Rock star reception for Rice in India

MSNBC ^ | March 16, 2005 | Rosiland Jordan

[Coastal]

Flash bulbs popping while discussing economics and security

Eight days, six countries, and a rock star welcome. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making her first visit to Asia since moving into her offices at the State Department. And so far, the trip is the stuff of front-page photos and video headlines here.

After nearly 16-and-a-half hours of flying time, Rice stepped off the Boeing 757 after sunset on Tuesday to a platform filled with still and video photographers in New Delhi, the American ambassador to India waiting on the tarmac to show her to her car, and various local dignitaries eager to shake her hand.

When asked by a visiting reporter why all the fuss, given that it was already after dinner and dark to boot, a local embassy staffer said, “Well, it’s the only picture the Indian media will get of Rice today!” And indeed, Rice’s descent from the jet made the front pages, including the Wednesday's editon of the Times of India.

[Jay Howard Smith]

I wonder what Barbara Boxer feels like about now

I was thinking the same thing. I remember saying during the confirmation hearings that at the end of the day Condi will be on the World Stage.....Babs..??..Well, Babs will sill be a 2-bit Senator with ratty hair..!

[Jorge]

She's not sexy. She's not gorgeous. She's not even pretty.
You describe her simply and accurately. "She's a beauty."

I find her to be cute, and maybe even a little sexy, but when she smiles and you see those teeth, it is a definite minus.

I think if she got her teeth fixed it would take her from a 6 to an 8.

Bad teeth can make even attractive people a turn-off. And this is more true for women than it is for men.

[ClaireSolt]

Lay off on the teeth. She has a gap. Big deal. I'll bet she keeps them as a symbol of her upward mobility.

[streetpreacher]

"Rock star reception for Rice in India"

Hopefully, there were no groupies...

Forgot, they're all on FR! :-)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Condi is real. Thank God we have been spared from that incompetent troglodyte Clinton appointee, Mad-to-be-sure Not-so-bright.

[anu_shr]

Indians are primarily Rice eaters.

[texasflower]

I don't think tacky comments like that are appropriate.

[haikim39]

" Ya' know, I've been trying to come up with a word to describe her physical appearance, everyone knows about her brains.

She's not sexy. She's not gorgeous. She's not even pretty.

You describe her simply and accurately. "She's a beauty."

Her dignified stature, her quiet confidence, the ease with which she talks to Presidents and Premiers or a waitress at IHOP . . . yes . . . she's simply a beauty" ...

Do you know what, geedee, this paragraph about Condi, it's too, a beauty!! You're good... I love it

[Paul_Denton]

India is a great friend of the United States, also they are the world largest democracy - more power to them. I wish we could give them the same level of support that we give to the chinese. I guess "chinese" labor trumps a free labor market. Holtz JeffersonRepublic.com

I agree. In addition to that we can also have India help us contain China as well as some backup should Musharraf be assasinated and a hostile party takes over Pakistam.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Correct me if I am wrong, but, about the only place Madeline Halfbright got this kind of reception was in ( KIM GONE ILL ) NORTH KOREA and CHINA.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

As Jackie Gleason use to say.
" HOW SWEET IT IS "

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Silly me,, I thought you were talking about Madeline Halfbrights physical appearance. lol

[Prophet in the wilderness]

It's called : Classy.
She's got class.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" I wonder what Barbara Boxer feels like about now . "
Who cares.
The only reason I would want to know, is the irony of it all and the humor. lol.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

BABWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !! lol.
There are jobs open for her to scrub out toilets. lol

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Rummy fan, Rica fan , Bolton fan, Wolfoizt fan, here.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I don't know about you all, but ?
Don't Madeline Halfbright and Helen Thomas look like twins ?
Sisters possibly ?

[Finalapproach29er]

Now, for extra credit, do you have a photo of the oil tanker that was named after her? I'd like to see if somebody has dug that up already.

BTW: You're right, she's a lady.

[Rebelbase]

So are most folks born or raised in the Mississipi Delta region.

[solitas]

Get your teeth fixed, Babe !!! ;-))

Whachoo got 'gainst dem teefs?