Condoleezza Rice spoke positively last week about Barack Obama's race speech, so positively (considering the man she works for) that she must have really, really loved it. She takes issue with the idea that black people supposedly don't love their country just because they criticize its racist past (and present). She also calls our America's racial history the country's "birth defect."

"There is a paradox for this country and a contradiction of this country and we still haven't resolved it," Rice said. "But what I would like understood as a black American is that black Americans loved and had faith in this country even when this country didn't love and have faith in them, and that's our legacy… My grandmother and my great-grandmother, and my father, who endured terrible humiliations growing up — and my father in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and my mother's family in Birmingham, Alabama– still loved this country….But if anybody believes that black Americans love this country any less than white Americans do, they ought to go and talk to people who live under very tough circumstances, sometimes doing menial labor and doing tough jobs, and really all they want is the American dream. All they're focused on is is their kid going to be well educated enough to go to college and have a better life than they had."