Posted on 09/20/2008 5:13:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
So, I'm re-posting it:
I don’t believe that for one moment Rummy made Condi cry come on UK Telegraph you are so boring me
Now that made me laugh,and it is so true!
Our media will pick this up and think it’s more credible because it was first reported in European media.
Not as good a headline as “World’s Scariest Goat, etc.” - but up there.
Too bad he didn't do it more often. What a disappointment she has been.
Hey NORD you could swipe as sig line if you wish you have my permission I think about change my sig line to quote by Warner Bros movie mogul Harry Warner talking about actors
Sometime UK Wires bring out my inner Bette Davis
This is the quote
Who the hell want’s to hear actors talk?” ~ Harry Warner, Warner Brothers
If you read the article it was actually George Tenet. Rumsfeld wasn't even there.
That’s hilarious.
Yes, they do. Crying in front of senior administration staff of the friggin' U.S. government is a HUGE sign of weakness and confirms my initial suspicions (when Bush appointed her) that she was simply not up to the job and was in over her head.
What did he do?...ask her to go bird-hunting with him?
ditto. There’s always a little good in everyone. Still not sure what it is in Condi. Perhaps graceful retirement unlike Jimmy Carter.
Is the book coming out late Oct. in order to October surprise McCain?
Who cares. I’m a woman and I cry when I’m angry and frustrated but let me tell you don’t mess with me. Some women tear up, not boo hoo cry, when they get really pissed off. Certainly not a sign of weakness.
Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist threats during her nation's darkest hours.Something is wrong with this picture. This just makes no sense.---------
..... she burst into tears at a meeting in the White House situation room.
“But her tears do not indicate any weakness on her part”
Tears at an executive level, life-and-death meeting do indicate uncontrolled frustration and an inability to handle pressure. I would call this weakness.
You are absolute right IR, Rumsfeld did NOT make Condi Rice ‘cry’, if she cried, it was due to then CIA Director George Tenet.
READ THE ARTICLE PEOPLE.
“Rumsfeld’s a fighter”
Rumsfeld’s a Velociraptor.....:)
Humph.
Now that you’ve blabbed our secret right out in front of God and everybody, we’re going to have to kill you.
;]
This is just my humble opinion, and take it for what it is worth.
I do not know Condoleeza Rice, for I have never been in her company. I respect her talent, achievements, and her fortitude in taking the opportunities she has been given, so that she could try to make a difference in our America.
When my son graduated from West Point, Colin Powell was the “speaker”. I told my husband, after listening to his speech, that CP feared, down deep, that he was an “affirmative action” achiever, and he resented it.
I felt for him. He had been deprived of something every human being needs, and that is the personal confidence that he deserved every bit of whatever honors and promotion that he had earned.
Unfortunately, because of our ongoing efforts to become a more perfect union, he couldn’t truly know whether he was promoted because of his own merit or because of his skin color. If I were him, I would also have a tinge of bitterness in my soul. I could hear it in his speech at West Point that day.
I hope the same deeply held fear doesn’t eat away at Condoleeza Rice. If it does, however, this is the downside of “affirmative action”, and it is demeaning to minorities who have superlative talents. If they strive and excel, surpass the competition, and manage to stay graceful under pressure, they must constantly fear that awful contemporary label, so easily cast from the far left and the far right.... “Affirmative Action”.
It isn’t right, friends. We should be judged on our merits and accomplishments, our deeds, actions, and character, and not whether we fit in one category or another.
Talented and hard-working minorities should not have to worry that whatever they have achieved, accomplished, and mastered, will be denigrated by labels. It is demeaning, demoralizing, and interferes with their self-confidence.
Those who strive for excellence become targets from all sides. They can be called sell-outs by their own group, for daring to fly higher than the rest of the “home” flock, yet can’t be sure that they ever will be truly respected or accepted by the majority.
Please, I pray, let us conservatives never forget that intelligence, talent, character, hard work, and integrity are found in people from every culture, every land, and from every background, even if they are homemakers from Wasilla, Alaska!
GOOD! Bush should have FIRED HER! But she’s bullet-proof.....Laura needs to butt out sometimes.
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