Executing Bush Diplomacy
From the "What Color is the Sky in Your World" Files:
LONDON – Happily contemplating another woman as the top U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will offer advice, privately, and then get out of the way.
"She won’t — and you won’t — hear from me again," Rice said on the day President-elect Barack Obama named Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the next secretary of state. "I will certainly not make the effort to comment on everything that is done."
I wish I could say that’s because Rice and the cadre of BushCo. criminals will be too busy defending themselves at The Hague, but the probability of that borders on nil.
To achieve any success, Hillary Clinton should review Condi Rice’s portfolio, and run screaming in the opposite direction in order to return our country to its former status as a willing participant in the world community, not the crotch-grabbing bully we’ve become since George Bush took office.
Fred Kaplan wrote Rice’s professional obituary as late as November, last year:
Over her three years as secretary of state, [Condoleezza Rice] has squandered great opportunities by putting faith and loyalty above her old worldview. The problem isn’t just that she has swerved from the realism that propelled her to prominence; it’s that the result has been a shambles.
…
Rice remains one of the architects of a fantasy foreign policy, and her record as secretary of state gives little hope that she’ll be able to reverse that verdict in the administration’s final months.
Rewarded for her immutable loyalty after serving as the completely ineffectual National Security Adviser, SecState Rice gullibly forced her "husband" George Bush’s messianic vision of Middle Eastern democracy on an unwilling audience, stupidity for which we have paid dearly, and will be paying for it for generations to come. Hardly the ideal person to be giving Hillary Clinton advice.
Heckuva job, Condi. Now go celebrate your pending liberation from the vicissitudes of international diplomacy with a shopping spree at Ferragamo. Because that’s really what you do best. Don’t forget your mallet.
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Just please don’t repeat that salacious tabloid rumor about Condi and W having an affair that caused Laura to spend the last four years living in the Mayflower hotel.
Hecka’ Job Ricey!
Hey, Condi was the one who called him that. ;-)
Mums the word… shish… Don’t repeat that..
She did. Makes no sense. She obviously has him over a barrel in the brains department, yet she doubles for his
piss-boywife.I am actually surprised the the University of Denver has not revoked her Ph.D., since her conduct as SoS and Nat Sec Adviser clearly demonstrate that she obtained it under false pretenses.
Digg it here!
Shorter Condi: I hear there’s a Fire Sale at the Taj
Not a fantasy foreign policy, a nightmare foreign policy.
hello, wt!
Ouch!
How you doing, Petro? Any more news from home?
Why not repeat it? Because it’s been in the National Enquirer? Oh, right, they are always wrong about politicians and their peccadillos….
anyone have a link to a quote where Rice referred to Bush as her “husband”?
I have heard the rumor many times but never seen a source.
TEDDY!
I thought I had heard rumors that Condi was one of yours, Teddy.
I wonder if she really is malicious or if she just decided she would devote herself to Bush/Cheney unconditionally. Course if she did, it is beyond malicious.
I guess I wonder if she thought she could separate herself from the rest of the administration somehow…
I do not get the impression that she is malicious, just disconnected and totally incompetent.
Petro, have you forgotten your hotmail constituency?
Many friends and their friends have perished … some orphans left behind but they have enough family and money to live well.
OTOH, the families of those waiters and laborers who died have lost their breadwinners and I don’t think the politicians will help them in any meaningful way.
gay white men?
i don’t think so
I really wonder about her. We don’t really know anything about whether she’s become wealthy, do we?
in her mind, maybe…
actions matter.
Heck of a job, Condi. Zelikow still adores you. Can Hillary have your power boots?
Oh, god. That’s what I was wondering about. So sorry.
here ya go!
So sorry to hear of your loss my friend. It is a tragedy for all who are affected by it and for the country as well. I suspect you are correct about the government aiding the victims and their families. From what I have been hearing, they seem to all be playing CYA.
You know what I mean.
Sorry to be OT but hoping someone can help me guess who David Gregory’s first guest on MTP will be. I’m down to Joe the Plumber or Karl Rove.
Sarah Palin?
That’s a good guess as well. I’m beginning to see a pattern.
Be nice dude.
Whatever her preferences are has nothing to do with Teddy.
She’ll be a loyal soldier to the end, our little supertanker princess.
;>)
That was not my point. He just has access to a grapevine that I do not. Perfectly in keeping with the speculation about her relationship with Dubya.
My whatsis ?!!
That is old news, even I heard about that one.
Condi can give Clinton invaluable advice on what kind of shoes to wear to a do-nothing Middle East peace conference or that stilettoes are really the thing if you want to get down and dirty on a meeting on torture.
Love it, but who’s the guy on the far right?
Bwahahaha … ((( Teddy )))
I emailed you days ago…heard nothing back and you had me worried!
How soon they forget the keeper of the Hot Tub
;>)
Condi takes those suckers off the minute she hits her hotel room. Then she soaks her feet in hot water in the bathtub with epsom salts.
Ah, yes. That’s a slimmer picture of our hammer.
I’m not sure. I think she may like the pain. It would certainly explain her relationship with Dubya.
I replied to you the very day. Many tense days & nights and extremely grateful for the many friends here and their outpouring of love for my family and I !
(((Petrocelli. Big hugs.)))
Didn’t get the email…
She plays chopsticks while
NeroBush fiddles …Save they were not content with merely burning down Rome. They went for the whole world. I cannot think of an international situation they have not made worse than it was when they came in.
‘Well, fiddle D.C.’
;>)
That is true. Think really hard and see if you can think of anything at all that this administration has done to help out?
I’m very thankful they won’t be in charge when Netanyahu takes over in Israel. Would be very dangerous.
I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist that set- up … *g*
((( db )))
Now, don’t get any of that Canuck stuff on me…It leads to political turmoil, I’m told.
;>)
Leads to fallen governments, I hear.
What, BC Bud ? Harpuh had waaay too much of it …
Please see your Doctor if your
erectionelection lasts more than 6 months …Condi will be far too busy ruining the NFL to offer any helpful advice to Hillary.
I hear our Canadian pups are quite happy today. ***Best Wishes***.
LOL!
She does rather have the merde touch, doesn’t she?
I believe that’s spelled “Freedom” touch.
For which you need to stock up on “Freedom” paper.
Yep, Harpuh’s gettin’ the Boot next Monday … he can go back to Calgary and gorge on Big Macs ’til the cows come home !
Skdadl & I will be leading the Snoopy Dance …
Harpie got his lunch eaten this week…He’ll have to break his widdle piggybank for some ‘political capital’, and he doesn’t have until January to spend it.
Too bad
;>)
I wish our relief could come even half so soon.
((Petro))
Think I will make it an early night. Have to get used to this whole getting up in the morning thing again for a couple of weeks. Then I get three weeks off. Yay! Take care all.
G’nite Sir !
((( Margot )))
omg it’s The Kid!
Condi may preside over the 49ers, since she plans a return to the Bay Area. I hope the Ladies in Pink welcome her warmly wherever she goes.
((Petro and kith and kin))
Well, bring the music and teach us a few steps!! I’ll bring the Wild Turkey!
thanks for the link, Teddy…if you’re still here…that is a pretty specific rumor!
NOoooooo … Wild Turkey makes you dance like this guy !
Thank you all … let’s keep working for World Peace …
Sorry, dude…
Wild Turkey makes you dance this guy!
Linky no worky, newt …
Oops…
This guy.
I was always like that after I loaded Vista … *g*
Gates was glad at that moment that he had handed over the company.
Or despondent.
I think it was fear of Ballmer …
That fellow seems a bit demanding…But nobody dances like the dancing masters.
;.)
*spew*
Women dress them with their eyes ! *g*
In loose-fitting sacks with drawstring headbands.
;>)
ROFL
OT but now that CitiGroup has a lot of money from us, they are going to spend some of it. They are buying highways in Spain and Chile. It is a complicated deal costing about $10 Billion. It seems to be a New World Order type of deal, but the Pennsyvania Turnpike may not be available.
Halfway there…Just a few quick tugs, some engine blocks, the deep blue sea, et voila.
…Thet’s Canook for ’splash’, eh?
;>)
I think it is malicious to accept and play act at a job you know you are not competent to do.