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Sunday, December 7th, 2008*
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Archive for the 'Condoleezza Rice' Category
A Bitter Rivalry Shatters Pakistan’s Ruling Coalition–New York Time headline
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Vincenzo Kolchak asks and answers the question:
What’s the smallest number in the world?
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The number of people outside Bush’s inner circle who are surprised by
this story.
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(”I have this recurring image of Condi (looking very much at sea)
talking to her chief SW Asia adviser who just happens to be the
Disney cartoon character, Goofy, and he is looking […]
We owe a debt of appreciation to Vincenzo Kolchak for his reading William Kristol so that we my continue to avoid the NEW YORK TIMES columnist.
Monday, August 11th, 2008I think this may be the second column I have scanned Kristol’s column (I can’t bear to read every word). It’s really the height of chutzpah, to push Russia on areas clearly within their geographical bailiwick (and clearly, from a military point of view, way out of ours) and to screw around with things like […]
“If the campaign staff wants to rent a bus, show them where they can rent a bus.”–leaked State Department cable to the Washington Times.
Monday, July 21st, 2008Night before Obama flies abroad, Rice bars embassies from aiding candidates
John Byrne
Published: Monday July 21, 2008
‘If they want to rent a bus, show them where they can rent a bus’
The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of […]
SHINE ON, HARVEST BOOM
Sunday, June 8th, 2008*
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Houston Chronicle
“We Should Not Let Them Back into Polite Society” - Richard Clarke on GWB and His Cronies
Posted 6/6/2008 8:40 AM CDT
On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller. The conclusions reached by this report were […]
So Condi wants to be Veep? If there were any one whose past performance is perfectly suited for aspiration to a job “not worth a bucket of warm p—,” she’s the winner.
Sunday, March 30th, 2008*
Oops! The president’s age negates Cactus Jack Garner’s observation.
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Think Progress has a good story.
Image: via Think Progress
Rice Urges China To Talk To Dalai Lama As Only Sustainable Policy–AFP headline
Monday, March 24th, 2008Isn’t that how Condi’s boss handled the Axis of Evil?
Hu cares?
1 hour, 24 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged China Monday to speak to the Dalai Lama as the “only policy that is sustainable in Tibet,” during talks with her visiting Indian counterpart.
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Images: (Condi Hu?) state.gov; (Lama) juniper.typepad.com;
Forget it! He’s not moving until Green Acres is over at three p.m.
Friday, March 7th, 2008SYDNEY MORNING-HERALD
They knew, but did nothing
March 8, 2008
In this exclusive extract from his new book, Philip Shenon uncovers how the White House tried to hide the truth of its ineptitude leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. .
In the American summer of 2001, the nation’s news organisations, especially the television networks, were riveted by […]
Neither was able to go to his left and both fought to keep Chinese out of the National Pastime.
Friday, February 1st, 2008US diplomats sometimes go off-message
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press WriterFri Feb 1, 6:31 AM ET
More and more, top government diplomats are straying from official Bush foreign policy as the administration wanes, leaving Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice struggling to keep them in check.
Twice just this week, Rice and her aides had to rebuke, disavow or […]
Rice ‘Planted’ Question With ‘Friendly Journalist’ To ‘Help Erase’ Pre-Iraq War Legacy–headline, Think Progress
Friday, November 30th, 2007Madame Secretary, after you were able to find the cure to Type-2 Diabetes and during your world concert tour which ended with your receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Order of the Knights of Minolta, will you have time to accept your party’s presidential nomination by acclamation?
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Another piece from Think Progress…
In an interview […]