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| Guardian profile of Condi Rice | |
| 2005-01-16 | |
Several anecdotes exemplify Rice's attitude to her race and also her ferocity when attacked. She famously told one interviewer: 'Let me explain to you: I speak French, I play Bach, I'm better in your culture than you are.' On another occasion, when Rice was an academic at Stanford, she was shopping for expensive jewellery with a friend when a white clerk made some hostile comments. 'Let's get one thing straight,' Rice reportedly told him. 'You're behind the counter because you have to work for six dollars an hour. I'm on this side asking to see the good jewellery because I make considerably more.' In Condie's own words On sport I find football so interesting strategically. It's the closest thing to war. What you are doing is taking and yielding territory and have certain strategies and tactics. On ambition My parents had me absolutely convinced that you may not be able to have a hamburger at Woolworth's, but you can be President of the United States. On foreign policy There cannot be an absence of moral content in American foreign policy. Europeans giggle at this and say we are naive, but we are not European, we are American and we have different principles. On race You were told in segregated Birmingham that if you ran twice as hard, you might get half as far. And there were also people willing to run four times as hard so they could stay abreast. And once in a while, somebody was willing to run eight times as hard so they could get ahead. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 I missed the resignations, Cyber Sarge. Tell more, please. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-16 10:30:48 PM |
| #8 Tenet's best option is to keep his yap shut and pray that nobody discloses what a mess he created in the intelligence community. His legact is the inclusion of some weird gay pride day/picnic that the CIA now celbrates. President Bush was too kind to keep the Clinton appointees on the job (I think he was trying to reach out) when they all should have been canned. Hopefully Condi can clean house in State and make them servants of the Goeverment and not some politacal party. The rash of resignations give me a little bit of hope that she will succeed. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-01-16 12:33:12 PM |
| #7 after all, Tenet's turn at the CIA is certainly something to brag about... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-01-16 11:33:19 AM |
| #6 Connie in'08'! |
| Posted by: raptor 2005-01-16 10:01:55 AM |
| #5 Tenet's going to go after Condie Rice Bwahahaha! Hope the Grauniad enjoys the chance to write Condie while it lasts. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-01-16 8:57:57 AM |
| #4 ...And don't forget Jesse Owens. Am I being unfair? TGA? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2005-01-16 8:39:28 AM |
| #3 Dr. Rice gave a major German TV channel an interview last summer, which they used to portray her as a light-weight and a source for amusement. They will learn eventually that the laugh is on them, just as it was with Reagan, etc. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-01-16 8:35:37 AM |
| #2 In a sign that Rice may be headed for troubled waters, Washington insiders are waiting with bated breath for a book by former CIA director George Tenet, who resigned last year as the agency imploded over the scandal of pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Goodman said that an initial synopsis of the book indicated who would be firmly in its sights: 'Tenet's going to go after Condie Rice.' That would be a terribly boneheaded mistake, IMO. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-16 5:26:39 AM |
| #1 "She is tasked with bringing the State Department firmly in hand, stifling the barely concealed dissent that marked the tenure of Colin Powell. It will not be easy and is likely to spark the most fierce bout of Washington infighting in years. But for Bush the job is vital. The State Department must be brought to heel." By Jove, Al Guardian seems to get it, but the illusion only lasts for a moment for they immediately follow this by quoting a Clintoon nitwit who obviously adores State just as it is, subversive, seditious, and on the other side, as he was - decrying that it is to be remade as a tool of Bush. Um, yeah, fucktard, it's supposed to be an arm of the Executive Branch and the international voice of the President's policies. Asshole. Well, fugg 'em - they'll be begging her for interviews soon enough and find out first-hand that she's Thatcher's worthy successor in the steel backbone department. I hope she succeeds in spades. I would be so proud to cast my vote for her in 2008 that it might just finish me off. Thx, Dr Steve - excellent article, if one has a fine mesh filter and some HandiWipes available, heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-16 2:30:56 AM |