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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), will become the second-ranking U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, the State Department said on Monday. Cheney, who previously worked in the department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and left to work on her father's 2004 re-election campaign, will become the bureau's principal deputy assistant secretary of state. This is the bureau's second ranking position and deputizes for the assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters Cheney would...

In her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Condi" Rice personified the Bush administration's delusion-based "war against terror." Whenever a senator's question penetrated to the harsh reality, Condi waffled and evaded, choosing to protect at the expense of her reputation the neocon delusion that invading Iraq was the "right thing to do." Exasperated, Senator Barbara Boxer objected to Condi's "continuing assault on reality." Condi Rice's outstanding qualification for secretary of state in the Bush administration is that she is the complete sycophant. She fits right in. Can you name anyone in the Bush administration who is not a...

I heard something on the radio today about Condi looking very nice ... I thought the comment was about her being seen at the Inaugural ball, but I may be wrong. Has anyone seen anything like this?

His first serious committee hearings have come and gone and Barrack Obama seemed to not really make a name for himself. The Obama Factor believes that to be a good thing. In allowing the rabidly insane and poisonous dwarf from California to be the main embarrassment for the Democrats, (Boxer) Obama avoided any PR related issues in the first visible assignment of the young legislative year. He did impress the sad little Chicago Sun Times. He also did find a way to try to make concerted digs at Dr. Rice's record - which he pretty much flailed at. Dr....

WINSOME BUT FIRM: In "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King", Gandalf says at one point, "things have been put in motion now that can not be stopped...". He was referring to the negative aspects of Sauron the evil eye. Today on capitol hill it appears that Democrats have become as resigned as Gandalf. Only instead of the "end of middle earth"...they are all despairing about the Bush second term. It is showing in how they are handling the Bush nominees. Today's victim of rage: Condaleeza Rice. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee took particular delight in hammering at...

(A couple of weeks ago, I heard radio talk-show host Andrew Wilkow discussing, with outrage, the following article. It is not a new piece, but I post it here in case it hasn't been seen by some. It is a good example of black liberal intolerance towards non-liberal blacks.) Condoleeza: Brown Rice As Bleached As White I can't think of one policy or one piece of advice that has Dr. Rice's name on it. Why, then, did the NAACP see fit to honor her with an Image Award? By Yolanda Rebecca White -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The NAACP has just awarded Dr. Condaleeza...