Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Lizbud wants to discuss politics instead of religion, so.....let's have at it.

I was just listening to some excerpts from the hearings to confirm Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State of the United States.

I have to say that I have to respect her because she is obviously very well educated (she is a Dr. after all), she is very well spoken, she is attractive and she can certainly hold her own in tough situations like today's confirmation hearings.

However, whenever I hear her, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard! She just rubs me the wrong way and even though it's highly improbable, I really wish she wouldn't be confirmed and they'd have to look for someone else to fill the position. I have no clue who else they might even consider because she's pretty much had a lock on it since she announced she'd take the position.

And probably the reason she rubs me the wrong way is because to me, it seems like she is just a puppet of the Bush administration - which also rubs me the wrong way.

So, out with religion, in with politics!

Oh, and I don't care how nasty this gets, I promise not to delete it.

[RICHARD]

MSNBC posted this photo-

Dianne Frankenstein-ah, Feinstein is the woman who presented her to Congress for her hearing.

Feinstein is the senator from CA, she's a Dem, refuses to approve any legislation regarding concealed weapon permits, altho she packs heat herself. She took off an American flag of her lapel while she was in Europe, because she was afraid of what people would say to her.

She has a brother, who is a doctor, who refuses to acknowledge she is his sister.

Apparently, Rice and Feinstein are friends....


Not a good thing.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Debbie. .you are one gutsy woman!!! As to the topic....can you say "sycophant????" If you look in the dictionary there is a picture of Condi!....

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
Debbie. .you are one gutsy woman!!! As to the topic....can you say "sycophant????" If you look in the dictionary there is a picture of Condi!....

lololol,

And who are your state senators??

Baba boxer and dianne frankenstein.....



I say a sycophant at the zoo once.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
Debbie. .you are one gutsy woman!!! As to the topic....can you say "sycophant????" If you look in the dictionary there is a picture of Condi!....

Ok, had to look in the dictionary for that one. And yep, sure enough, there she was.

[christa]

Just wait till it's . . .

Condi vs. Hillary



(let's hope not)

[RICHARD]

Here's one for you....

Do you remember the new Dennis the Menace movie??

Do you remember the Chiclets that Dennis glued to Mr Wilson's dentures......

Carry on......

[christa]

Originally posted by RICHARD
Here's one for you....

Do you remember the new Dennis the Menace movie??

Do you remember the Chiclets that Dennis glued to Mr Wilson's dentures......

Carry on......

Ah haaa . . . that's it!!!

. . . bad bad bad Richard!

[lizbud]

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
Lizbud wants to discuss politics instead of religion, so.....let's have at it.

I was just listening to some excerpts from the hearings to confirm Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State of the United States.

I have to say that I have to respect her because she is obviously very well educated (she is a Dr. after all), she is very well spoken, she is attractive and she can certainly hold her own in tough situations like today's confirmation hearings.

However, whenever I hear her, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard! She just rubs me the wrong way and even though it's highly improbable, I really wish she wouldn't be confirmed and they'd have to look for someone else to fill the position. I have no clue who else they might even consider because she's pretty much had a lock on it since she announced she'd take the position.

And probably the reason she rubs me the wrong way is because to me, it seems like she is just a puppet of the Bush administration - which also rubs me the wrong way.

So, out with religion, in with politics!

Oh, and I don't care how nasty this gets, I promise not to delete it.

I was just kidding, honest. I have yet to regain any
enthusiasm about anthing political since the election.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by christa
Just wait till it's . . .

Condi vs. Hillary



(let's hope not)

Actually,

It's gonna be Condi vs Baba in CA for the next go round.

Baba Boxer has some nerve talking smack-she's a crook, fabricator and one of the most unoriginal people that have ever sat in office here in Cah lee fuh nee ah.

http://boxer.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=230699

In her opening statement she admonished Rice for describing a nuclear attack on the United States- It scared everyone!!!!

I guess it's better to think that everything is hunky dory and NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN HERE IN THE US-

Tom Clancy wrote about a 747 flying into the White House..

That would never happen HERE......

Nope, they went back to the World Trade Center and finished the job...


Rice may not be the best for the job, but thank god that Boxer is here in CA and not helping run the country.

[lizbud]

Saint Condi? I don't think so .....


A point-by-point analysis of how one of America's top national security officials has a severe problem with the truth

March 26, 2004


Pre-9/11 Intelligence

CLAIM: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02

FACT: On August 6, 2001, the President personally "received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane." In July 2001, the Administration was also told that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles. [Source: NBC, 9/10/02; LA Times, 9/27/01]

CLAIM: In May 2002, Rice held a press conference to defend the Administration from new revelations that the President had been explicitly warned about an al Qaeda threat to airlines in August 2001. She "suggested that Bush had requested the briefing because of his keen concern about elevated terrorist threat levels that summer." [Source: Washington Post, 3/25/04]

FACT: According to the CIA, the briefing "was not requested by President Bush." As commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste disclosed, "the CIA informed the panel that the author of the briefing does not recall such a request from Bush and that the idea to compile the briefing came from within the CIA." [Source: Washington Post, 3/25/04]

CLAIM: "In June and July when the threat spikes were so high…we were at battle stations." – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: "Documents indicate that before Sept. 11, Ashcroft did not give terrorism top billing in his strategic plans for the Justice Department, which includes the FBI. A draft of Ashcroft's 'Strategic Plan' from Aug. 9, 2001, does not put fighting terrorism as one of the department's seven goals, ranking it as a sub-goal beneath gun violence and drugs. By contrast, in April 2000, Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, called terrorism 'the most challenging threat in the criminal justice area.'" Meanwhile, the Bush Administration decided to terminate "a highly classified program to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States." [Source: Washington Post, 3/22/04; Newsweek, 3/21/04]

CLAIM: "The fact of the matter is [that] the administration focused on this before 9/11." – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: President Bush and Vice President Cheney's counterterrorism task force, which was created in May, never convened one single meeting. The President himself admitted that "I didn't feel the sense of urgency" about terrorism before 9/11. [Source: Washington Post, 1/20/02; Bob Woodward's "Bush at War"]

CLAIM: "Our [pre-9/11 NSPD] plan called for military options to attack al Qaeda and Taliban leadership, ground forces and other targets -- taking the fight to the enemy where he lived." – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: 9/11 Commissioner Gorelick: "There is nothing in the NSPD that came out that we could find that had an invasion plan, a military plan." Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: "Right." Gorelick: "Is it true, as Dr. Rice said, 'Our plan called for military options to attack Al Qaida and Taliban leadership'?" Armitage: "No, I think that was amended after the horror of 9/11." [Source: 9/11 Commission testimony, 3/24/04]
Condi Rice on Pre-9/11 Counterterrorism Funding

CLAIM: "The president increased counterterrorism funding several-fold" before 9/11. – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/24/04

FACT: According to internal government documents, the first full Bush budget for FY2003 "did not endorse F.B.I. requests for $58 million for 149 new counterterrorism field agents, 200 intelligence analysts and 54 additional translators" and "proposed a $65 million cut for the program that gives state and local counterterrorism grants." Newsweek noted the Administration "vetoed a request to divert $800 million from missile defense into counterterrorism." [Source: New York Times, 2/28/04; Newsweek, 5/27/02]

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by lizbud
Saint Condi? I don't think so .....

Are we back to arguing religion???



My point is that addled old women (Baba) should realize that should we bury our heads in the sand, the nuclear fall out will still
BBQ our respective rear ends.

I wasn't endorsing Rice, Boxer or Frankenstein.

I would endorse Mariska Hartigay, Eva Longoria or that little vixen, Teri Hatcher......

But, I can't have everything.

[christa]

Originally posted by RICHARD
Actually,

It's gonna be Condi vs Baba in CA for the next go round.

Oh yes . . . I know . . . but I always imagined a Clinton/Boxer Dem Ticket.



Just don't see that happening though . . . but who knows!?!?

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by christa
Oh yes . . . I know . . . but I always imagined a Clinton/Boxer Dem Ticket.



Just don't see that happening though . . . but who knows!?!?

We'll have to see if it's a fact or claim.

Actually,

I wouldn't mind having a woman for a leader..


Of course, I'd have to find one a marry her.

[Lady's Human]

Note to all involved............


THIS IS A CONFIRMATION HEARING!!!!!!

THe election is over, Senators Boxer and Kerry. The time for making political speeches was two months ago, not now.