London Times: Condi goes on magical Beatles mystery tour

[DeepModem Mom]

Condi goes on magical Beatles mystery tour
Sarah Baxter

THE long and sometimes winding road from Birmingham, Alabama, where Condoleezza Rice bought her first Beatles record, to her friend Jack Straw’s door in Blackburn, Lancashire, covers 4,200 miles. But the American secretary of state will have another figure in mind when she visits him there later this month.

Could somebody please explain why there are “4,000 holes” in the foreign secretary’s Blackburn constituency? Along with millions of others, Rice was puzzled as a youngster by the lyrics of A Day in the Life on her copy of the album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:

I heard the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes
To fill the Albert Hall...

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She is due to visit Straw’s constituency as part of the special relationship they have developed in office. The foreign secretary toured Rice’s childhood haunts in Alabama last October — and sealed the visit with a kiss in front of the cameras....Rice is expected to give a talk to an invited audience in Blackburn organised by the Chatham House foreign policy think tank and the Today programme. As in Alabama, where she compared the struggle for civil rights with the Iraqis’ desire for democracy, her speech is likely to have a local flavour.

“The fact that Blackburn has a 20% to 25% minority population is fascinating,” she said....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2092618,00.html

[JeffR]

1. And she'll be wearing

The face that she keeps in a jar by the door.

As always.

[rfranklin]

2. I wonder if she gave him a hand job...

she's been giving it to us for about five years.

[KayInMaine]

3. Her shoes

The world found out after the levees in New Orleans burst, after the city had flooded, and as people were drowning in their attics that there is nothing to keep Condi from buying a very expensive pair of shoes in NYC. Which pair will she wear? It's important.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Hi, KayinMaine -- welcome to DU!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Making all her nowhere plans for nobody...Bravo, Condi...BRAVO.

You're RIGHT, Condi...Blackburn IS fascinating, but nowhere NEAR as fascinating as YOU and your OPINIONS.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. The 4,000 holes were about the potholes from newspaper reports

that Lennon incorporated into that song.

Geez, Condi...Don't you ever use Google???

[MrPrax]

8. Precisely...

I was also a bit dumbfounded that this woman, who academic credentials are touted at every turn, couldn't be that fuckin' stupid.

Sure, confused as a kid, but still confused at Lennon's swipe at bureaucratic absurdisms? The woman works for government for god sakes...?

[fiveleafclover]

7. CONDI IS A BEATLES FAN?!?!?!?

Please tell me this isn't true! Because if it is, I'll have to change my theory about how nobody can be all that bad if they're a Beatles fan.

Why didn't any of the peace and love messages work their way into her big ugly head?

[dipsydoodle]

9. 25% or so of the population

in Blackburn just happen to be Muslim. Don't expect her to get a hero's welcome.

[Lefty48197]

10. I thought I read once

that the 4000 holes was a crude reference to the young ladies who came to their concerts and screamed. Does Condi make 4001?

[Peace Patriot]

11. Her rightwing 'christian' allies are the ones who burned Beatles albums

...BE-E-E-E cau-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-ause...

I, ee-I, ee-I, ee-I, ee-aaaye....

...do a roadhog
Well you can penetrate any place you go
Yes, you can penetrate any place you go

I told you so..

All. I want. is you.
Everything-has-got-to-be-just-like-you-want-it-to...

...BE-E-E-E cau-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-ause...

I, ee-I, ee-I, ee-I, ee-aaaye....

...pick a moondog
Well you can radiate everything you are
Yes, you can radiate everything you are
Ooh

I, ee-I, ee-I, ee-I, ee-aaaye....roll a stoney
Well you can imitate everyone you know
Yes, you can imitate everyone you know

I told you so...
All. I want. is you.
Everything-has-got-to-be-just-like-you-want-it-to...

...BE-E-E-E cau-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-au-ause...

[onager]

12. Baby You Can Drive My War

n/t

[dipsydoodle]

13. I am the walrus

might be more approptiate for her.

[Lisa]

14. it's one of the Blue Meanies!

[NVMojo]

15. my, what a curious piece of PR!!!

[tanyev]

16. She's experimenting with drugs and meeting with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?

Maybe it would help.

[davidinalameda]

17. Condi in the sky with diamonds?

if I was in her position, I'd have to be doing some heavy drugs

[TheBaldyMan]

18. Lancashire is a stronghold of the BNP

the British National Party aka British Nazis, she should feel quite at home with a lot of white folks scowling at her muttering about 'White Pride not White Power'.