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Condoleeza Rice: "I'm not much of a..."
ElMuertoMonkey
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"... long term planner."
When interviewed recently and asked about her future plans for public service, Condoleeza Rice responded, "Oh, I don't know. I'm not much of a long term planner. I don't think too far into the future."
Grrreat... this coming from one of the prime architects of our invasion of Iraq and our war on terror. No friggin' wonder we haven't caught Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden yet. No wonder we haven't restored essential service in Iraq to even the low pre-war levels that Iraqis had to deal with.
I can't wait for them to unveil their next grand crusade. No doubt their plans will call for Iran to fall and democratize, all within a week...
When interviewed recently and asked about her future plans for public service, Condoleeza Rice responded, "Oh, I don't know. I'm not much of a long term planner. I don't think too far into the future."
Grrreat... this coming from one of the prime architects of our invasion of Iraq and our war on terror. No friggin' wonder we haven't caught Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden yet. No wonder we haven't restored essential service in Iraq to even the low pre-war levels that Iraqis had to deal with.
I can't wait for them to unveil their next grand crusade. No doubt their plans will call for Iran to fall and democratize, all within a week...
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That's a cheap shot at a good person. I think she was talking about her personal goals. A little "Democratic Spin" here?
Measure twice, cut once.
Empty the clip!
Anybody that has more than two bird turds between their ears and has seen Rice's resume KNOWS that she thinks ahead. She probably has the same idea that I do about certain types of questions.
EMM--It took this nation quite a bit longer than a couple of months to go from colonization to a representative republic. Chill bro.
Yes your correct. But if you are in the public eye and especially if you hold public office you should expect those questions and you better have a good answer because people have a right to ask them of public officials and will make up their minds ahead of time based on the answer.
When you wrestle a 'gator, there ain't no good end!!
"Molon Labe!" Spartan General-King Leonidas
Danny,
your quote:
"A little "Democratic Spin" here?" I'd say it was a bunch.[:D]
EMM, you're a sharp fella, shame you're so full of hate. [;)]
Always a conspiracy at hand.
It's just more of the "high class", "high road" politics of the Dem's. Attack Bush, and everyone around him with all of the negative spin you can put on it. This is what our politics in this country has disolved to.
Measure twice, cut once.
Empty the clip!
The world works in unimagined ways. The smart person reacts to the present and tries to weave a favorable outcome from the cards being dealt.
Ms. Rice is a pretty good weaver! I'd be happy to have her on my side any time.
Nord
I just find it funny that a comment like hers can be defended in light of the Administration's current foreign policy problems (I won't call them "failures" because they aren't). As someone who is severely fond of restructuring the world order, her ability to plan for the future should be better than, well, "not much."
And I believe this because there were folks like Patton who were both excellent planners and flexible thinkers. They laid out a course of action, but weren't so hidebound as to be unable to react positively to a new development. Rice, Rumsfeld, and Bush show just the bare minimum fo planning skills and have absolutely no ability to adapt. Check out their plans for Iraq and they never spoke in anything but the vaguest and most generalized of terms. This wasn't their way of sparing our brains the complex details of foreign policy; they simply had nothing else to say. And we, the taxpayer, and our servicemen and women are paying the price for their short sightedness.
Measure twice, cut once.
Empty the clip!
You could have a point! (no, I don't mean on your head)
I believe however that she is no more or less a self-serving, lying cheat than anyone else in "public service", democrat OR republican.
Perhaps that is the answer she used instead of blurting out "I PLAN TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008"!!
What impresses me about the woman though is not her resume .... no .... what impresses me is .....
BABY GOT BACK FOR DAYZZ !!!!!! [;)]
Hitlery isn't REALLY "your girl", is she???
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I'm running for president.
Ain't gonna win, though.
The public doesn't have a "right" to know her own personal individual goals until her name goes on the ballot and then it's public information.
Just because she's a public servant doesn't mean that the public has a right to know her own individual personal goals. We live in a voyeuristic reality-TV society that doesn't really care if she runs for President of the United States someday anymore than if she runs for neighborhood dog catcher. The person who posed the question was just looking for more real-life drama to add to the soap-opera digests that sit next to the rest of the tabloids on the supermarket checkout counter. If she really wanted the interviewer to know then she would have told him. It seems to be okay for Billary Klintoon to give similar responses to the same question about her Presidential intentions (which she's been giving ever since she ran for the Senate). If it's good enough for the goose then it's good enough for the gander.
The public doesn't have a "right" to know her own personal individual goals until her name goes on the ballot and then it's public information.
Sorry Idsman',
I don't agree. Once you start running my affairs, albeit by public policy making, I deserve to know as much about you as I can. Not for scandals sake, egad who doesn't have some skeletons in the closet, but to better understand you as person and judge, yes I mean judge, whether you are competant,IMHO, to hold the responsibility you have.
I am not a Dem' or Rep', I am jilted by what I have seen in politics, (Are their lips moving? They're lying!) But I have an interest in having the best man/woman in office. Questions like the one posed to Rice help make such decisions.
There is alot of finger pointing and slur that goes on here against both parties, the jist of it is tho' don't talk about my man, but I can say anything I want about yours.
Clinton, you choose which one, was/is scum. But don't tell me Bush/Rice is a saint and has no special interests and that he/she doesn't play the power/influence game for politics, Gore was no better. You don't rise to that level, unfortunately, in our society without playing the game. I don't believe in saints/goodmen/honorable men/fair men in politics. At least not above the Alderman level.
MHO
Are their lips moving? They're lying!
When you wrestle a 'gator, there ain't no good end!!
"Molon Labe!" Spartan General-King Leonidas
Three Precious Metals: Gold, silver and lead
John
Forgive Your Enemies - But Remember Their Names
(John F. Kennedy)
And correct me if I'm wrong, but were her plans for Iraq not just the slightest bit vague? Every press release and interview she had pertaining to Iraq's future relied upon a shiny happy people welcoming us with open arms. Oil would flow and Iraq would become a stable democracy. She (and the rest of the Administration) never once considered the possibility of terrorist acts, sabotage, or Iraqi resentment. They only took into account that Shi'ites hated Saddam and didn't take into account their uncomfortably close ideological links with Iran.
If she had anything more detailed, I would enjoy a cut and paste. But from everything I've read and heard, her ideas for postwar Iraq were childishly simplistic. And given the realities and dullness of reconstruction work, no doubt she and the rest of her pals in the Administration are planning their next war. After all, bombs and planes and landing on aircraft carriers are way more exciting than the day-to-day trivialities of running a country.