Asked where she disagrees with President Obama on foreign policy, she said she understands “how hard it is to be in the White House,” but said the United States cannot “lead from behind.” “The United States has to have a view, it has to gather people around that view, and frankly, I think we need to do more of that, and the last several years I think we’ve been lacking on that front,” she said. – Condoleezza Rice calls on U.S. to arm Syria rebels
DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE is to national security what Sarah Palin is to the vice presidency.
So hearing Ms. Rice critique Pres. Obama’s foreign policy is similar to listening to Mrs. Palin talk about seeing Russia from her house. Rice’s history gives you an idea just how catastrophic Mrs. Palin would have been had she gotten inside. If you need a reprise see Sarah Palin’s “death panels” posting on the eve of the Obamacare ruling.
Yet, on CBS “This Morning” on Tuesday, there was Dr. Rice objecting to Pres. Obama leading from behind, because we need aggressive leadership in the world, which, of course, Rice thinks Mitt Romney can offer.
Yeah, if you liked George W. Bush you probably also like Pres. Obama, so you’ll love Mitt Romney. There’s not a dime’s worth of difference, except Obama has four years of experience and scalps on his belt, including an American terrorist and the criminal mastermind who orchestrated 9/11, but Rice still doesn’t think that qualifies as “fear” enough for our “enemies.” Romney is as dangerous as George W. Bush because he’s equally easy to tutor in neoconservatism, which we’ve already tried and saw fail.
Dr. Rice may be a smart academician who I’d trust on the history of the “Soviet Union,” like I’d trust Mrs. Palin on shooting wolves from a helicopter, but not much else. Rice has the dubious distinction of being the worst national security adviser in United States history, though she was the fiercest dresser ever to walk the State Department.
That’s why the comparison to Sarah Palin is so apt. Never were two women so thoroughly unprepared, while dressing the part, for the job Republicans decided they should have, because what the GOP does is cast their female politicians in roles, regardless of whether they have the resume to handle the actually job they’re supposed to do. Republicans also see women as figurines, so it’s easier to hang them out to dry, like Rummy and Dick did to Condi, who was clearly out of her element and her league.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice is the person who actually saw the famous PDB BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO ATTACK INSIDE UNITED STATES, but didn’t think it was warranted to drag Pres. Numbskull back from cutting brush to see why C.I.A. director George Tenet’s hair had been on fire over warning signals all summer.
“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon. That they would try to use an airplane as a missile? A hijacked airplane as a missile? All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking.” – Condoleezza Rice
In fact, George Tenet unloaded on Dr. Rice, who he says ignored his warning to strike inside Afghanistan before 9/11.
Rice is also the person who deep-sixed Richard Clarke’s access and demoted him, while not listening to him until it was too late.
Rice was actually “surprised,” even after the Palestinian leadership warned Pres. Bush they weren’t ready for elections, when Hamas won and ascended to leadership.
So I don’t think Pres. Obama, aka Mr. Kill List, secret assassination, I Gave The Order That Killed Osama, needs to be too worried that this woman’s critique of his foreign policy tutelage is negative.
As for the whole question about her being Mitt’s veep, it’s a joke on so many levels, beginning with Dr. Rice believing in women’s individual freedoms, something Republicans don’t respect anymore.
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She’s a good Cold War Soviet scholar and a good piano player. She should have stuck with those.
Agreed. I think she also was an ice skater at some point. That sort of goes hand-in-hand with being a good Cold War Soviet scholar…:razz:
Let’s see, maybe I can be short but succinct…she SUCKED, she SUCKS and will continue apparently to SUCK to the last syllable of recorded time.
DING! DING!! DING!!!. (In case you hadn’t noticed, that is my way of saying the quote says it all and there is nothing more that needs to be said.)
There is one major difference between Palin and Rice; Rice is a war criminal and Palin has not had the chance to be one yet.
Hahahahahahaha! Good one. Couldn’t agree more.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the Set Up for Sarah Palin? Though I understand the premise of the post and the incompetence of both people, thier trajectory is quite different. Rice ‘s trajectory is probably more scary then Palin’s because it is an established route to advancement.
After all she did get confirmed by the Senate for Secretary of State 85-13. Her closeness to Bush is well established. Perhaps in future hindsight a more apt comparison, might be Rice and Valerie Jarrett.
This appears to be another routine liberal smear job on conservative minorities and women. I notice that liberals tend to save their harshest words and comments for any person who is conservative and also happens to be a person of colour, female, or homosexual. I guess the democrat party takes these people for grated and are completely baffled as to why such people would choose to be conservative.
Condoleeza Rice is a very important person in American History. She is an excellent role model that I want both of my daughters to follow.
To blame Dr. Rice for the attacks on 9/11, the current conflict between the Palestinian factions, and to say “Rice has the dubious distinction of being the worst national security adviser in United States history.” is nothing more than a pathetic attempt at hit job on a persons charecter and reputation as I had ever witnessed.
If you want to look at an example of a crap National Security Advisor, look no farther than our current one. Thomas Donilon leaks classified information to the NY Times in order to make President Obama look good. It can not get lower than that.
I do not agree with her view that we should arm anyone like the insurgency. Yes I do agree with her that we should not be taking a “backseat go with the flow” on the crisis in Syria or other events in the World that will have strong impacts on the USA, good or bad, depending on how they turn out. Whatever happened with muli-national talks where the USA, China, Russia, and other world powers spoke with one voice? I guess we have not seen that since Obama has been in Office. I hope the Presidnet starts to take such action during the few months he has remaining in his Presidency. The World needs us to step up.
No one needs to do a “smear job” on Condi. She did herself in and made herself a laughingstock with her Bush apologia. She’s the one that ran around screeching about the “mushroom cloud”
Worse on people of color? are you freaking crazy? Condi deserves every bit of scorn she earns from people all over this country because of her either lies or idiocy which have NOTHING to do with the color of her skin or her gender. It’s her behavior that’s the problem.
I agree we need to make sure our language does not devolve to bias attacks when criticizing someone. That’s why I take anyone to task who uses “sl*t” whether they are talking about Hillary Clinton or Laura Ingraham. But saying Rice was asleep at the switch or even negligent before 9-11 or stating that she was caught flat-footed by the Hamas election is hardly the same as blaming her for those events. She was a Soviet expert. To me it’s a blunder on the part of the Bush Administration to hire a Soviet expert in that time and decade.
Yep, first of all she should have never been hired because she knew nothing of the middle east and tried disastrously to make the same policy for the middle east that she would have used for the Cold War. Second of all, it shows a complete lack of Brains on the part of the Bush administration that they listened to an expert on Russia with regards to the middle east. All in all, what a bunch of stinking bozos.
COndi did a great job during her service with the Bush administration. The fact that she is an expert on the USSR/Russia and can read Tolstoy in the Russian language does not disqualify her. The path to stability in western Asia is a long hard road with many detours. I am 100% happy that Sadaam Hussein is gone. I am very happy that Arabs decided to stand up to their dictators. We all know through history that revolutions create delicate situations and tyrants are often replaced with tyrants. The Bush Presidency handed President Obama “The Arab Spring”. It had nothing to do with Rumsfeld or Cheney and had a to do with a great amount of effort by Dr. Rice. You know that Egyptian oppositian groups had to be allowed to organize publicly without fear of prosecution as a requirement for recieving USA money during the Bush Presidency. That requirement ended when Obama took Office. I wonder if that was Sec. of State Clinton’s idea? When Condoleeza Rice gives advise, it should be taken seriously and not ignored or ridiculed. If President Obama listens to Dick Cheney’s public advice, as he did in Afghanistan even over the advice of his own VP Biden, he should definetly listen to what Dr. Rice has to say and take it seriously. I know that Condi Rice is a minority and a lady who is also conservative and that is offensive to some people. I think we should look past that in order to see the substance of what she has to say. Like I said in an earlier post on this thread, I do not entirley agree with all of her statements myself.
It disqualifies her with regards to the middle east. She obviously knew nothing about the middle east and it showed. You might be the only one in the country that thinks she did a good job but hey, that’s your opinion and if you want to be an apologist for failure then I’m not going to stop you.
If you are going to give Condi credit for the Arab Spring are you also going to give her credit for the Muslim Brotherhood winning an election?
Sorry, but Condi’s record while in office was nothing short of embarrassing to herself and to conservatives. Where are those WMD’s???? Where’s the mushroom cloud Condi? The recent release of information form the Bush Administration shows her to be completely clueless about what was going on pre-i/11 and post 9/11.