No Rice at U.N. dinner on women's rights

[Rose Siding]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Diplomacy's most powerful woman, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has turned down a dinner date with other female foreign ministers to discuss women's rights, citing a clash with her schedule.

Fifteen of the 17 women foreign ministers at the U.N. General Assembly were to attend Saturday's dinner, hosted by Sweden. A State Department official said Rice would be giving her own reception at the same time.

"It not a political gesture. It was not possible to fit it into her schedule," the U.S. official said.

The other minister who could not attend was Roza Otunbayeva of Kyrgystan, Swedish diplomats said.

Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State under former President Bill Clinton, began the tradition of organizing her women colleagues when she was ambassador to the U.N. and continued it when she became secretary of state.......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091700901.html

[evlbstrd]

1. Maybe she had an appointment

with the vet at the FDA.

[cornermouse]

4. Would that be a rabies or distemper vaccination?

:shrug:

[evlbstrd]

14. Hopefully she's being spayed.

[LiberalFighter]

57. I rather see her get neutered

[Erika]

2. She could care less about women's rights

She's only interested in corporate rights. What a -----.

[rosesaylavee]

3. Too busy buying shoes? n/t

[niyad]

5. too busy wiping georgie's butt,

[SoCalDem]

7. teaching him how to button

:)

[rosesaylavee]

10. I stand corrected - of course, his butt, what WAS I thinking! n/t

:7

[acmejack]

6. Totally in keeping with the boorishness of this administration,

She couldn't make ASEAN either. What, I wonder, is she doing tonight that is so important?

[Lifelong Protester]

8. clash with schedule my backside...

She couldn't even make an appearance? What a crock of shit. However, I don't think she really is a woman, I think she is an automaton.

[AspenRose]

9. Perhaps taking in another play or musical....

She probably bought another pair of shoes for the occasion

[newswolf56]

11. Once again the Bush Administration spits in the face of everything...

progressive (or even humanitarian) and by so doing not only implicitly sides with both misogynism and tyranny in general but also (once again) reveals that its commitment to "democracy" is an ultimate Big Lie. Yet there are still fools who believe Bush's imposition of Islamic theocracy on Iraq was a "blunder" rather than the cunning expression of deliberate, methodically imposed policy.

Somewhere Josef Goebbels is smiling,

[rosesaylavee]

15. But they are consistent in their boorishness.

No use giving us cause for hope or leaving us with any sense of pride in federal government... :eyes:

And I think Josef is chortling and choking on his laughter... and then he gets swift poke with a pitchfork to get back to 'it'.

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[Charlie Brown]

12. I prefer potatoes to rice n/t

[MaineDem]

13. Another embarrassment by the BFEE

You know, maybe we should be bending over backward to make nice with the world. This dinner would be a good step.

These women, including Condi (ugh), are positive role models for girls of the world. Not many women have reached the positions these women have. I'm so disappointed that Condi couldn't take time to join them.

Another shitty way for Bush Co to slap the world in its face.

Let me reword my subject line. It's not an embarrassment FOR the Bushies; it's an embarrassment CAUSED BY them.

[merwin]

16. Proof that she actually IS a man in drag!

just like ann coulter:

[Up2Late]

49. She really does look like a transvestite in that picture

Maybe She/He is trans-gender. Ann/Dann is a scumbag.:mad:

[Missy M]

17. and who is Rice giving her own reception for? You would think....

the Office of Protocol would check these things out to avoid conflicts.

[rosesaylavee]

22. Oh, didn't you hear, the Office of Protocol is now

being led by a former GOP campaign financeer's ne'er-do-well son who once had worked full time for a whole summer at McDonalds.*

You need to lower your expectations! Then you won't be disappointed. :)


(*ok, I made this up)

[Missy M]

26. Well that explains it....

will this ne'er-do-well son now take Brown's place at FEMA since he is doing so well.

[rosesaylavee]

29. I have even higher hopes for this young thug - I mean scion ...

of the best of families. I think the executive branch will be opening up for him - oh, 2016. He may be even greater than * - but only if we stay on course. :yoiks:

[Missy M]

31. Come on - someone greater than bush - how is that possible....

why some even think he's God.

[rosesaylavee]

32. Even bigger than GOD. This guy will be HUGH! n/t

[Missy M]

33. Now I know - it's Jeb, Jr. he already is on the path to glory with...

his first drunken arrest and may there be many more to surpass even his great, godlike uncle.

[dalaigh lllama]

44. ...and his name shall be called

Hugh Moran!!!111

He even posted here a few nights ago

:toast:

[scarletwoman]

18. She doesn't drink... wine...

I had to steal this from our dear Swamp Rat:

[rosesaylavee]

23. AHHHHhhhhhh! How funny!!!!

I miss Swamp Rat. Hope he gets back here soon. This was my best laugh in days - thanks for posting!

[scarletwoman]

37. You're welcome.

Swampy's a genius, I love his work!

Btw, you can see a whole gallery of his stuff at BPilgrim's Global Free Press: http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/index.php?cat=10002

I grabbed this particular beauty from another site here: http://www.presidentevilonline.com/swamprat1.html

Enjoy!

sw

[ninkasi]

38. How's he doing?

I worry about him, and have been wondering.

[scarletwoman]

41. He's totally okay as far as I can tell.

I see him on another board, he's been posting his usual good stuff.

sw

[ninkasi]

47. Thanks!

As I said, I have been worried about him a several others.

[rosesaylavee]

42. Thanks for that! Got my Swamp Rat fix! n/t

[Fleshdancer]

19. So what was this other appointment she had to go to?

I hate articles like this. How hard is it to ask what her appointment is and why it was booked the same time as the UN dinner on Women's Rights. I highly doubt this dinner was planned at the last minute.

[scarletwoman]

20. I'm with you. What a crock. It's a deliberate snub.

I had the very same thought -- like, no one knew ahead of time that this dinner was scheduled? Yeah, right...

sw

[Tight_rope]

55. Hell...I totally agree...Does Condi not have Microsoft Outlook!

I know they had to have sent her an invite through Outlook!:shrug:

[shraby]

21. Maybe Rice, Rove, etal

are having a strategery meeting concerning Fitzgerald's indictments.

[hardrainfallin]

24. they'd have eaten her alive. n/t

[Dulcinea]

25. Condi is in love with Boy George.

Maybe they have a date.

[ismnotwasm]

27. Hmm, and Ms Rice?

What do you think you would have been doing 40 years ago without the courageous women who fought for YOUR fucking right to be in the position you are in now? Lets see, what we're the majority of black women doing for work 40 years ago? Not busy being the Secretary of state, now were they?
You disgust me, Ms. Rice. You, of all people should know that you stand on the backs of those who came before, some of who DIED so you could be in your very comfortably powerful position.
Conflict in schedule? I don't think so. You are just another of this administration who had no conscience. Most likely some form of sociopathic disease. Do you hate Black women? Or just women in general? Or just human beings?
Just think, as one of the most powerful women in the world, you could address things like the mass rapes and killings of women and little girls in Guatemala. You could address things like female circumcision. Child brides. Sexual slavery. Rape culture. You, in your position could bring these subjects up to the forefront of American conscienceness. You have a chance to inform the entire world that the chronic and accepted abuse of women in so many countries, including this one, in NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE. That we MUST change.
But no. You have a scheduling conflict. More important things to do.
So Ms. Rice, I guess you'll continue to stand on the backs of the dead and dying women lived before you and are living now, in agony. Without hope. I guess I should have expected nothing less from you.

[Divernan]

50. I agree. Rice spits on the memory of Rosa Parks.

She is the most despicable woman I've ever seen in public office, far and away.

[mzteris]

28. So where is this

very important thing she couldn't get out of?

Shopping for new shoes? Holding bushie's hand? Or his - er - while he peepee's? WHAT?

If it's that GD *important* - then what the hell IS it? Don't play coy. Just tell us.

[malaise]

30. Maybe the menu had rice

and she knew they'd gobble her up. She is clueless. She doesn't have a clue about diplomacy.

[rodeodance]

35. well, send in Karen Hughes to fix this yet another image problem!

[Spazito]

34. She is the antithesis of what a woman of her stature SHOULD be

She fights only for the right-wing agenda regardless of the fact that it grossly detrimental to women, minorities, of which she is both, and also to the poor to whom she looks down upon.

I have a special contempt for her, over and above my general contempt for the whole bush admin, because she has chosen to aid and abet an agenda that harms all that she should champion, imo.

[rodeodance]

36. if she thought it was important she could slip in and out!!

[ninkasi]

39. I agree...

She, of all people, should have the courage to stand up to regimes like her bosses. At least we have other courageous black female politicians, who ARE standing up for us. Sheila Jackson-Lee of Tx, is fantastic, as is Cynthia McKinney. There are others, and they make Condi look like the pathetic shill she is.

[Up2Late]

40. "...not possible to fit it into her schedule..." Yeah, just like...

...with * and the NAACP.

What a lame excuse. :eyes:

He "husband" George must of told her she had to cook dinner for him that night.

[DELUSIONAL]

43. Sometimes women are women's worst enemies

and Liar da Rice is women's worst enemy.

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

45. "Diplomacy's most powerful woman"...

... gak!

I miss Madeleine Albright.

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[Robertwf]

48. They Do Everything They Can to Insult the UN

This administration has done more to undermine our position among other nations than anyone could have imagined. They come in with 700 proposed changes for UN policy and then snub the women diplomats. Which is worse--making Powell look like a fool in front of the rest of the world leaders--plopping B*lton into position as Ambassador after he has the nerve to say the UN would be better off w/o 10 of its floors--or sending the rice maiden in to run a counter reception.

[electricray]

51. She was too busy trying out her brand-new shoes...

by walking all over the graves of women and black Americans that fought for her rights to even vote, let alone serve in a cabinet level position. She is a sick bitch. I say that because she is smart enough to know and understand the history of people with her same lot in life but she chooses to never look back.

[against all enemies]

52. She doesn't know she's black or a women. Or an idiot.

[Verve]

53. Rice couldn't leave her post under the oval office desk . n/t

[Tight_rope]

54. Well...she works for a male chauvinistic pic...who believes

that a woman is only fit to be a librarian...no need to work...Big Daddy's Daddy will take care of them.:spank:

[fortyfeetunder]

56. And she couldn't even make a token appearance?

As many of you have said, this speaks volumes of her character.

[spuddonna]

58. "She's a man, baby! Now, take that costume off!" n/t

[Rex]

59. Rice is such a busy woman nowadays - what with having to tell

Bush when it is time to take a dump! BAWHAHAHAHAH!

"You may potty now, sir."