(Karen Hughes!) Longtime Bush adviser leaving State Dept

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - Karen Hughes, who led efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad and was one of President Bush's last remaining advisers from the close circle of Texas aides, will leave the government at the end of the year, she told The Associated Press.

Hughes said she plans to quit her job as undersecretary of state and return to Texas, although improving the world's view of the United States is a "long-term challenge" that will outlast her.

"This will take a number of years," Hughes said in an interview to announce her departure. She was informing her staff of her decision Wednesday morning and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was announcing

Bush had picked Hughes two years ago to retool the way the United States sells its policies, ideals and views overseas. A former television reporter and media adviser, Hughes' focus has been to change the way the United States engages and responds to criticism or misinformation in the Muslim world.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/karen_hughes

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:applause: About time!

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. She's done a terrific job

:eyes:

[Cooley Hurd]

21. One might say, "a heckuva job!"

:rofl:

[redwitch]

2. LOL

"This will take a number of years," Hughes said

Actually, not sure whether to laugh or cry.

[peace13]

3. Finally! Well that's it then...

there must be no more damage to be done! Peace, Kim

[katty]

49. indeed! Karen goes home...next on Faux! (I'm done here, Condi)

[Atman]

4. Didn't she do this already?

She needs even MORE time with her family, apparently.

I cannot believe she's leaving. After all, she did such a GREAT JOB catapulting the propaganda to the rest of the world. We're beloved by most nation's on earth now, aren't we?

See ya, Karen. Don't let the door hit your fat ass on the way out.

.

[gratuitous]

17. Maybe she finally talked her family into it

I have a sneaking suspicion that they didn't want to spend more time with her.

[jhain]

34. SNORT!!

Her kids call her Mama Yoyo.

[Sukie1941]

19. I was wondering the same thing

didn't she already leave?

[Dulcinea]

5. Karen Hughes resigning

Source: CNN

No link yet, just saw it on CNN.

No link yet.

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No link yet, just saw it on CNN.

[Richardo]

6. Two comments: 1) "Again?" and 2)

"Who gives a shit?"

[gatorboy]

7. She's retiring from failure?

I guess there is just so much you can take, eh?

[TwilightGardener]

8. Who will schlep Cal Ripken and Michelle Kwan around to their "Yay! America!" appearances?

[arewenotdemo]

52. ----Snort!----

nt

[hatrack]

9. Heckuva job, Huge!

:puke:

[Supersedeas]

47. she made the most of the government paycheck -- twice

[gatorboy]

10. She added, "I'll eventually go into consulting."

"Where I can help teach others how to fail miserably at their jobs."

[OwnedByFerrets]

11. Who would even notice if she quit without telling anyone? nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. MSNBC's "breaking" headline: "Longtime Bush adviser Hughes quitting job pitching U.S. image abroad"

She's right about one thing, though...it will take "a number of years" to clean up behind the Boy King. That's not her job, though...she's gonna go back to Texas and resume her position as the self-proclaimed world's bestest mom.

Awwwwww...

:grouphug:

[maddezmom]

13. another "Miserable Failure" by bushco

[Cirque du So-What]

14. Is there another shoe waiting to drop?

Announcements like this always make me wonder about the backstory. Did she say something to a 'friendly' sheik so outrageous that he threatened to switch sides and join al Qaeda? Did she commit some boorish breach of local etiquette? An announcement so sudden - replete with the de rigueur 'goin' back to Texas' statement - is never complete until all the stories emerge following the actual departure.

[CoffeeCat]

41. Can you imagine what she endured?

I mean, she's the PR henchman for a group of
Fascist numskulls who are destroying the world.

I can only imagine the jokes, the ridicule, the
endless lecturing and the eye rolling she experienced!

Can you imagine--being sent around the world to put
a pretty face on the ultimate of ugliness!

The United States is currently the Ernest Borgnine of
the world and it was Karen's job to schlep around the
idea that----no, we're really Cindy Crawford if you
just look at us in the right light.

Those lobster catchers who face the perils of the
Bering Sea got nothing on Karen's job!

[Virginia Dare]

15. You're right Karen, it will take YEARS..

to undo all of the damage your idiot boss and cronies like you have done to this country...:cry: Good riddance you useless whore. I guess now you'll write another book about how brilliant your monkey-ass leader is..:eyes:

[onehandle]

16. "Upon reflection, Hughes admits that her self-named 'Project Towelhead', could have gone better."

"That's what they call them at the White House, so I assumed that was their proper name."

[rodeodance]

18. She never fully left Bush's employ, serving as an offsite strategist

This is Hughes' second departure. She was among Bush's closest confidantes during his first term before leaving the White House in 2002. She never fully left Bush's employ, serving as an offsite strategist and adviser until she returned to Washington to take the State Department job in 2005.

Hughes had been splitting her time between Texas and Washington.

She worked with Bush since the 1990s, first as director of communications while he was governor of Texas, from 1995 to 2000.

[Ian David]

20. Karen Hughes has resigned to spend more time creating violence within her own family. n/t

[Javaman]

27. She's going on a tour to listen to her family. LOL nt

[Bitwit1234]

22. She's leaving "again". Darn how many times is she coming back and then leave

[Maestro]

37. My thoughts exactly.

And what a nice job she did improving our image. :sarcasm:

[bdamomma]

23. imoroving the world's view of America??, was not tarnished

until your boss * was appointed. You stupid woman.

[disndat]

24. Just another rat

jumping ship.

[Magleetis]

25. Ha ha

Hughes' focus has been to change the way the United States engages and responds to criticism or misinformation in the Muslim world.

What has changed Karen? I don't see any change, just more war talk and killing.

Go to hell.

[rurallib]

26. This being Halloween, this makes me think of how those rustics

always thought they had killed Frankenstein, yet he kept coming back, again and again and again.
Come to think of it Franky might have done a better job.

[Kool Kitty]

55. I think Frankenstein is a bit more articulate that Bush.

[Javaman]

28. in an admin* that rewards failure, she did a heck of a job. nt

[JBoy]

29. You're Fired

[babylonsister]

30. Another rat jumping ship; not looking good for the dim one. nt

[Raster]

31. So wetnurse to the beast retires yet again....

Maybe this time she will stay retired.

[sutz12]

32. Well, now our image around the world will go to hell!

:sarcasm:

(Did I really need that?)

[progressoid]

33. Should I be happy?

I suppose I should be happy but after years of miserable failures, it's kinda hard to get happy.

[seafan]

35. This is one scary woman.

Longtime Bush adviser leaving State Dept, October 31, 2007

On Halloween, no less.

[Buns_of_Fire]

44. She ate that poor baby's face, didn't she?

:cry:

[The Backlash Cometh]

36. Could it be over Blackwater's immunity problems?

[datadiva]

38. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Karen n/t

[cascadiance]

39. the rats continue to leave...

[CoffeeCat]

40. Her next job is going to be less challenging...

Word on the street is that she's going to sign on
as an image consultant for Charles Manson.

That will be a nice breezy break--after trying to convince
the world that this administration isn't a marauding gaggle of
evil clowns.

I wish her the best.

[truthisfreedom]

42. Maybe she can join Philbin in spending more time with Fema employees posing as their families?

[rocktivity]

43. Scandal involving Hughes breaking in ten, nine, seven...

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. Buh-bye

Good riddance.

[kskiska]

46. "This will take a number of years…"

In other words, "I failed."

[Zorra]

48. Well, Albania loves Bu*h. She did well in Albania!

But then again, a lot of Albanians loved Enver Hoxha also, and I guess Bu*h is a lot like Hoxha in many ways.

[mikelgb]

50. Wow! Her first positive step toward actually improving foreign relations...

color me genuinely shocked

[tanyev]

51. Oh dear. She's on her way back to Texas.

I guess she'll do less damage here than in the Middle East, though.

[Olney Blue]

53. The Bore of Babylon

(I decided to be nice)

[calimary]

54. All that desperate swimming upstream getting to be too much, karen dear?

Especially since the current coming at you has only grown stronger. Maybe it's because you're swimming against a downward-rushing river that's about to turn into Niagara Falls. karen, no matter how much lipstick you tried to put on that pig you were overseas "selling" to them fur'ners, it did no good. Besides, the people you were trying to sell to - don't eat pork.

Now that's one miserable dead-end job - trying to sell georgie to the masses who've already seen enough to despise him. You're in your own little world, honey. You guys may have created your own reality, but the rest of the world doesn't live in it or believe in it. You've built quite an illusion there but nobody else, anywhere else, believes it.

[rodeodance]

56. US image chief quits

Source: afp

US image chief quits

by P. Parameswaran 13 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Karen Hughes, the US State Department's top image maker and a longtime confidante of US President George W. Bush, is quitting her post after barely two years and with little visible success in polishing the US image.

Hughes' resignation, effective mid-December, was announced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who said her 50-year-old under secretary for public diplomacy was returning to Texas.

Her departure follows that of top Bush political strategist Karl Rove and senior adviser Dan Bartlett -- the troika widely credited with the former Texas governor's rise to the White House.

"I announce on behalf of the department and on behalf of the president that Karen Hughes is, by the end of the year, sometime in mid-December, going to step down from her role as under secretary and return to Texas," Rice told a press conference.



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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071101/wl_afp/uspoliticsdiplomacyhughes_071031173808;_ylt=AuVPh6DEZEW8aJOo8GSjvVms0NUE

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ha ha 'image chief"-----what a hoot.

[Nostradammit]

57. That headline is poetry

4 words sum up the whole decade.

[TwilightGardener]

58. "Image Chief"--is that on her paycheck? Seriously?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

59. finally, bye bye Karen

[Demonaut]

60. polish this Karen!

uughh!!, rather do a Ron Jeremy on myself

[pinto]

61. And the Potemkin Administration moves inexorably to the dustbin of history.

Bye, Ms. Image Chief. Heck of a job in the mid-east. :eyes:

[BeHereNow]

62. Poor Karen, found out it's not so easy to peddle shit on a stick to people who have

been choking on US shit for decades.

What a fucking farce this administration has been.

Guess old Karen found out the rest of the people on this
planet are not so easily manipulated as the American public, eh?

BHN

[cartach]

63. It might not be so good

that people like Karen Hughes are leaving the Bush administration.I always thought she was one of the most ridiculous blabbermouths on the team.It seemed that every time she tried one scheme or another to try to make Bush look better she fell flat on her face.We had better watch out because the less of her type Bush has,the better he may look.No,no,no,on second thought I'm completely off base,nothing will make him ever look better.

[yurbud]

64. PHOTO: Why she didn't quite persuade Arabs to like us....