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Political Conversation: Condi’s Slip
New York Magazine ^
| 4/20/2004
| Deborah Schoeneman
Posted on 04/20/2004 7:35:04 PM PDT by wjersey
A pressing issue of dinner-party etiquette is vexing Washington, according to a story now making the D.C. rounds: How should you react when your guest, in this case national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, makes a poignant faux pas? At a recent dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven Weisman, and Elisabeth Bumiller, Rice was reportedly overheard saying, As I was telling my husb and then stopping herself abruptly, before saying, As I was telling President Bush. Jaws dropped, but a guest says the slip by the unmarried politician, who spends weekends with the president and his wife, seemed more psychologically telling than incriminating. Nobody thinks Bush and Rice are actually an item. A National Security Council spokesman laughed and said, No comment.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: condoleezzarice; gossip; hearsay; rumor
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What will the Dems do with this?
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:35:05 PM PDT
by
wjersey
To: wjersey
What will the Dems do with this?Considering that extra-marital activities were a plus for Clinton, they'll probably vote for Bush.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:38:05 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(Proud member of the Half Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
To: wjersey
What will the Dems do with this? The Dimwits are terrified that Condi will replace Cheney on the ticket. This is a hit piece designed to prevent that from happening.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:38:06 PM PDT
by
Young Rhino
(http://www.artofdivorce.com)
To: wjersey
Not the Dems. John McCain will probably start a rumor that Bush has a secret black wife.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:39:13 PM PDT
by
bayourod
(To 9/11 Commission: Unless you know where those WMDs are, don't bet my life that they don't exist.)
To: wjersey
What will the Dems do with this?Insert it sideways with great joy into their descending colons.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:39:49 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: wjersey
First, is it true? Or just grist for the rumor mill this week?
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:42:02 PM PDT
by
swheats
To: wjersey
In this case, they probably wish they were President Bush.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:42:37 PM PDT
by
dandelion
To: wjersey
I'm sure it's more important to the lamestream press (aka the Partisan Press Patsies) than Al-Qaeda trying to kill 20,000 people in Jordan with Vx.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:43:36 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(LBJ sent him. Nixon expressed him home. And Kerry's too dumb to tell them apart!)
To: wjersey
While I wouldn't put it past them, the libs/dems/socialist will do nothing with this slip up. Considering that the majority of "indiscretions" have been committed by the politicians on the left, they would have no leg to stand on in the eyes of the general public.
This all being said, Condi is a classy woman of incredible intellect. She is clearly highly committed to her job and to her nation. I'm sure at times she almost does feel "married" to it at times.
I, for one, am glad that she is!
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:44:28 PM PDT
by
Skywarner
(Enjoying freedom? Thank a Veteran!)
To: wjersey
"What will the Dems do with this?"
A rotten mind sees rotten things. Honestly, this "faux pas" strikes me as kind of cute. OTOH, Rice might have done this on purpose. Isn't she a prankster?
To: wjersey
Rice was reportedly overheard saying, Reportedly overheard by whom?...Maureen Dowd...there's a credible source for ya...NOT.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:45:19 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I've never been to Spain...and now I'll never go...)
To: wjersey
At a recent dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven Weisman, and Elisabeth BumillerI don't know all the names on this list, but my bet is that they're all Leftists. And we're just supposed to take their word for it that this happened.
Typical Leftist attack strategy: repeatedly circulate, and "report" as news, unsubstantiated rumors in order to denigrate their opponents.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:45:22 PM PDT
by
SpyGuy
To: wjersey
party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief This is the scariest part of the article.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:45:44 PM PDT
by
jwalburg
(Mr. Kerry, why did you remain in VVAW after the assassination plot meeting?)
To: wjersey
Who hasn't occasionally misspoken, saying "my husband" instead of "my boss," or "my boss" instead of "my father," or "my father" instead of "my brother." My mother used to routinely call my brothers by the wrong names, especially when she had just discovered some new mischief they'd gotten into. I, of course, was never in trouble for anything.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:46:34 PM PDT
by
giotto
To: wjersey
I can't believe this nonsense.
To: wjersey
At a recent dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven Weisman, and Elisabeth Bumiller
What would Condileeza Rice be doing at a gathering of these outright Bush haters and nincompoops?
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:48:07 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Young Rhino
The Dimwits are terrified that Condi will replace Cheney on the ticket.We have a Winner! I almost roll off my chair laughing at the Demoncrats every time I think about that one!
In 2004, America's first African-American Vice-President, in 2008, America's first black President!
How many dims would leap off a cliff?
And best of all, Bush can keep Cheney as head of the National Security Council.
To: section9; rdb3; mhking; Trueblackman; Howlin
"How should you react when your guest, in this case national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, makes a poignant faux pas?"As any well-educated Southern woman would tell you, you smile politely and forget that it ever happened, save to consider just how powerful, intimate, and beautiful a true working relationship can become.
...Oh, and if your host or the faux paser laughs, then you laugh politely along with her.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:51:12 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: wjersey
This doesn't sound right. I don't believe it.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:52:10 PM PDT
by
Lijahsbubbe
(savages have no concept of a "Better way of Life", so we'll show them a nightmare of existence)
To: wjersey
In a political sense, Bush is her man and he's fortunate to have her.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:54:09 PM PDT
by
slimer
("The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato)
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