Tell me again why Condi Rice is our Secretary of State. What were the reasons?

[Rabrrrrrr]

Was it part of Shrubbie's "Jobs go only to people uniquely unqualified for them" program? Part of the "We only hire bitter people filled with hatred" program?

Or some other idiotic reason?

And what the hell is her doctorate in? Undiplomacy and Lying?

[MrCoffee]

1. she looks dynamite in fishnets and stilettos

[underpants]

2. She was a prodigy. She was a highly successful ice skater in her youth

She crushed everyone in her peer group




Ice skating
black girl



in the early 60's
















in Alabama

[BrotherBuzz]

3. When George Shultz gave Condi to GWB for tuttoring...

He said she's really good, winked, shook his head, and left them alone....

[Akoto]

4. While I hate to admit it ...

She is actually very intelligent and well-educated. Former university professor, lots of foreign policy experience, speaks multiple languages, etc. In an alternate universe (where she isn't rich and evil), she'd actually qualify pretty well for the job.

[RetroLounge]

6. Her foreign policy experience is cold-war based

Useless today...

RL

[KG]

9. if she's so intelligent, why did she take a job lying for fascists?

her 'intelligence', like colin powells' 'integrity' is a PR myth.

[Akoto]

12. Intelligence does not equal goodness.

History is replete with brilliant people who did very, very bad things.

[KG]

13. she's not even close to being brilliant. maybe she got good grades on tests. so what

she's a robot. she's a token. she does what she's told. she's done nothing, said nothing original or enlightening.

[MichiganVote]

14. What job is that? The one of lying through her teeth to congressional committees and US citizens?

I've known very intelligent people who work as custodians with more honor that the woman has in her little finger. Worthless in her position with or without *.

[mitchum]

5. Her rise is due to a fortuitous existence in a specific time and place...

she is a mediocrity who rose through misguided attempts by others to redress wrongs of the past.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Her rise to power has had little to do with redressing wrongs of the past.

Condoleezza Rice is the poster girl for the reich, and she and the junta know it is all a sham.

She is a powerful icon. In substance her persona is completely impotent, delivering the PR message, designed by her corporatist puppet masters.

Having an afro-American Secretary of State for a fascist junta imposed by sequential coups is the ultimate hypocrisy. She is the perfect disguise. How does one address a walking, talking, living, breathing lie? She is an animated programed Potemkin village for a society and foreign policy based upon brutal force, inequity, racism, and class warfare.

[DarkTirade]

7. Because she kissed the right asses when the last guy decided not to anymore.

It's called cronyism.

[hellbound-liberal]

10. She's the only one who applied who actually had an oil tanker named after them

Bush wanted to make sure his oil industry buddies didn't think they were forgotten.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. She has nice shoes. Apparently.

[Xipe Totec]

15. Morally Malleable?

Ambitious Asswipe?

Blind Bushie?

Corrupt Cold-warrior?

Double Dealer?

Enthusiastic Enabler?

Faithful Fascists?

Gutless Genuflector?

Heartless Harpy?

Don't make me go down the alphabet...

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Need you ask?

They don't call her "Eye Condi" for nothin'.