, do you see arising,
what we proudly hailed at twilight's last fall?
Its stars, its stripes
yesterday streamed
above fierce combat
a gleaming emblem of victory
and the struggle toward liberty.
Throughout the night, they proclaimed:
"We will defend it!"
Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave
above the land of the free,
the sacred flag?
Its stars, its stripes,
liberty, we are the same.
We are brothers in our anthem.
In fierce combat, a gleaming emblem of victory
and the struggle toward liberty.
My people fight on.
The time has come to break the chains.
Throughout the night they proclaimed, "We will defend it!"
Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave
above the land of the free,
the sacred flag?

Where is this does she see them expressing themselves as wanting to be Americans?

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I have a feeling Dr. Rice's poll numbers are going to fall now.

I hope she meant it when she said she doesn't want to run, because she won't be able to recover from that statement.

At least she FINALLY spoke up and showed US the real Condaleeza Rice.

Boo, Rice, Boo

MJ

Condoleezza Rice is an idiot and a globalist traitor just like her mentor Jorge Piñata Bush, Vice President of Mexico and China's Chief Trade Minister. As far as Rice backing Bush's Iraq policies to the hilt, that only indicts her as being as stupid, unprepared, and inept as Jorge himself is. What's her next move, complimenting Muslim terrorists on their selection of head rags? Talk about being out of touch and cluesless. By the way, who the hell names their kid "Condoleezza"? Was she named after a temporary rent situation or what? I don't get it.

I bet this is how Bush really feels about it, he is just getting Condi to take the fall.

I think they should have named her Condom-leaka...

Another traitor to our country in government what else is new?