Reply #93: No kidding. When you are skewered daily by the RW press and infortainment, [View All]

[nealmhughes]

why not go into attack mode and stay in it. WTF? Afraid of violating some secret triangulating rule?

"So, you think I am dissing the president, eh? You ain't heard nothin' yet! Mr. Bush has single handedly ....." I would. She wasn't going to be reelected as Senator from NY? No way, for some reason the Empire State seems oddly attracted to Mme.

Maybe Condi actually thought that Cheney was shooting off his mouth, and actually thought she and Powell trumped Deadeye. Anyhow, did she not consider what an Enabling Act might do, rather than what it purported to do? She is a lawyer for goodness' sake! One is reminded of the water corporation for Manhattan turned into Chase Manhattan by the city council and state legislature not noting carefully how the bloody enabling act was worded!

Personally, I think this is retroconning her public persona for the US public. Who wants to admit: "I am a woman and I need to look tough. It will be a cake walk if we do go into Iraq, and the country is looking for revanche. And a nay would look so bad to a certain vocal minority in the City. . ."

Maybe she can get sudden soap opera aging syndrome next and come back from her trip to camp a bit older and a lot wiser.