*'s newly nominated Sec'y of State: Is she DELUSIONAL?

[AirAmFan]

We need desperately another "reality-based" overseer of US foreign policy, like Colin Powell or Madeleine Albright.

During Condi's confirmation hearings and upcoming media interviews, what Democratic Senator or reporter might have the backbone to ask her about this important news story:



From http://nymetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/n_10245/

"Political Conversation: Condi's Slip...

By Deborah Schoeneman WITH SPENCER MORGAN April 26, 2004

A pressing issue of dinner-party etiquette is vexing Washington, according to a story now making the D.C. rounds: How should you react when your guest, in this case national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, makes a poignant faux pas? At a recent dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven Weisman, and Elisabeth Bumiller,

Rice was reportedly overheard saying, 'AS I WAS TELLING MY HUSB...' and then stopping herself abruptly, before saying, 'As I was telling President Bush'. Jaws dropped, but a guest says the slip by the unmarried politician, who spends weekends with the president and his wife, seemed more psychologically telling than incriminating. Nobody thinks Bush and Rice are actually an item. A National Security Council spokesman laughed and said, 'No comment.'"

[knight_of_the_star]

1. How about we just hammer her over the 9/11 warnings ignored

And how she could have done something and failed to DO HER JOB.

[Katherine2]

2. I know, I just don't get it

She was the NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR during the biggest, hugest failure of national security in our history, and she gets a promotion? She should have been the first person fired after 9/11.

[AirAmFan]

3. Mere incompetence is so commonplace in the current administration

it is not even news anymore. But if the world spokesperson for the US were someone who lives in fantasyland, where * is her "husband", that's definitely worth discussing, don't you think?

[desertalien]

5. Control

They only want people in the cabinet they can control. Good or bad, crazy or sane. It's about control. :shrug:

[AirAmFan]

6. Good insight. Explains Ashcroft's ouster, as well as Powell's

Under Condi, there will be no fears of State allowing peace to break out anywhere it's not supposed to, and there will be no news stories except those planted by the White House.

[Zero Gravitas]

4. She's a neo-con

So yes she's delusional. Anyone who thinks that we can spread democracy by invading other countries that pose no threat to us is clearly delusional.