Anyone actually expecting this President to stick to his word to "reach out" is fooling themselves. He'll stick with what he knows: Surround yourself with yes-men and people who will fall own their own swords to save your agenda.Originally posted by: judasmachine
So much for going moderate............
Well my hopes have been stomped on again, weird how you get used to that.
Yeah, it takes a *lot* of intelligence to fail miserably at one's job and even flat-out lie to a Congressional Committee reviewing the failures that led to 9/11 (including the failures of said person) for four years and land a gig like Sec'y of State afterward.Originally posted by: Tarpon6
I think she's great. You guys have your opinion and I have mine. She's one smart woman.Originally posted by: replicator
Great at doing nothing.Originally posted by: Tarpon6
I think she'll be great. :thumbsup:
Condi is useless!
Just another puppet.
Originally posted by: Infohawk
Originally posted by: bozack
lol talk about a slap in the face to the dems
Is this reaching out right to heal America?
That fvcking b!tch needs to be FIRED
Yes, it would be. The lying, incompetent b!tch needs to be FIRED.Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Is this?Originally posted by: Infohawk
Is this reaching out right to heal America?Originally posted by: bozack
lol talk about a slap in the face to the dems
That fvcking b!tch needs to be FIRED
Perhaps you should read this thread again before you go off making yourself look like a fool again.Originally posted by: Tabb
Okay, Conjur. In your own words what makes Condi un-qualified for this position. Your comment that the Sec. Of State doesn't really do anything is fvcking bullsh1t.
Originally posted by: Zedtom
I would like anyone on this forum to name one thing that this woman has done during this administration that has made any impact. Has there been one proposal, suggestion or brilliant idea offered by her?
If there has been...I guess I missed it.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.
Originally posted by: conjur
Perhaps you should read this thread again before you go off making yourself look like a fool again.Originally posted by: Tabb
Okay, Conjur. In your own words what makes Condi un-qualified for this position. Your comment that the Sec. Of State doesn't really do anything is fvcking bullsh1t.
Originally posted by: alchemize
Correction: You're fvcked. Please don't include me in we.
Awesome appointment. :thumbsup:
20 things about Condie
You probably didn't know this about Condoleeza Rice
Rice
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice is set to make a dramatic appearance Thursday before the 9/11 commission to testify about her knowledge of White House efforts to battle terrorism.
Panel members have said they want to ask Rice, who will be testifying under oath, what Clinton administration officials told the incoming Bush White House personnel about Al Qaeda and what the new administration did with the information.
Rice is also sure to be quizzed about charges by former White House counterterror chief Richard Clarke that Bush and his most senior aides were slow to act against the Al Qaeda threat despite Clarke's warnings beginning days after Bush took office in 2001.
But beyond her role as a core member of Bush's inner circle, there's a lot more to Condoleezza Rice than most Americans know.
1. She's a fitness buff who likes to unwind by working out to music by heavy-metal legends Led Zeppelin, according to People magazine. She wakes up at 5 a.m. and hits the treadmill right away.
2. She was a college graduate at 19, getting a degree from the University of Denver.
3. She once had a Chevron oil tanker named after her when she served on the company's board of directors. After concerns that her name made the ship a more inviting terror target, the tanker was renamed Altair Voyager.
4. She loves to shop. "On a Sunday, don't be surprised if you see me at one of the malls in Washington, D.C.," she once told Glamour magazine.
5. She has been telling friends she's tired of the rat race and will leave her job at the end of the year to return to academia.
6. She began playing piano at age 3.
7. While in high school, she was a competitive ice skater (l.).
8. She turns 50 this year.
9. She's the daughter of two Birmingham, Ala., high school teachers.
10. A kindergarten classmate was among the four girls killed in the 1963 bombing of a Baptist church by white supremacists.
11. She was a Democrat until 1982.
12. She speaks Russian, French and Spanish.
13. She's a huge football fan and loves the Cleveland Browns. She's said her "dream job" would be NFL commissioner.
14. When she was 14, a guidance counselor told her that her standardized test scores showed she wasn't college material.
15. She's single and laments she has no private life. A sometime escort at official functions, however, is former San Francisco 49ers star Gene Washington (r.).
16. In 1993, she was named provost of Stanford University, the youngest person, first woman and first black to get the job.
17. In February 2001, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told reporters he was distracted the first time he met her. "I have to confess, it was hard for me to concentrate in the conversation with Condoleezza Rice because she has such nice legs."
18. She loves to serve up Southern cuisine and is a master at seafood gumbo and fried chicken.
19. She says she can fall asleep just about anywhere ? even once in a helicopter flying over the Gaza Strip.
20. In 1993, after Rice left the White House, where she worked for the current President's father, to join the Stanford faculty, she told the San Francisco Chronicle the advice she'd give to President Bill Clinton about Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein: "He is an outlaw, but I would be careful about trying to do anything to act to overthrow him."
Maki Becker
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
No, but I can sure as hell say World War III.
It's all going downhill, just as I expected.
Topic Title: Condosleezy Rice to replace Powell