From ABC: Abercrombie goes to town on Condiliar

[Greeby]

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Ftheblotter%2F2007%2F01%2Fnew_chairman_of.html

The gloves are off in the new Congress. Hawaii Democratic Congressman Neil Abercrombie, the outspoken new Chairman of the powerful House Air-Land Subcommittee, has gone on the record with a highly personal attack on Bush's Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Abercrombie referred to Rice as "the most overrated underperforming individual in executive authority that I have ever seen" in an interview published this week in the "Honolulu Star Bulletin."

In response to a follow-up question by Star Bulletin columnist Richard Borreca whether race or gender had anything to do with it, Abercrombie continued, "She constantly gets a pass. Who knows if the whole question of race and gender come into it? But I can't account for it except to say she isn't up to the mark."

:woohoo:

[YDogg]

1. shhhhh! Nobody's supposed to find that out!

[montanacowboy]

2. Smack Down

way to go; he is right on the mark, she keeps getting a pass all the time; she is as useful as teats on a boar hog -

oh....but...wait,,,, she plays the piano and is a child prodigy (anyway she is still a child)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. BRAVO! about time that someone called a spade a spade.

Probably a bad choice of words, but I was not intending to refer to her skin color.

She is absolutely incapable of any effective decision-making. By many accounts, State is a complete mess because of her petulant behavior. In that, she and Bush are alike.

[jgraz]

8. She was a joke at Stanford...I can't believe anyone thought she could handle more responsibility

What a disgusting character.

[tanyev]

4. But, but her shoes are fabulous!

And she's such a sharp dresser! She must be qualified.




:sarcasm:

[seabeyond]

5. rice, hughes, bush and rummy... all the same. but rice and hughes

keep being put in positions or given jobs and a big to do is made, only to never hear about it again.

[jgraz]

6. "Who knows if the whole question of race and gender come into it?"

Hmmmm...why does he bring either one into the conversation? Condi's an amoral neocon ass-kisser, what else do you need?

[AspenRose]

7. Hell, yeah

says this woman of color. Abercrombie nailed it. Bravo! :patriot:

[Straight Shooter]

9. I guess this means bush isn't overrated anymore.

:7

[endarkenment]

10. Rice smashed into the glass ceiling going the wrong way.

Rather than keeping her from rising to the top, it is keeping her from career termination after a series of massive failures and screwups.

[twilight_sailing]

11. "the most overrated underperforming..."

Look, I am only a voter here in the United States, but even I can see that Rice has been a failure.

Why was she made Secretary of State? Did she do so well at her previous job?

[mahina]

12. I don't consider that a personal attack, and I'm proud of him.

Way to go, Neil, as usual, right on and Aloha!

[biscotti]

13. Sounds like a good

summation to me. Right on the mark.