Political Conversation: Condi’s Slip

New York Magazine ^ | 4/20/2004 | Deborah Schoeneman

[LADY J]

"I hate to say it, but I have ALWAYS thought that Bush and Condi were an item...."

You have some imagination!! I worked for a doctor for 12 years and spent more time with him during working hours than I did with my husband. Does that make the doctor and me an 'item'?

I suppose next you will imagine that Karen Hughes is his mistress?

[cyborg]

I only wish... they'd make a really good couple but Dubya's taken :)

[Bubba_Leroy]

Let's see them say it to her face.

[txrangerette]

This didn't happen, IMO, as well.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Well, I don't think anything is going on between Pres. Bush and Condi, but if there is at least he has a lot better tastes in women than former Pres. Clinton!

[Bubba_Leroy]

"Go ahead you little democRAT worms, make my day."

[woofie]

Does that make GW the second black Pres?

[Barlowmaker]

Doesn't pass the smell test with me. It wouldn't be unusual for a married woman to let a "husband" faux pas slip referring to someone in close contact other that their husband, because married women refer to their husbands frequently. Condi has never been married, refers to no-one as her "husband", would not refer to the President as her "husband" even if they were involved, and so it is unlikely she'd make that verbal gaffe. It's sounds like crapola.

[alnick]

What will the Dems do with this?

Well, for starters, they made it up out of whole cloth.

Who cares what they do with it? It's stupid gossip. No one could possibly take it seriously. :-)

[macamadamia]

"Let's see them say it to her face."

Personally, I'd like to Rice beat the snot out of Kerry. He probably cries Perrier water. Oh, and I'd REALLY like to see her kick the crap out of Kerrey...he'd run over to Gorelicker and cry, "It's not fair! It's not fair! Don't filabuster me!"
(disturbing rant over)

[knuthom]

This sounds like the kind of thing that someone starts as a joke and then others actually believe it and it takes on a life of it's own.

[lainde]

I don't believe it either. Dems up to no good AGAIN!

[macamadamia]

Should be "Id like to SEE Rice....

[pierrem15]

GW.."I will take some questions now."

The would still ask him to apologize, or ask why Colin Powell was left "out" of the loop.

More seriously, it would also kill the manufactured "Halliburton" issue once and for all.

[Plutarch]

A pressing issue of dinner-party etiquette is vexing Washington...

Oh, an etiquette issue is it? The vexing issue apparently is under what guise to get this confabulated vicious political hit into a respectable publication. The solution is it frame it as an "etiquette" issue.

[Owen]

My recall is Rice's bf is Ronnie Lott.

[sharkhawk]

This sounds like the kind of thing that someone starts as a joke and then others actually believe it and it takes on a life of it's own.

Exactly, just like the the Dan Quayle saying he won't be able to speak Latin to Latin American leaders. It was a joke, reported as a joke. Then some lib put's it out as a direct quote. 16 years later it's still being quoted as an actual quote by the so called professional press. And they call Drudge a rumour monger.

[Lancey Howard]

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

Why would anybody deliberately go to a dinner party attended by such a rogues gallery?

[Balata]

Bttt! LOL!

[shiva]

Sorry, Condi doesn't wear kneepads!