New meme-nickname: For shoe shopping during Katrrina, Condi ...

[HamdenRice]

you are officially renamed Cond-Imelda Rice!

For you youngens, this refers to Imelda Marcos, widow of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

When the Marcos regime fell in 1986 her enormous collection of expensive designer shoes was discovered and made into a shoe museum.

[whistle]

1. Link to story please...

[HamdenRice]

2. NY Daily News source

I'm surprised you haven't heard about this before.

NY Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/342707p-292600c.html

As South drowns, Rice soaks in N.Y.





Did New Yorkers chase Condoleezza Rice back to Washington yesterday?

Like President Bush, the Secretary of State has been on vacation during the Hurricane Katrina crisis, with Rice enjoying her downtime in New York Wednesday and yesterday. The cabinet member's responsibilities are usually international, but her timing contributed to the "fiddling while Rome burns" impression given by her boss during the disaster, which may have claimed thousands of lives.


On Wednesday night, Secretary Rice was booed by some audience members at "Spamalot!," the Monty Python musical at the Shubert, when the lights went up after the performance.


Yesterday, Rice went shopping at Ferragamo on Fifth Ave. According to the Web site www.Gawker.com, the 50-year-old bought "several thousand dollars' worth of shoes" at the pricey leather-goods boutique.


A fellow shopper shouted, "How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!" - presumably referring to Louisiana and Mississippi.


The woman expressing her First Amendment rights was promptly removed from the store. A Ferragamo store manager confirmed to us that Rice did shop there yesterday, but refused to answer questions about whether the protester was removed, and whether by his own security or the Secret Service.

[chimpymustgo]

3. That's very good.

Condi-melda.

[whistle]

6. Oh I've heard about it here on DU, but not read the story.....thanks

...for the link

[YDogg]

4. Condi Python?

"It's just a flesh wound."

[HamdenRice]

5. Forgot about that one too! nt

[NewJeffCT]

7. thanks

good fodder for an LTTE.

[riverwalker]

8. thanks I'll use it!

CondImelda Rice
lol

[Catshrink]

9. What's the difference between Condi and her new shoes?

The shoes have a sole!

(I heard it as what's the difference between the * Administration and a pair of shoes.)

[HamdenRice]

10. That's funny! nt