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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: No 2016 Plans

Mar. 2, 2013 12:56pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (Getty Images)

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday again shot down the idea of running for president, telling a San Francisco audience she’ll continue to do public service, just not from the Oval Office.

“I learned that running for office really wasn’t in my DNA when I helped [President] George W. Bush run in 1999. We’d go to maybe five campaign events in a day..and at the end of the day, he was raring to go and I was raring to go to bed. And I thought, ‘Maybe this just isn’t for me,’” Rice said, according to The Hill. “But I’ll continue to do public service as I hope we all do.”

Rice was the only former Bush cabinet member to speak at the Republican National Convention in August and at the time seemed to hint that she wasn’t entirely ruling out her own bid.

“A little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham, the segregated city of the South where her parents can’t take her to a movie theater or to a restaurant,” Rice said at the convention. “But they have her absolutely convinced that even though she can’t have a hamburger at the Woolworth’s lunch counter, she can be president of the United States if she wanted to be, and she becomes the secretary of state.”

Rice, who recently joined CBS News as a contributor, said Friday she does miss her old colleagues from the nation’s capital — but not much else.

“I do miss the people that I worked with in Washington. I don’t miss anything else about being in Washington,” she said.

(h/t The Hill)

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tommysoap
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 4:13pm
Good! since Rice, I’m sure is still too busy rinsing out her undies over her “gushing” about Obama’s victory in 08.

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- orangeman
  Posted on March 3, 2013 at 9:10pm
  Run for office Condi. We need an intelligent, refined lady in office. Your not Pelosi.You have much to offer the country.Plus, you are much prettier than Michelle.I been a fan for years. Your great girl!
  
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509Ptrooper
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:45pm
First, it doesn’t matter who gets in the WH. Until we restore the Republic back to it’s original form and intent of the framers we are going to go down the same path. We need to restore federal common law, get out of the UN and hang those (of course after a trial) who have committed treason and sedition against the Republic, shitcan the Federal Reserve and take back out gold, declare war on the IMF and World Bank, and free the states from the federal death grip. This is just a start. Care to add anything?

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on March 4, 2013 at 11:40am
  The PROGS AND COMMIES AND JIHADISTS will destroy her as usual during the election…and the second it’sa over the PROGS will erase all the fake-allegations as if they never happened!!
  
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pghpatriot
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:10pm
This is good news. We can’t afford to lose another presidential election even before it’s run.

Though plenty smart enough and eminently qualified, like Romney, she doesn’t have the combativeness needed to win. From now on, I don’t think qualifications will be enough to win over the 47%. Your can’t be angry, belligerent and mean spirited, but you have to be able to enter the shark’s cage and come out, bloodied, but alive. I don’t think she would have the stomach for that. She is too refined and too much a classy lady.

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paul_mx
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 7:32am
I won’t trust anyone who will not defend themselves!! And this woman has been savaged and she acts like she is above answering any criticism. Quick wits, fire in the belly and a sharp mind should all be part of a political leader.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:41am
I won’t ask her to go to Japan, but maybe she can help them out, or convince us to convince them to do something they might not be doing? If you can spray water on a fire, why can’t they spray asphalt, then concrete on that broken mess?

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truthnstuff
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 7:52pm
That RINO would take a likin bigger than McCain the Shame, or Romney. There would be even more conservatives who would withhold their vote.

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riseandshine
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:56pm
No Vulcans. No PNACers.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:33pm
Why would she? She’s not exactly qualified. 1,000 times more qualified than obama, but what kind of barometer is that? Obam is the least qualified, least competent, least accomplished, least AMERICAN President we could ever possibly have. obama is an illusion. A mythical creature made up by the progressive alinsky party. Obama is dead man as soon as he is worth more to them dead than alive. obama leads nothing. His teleprompter is all that he is and all that he will ever be.
His usefulness has almost run it’s course. He will soon be worth more as a martyr than a spokesman. At the hands of those who made him.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 5:02pm
  GP, I want to cogitate on this, specifically the phrase “not exactly qualified”.
  That suggests the REAL question is Two Fold.
  1. What ARE the “qualifications” I want in my Prez?
  2. HOW, in what context and in what way, does a person ACQUIRE those “qualifications”?
  
  Charlie The Kraut(hammer) let the cat outa the bag back in 08 that “The GOP noms its Prezcandy by Primogeniture–inheritance of the Eldest.”
  Since Reagan that ain’t worked out worth sheite for Constitutional Conservationist Extremely Radical Limited Government Types like me. So EFF THAT idea.
  
  THAT in turn suggests what I call The Sheriff Langston Principle. John Cleese as Sheriff Langston says of himself in “Silverado”, in his Best British Public School Diction: “I’m not from around these parts.”
  Ruling Class Aristos are rarely voted out of office, they are Guillotined.
  I mean to DIS-empower DC in a kind of DISembowelment as the PRELUDE to DISMEMBERMENT, kind of way.
  That suggests I have going to need to look for somebody OUTSIDE the Beltloop entirely.
  
  Beyond that somebody who has LEAD people SUCCESSFULLY–that could be Business, Military, or Non-Profits of the NOT Redistribution of Wealth Sort. (Red Cross, Boy Scouts of America, that kind of thing.)
  Best Scenario is Someone who has shown they can do all Three—Officer, Businessman, Philantropist, and yet has never been closer to Government than Town Council or School Board.
  
  cont.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 5:06pm
  part 2 in the hope part 1 made it
  Now before you say: “Foreign Policy” I think anyone who has been “at the sharp end” knows what a Prez needs to know about the PRINCIPLES of Foreign Policy. What I really want is someone who KNOWS how to SURROUND himself with THE MOST USEFUL Experts. Experts not just knowledgeable, but ABLE to communicate and evaluate. And with the kind of Character that doesn’t hedge, but tells it like it is. Experts who are themselves leaders, but also team players. I want a Prez who has the Character and Confidence to lead that team of Experts.
  
  [NOTE---I just see right now who my subconscious Model is----will tell you at the end---anybody want to guess.]
  
  It is important that they NOT be a Lawyer, though some experience and knowledge of The Law would be good.
  Nobody who has ever sold their services as a lobbyist, no talking heads or broadcasters or writers, no career Politicians or Bureaucrats.
  No one primarily an Academic, Think Tanker or “Political Organizer.”
  
  Some experience as a Teacher or Coach would be good.
  
  What I want is Mike Krzyzewski channeling George Washington
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:19pm
The Democrats have laid too many financial land mines for them to stay in power, they will have to loose power in order to maintain their illusion of credibility, meanwhile give Republicans a fire too big to put out in time for the next election, and bingo, you think you live in a Democracy with no voter fraud?

Any questions?

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:35pm
  Yep– It’s not really a question, but if every alinsky radical was put in prison tomorrow, the U.S. economy would come screaming back. Let’s keep things in perspective, The alinsky radicals will do anything to try and make you forget this simple truth.
  
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- jakartaman
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 5:02pm
  So you think there will be an election in 2016.
  I am of the opinion that we may not have an election.
  When the world economy’s house of cards falls in on itself – there will be no governments anywhere.
  It will be like the wild west and every family will be on their own.
  This is a good thing that I look forward to.
  We as a civilization have lost the basic survival of the fitness thingy. As a result the fit have to support the growing numbers of the entitled or stupid unfit.
  When the SHTF – the unfit will die – leaving the fit to rebuild civilization.
  
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riseandshine
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:13pm
The powers that be will get their guy in no matter what.

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Gladileftcalifornia
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:11pm
Good because I wouldn’t vote for her.

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- bitterclinger
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:24pm
  Praise Gaia. She’s a RINO and totally ineffective.
  
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- dwsmokin
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:37pm
  Yep-be a shame to vote for a self-made black woman with experience in virtually all aspects of the Federal government. Not to mention experience and credibility in foreign relations. Why in the world would you support a candidate like that.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 3, 2013 at 4:31pm
  Anyhoo, we already had one war criminal as President – who needs another.
  That’s the REAL reason she won’t run.
  Condi has a lot of ‘splainin’ to do. And can’t.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:01pm
I wasn’t aware there was any clamor for her to run.

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 7:54pm
  But…..but……..but…….she is black!
  
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MCLOVINIT
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:01pm
Good!
I’m not sure, but isn’t she one of those pro-abortion, “BABY KILLER”
Republicans, like media pundit Charles Krauthamer?

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The Big Mick
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:55pm
2nd attempt.
Good for Condi. I’d just as soon see NOBODY run in 16.
MY solutions START with a gigantic “Red Dawn” “Hun Circle” just outside the Beltloop that slays Every Living Creature inside with Fire and Sword.

For me in 16 it is The Big Mick Pledge for Candidates–follows,
OR “None of the Above”.
Ever since Reagan I have been offered NOTHING but “the lesser of two evils”. THAT has got me HERE! HERE Sah ooks, in case you missed the memo

NEVER again.
TBMPFC or NOTA

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Eastinfection
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:52pm
“CONDOLEEZZA RICE: NO 2016 PLANS”

Sweet. I don’t have any plans for 2016 either.
Hey Condi… whaddya say we go grab a drink or something?
Maybe play a few rounds at Augusta?

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:01pm
  EastyB you are getting to be as sly a dog as Spanky.
  YOU just want to play at Augusta.
  Though I got to admit, if Condi is past the “slap and tickle” age she WOULD be a sparkling conversationalist.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:11pm
  desperate ?
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:45pm
Works for me.
I’d prefer to see NOBODY run in 16.
What I want is a gigantic “Red Dawn” “Hun Circle” just outside the Beltloop that slays Every Living Creature inside with Fire and Sword.

Below is The Big Mick Pledge for Candidates.
I either get it in ’16 or I’m voting “None of the Above”–which is a valid write-in vote in Presidential elections here in VA, already checked with the registrar.
EVERY time since Reagan I’ve been offered ONLY “the lesser of two evils”. That got me HERE.
Here SUC KS in case you missed the memo. NEVER again.
TBMPFC or NOTA.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:00pm
  The Big Mick Pledge For Candidates*: To be taken In Writing and In Public with no omissions or equivocations.
  
  1. WIN the War for Survival against Islamic Jihadism on all fronts.
  
  2. DEFEND our Southern Border against La Raza’s Reconquista Invasion. (BUILD the WALL! SEAL the Border. PROSECUTE Illegal EMPLOYERS. NO AMNESTY.)
  
  3. RESTORE Constitutionalism by appointing ONLY Strict Constructionist Originalist Judges from a consensus list of the Top Ten Most Originalist Strict Constructionists.
  
  4. REDUCE the size of the Fed.Gov. 3% in Real, Absolute, terms, not mere slowed growth, every year of their administration. Or, alternatively, eliminate three entire Federal Departments every year of their administration, or reduce the Federal Work Force 3% every Year.
  CUT Taxes across the board permanently. Repeal ObamaCare.
  Radically Reduce All Foreign Aid and Redirect it ONLY to Battle Proven Allies.
  
  5. SECURE our Energy INDEPENDENCE by FULL an COMPLETE MAXIMUM exploitation of ALL our Domestic Energy Sources. Build, Drill, Dig.
  SECURE our Borders, Culture, Language.
  SECURE my Sacred Franchise by a fraud proof, iron clad system of Voter Registration, ID, balloting, and counting.
  
  WIN DEFEND RESTORE REDUCE SECURE
  
  *Big Mick Pledge v2.3 with emendations by Tinslder and Tarua.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:01pm
  Nevada actually had a “none of the above” option on the ballot in 2012 senate race (not a write-in). 4.5% of the people actually showed up to vote “none”….They are the true patriots
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Nevada,_2012
  
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neverending
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:30pm
Good for her. I am sure she realizes there are far more imporant things to life then throwing yourself to the wolves which is basically what politics is anymore. Have so much respect for her – so brilliant, so very talented and just a good and decent person all the way around.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:13pm
That doesn’t matter. She couldn’t possibly win anyway.

The state-run media is FAR too powerful. They’d paint her with a George Bush brush so hard she wouldn’t even vote for herself. The no- and low-information voter would eat it up.

As much as I hate the idea–and I do HATE the idea–if Hillary runs, Hillary wins (probably in a landslide).

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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:36pm
  If Hillary was elected in 2016, ran for re-election in 2020 & the economy was poor, the Democrats still would not “own” the economy according to them.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:40pm
  The majority of politicians have a law degree, juris doctorate. What most don’t do is study military science or economics. They dabble in those subjects but they have no quantitative knowledge of those subjects. It is why things are so messed up.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:40pm
  Naw it’s Mooshell, Pharoah BO the Thirdterd around!
  
  But, you ARE correct, sir.
  You cannot, nor ever will again, be able to OUTVOTE these POS.
  
  So what is your plan B for securing your Sacred Liberties?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:53pm
  no we just need people who phD in common sense
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:21pm
  “no we just need people who phD in common sense”
  
  That works too. But if someone with out a degree of any sort was elected to high office & suggested that in most years we spend no more than we raise in taxes, they would be laughed out of office.
  
  I don’t think you need a degree anything, everything or multiple degrees. One poster opining about the BP oil spill thought that a person had to be a geologists, an oceanographer & a physicist before they could intelligently solve the oil spill. Apparently, she never heard of multidisciplinary teams of people that work in corporations & other organizations. I should have screen printed the post & the article.
  
  You can’t possibly be expert in everything. The last acknowledged polymath died 150 years ago or more. My beef is that people keep advocating government ponzi schemes among other things because they are innumerate. Their skills are not up to a 8 or 12 grade level in most subject if any. So it all comes down to who you know, how many people are in your side & which expert your believe.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:08pm
Glad that she has no plans for a 2016 run.
I used to love Condoleezza, but she has turned too liberal for me.
At one time, I would have voted for her, but not now.

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- chucksue351
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:30pm
  just another CFR retread
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:56pm
  The CFR takes in people from both parties. The gave membership to someone recently, who I though had no credentials. Someone from pop culture I think (if I remember correctly). That damaged their credibility in my eyes.
  
  They put out a publication called Foreign Affairs. You should read it. Check it out at the local Library so that you don’t fund them. Everything that they publish is not bad.
  
  Many military officers read it. One article was about the Chinese String of Pearls defense policy. Basically China wants to build up base on island chains & keep the U.S. out of the Western Pacific if the countries came to loggerheads so China could engage in commerce there but the U.S. could not. Remember China was really upset when ewe said we would base troops in Australia. That is behind one of their 3 or 4 strings (defense lines).
  
  They have Tom Broken (brokaw) on the Board of advisors, SAD DAY. Just because he reports(?) (edits the news low) does not mean he knows WTH is going on.
  
  Basically if you have risen to position of prominence in government they give you an invite.
  
  But again many of these people are lawyers (juris doctorates), which means they are bigots due to their limited training.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Affairs
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 3, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Her gal pal agrees with ya.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:02pm
condi wont run because she knows the unwritten rule is that only one moderate is allowed to run so that the 5 or so “conservatives” will split the votes and lose

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- DLV
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:15pm
  Who are the “conservatives” Soy? Santorum? Gingrich? Romney?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:24pm
  anybody but romney my friend
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:56pm
  Romney is your friend SOY? lol.. just teasing.
  
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wilbstal
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:02pm
I like Condi, but I will never ever vote for a Black for any office as long as I live. Obama has taught me they cant be trusted with importamt decisions that affect Americans.

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- greggor
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:12pm
  That’s really unfair and uncalled for.
  Can’t you say the same thing about Billy boy?
  
  Besides.. Obummer is half white. Why would you hold his black half responsible for his evil ways? His white mother was just as evil and came from a communist family.
  
  Please.. reconsider.
  If you don’t care for her views, that’s one thing.
  
  I thought we were over the skin color thing. You don’t hate Obummer for his skin color, you hate him for his policies.. and so do I.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:14pm
  That’s incredibly short-sighted. I can’t tell, however if you’re being sarcastic or not.
  
  Color has nothing to do with it. Clinton was a douche, Carter was a douche, Bush was a douche. Just because Obama is a douche of a different color doesn’t make him any more or less of a douche. The fact that’s he’s a Marxist makes him more of a douche than anything else.
  
  Current, and future douche’s include Hillary, Bloomberg, Cuomo, Christie…..etc.
  
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- FlagWavingPatriot
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:21pm
  I know quite a few people who think that way now (who certainly never seemed to prior). Barry has set race relations back decades.
  
  Barry’s parents, friends, associates, mentors, teachers and church all hate/d America. Why would anyone think he turned out any different? Of course he hates America. He’s been dividing us every way he can since he took office, all the while destroying our economic present (and future).
  
  The man is a disgrace. And so are the idiot voters who support/ed this guy.
  
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- catty
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:26pm
  talk about a low information voter!
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:46pm
  You are wrong!!! If people grow up with a strong family background with God Family truthful education of the founders anyone can become elected..I don’t care what color they are….
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:13pm
  I’d vote for the Blackest guy or gal you could find -if he respected the Constitution.
  
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- wilbstal
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:34pm
  dont speak for me please no more blacks, this is a color what part dont you undersatnd. I was not racists until Obama came along
  
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