Rice tells State Dept. employees she'll carry out Bush's "bold agenda"

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145547,00.html



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145547,00.html

WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice (search) took over Thursday as America's 66th secretary of state and told her employees that the State Department's top priority will be carrying out President Bush's "bold" foreign policy agenda.

"We've got a lot of challenges ahead of us. This is really a remarkable time in our country's history," Rice told State Department officials and workers after arriving at the agency.

"The president has set forth a really bold agenda for American foreign policy and the State Department has got to be in the lead in this period in which diplomacy will be so important in solidifying the gains made in the last few years and pressing forward toward a freer and more prosperous world."

Earlier, Rice received a warm State Department welcome as employees clapped and cheered as she climbed the stairs to take the microphone. "Well this is a little different welcome than the first time I came to work at the State Department," she said, recalling how she served as an intern there in 1977 at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. "Now there's a lesson in that -- be good to your interns," she added. Rice said her agency's top priority will be carrying out the president's call to have America "stand for freedom and liberty."

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1. Gains? Diplomacy? Where the hell have you been Kindasleazy?

You obviously haven't been paying much attention to diplomacy, the rest of the world isn't exactly fawning over each other to be friends with your beloved husb . . . president.

[pdxmom]

2. What agenda?

They need to make up their minds. I would have sworn that I heard Bush say yesterday that his "freedom" speech wasn't a policy change, just an ideal that he espoused to. So what is the agenda she's talking about?

[Mountainman]

3. How can Americans accept these pieces of excrement as their leaders?

Argh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!