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After the President and First Lady spent the weekend in Texas; today the President attended a fund raiser in San Antonio (no photos available) and met with local small business leaders, after which he spoke about the economy. He then spoke about the economy and judicial appointments in Cincinnati.before returning to the White House with the First lady. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2945 - McCain/Palin--Day 39. Today Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice presented Gen. David Patraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award Today Republican vice-presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin campaigned in Clearwater, Fla....

The President travelled to New York today where tomorrow he will speak at the UN. First Lady Laura Bush spoke at The White House symposium on Advancing Global Literacy in New York. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended a series of meetings today in New York. Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke to the National Guard Association of the United States' 130th General Conference Vice President candidate Sarah Palin campaigned in Florida yesterday and Pennsylvania today. Pray for President Bush - Day - 2931 & McCain/Palin - Day - 25 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

Today the Presidentmades a statement outside the Oval Office about the economy and government efforts to remedy the crisis. The president canceled a planned trip to the South today so he could meet with his economic advisers insteadPray for President Bush - Day - 2927 & McCain/Palin - Day - 21 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks on US-Russia relations during an address to members and guests of the German Marshall Fund at a hotel in Washington. Defense Secretary Robert Gates toured the Imperial War Museum in London, Secretary Gates is in the United Kingdom to meet with government officials...

In a scathing criticism of Moscow, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that Russia's policies have put it on a path to isolation and irrelevance. Rice called on the West to stand up to Russian aggression following its invasion of Georgia last month. "The attack on Georgia has crystallized the course that Russia's leaders are taking_ and brought us to a critical moment for Russia and the world," she said. The State Department released in advance the text of the speech Rice was delivering Thursday. The speech for a German Marshall Fund event reflected an escalation of rhetoric in...

The President welcomed President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana to White House which included meeting in the Oval Office, remarks on the South Lawn, and this evening a dinner at the White House. The President was briefed on the damage and on going relief work involving the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended a luncheon for Ghana's President John Kufuor Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks to reporters in the briefing room of the White House . Pray for President Bush - Day - 2924 & McCain/Palin - Day - 18 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island...

The moral and political cost of Libya's rehabilitation. SECRETARY OF STATE Condoleezza Rice's visit to Libya last week represents the final step in a decades-long U.S. effort to reform and rehabilitate the rogue state. A charter member of the U.S. Department of State's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, after its nuclear program was disclosed in 2003, Tripoli demonstrated contrition and agreed to compensate American victims of a 1988 terrorist attack. Libya was scratched from the list in 2006, and this past August Washington struck a deal with Tripoli that removed the final hurdles in normalizing the bilateral relationship. The...

The President on the South Lawn spoke on volunteerism and Christian singer Michael Smith performed at the same event. Click here for Fact Sheet: USA Freedom Corps: Strengthening Service to Meet Community Needs Pray for President Bush - Day - 2917 & McCain/Palin - Day - 11 Well I presumed wrongly yesterday that the Vice President was on his way back to the States because he was in Rome today meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano he also said he supports Sarah Palin, in her bid to become the Republican party's first female vice president and said her convention speech...

The President returned from Camp David on Saturday and hosted a Tee Ball game on Sunday. The Vice President concluded his overseas trip with meetings in Italy on Saturday and Sunday and has now boarded AF2 for what I presume is the flight back to the US. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Sunday a three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco Pray for President Bush - Day - 2916 & McCain/Palin - Day - 10 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

ALGIERS, Algeria - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held meetings Saturday with terrorism-fighting allies in North Africa, a region of growing strategic importance. After talks with Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci in this vital oil- and gas-producing nation, Rice planned to see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Her visit comes as Algeria has experienced a surge in terrorist attacks, most claimed by a local extremist group that has linked with al-Qaida.

Condoleezza Rice last night became the most senior US official to visit Libya in more than half a century when she arrived for a meeting with its leader, Muammar Gadafy. The visit, which Rice described as historic, was a reward for Gadafy's strategic decision over the past seven years to distance himself from extremism and give up weapons of mass destruction, providing a positive example to Iran.

President Bush declared National Preparedness Month, 2008 Link President Bush declared National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, 2008 Link President Bush condemned the actions take by the Russian President in regards to Georgia Link Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice participated in a joint press conference with Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Secretary of State Rice participated in a press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

The President is still in Crawford Texas and today his Assistant Press Secreatary Tony Fratto briefed reporters on President Bush's activities at his nearby ranch. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2800 It was announced today that Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Georgia and the Ukraine next week. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Tele Aviv today. Enjoy Sanity Island

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to arrive on Monday in another attempt to advance the Annapolis process and produce some kind of Israeli-Palestinian document before the end of the year. Slideshow: Pictures of the week Israeli diplomatic officials said Saturday night that if Rice was trying to get the Israelis and Palestinians to agree on a document to be presented at the United National General Assembly in mid-September spelling out what the sides had already agreed upon, she would be unlikely to find an ally in Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Rice is scheduled to meet with Livni...

Today the President continued to operate from his ranch in Texas where he is vacationing, a White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe briefed reporters on the President's activities. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq Pray for President Bush -- Day 2899 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

via translation - ALERT - Condoleezza Rice arrives in Baghdad BAGHDAD - The U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Baghdad Thursday to meet with Iraqi officials when the negotiations on the future of the American military presence in this country are parking in their final phase, according to an AFP journalist .

In the equation which makes up the odious, criminal and murderous Bush regime and its murderous, criminal and odious foreign policy, the constant factor is constituted by a teacher, promoted to positions way above her personal and intellectual station by a gullible fool of a President. This teacher, whose sheer incompetence as National Security Advisor and as Secretary of State is today so blatantly apparent, goes by the name of Condoleeza Rice.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Russia is playing a "very dangerous game" with the U.S. and its allies and warned that NATO would not allow Moscow to win in Georgia, destabilize Europe or draw a new Iron Curtain through it. On her way to an emergency NATO foreign ministers meeting on the crisis, Rice said the alliance would punish Russia for its invasion of the Georgia and deny its ambitions by rebuilding and fully backing Georgia and other Eastern European democracies. "We have to deny Russian strategic objectives, which are clearly to undermine Georgia's...

Rice to visit Poland to sign missile shield deal WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she would travel to Poland in coming days to ink a deal on installing US interceptor missiles on Polish territory. "I'm going to Poland to sign a missile defense agreement in the next couple of days, after the NATO meeting," she told Fox News Sunday. Foreign ministers of the 26 NATO members are due to meet in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the crisis in Georgia, after a five-day war between Tbilisi and Moscow over the pro-Moscow region of South...

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; former Gov. Tom Ridge, R-Pa.; Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; White House press secretary Dana Perino.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Govs. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and Tim Kaine, D-Va.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn. THIS WEEK (ABC): Defense Secretary Robert Gates; former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.; former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Reps. Eric...

Hardliners are trying to wrest control of foreign policy from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is widely blamed for failing to predict the Russian invasion of Georgia ten days ago. White House advisers say events in the Caucasus have strengthened the hand of neoconservatives, who have been steadily losing influence in Washington since the botched Iraq campaign. The hawks are pushing for the US to press Nato to bring Georgia and the Ukraine into the alliance by the end of the year, as a way if deterring further Russian aggression.

The US has cancelled a joint naval exercise with Russia after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned that Moscow's attacks on Georgia jeopardised its integration into international institutions. The cancellation of the military exercise, set for next week, is the first concrete disapproval from the US over Russia's military operations in Georgia and South Ossetia. "I can assure you that Russia's international reputation and what role Russia can play in the international community is very much at stake here," said Ms Rice. The exercises were to involve warships from Russia, France, Britain and the US in the Sea of Japan...

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, has threatened Russia with international isolation unless it keeps to a peace deal with Georgia brokered by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President. As she was despatched for Tblisi by George W Bush, in a strong show of US support for Georgia, Ms Rice said Russian troops' violations of the truce since the agreement was reached have "only served to deepen the isolation into which Russia is moving", as Moscow confirmed its troops remain in the state. There is a "very strong, growing sense that Russia is not behaving like the kind of international...

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, is set to land in Georgia in a strong show of support for Tbilisi over the conflict with Russia. Ms Rice, who is hoping to secure President Mikheil Saakashvili's agreement for a French-brokered peace plan, earlier said: "It is time for this crisis to be over. Georgia, whose territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty we fully respect, must be able to go back to normal life." The US warned Russia of the "profound implications" for their relationship caused by Moscow's military action in Georgia. However Mr Saakashvili, who had earlier criticised his western allies...

ALERT - Condoleezza Rice arrives in Tbilisi MOSCOW - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Tbilisi Friday to affirm the support of Washington to face Georgia in Moscow, has seen an AFP journalist.

Choosing expediency over principle, the United States and its allies are pushing Georgia's pro-Western government to accept major concessions in a cease-fire with Russia. Despite warnings of serious consequences for Russia for its invasion of the former Soviet republic, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Georgia on Friday to try to persuade its leadership to agree to a deal that expands the mandate of Russian troops on Georgian territory. The French-mediated proposal calls for the immediate withdrawal of Russian combat troops from Georgia, but allows Russian peacekeepers who were in the flashpoint separatist area of South Ossetia before last...

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, warned Russia that it must withdraw its troops behind the boundaries of two disputed Georgian enclaves as she secured a ceasefire agreement that leaves open the possibility of continued incursions. America's chief diplomat arrived in the Georgian capital Tblisi for talks with a deeply suspicious President Mikheil Saakashvili, who sought to strengthen guarantees of a complete Russian pullback. In the end, the pro-Western Georgian leader had little option but to accept the accord on a day that Russia threatened to target Poland with its full arsenal. Before the arrival of international monitors, Russia...

Live from Tblisi on Fox News and CNN. Georgian President has been speaking for a while.

Here is video of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice saying in no uncertain terms today that Russian forces must leave Georgia in accord with the cease-fire they agreed to. Rice made the statement in a joint appearance with the Georgian President in the nation of Georgia. She did so even as reports indicate Russian forces are within 55 miles of the Georgian Capital of Tbilisi.

Today the President visited CIA Head Quarters in McClean Virginia where he was briefed on terrorism and the Russian-Georgia conflict. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2892 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended a meeting about the Russia-Georgia conflict at the Fort de Bregancon residence in Bormes-les Mimosas on the French Riviera with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Vice Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright speak to reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. First Lady Laura Bush addresses Edna Karr High School students to promote...

Russia 'sabotaging Georgian airfields', US claims as Condoleeza Rice lands in Tbilisi By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:49 PM on 14th August 2008 An American official has claimed that Russian troops are sabotaging airfields and other installations in Georgia this afternoon. The confusion about the Russian's planned pullout came as American military planes began delivering aid to the victims of violence in Georgia and as Washington sent a warning to Moscow that it would back the republic. Today Russia said it was concerned by the 'type' of cargo the US is flying in. The first aid flights into...

US military planes have begun delivering aid to Georgia as Washington stepped up support for a shaky ceasefire with Russian troops around the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Russia said today it will soon pull out from Gori, a town 60km east of the capital Tbilisi, just outside South Ossetia and which contols the key road between eastern and western Georgia. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to hold talks with French president Nicolas Sarkozy before heading to Tbilisi. Her trip comes six days into a conflict that has shifted from artillery, tank and gun battles at the...

President Bush spoke to Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili this morning and discussed the situation in that country with his national security team at the White House. Afterwards, the President reinforced the United States’ solidarity with the Georgian people in a statement he delivered from the White House Rose Garden. (Transcript) The United States of America stands with the democratically elected government of Georgia. We insist that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia be respected … We expect Russia to meet its commitment to cease all military activities in Georgia. And we expect all Russian forces that entered Georgia in...

Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice is holding a press conference at the State Department. It was being covered by Fox.The hot quote by Rice is her telling Russia "this is not 1968" where they can go into a country and topple the government like was done by the Soviets to Czechoslovakia.

Is anybody else watching Condi's State Dept. press conference? She's laying it out straighter than I've ever seen before from Foggy Bottom.THe big highlight was when a Russian "journalist" badgered her, saying that the US response to 9-11 was over-reaction and the Russian operation in Georgia was far more justified than our response to 9-11. She smoked him. Big time. She told him that this is not 1968, that things have changed and Russia cannot overrun a country and its government unchallenged anymore.

Mideast edition, Thursday, August 14, 2008 ARLINGTON, Va. — President Bush has ordered the U.S. military to begin a humanitarian mission in Georgia. "This mission will be vigorous and ongoing," Bush said Wednesday at the White House, adding that a U.S. C-17 aircraft with humanitarian supplies was on its way to Georgia. Russian troops and tanks invaded the country last week in response to a Georgian offensive intended to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia. The Russian president later ordered Russian forces to halt their drive into Georgia, but it was unclear Wednesday whether Russian troops had moved further...

U.S. Keeping N.Korea on Terror List 'Indefinitely' North Korea remains on a list of state sponsors of terrorism from which the U.S. had been expected to remove the Stalinist country on Monday. A diplomatic source in Washington said U.S. President George W. Bush decided to postpone the removal since North Korea failed to agree on a verification regime for the nuclear programs and stockpiles it has declared. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura by phone about the policy change. By law, the U.S. president could have removed the North from the terrorism list on...

According to the Agence France-Press, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has not interrupted her vacation to deal with the most serious foreign policy crisis faced by the Bush administration since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has also been noticeably absent on the diplomatic scene, having failed to interrupt her holidays to fly to Tbilisi in support of the Georgian government. Instead senior State Department official, Matthew Bryza, who oversees the Caucasus region was sent, two days later than planned, to join a joint EU-US mediation effort to win a ceasefire.Rice has been...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States suggested on Sunday that Russia was interested in "regime change" in Georgia after Moscow rejected Tbilisi's offer of a cease-fire in the separatist region of South Ossetia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the president of Georgia "must go," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, told the Security Council. Khalilzad then looked straight at Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin and asked if Moscow was looking for "regime change."

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Israel's right to make its own decision about whether it takes military action against Iran, in an interview released over the weekend. "We don't say yes or no to Israeli military operations. Israel is a sovereign country," she said in response to a question from The Politico Web site as to whether she was concerned that America would be blamed in the case of an IDF attack on the Islamic Republic

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States told Russia on Friday to withdraw its forces from U.S. ally Georgia and stop its air attacks on the tiny Caucasus state following fighting in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. "We call on Russia to cease attacks on Georgia by aircraft and missiles, respect Georgia's territorial integrity, and withdraw its ground combat forces from Georgian soil," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement.

Election '08: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says America "will be fine" under Barack Obama. While respecting a busy diplomat's wish to keep out of presidential politics, she couldn't be more mistaken.Is the secretary of state auditioning for a post-government career with an all-girl pop group? Telling Politico and Yahoo News that "Oh, the United States will be fine" under a President Obama sounded more like the infatuated lyrics of the Chiffons' 1963 number-one hit "He's So Fine" than the sober reflections of a member of the president's cabinet. "That handsome boy over there" the Bronx songbirds swooned over, for...

Indeed it will, unless you believe the power of The One is such that he can lay low even the mightiest of nations. Then again, “fine� is a subjective term. If, as Condi surely does, you think the west’s six-year tap dance over Iran’s nuclear program is a “fine� way of addressing the problem, replete as it is with ineffectual UN sanctions and time aplenty for Tehran to work out the kinks on mastering enrichment, then yeah — by that standard, President O will be just fine. “I don’t need another job in government with anybody,” she said. “Look, I’m...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran Tuesday not to delay a decision on an international offer of incentives if it halts sensitive nuclear work, ahead of a Saturday deadline. "The Iranians should know that this is not going to be a matter that they can stall," Rice told reporters after talks with her Italian counterpart Franco Frattini at her office. "The world is watching...," she said. Asked if there was no satisfactory response from Iran, Rice said, "We have been very clear that we have two tracks -- if one track is not working, then we are going...

Today the President met with a gave a joint statement with Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani at the White House The President also met with members of the Texas 4-H and Youth Development Program in the East Room. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2875 The First Lady attended and spoke at the Fifth Annual Reading First National Conference. The gathering was at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the State Department.

The American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is in the Western Australian captial, Perth. She is in the country for a short, unofficial visit after attending a regional security forum in Singapore. Dr Rice touched down on a US airforce jet with the foreign minister, Stephen Smith, and was greeted by the WA premier, Alan Carpenter, the immigration minister, Chris Evans, and the US ambassador. The secretary of state is visiting as a personal guest of Mr Smith, and will not hold any official diplomatic talks while in Australia. Dr Rice will meet troops from the Special Air Services regiment,...

Today the President to made remarks on the freedom agenda at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington. He also met with the National and State Future Farmers of America officers at the White House. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2871 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended the 15th ASEAN Regional Forum Retreat meetings on Thursday July 24, 2008 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. She then flew to Perth Australia for a 2 day visit to that country.

The President and the First Lady spent the weekend at their Ranch in Crawford, Texas returning to the White House on Sunday. Today the President met with athletics that will be representing Team USA at the Beijing Olympics and the March of Dimes Ambassador. The President also had a meeting with the Kosovo Prime Minister and President. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2868 Secretarry of State Condeleza Rice is in Abu Dhabi Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former President George H.W. Bush hold a news conference at the Bush family home in Kennebunkport, Maine

She may be the highest ranking African-American in the Republican administration of President Bush, but when it comes to who will get her vote for president in November, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won't say publicly that she's backing Sen. John McCain. When asked Sunday by Wolf Blitzer on CNN's “Late Edition” if she had "decided who to vote for,” Rice replied, “Wolf, yes.” But when Blitzer asked if she wanted to reveal her choice, Rice said, “No.”

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Monday that it faced more sanctions if it defied a two-week deadline to agree to curb its nuclear program. Rice said Iran was stalling and must give a "serious answer" within the deadline set by six world powers which offered trade and technical incentives if Tehran halts its uranium enrichment. The West fears Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb. "We are in the strongest possible position to demonstrate that if Iran does not act then it is time to go back to that (sanctions) track," Rice said,

WASHINGTON -- Condoleezza Rice says it's a remarkable accomplishment that a black politician is on track for his party's presidential nomination. The secretary of state says it's great for the country that Barack Obama is the expected Democratic nominee. Rice says it shows that the U.S. has come a long way. Rice herself is the second black to be America's top diplomat. Colin Powell was the first. Rice also is making clear that she doesn't want to be considered for vice president. She wants to return to California and write a book about America's foreign policy when President Bush leaves...