April may have been one of Rice's cruelest months (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

April may have been one of Rice's cruelest months

By Arshad Mohammed
55 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, April may have been one of the cruelest months.

There is little good news on U.S. foreign policy from Iraq and
Afghanistan to North Korea and Russia.

On the domestic front, Rice has been subpoenaed to testify about
erroneous intelligence used to justify the Iraq war, has fended off
criticism from former CIA Director George Tenet and has watched
one of her top aides resign amid a sex scandal.

Few analysts could cite recent diplomatic victories for the
administration; all said challenges abound.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070501/pl_nm/usa_rice_dc_1

[sutz12]

1. Typo in there.....

It says: Few analysts could cite recent diplomatic victories for the
administration; all said challenges abound.

It should say: Few analysts could cite ANY diplomatic victories for the
administration; all said challenges abound.

[progressoid]

9. Good editing. That makes a lot more sense.

[Webster Green]

2. Framed to make her the victim..

Poor Condi! She just can't catch a break.:nopity:

[Erika]

3. I heard she also missed out on the shoe sales. Too much for her to bare

Such heartbreak.

[saltpoint]

4. In the past at Chevron, or at Stanford, and especially

with the Brahms Intermezzi, Condi could grapple with what confronted her and best it. She could put it to rights, she could call the right people on the Rolodex, she could find the cunning fingering for the Brahms.

And things would be ok. It got her this far, she could always make things work.

These days she can't draw on any resource to make things right. Her Russian studies are inadequate to the task in the face of Putin's eel-like wizardry. He'd be too much for almost anyone, but especially Condi, who was never challenged much to start with.

She can't make the North Koreans understand why she's important. She can't make herself as alluring as those women in Kim Jong Il's videos. His country is starving but he's got the dough for Hollywood movies. Condi broods too much to melt Jong Il. Her best outfits won't turn his head. And she's afraid to talk with him in person. How dare he be bored and unimpressed with her, when she's Condoleeza Rice, the intellectual Russian expert power gal for the Bush administration? How dare he?

And now her fake cowboy's stock has fallen. He's drunk half the time -- or is it not booze but just a case of his being spirit-hammered and hammered flat -- that makes him speak like a petulant 6-year old? She was promised -- dare she speak this out loud -- she was promised the presidency. She would be the warrior woman with the corporate pedigree and conservative hall pass to pick up where Dubya left off and smash the Democrats' hold on the black vote while giving the corporate pig donors everything they wanted on the platters of their choice.

And now that's down the toilet. Dubya's war has not worked out according to expectations. And what is Condi if not a tangle of expectations. A new pair of shoes, an inadequate resume, and a grudge-boiling scowl on her face 24-7.

From this point forward she will sneak out in her private automobile, Rush Limbaugh belching fascist propaganda on the radio, and just drive around the Potomac basin. First in northern Virginia, then maybe up to Maryland. Foster Grants hiding her eyes but not quite covering that scowl. Tinted glass on all the windows. No one knows where she is. The cell phone rings. Christ, it's that fool Hadley again. Something about al-Sadr's militia people walking out on the new government. "Handle it," she tells him, her tone constricted and scathing. "Call that sonofabitch Cheney and you people HANDLE it."

Tulips are up everywhere as she pulls into a quickstop for some Gatorade. The clerk gives her a look as he hands her the change. He thinks he knows who she is, but can't place her. Whoever she is, he thinks, she doesn't look like someone who'd be drinking Gatorade.

Condi revs up the car and whips out onto the expressway, heading back to Washington. It's just a bit before rush hour and she snakes and careens in between clusters of other cars, Limbaugh blaring from the dashboard, through the old hills around the Capital, back to her cul-de-sac dead-end job at the State Department.

[JNelson6563]

6. I wish I could recommend replies

:toast:

[wicket]

8. I'm with JNelson6563

I wish I could recommend your reply as well! :hi:

She can't make herself as alluring as those women in Kim Jong Il's videos.

Bwahahahahahahaha!!! :rofl:

[gristy]

12. Nicely written

This stands out for me:

The cell phone rings. Christ, it's that fool Hadley again. Something about al-Sadr's militia people walking out on the new government. "Handle it," she tells him, her tone constricted and scathing. "Call that sonofabitch Cheney and you people HANDLE it."

[saltpoint]

13. JNelson6567, wicket, and gristy, hi to you all and

kind thanks for the kind words.

On Condoleezza Rice, it's always hard to know where to begin. Brahms is monstrously difficult to playon a piano, and not all that many people on earth ever master it. She's one who has in that very rare group, but she hangs out with the thugs in the Bush administration. I will never understand why she prefers ugly power to its beautiful absence -- Bush instead of Brahms -- but mostly I just won't forgive her for it.

I expect Bush to act the way he does because I have no expectation for him. He's thick and stubborn, so his behavior -- horrifying as it is -- at least makes sense for him.

But Condi knows better, and still sucks up to the power machine.

Yuck!

[maddezmom]

5. Bless her heart

:nopity:

[Canuckistanian]

7. Then May is gonna be a bitch

Either she is going to be forced to testify before Congress - or she causes a constitutional showdown.

She loses either way.

[Joe Bacon]

10. Johnnie Ray is dead

Let somebody else :cry: for Kindasleazy

[Captain Hilts]

11. Wow! That's a real boomer joke! For the First Boomers! nt

[saltpoint]

14. Condi could be the central character in an EVA-like musical at this point.

The pathos! The heartbreak!

Poor Condi.