Condi Rice can’t even get an op-ed piece published. She’s just not newsworthy.
Her co-writer Price Floyd said:
The piece, he said, was littered with glowing references to President Bush’s wise leadership. “It read like a campaign document.”
He left the government left the State Department on April 1, after 17 years.
he was fed up with the relentless partisanship and the unwillingness to consider other points of view. His supervisor, a political appointee, kept “telling me to shut up,” he said. Nothing like that had occurred under Presidents Bill Clinton or George H.W. Bush. “They just wanted us to be Bush automatons.”
I think that a democracy is defined as a place where people have dissenting voices–even in the government
I don’t like or enjoy politics. I do enjoy living in a country where everybody has an equal voice.
I agree with you - the famous quote describes a “government of the people, for the people”. What America currently has seems pretty close to a dictatorship, because the ruling party lost the last two elections and is still in power.