I Want Condi

From the very beginning, the presidential race should have been between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton opposing Sen. McCain and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It could still be if we quit wasting time.

-- Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal 08/12/08

I don't believe Condoleezza Rice can actually play piano. Everything else she's ever touched has been a fraud and a catastrophe, why should her alleged musical abilities be any different? Think about it. Think about any event she's been even remotely involved in since you first heard her name. An endless string of threats and blundering and arrogant bluffs turned squalid pigfucks. It's not that she can't do her job; she can't do anything. I think when she plays piano the piano catches fire and the audience dies.

So yeah, sure, Condoleezza Rice for Vice President. Time's a wastin'.

But there's one other thing that we're always told to keep in mind when we consider Condoleezza -- I mean, besides her wondrous ability to play an instrument: Whatever happens, It's not her fault.

Sure, she ignored the warnings about bin Laden, and she was shoe shopping during Katrina, and she can't find her ass with her hands on Lebanon, or North Korea, or Pakistan. It's not her fault because those aren't her area.

Her field of expertise is the Soviet Union. Ask anyone at the Hoover Institute. She's just brilliant on the Soviet Union.

She's written books on the Soviets, a dissertation even! She speaks Russian. She has impeccable credentials -- for a top slot in the Ford administration.

So it's not fair to get down on her for her inability to handle Zimbabwe or Iran or Venezuela; George W. Bush needed her at his side in case Brezhnev came back.

And she was a woman and a minority, too! Which would have been really something, in about 1975. But, considering the Berlin Wall had fallen in 1989, making a Sovietologist National Security Advisor was like putting Pocahontas in charge of NASA.

During Dr. Rice's tenure, we've had a devastating terrorist attack and two wars. Peace between Israel and the Palestinians went nowhere, and Pakistan sold everybody the bomb. In 2000, there was serious talk about making Bill Clinton Secretary General of the United Nations. In 2008, Mexico and England are the only places Air Force One can land without dropping flares.

But it wasn't her fault. She was standing watch on the Danube.

She's been trained since birth to handle Russia. If a strongman ever took over there she'd box him in faster than you could say "détente." And if that strongman ever even thought about invading somewhere? She'd know about it, and she'd slap him down faster than you could say "containment."

Or maybe not.

GEORGIA ROUTED AS PEACE BID FAILS

- Headline, Wall Street Journal 08/12/08

So where's Condi, while the French broker a peace treaty?

Has anyone checked the shoe stores?

Comments

[DestinationsUnknown]

Dana Pereno is bragging how Rice was just in the region, both Georgia & Russia. However, Richard Holbrook was on C-Span this am stating that Rice ONLY went to Georgia. Who do I believe? NOT DANA!

If this is the EXPERIENCE, the Republicans wouldlike to BRAG about, my flellow Americans, as IGNORANT as they are better think twice.

Why did Russia issue Ossetians 'RUSSIAN PASSPORTS' approx two years ago? Can any so-called JOURNALIST bring this to light and explain why this occurred.

[chappelforpres]

The Emperor, and his fawning entourage, are as naked as as newborns.

[rnadna]

Condi is a reflection of her boss! Need I say more!

And, oh, are we going to invade Russia now? After all, bush did pledge support to
Georgia. Where are all those Republican Hawks? Oh yes, on vacation. Will have to wait I guess.

The Paper Tiger a-flutter!!

[HillWilliam]

Where are those Republican Hawks? The same place they've been all along. Out in the henhouse, laying eggs. They talk a lot of badass, but when it comes to risking their own necks, they don't.

[TRWSEW]

Who are you to say?
I'm a Vietnam vet. I enlisted then, and didn't get drafted. Successful businessman. Going to take care of myself in retirement.
Govt says I'm too old to go back in.
But if they asked me to go again, I'd say when and where do you want me to report?
And there are thousands of great young men and women joining the services every year right now. This is a volunteer military. No one is there that hasn't volunteered.

I applaud their commitment to this great country of ours.

[TRWSEW]

I agree with "rnadna" above.
We need to support Georgia and send in the troops.
Let's kick their butt once and for all.

[Troubledgoodangel]

I wonder if President Bush sees "a kindred soul" in Condi also? After all, souls are colorless.

[Krankil]

Here's my comment yesterday to Chris Meserole's article: What Georgia got wrong. Yes Condi is the worst in the worst administration.

Up till right before the war between Georgia and Russia broke, I thought that Condi Rice had set a record of failure that no Secretary of State can ever break. Her job discription is to keep wars from happening and end the ones that have started despite her diplomatic efforts to keep them from happening. From the Iraq war to the Iranian crisis, the Darfur genocide, the Pakestani-Taliban revival and of course the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she has yet (few months before the end of her boss's term) to lead a resolution of any of these conflicts. Her diplomatic success rate is 0%. No one can beat that. Except Condi herself. How?
Her poor performance as Secretary of State has been overlooked and only her "assets" are always highlighted by right wingers (who don't want to seem racist by always falsly praising her). Assets created by the right wingers without any record to back them. Her main asset of course is her PhD on Political Science with focus on (guess what?) SOVIET UNION and EASTERN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
Had the war not started between Georgia and Russia, DOCTOR Rice will be remembered as the worst Sectretary of States in the nation's history. Unfortunately, this latest conflict made her resume even worse by raising the question:

[Krankil]

how did she get her PhD and what does she really know about the balkans and the ex-Soviet Union? (her area of expertise) .

There is talk that McCain will pick her as a VP(again by guilty right wingers who agree with her reckless policies and want to add some credibility to their racist attacks against Obama. The most hypocrite of all is Hannity). I say: Please go ahead and make her VP

[rmreddicks]

textbooks

[ProfessorDuh]

Oh, come on. Surely we all know why Rice is unelectable, don't we?

[wisdom101]

No we don't ? Can you expound ? We tried to read your mind, however, it's to complicate­d..Please express ....

[ProfessorDuh]

Let me put it this way. Who is Rice's husband?

[wolfgangmo]

I agree Duh, what in the name of GW are you talking about?

[FatherKindly]

SouthFloridaDem has summed up the problem with Secretary Rice perfectly. She has a great CV but was unprepared to take on the machinations of the Cheney wing of the White House. When history looks back on this administration they will discover that neither of our Secretaries of State had any input in our foreign policy: it was all designed and carried out by Dick Cheney and his crew of neocons. Condi Rice, with her tremulous voice and nervous, skittish stare, never had the guts to face these people down.

[deanfv]

Compare her CV to Obama's. 7 years as a community activist is hardly over-achieving for a Harvard Law guy.

[wolfgangmo]

Yah, but he's gonna be prez.

[wisdom101]

The myth that African Americans voted for or will vote for Barack because he's black, well, if Condi were to run, she will not get the same support as Obama has gotten thus far from African Amercians. Why ? Because she is exactly what the artilce says-a do nothing achiever. Doing the time of Katrina , rumor has it that she was on vacation shopping and seeing a play in New York ; she was confronted by a by-stander and she requested that the secret service make the person go away.

I don't believe that Condi's values reflects mainstream black America or America for that matter. Also, what has she accomplished as Secretary of State: Nothing, not one thing. When she travels around the world she's always quoting what "The President said"; I want to know what do you say "Condi"?And by the way, you can't make peace with other countries when there is no peace in the current Admin. The bottom line: you can't give what you don't have and you definitely don't have the black vote or the skills to be secretary of state-forget about runnining for president-just forget about it..

[gigi09]

They say ignorance is bliss. It is insulting to imply that blacks are only voting for Obama because he is African American! We were Clinton supporters­...don't ever forget that, although the Clintons have. We are voting for the Best Man for the job! Now the SILLY-HILLY women may have a problem, since they are not voting for Obama BECAUSE HE IS BLACK! I am not a Condi fan simply because of her association with Bush. I have always felt she was the scapegoat and was disappointed to see her tied with the current administration. Now some of you that are bashing her, are probably the same ones that are bashing Obama! So that tells me that regardless to what roles African American play in this country, there will always be those who find everything wrong with them while the Idiots that happen to be white get away with being stupid!

[TRWSEW]

White women are not voting for Obama because...­....HE'S NOT QUALIFIED!

It'll take him 10 years to match the experience Hillary had.

That's why white women are voting for McCain. He's more experienced than Obama. Not because they are voting against a black man.

[Mitchismo]

In the same fraudulent vein, I'll bet George Bush isn't fluent in Spanish, as he always used to claim. Of course, no one in the press has had the courage to ask him to answer a question in Spanish and make him prove it.

[justme12]

I'm still waiting for him to prove he's fluent in English.

[ozarkhobo]

Good one, justme12. Fell off my chair!

[Harod]

If Condi cant play the piano that must be investigated its about the rule of law. If she is lying about playing the piano then what else is she lying about? The questions must be answered. Congress must investigate this for years and supeana her staff and maybe even catch them in a process crime then maybe someday it will compare to Clinton administration corruption­..

[Roll451]

Anything to avoid the real issue - Condi's incompetence.

[Harod]

I agree investigating the Bush admin for process crimes is not a real issue...

[bfbenn]

It's the Republic way!

[Harod]

If Condi's incompitent what does that make Obama?

[Unrepentant]

You got that right: how many billions of tax payer dollars were wasted by right wing instigated "fishing expeditions" to find ANYTHING illegal that Clinton did might possibly have done anytime anywhere?
OK, he got oral sex.
Of course, Rice was National Security Advisor during the most catastrophic national security disaster in the nation's history...

[Harod]

Clinton could have saved the US about a trillion $$ if he had just said "Im Bill Clinton and i had Oral, lets invade Afghanistan and take out the Taliban and get Bin Ladin..

[TrevorAlan]

Well, actually we already caught her and a number of other Bush officials in the process of committing crimes. Do you have an issue of SUBSTANCE to refute the above article with? DO you have an instance where Rice actually did something we can all acknowledge was worth a single month of her pay?

[Bob66106]

The Bush administration is a fraud, top to bottom. A partial list.: war with Iraq, war on science, fale "news reports" issued by government agiencies, paying people to hype the No Child Left Behind education prorgam, a program that in itself is a fraud, rehearsing soliders and planting questions for a fake Q&A. The list almost endless. So sure, Condi fits right in. If I could advise Obama - attack Bush and ignore McCain.

[Balloonman]

I can't to this day get the picture out of my mind of CONDOLEEZZA RICE on stage speechifying alongside GWBUSH during the 2000 Republican convention. First thought, this woman is dangerous! Second thought, Doctor Strangelove!

[CitizenE]

Well, no doubt the President and his Second Lady have plum retirement jobs awaiting as Commisioners of MLB and NFL. I understand sweet l'l Condelezza has given Rush the go ahead to purchase the Rams, and the President has also lobbied for beach volleyball butt slap babes to replace crotchgrabbing behind home plate.
As Bush said on Costas, America has no problems (however, it's true if one reads Pravda these days, Hugo Chavez has, by comparison, had nice things to say about our ever more well respected President), and Bush has predicted that when McCain gets elected the Rattlesnakes will change their name to the Minutemen Militia, and the American flag will revert to it's earliest convention--The Big Green Unit hanging out and coiled to strike, fangs showing, forked tongue out and "Don't Tread on Me," emblazoned above.

[BeamMeUpScotty]

Rice's goal was to become the first Black, female Secretary of State. She achieved her goal. Being proficient at the job seems to be irrelevant to her. She seems to be content shilling and lying for the Criminal in Chief.

History will consider her irrelevant in terms of bringing peace to a troubled world.

[Troubledgoodangel]

All the world is filled with ignorance and lies! How otherwise would President Bush confuse the Putin's "soul" with a "kindred spirit"? You have to be mightily uneducated in human spirituality, to do that! The people we think are smart, are not. Those who are smart, are also not ... in America!

[peterg76]

Putin is a "kindred spirit" to Bush. Maybe you haven't been paying close enough attention to Bush.

[Gary50]

I want Condi to resign, to apologize, to confess, to get a clue, to go away, to never be heard from again, to spend the rest of her life buying shoes, to admit she doesn't know her ass from her elbow, etc. The most incompetent secretary of state serving the most incompetent president in the most incompetent administration in the history of our country. Gee, I wonder why things haven't gone well?

[Roll451]

You left out most incompetent National Security advisor.