Gracious And Elegant, Rice Also Seems Vulnerable

Straits Times ^ | February 6, 2005

[srm913]

"Rice Also Seems Vulnerable." Priceless. Is this supposed to be hard news, or an editorial? Leave it to a French news agency to do such a hatchet job.

[dr_who_2]

Very insulting.

[MontanaBeth]

I'm afraid no matter how great Secretary of State Rice is she will never receive respect from the media.

[wagglebee]

I don't remember the press saying anything like this when some Arabs thought Madeleine Notsobright was a hotel maid.

[Inspectorette]

"Seems" - probably because her immediate predecessor was a man who served in the U.S. Army for 30 years, became a four-star general, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. HIS predecessor looked and sounded like the Wicked Witch of the West.

Condi is slight of figure, very feminine, and her voice timbre is a little high-pitched.

Having said that, she is the epitome of what can be called a "Steel Magnolia" - anyone who's ever been the recipient of the Condi "Death Stare" could probably verify that.

[srm913]

My folks always call her Madeleine Halfbright.
They thought she was a hotel maid?
LOL!

[martin_fierro]

Oh, yes.

[Cicero]

But she told reporters that Iran's human rights record was 'something to be loathed,' sparking a media frenzy

Those sophisticated Europeans think that Iran's human rights record is splendid, I suppose?

After all, France was Ayatollah Khomeini's kind host and protector before he went back to take charge of affairs in Teheran.

France also was nice enough to educate Pol Pot and prepare him for his future role in Cambodia. The French are so tolerant and understanding, don't you know? So very civilized.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Dr. Rice does give the perception of being vulnerable, an endearing quality in my opinion, and sbout as accurate as that aura of dumbassedness that the pompous intellectual, fart heads of faux aristrocratia, superimpose upon their image of President Bush.

[Atchafalaya]

As we say down here: for true, come on????

[kestrel]

Dr Rice, 50, cuts a gracious and elegant figure... But she has also seemed at times a bit uncomfortable, even vulnerable in the world spotlight...

The reporter's curly tail is showing.

[garyhope]

Gee, 10 days on the job and she's already washed up. Poor thing. Bless her lil ole heart.

Excuse me, but I have a little more faith and trust in her brains and abilities than that.

The Dims, the Euro's, so hopeful and desirous of her's and our failure's.

It's so easy to criticize, but so much harder to actually do and persevere.

[nothingnew]

Gracious And Elegant, Rice Also Seems Vulnerable

Dr Rice, 50, cuts a gracious and elegant figure as she jets around Europe and the Middle East on her first voyage

Whoever wrote this is a gay or a lesbian. My guess is gayman. Mark my words.

FMCDH(BITS)

[nothingnew]

The reporter's curly tail is showing.

See my #13...are you saying the same thing? There's just too many key words in this piece.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Ditter]

Yes we all got a huge laugh at 'Maddy the maid'. If I remember correctly a hotel guest passed her in the hall and asked her to bring him some extra towels or something.

[Atchafalaya]

Post #7 makes it true; why am I not surprised. She must not have been in her red leather "Inquisitor" suit mit hat.

[kestrel]

I was referring to a male chauvinist pig. I think we both detected a hint of misogyny in the patronizing tone of this article.

[DTogo]

Dr Condoleezza Rice is learning it is trickier to sell US policy to the world than to fashion it behind closed doors.

What rubbish! She's not trying to "sell" anything, she's just telling it like it is - here's our policy, take it or leave it.

[Unam Sanctam]

They're desperately trying to make a success into a failure.

[Billthedrill]

But she told reporters that Iran's human rights record was 'something to be loathed,' sparking a media frenzy on US-Iranian relations.

This doesn't sound either vulnerable or much like a sales job. My guess is that this reporter doesn't really know what to make of Dr. Rice yet and is going by physical appearance. I would guess that a lot of people in her storied career have. I would guess that the percentage who found out differently hovers around 100.