NEWS: Condi Rice Celebrates Irony

POLITICS: Condi Rice Celebrates Irony

Condoleezza Rice was having an irony blow out yesterday as she traveled the world and babbled from her mouth. Our Secretary of State decided to criticize Vladimir Putin’s power grab and to tell Israel not to mess up the peace process. This coming from a woman whose boss seems to think diplomacy is evil and his presidential power is above all other branches of government. Bush is the ultimate unitary president, which means Condi should shut her pie hole when it comes to criticizing other countries democracies.

How the fuck she could make these statements about Putin with a straight face is amazing.

Uh, hey lady, does that sound familiar to you at all? Seems you just described a fella named George W. Bush. He is actually your boss. Ever hear of the Department of Justice scandal? Read about any of his judicial appointments lately? Recall the 2000 Supreme Court decision that put him in office?

You should read this thing called the Patriot Act. It sort of undermines “liberty and freedom” here in the US. The "Right to assembly?" I guess that is why your boss has been using "protest zones" to keep anyone who disagrees with him far, far away. And I would consider warrantless wiretapping an “arbitrary power of state,” by the way. Same goes for kidnapping people off of streets around the world and detaining them without charges for as long as we like.

Does Putin deserve to be criticized? Yeah. Should it come from anyone working in the Bush administration? Fuck no. The White House lost that right long ago.

Thankfully, Condi wasn’t done making an ass out of herself yet. Rice arrived in Israel today, in a pathetic attempt to get the peace process going. Kind of odd for a woman who helped start a “pre-emptive war” based on false information to think she can talk peace. But healthy shame has never been a part of the Bush White House.

Oh, yeah. You’re the expert on avoiding actions that might lead to conflict. When I think of Condi Rice, I think of white doves, peace and happiness. She certainly isn’t a liar. She definitely didn’t have a hand in selling false information to the American public. And she has always been about the truth and peace.

My guess is that Rice is scared as hell of her lack of post-Bush career options and is trying to pad her ideological resume so she'll have some quotes saved up for when she inevitably needs something to point at when she wants to say, "Look! I wasn't LIKE them!"

Pot, meet kettle.

im shaking my head in exasperation. condi rice has a bigger set of balls than i do.

well, she's no Ministry of Truth, it seems.

I'm impressed by the resolution on that photo.

Rice has prior corporate connections at Chevron, Charles Schwab, and Transamerica Corp, having served on the boards of these three major energy and finance firms. I doubt she will have much to worry about once her stint in Bush's cabinet is finished and it's time to seek other lucrative employment.

With these jokers it's always a revolving door between the highest circles of influence in the respective worlds of politics and big business.

I want to shake COndi and smack her around!

Oh, what, because she's black? Racist.

Condi's not black. She's puce.

That's why people in politics shouldn't be allowed to make a lot of money. Give them all $50,000 a year salaries, don't let them take any kind of donations or contributions, and see how they act then. I bet the world looks a lot different when you're counting your money in hundreds instead of hundred-thousands.

My world looks different when I'm counting out my loonies and toonies to go pick up a loaf of bread and some milk
I should be a politician!

The irony of this ignorant pile of horseshit article is dizzying.

Side effect of the world losing respect for you is that no one is going to listen. Kind of a shame, because the points are valid, but no one is going to be able to listen without laughing just a little.

Awwww, baby.

Why don't you spell it out for me, gay moustache?

Like Dick Gregory said, the most mistrustful thing about Condi Rice is that she's a black woman who still wears blush.

Exactly. Putin really is a hell of a lot worse than Bush, at least considered from their respective domestic points of view (Russian foreign policy, while certainly muscular, is not presently anything like as imperialistic as that of the United States). Bush isn't assassinating dissident journalists or nationalizing the assets of prominent critics, nor is he appointing local governors or establishing "Youth Organizations" to intimidate his opponents.

But Bush's domestic policies have definitely leaned a lot more authoritarian than those of any recent American administration since Nixon - and arguably a good deal further than that. The credibility of his officials - and of the United States in general - on such matters, then, is sadly compromised.

You should never shake a baby...they have soft heads.

Watch out, he's a ticking time bomb.

+1

Can you provide specific examples?

Are you for real?

He is NOT real and he has yet to understand that Ayn Rand wrote novels; that is to say...fiction.

Wait, what? Then who is John Galt?