Rice's image shines amid White House clouds

[Algorem]

Condoleezza Rice has shed image as hawkish "warrior princess."

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051226/1004962.asp

Now in her second year as the country's senior diplomat, Condoleezza Rice has managed to avoid the controversies assailing the Bush White House.

By ANNE GEARAN
Associated Press
12/26/2005

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has become the most popular member of the Bush administration and a potential candidate to succeed her boss in the White House, even as Americans lose confidence in the president she serves and patience with the Iraq war she helped launch.

Entering her second year as the country's senior diplomat and foreign policy spokeswoman, Rice has improbably shed much of her image as the hawkish "warrior princess" at President Bush's side. The nickname was reportedly bestowed by staff at the White House National Security Council, where Rice was an intimate member of Bush's first-term war council.

Rice resolutely defends the post-Sept. 11 war on terrorism and the expansive executive powers that Bush claims came with it. She has lately sounded more optimistic than Bush about the progress of the Iraq War and the future for that country.

Yet, it is unusual to hear anyone talk about Rice as an architect of either of those two defining undertakings of the Bush presidency...

[madaboutharry]

1. Bull

She is right in the middle of it.

[Psephos]

2. It's an op-ed...they have their opinion, we have ours n/t

[biscotti]

3. I am going to be ill

What was the title on the PDB from August 6th.????

[KittyWampus]

4. And so the Mediawhores begin shoving Condie down our throats

ignoring her blatant lies and utter ineptitude.

[depakid]

22. Yep- condaliar will be praised

and get but only a pass but lots of history rewrites.

[amitten]

5. Oh, don't they wish! n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. An editorial by a right winger. Typical bs. nt

[quiet.american]

7. So how much of our tax dollars went to finance this drivel? n/t

[petgoat]

8. She lied to the faces of the 9/11 widows

when she said the 8-6-01 PDB did not warn of current attacks.

While Bush was ignoring that at Crawford he had 24 hour fighter cover.

http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney0918.html

[Algorem]

9. new b.s. campaign,they probably think she'll do well against H. Clinton?

[formercia]

10. Condi'Dulcinea' Rice wins the prize at the whoremongers ball

Fearless Leader is so desperate that even the crack of dawn is starting to look good. Sancho, hand me my lance!

[liveoaktx]

11. PR pushed out in the form of news-Rice is a Torture Pimp

[tuvor]

12. Milk came out of my nose!

:rofl:

[spindrifter]

13. She may, in their opinion, have shed

the "warrior princess" image, but in the opinion of the world she has confirmed her image as Princess Liar.

[RagingInMiami]

14. This article is such bullshit and it's not an editorial

At least not officially. The only source of facts to back up the story is the following:

"A Pew Research survey in October found that 60 percent of respondents held either a very favorable or mostly favorable view of Rice, while 25 percent had a very or mostly unfavorable view - numbers others in the Bush administration can only envy."

Maybe they should conduct a more updated poll because that poll was conducted before her trip to Europe where she told Europeans that the United States is in full compliance with the Geneva Convention, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

[warrior1]

15. bull shit

[brentspeak]

16. Is there some kind of Condi-payola scheme going on?

This is the about the 1000th article praising Rice as some kind of demi-god.

[MurrayDelph]

31. (Tinfoil tophat time)

are they getting ready to try to use her to replace Cheney, figuring that would make Bush
impeachment-proof (because then they would have a "Negro woman" president, and they
figure the nation would never accept that)?

[Algorem]

17. if they want to run her will they get her married soon?

[pretzel4gore]

18. she's a war criminal and traitor

she needs a quiet night on death row to repent and soon...

[TankLV]

19. Says who?!!! She keeps on see-sawing which one of them is worse & commits

the more outrageous act or says the most outrageous thing of the day.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[cosmicdot]

20. so, AP writes opinion pieces?

I doubt it was written for the editorial page. The Buffalo News puts it in its editorials. Wonder how it's being treated by other corporate media.

If it was the scribe's (Anne Gearan) op/ed, she shouldn't have put "Associated Press" under her name. She's an AP 'writer'. It's an AP piece.


from the article, re Rice:
"She declined to point to any specific accomplishments for which she takes personal credit."

That speaks volumes. She's not doing anything positive nor constructive.

Is she trying to slip out the back door?

[pfitz59]

28. Seattle PI put it in the back of section A.....

.. It is NOT news!

[EC]

21. Go ahead and run her, their base is so full of bigots

and female haters, it'll backfire on them...all their minorities are appointed, never elected...

[bullimiami]

23. how many has rove paid to write this bullshit?

vile lying swill.

[zbdent]

24. Gee, the media gets tons of footage of Kerry windsurfing (and replays

the smearing commercial during a news "broadcast" about the commercial) . . .

I wonder (snicker, :sarcasm:) if the media will be able to dig up the footage in 08 of Condescending Lies shopping for thousand-dollar shoes while people were drowning in New Orleans . . .

[dusmcj]

25. she's just amateurish and petulant, but at least she's not corrupt ? nt

[William Seger]

26. She's a liar; she's incompetent; and she's an incompetent liar

The title of that editorial should have been "Rice still popular with gullible dumb-asses."

[Demeter]

27. Most Popular BushCo Flunky; That's Not Saying Much, Is It?

You mean at least nobody tossed a live grenade at her?

[opihimoimoi]

29. I name all of my crabs after BushCo and his minions...inclg Condi

[Imagevision]

30. All she hat to is stay out and away from the camera's and the USA

All this pineapple princess (princess? -ugh!) anyway all she ever does is gramtically correct all that comes out of Bush's mouth and not an iota more, great used car salesperson.