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colorado_ufo

(5,717 posts)
14. Pure evil, possibly; but for certain
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 01:59 PM
Feb 2013

spoiled and spineless. Bush & Co. used her, and she was eager to cooperate. They needed the image of a black woman in a prominent place, to try to broaden their appeal, and they sold her on the PNAC by how she could be part of this new empire, how she could shape the future and the world, how she would have power and respect and admiration and glory and whatever. And the cherry on top was GWB making her feel like she was really "special" to him.

Educated, sophisticated, attractive, good family background, exceptionally smart in some respects, and best of all, black, she fit the bill perfectly.

The only problem was, she bought into it too much. Her field of specialty, Russia and the Soviet Union, was outdated. She was in way over her head, in her position, and constantly screwed up. And when she accidentally referred to GWB as "my husband," and it did not escape the notice of the press, she then turned quickly from an asset into a real liability. She was much too high-profile to be suicided, she had no family to resign to "spend more time with," and "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned": She could be a real danger to start leaking secrets.

And that, in my opinion, is how Condy Rice became Secretary of State. One has to admire the brilliance of this solution: Rice is rewarded by a higher position than she previously had, she has her name written permanently and prominently in the history books, and best of all - she is GONE! Out of the White House, constantly off to somewhere, out of Laura B's sight, and out of GWB's hair. Talk about win-win!

Is that Rove I smell? Turdblossom really came through for GWB with this one.

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