From "The Confidant," a new biography of Condoleeza Rice by Glenn Kessler: In the book, Rice's best friend, Stanford University's Prof. Coit Blacker, relates what happened when she went to buy jewelry and the saleswoman brought her cheap earrings from the display: "Let's get one thing straight," Rice told the sales clerk, "You're behind the counter because you have to work for the minimum wage. I'm on this side because I make considerably more." The store manager quickly brought her the expensive earrings. The lesson of the story is clear: The secretary of state knows how to get what she wants, by force if necessary.No, the lesson of the story is that Condi thinks she's better than everyone else. The lesson of the story is that Condi is an arrogant bitch.
Now, if you're in the Secret Service, don't worry: I will never do anything to cause physical harm to any elected or appointed official. But I think I can legally say this: If I happened to run across Condi Rice doubled over in pain on the sidewalk, I would not lift one finger to help her. In fact, I WOULD SPIT IN HER UGLY ARROGANT FACE.
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Bravo
birds of a feather flock together.
I'm surprised you figured out that Condi is not a very nice person towards those of lesser economic status only recently.
Imagine how her bosom buddy Bush and others treat others.
The only redeeming feature is that her office gave SF Mayor Willie Brown a call the day before 9/11 and advised that he not fly and that she has singlehandedly been responsible for getting Bush to give more money to Africa than any other administration. (OK this last one I'm relying on a recent article I read)
How very Christian of you. Not.
Not that you have to be, or should be. But are you?
WWJSA? (who would Jesus spit at?)
sofla
Whenever the subject of Condi comes up, I like to show people this:
Questions for Condi
from Margie Burns
1. Dr. Rice, you were admitted to the University of Denver when you were still in high school, while your father was Assistant Director of Admissions at the university. Did you take the ACT or the SAT for admission, and did you meet all admissions requirements that the other incoming freshmen had to meet?
2. Dr. Rice, you have stated candidly in interviews that your first love was not political science but piano, and that you switched to Poli Sci halfway through college because it was a major you could finish in two years. When you were admitted to the rightwing graduate program in political science at Indiana, who paid your tuition there? When you returned to complete a doctorate in political science at U Denver, who paid your tuition there? When you were sent on an extensive trip to Eastern Europe, as a graduate student, how was the trip arranged and financed?
3. Dr. Rice, your biographies show that you were an intern at the Rand Corporation. Did Rand pick up any of the costs of your education? Was the internship a paid or unpaid? You subsequently became a board member at Rand; have you fully disclosed your financial support from Rand over the years?
4. How did the Hoover Institution at Stanford come to choose you as a Fellow, at $30,000 per year, back when full professors in political science made an average $34,000?
5. How was your transition from Hoover Fellow to tenure-track Stanford faculty arranged, and by whom? Did you continue to receive income from the Hoover Institute?
6. How was the publication of your dissertation as a book, by Princeton University Press, arranged?
7. Between the time of your start at Stanford and your promotion to tenure, did you publish any scholarly articles besides the dissertation?
8. When you served on the board of Chevron Oil, did you agree with company opposition to the sanctions against Saddam Hussein?
9. Do you currently receive any income or anything of material value from ChevronTexaco? Will you return to the Chevron board when you leave government?
10. Did you participate, directly or indirectly, in the oil policy decisions formulated in the early months of 2001 in the office of the Vice President? Were your colleagues at Chevron cognizant of plans for Iraq by the Vice President?
11. Thomas Stephenson, venture capitalist, donated $2 million to Stanford to provide an endowed chair for you. Have you received income from that interest while serving in government?
12. Have you ever disclosed or released publicly a full accounting of your financial interests, while in government?
13. Do you now receive or have you during your time in government received anything of material value from Rand, Chevron, other companies with which you have ties or companies connected to the Stephensons?
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/1566
Christians. Pffft.
Those are some very good questions indeed from Perry, courtesy of Margie Burns. I had never realized this before, but Condiliar Rice definitely seems to have been groomed for the role she has now, like many black op spooks serving the military-industrial complex and oil companies. I think we should regard her as among them.
sofla: Well, we know WHAT Jesus would spit at. Isn't there is a passage where he spits into the mud just before he performs one of his little magic tricks?
Seriously: I think some people would have turned out better if they had had their faces spat in, or had suffered some other form of humiliation, early in life. This is basic BF Skinner: Behaviors which are rewarded are repeated, behaviors which are punished are not repeated. If, when Condi was (say) 20, someone had spit in her face or performed some similarly useful corrective after she made an arrogant statement, she would ever after think twice before making arrogant statements.
In that sense it would be a loving gesture, wouldn't it? TOUGH love.
In a similar sense, George Bush would have profited marvelously from doing a month-long homeless stint as a young man.
Here's what really indefensible, Joseph: The House (comfortably controlled by Democrats) has kissed the ass of the boy king, offically making legal the illegal surveillance of citizens that the administration has been conducting.
Our government is so utterly fucked up that it was only by accident that we even discovered that Bush's surveillance had been ruled illegal! So, your beloved Nancy Pelosi responded by making his crimes NOT-CRIMES. Yes, she did, Joseph. Because if she is not able to tell Bush to go f*** himself on such an egregious flouting of law, and make that refusal stick, then she is way out of her depth as a Speaker of the House.
This has nothing to do with impeachment on or off the table, or her succession to the office of President. This is beyond even vulgar political expedience. It is a craven selling-out of the Republic, and it is abundantly clear to anyone with open eyes that Democrats in the House (not to mention the Senate) need new leadership. Hopefully, in this case, someone with balls. I never held it against her in the literal sense, but in the metaphorical sense, she just flunked the test of manhood.
uni, this is the first comment you've left here that was utterly asshole-ish. And, in its own way, indefensible.
Nancy Pelosi did not vote for that Bill.
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