Bush's top female enabler (Rice)

[ProSense]

Bush's top female enabler

Like Karen Hughes and Harriet Miers, Condi Rice dotes on her boss and shields him from critics. Meanwhile, the State Department suffers neglect.

By Sidney Blumenthal

Sep. 07, 2006 | About two weeks after the 2004 presidential election, on Nov. 13, the British Embassy in Washington held a surprise 50th birthday party for Condoleezza Rice. Upon her arrival ambassador David Manning presented her with a red Oscar de la Renta-designed gown for which the embassy staff had managed to secure the "state secret" of her size. When Rice changed into the dress and emerged like Cinderella she was met by her Prince Charming, dressed in a tuxedo, the man she once called "my husband," President Bush.

Snip...

Bush's relationship with Rice is perhaps the strangest of his many strange relationships. The mysterious attachment involves complex transactions of noblesse oblige and deference, ignorance and adulation, vulnerability and sweet talk. Like his other female enablers, Karen Hughes, his political image-maker and undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, and Harriet Miers, his legal counsel, Rice is ferociously protective. She shields him from worst-case scenarios, telling him to ignore criticism that misunderstands his greatness, and showers him with a constant stream of flattery that he is a world-historical colossus.

Rice so jealously guards her relationship that her former deputy at the State Department, Robert Zoellick, left after only about a year in his post, feeling himself excluded from playing a serious part in foreign policy decision making. Since his resignation in June, there has been no replacement or mention of one. After observing Zoellick's frustration, no serious person wishes to get between Rice and her object of affection, and as a result there is no one in charge of running the State Department on a day-to-day basis.

Snip...

On Tuesday, kicking off the midterm elections campaign, Bush delivered a speech that cited Osama bin Laden's screeds, Lenin's "What Is to Be Done?" and Hitler's "Mein Kampf," and promised "complete victory" in Iraq. Rice contributed her own comparison of the "war on terror" to the American Civil War. "I'm sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold," she said.

But the more delirious the rhetoric, the more hollow the policy. "There is no plan for Iraq," a senior national security official with the highest intelligence clearance and access to the relevant memos told me. "There is no plan. No plan."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/09/07/condi_rice/?source=whitelist

[Erika]

1. Rice is a disgrace to women, her ethnicity, and her country

But she had an oil tanker named for her. Shoe shopping during Katrina. She's a first class elitist Bushbot bitch.

[Fridays Child]

2. She's nuts!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. I'll second that---one nasty piece of work...

[sutz12]

4. Jeebus.....he must be hung like a horse...... nt

[badgerpup]

5. And we all know which end of the horse is hung, right? n/t

:evilgrin:

[JeffR]

6. Rice is #2. Bush's top female enabler

is the wizened, white-haired she-thing that pushed the Dictator-tot out of her accursed vagina sixty years ago.

Just my opinion...

[Dulcinea]

7. Condi is in love with Boy George.

There's no other explanation, unless it's some weird maternal thing (weird, considering she has no children.)

[sandnsea]

8. Now that's a freaky article

Just downright creepy scary. :scared:

No more reporting from US Embassies?? Just "sell America"?

Lord help us all.