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Here's Condi weighing in on the issue, and it seems to me she's not on the same page as the president.

(CNN) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the people who were stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are evidence that race and poverty can still come together "in a very ugly way" in parts of the "Old South."

"The United States should want to do something about that," Rice said in an interview Monday with the editorial board of The New York Times. "There are still places that race and poverty are a huge problem in the United States, and we've got to deal with that."


Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it seems to me Condi is saying that Race is still and issue and was a factor in Katrina's aftermath. If Hillary Clinton had used thsoe exact same words, would she have been 'playing the race card'? Is Condi 'playing the race card'?