Name one - just one - accomplishment by the Rice woman.

[Stinky The Clown]

I predict she will be nowhere in sight in the wake of the events in Pakistan. That prompts the question in the tread title.

Can **any**one name a meaningful accomplishment by her in her role as Secretary of State?

[EnviroBat]

1. **cricket** **cricket** **cricket**.....

[babylonsister]

2. Nope. I haven't even heard her name brought up this a.m., except

in relation to buying shoes (on DU). I guess she's good at that...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. she was perfect for her role. Dana Perino-like distraction from the real

issues.

she has served her lord and master admirably. to the detriment of the entire world.

[mwb970]

27. Good point. I've heard no mention of her on the cable news channels.

But I guess she specializes in the Soviet Union anyway, right?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. George's fluffer?

[H2O Man]

4. Soul on Rice.

She is incapable of any positive influence in Pakistan. There is nor worse time to have such a miserable failure in office.

[zabet]

Token.

[MNDemNY]

5. I saw her buy shoes here in town.

[Frustratedlady]

6. She banked a goodly sum from our treasury for her "labor".

That's the only thing I can think of.

[YOY]

7. Um...keeping me out of the State Department, because we don't share the same values?

The positive part is that I don't have to deal with their mess firsthand.

I suppose the monolingual young Republican in my spot in having a fantastic time right now...he can kiss my seven-language-speaking ass....

[Jacobin]

8. There is a significant one

Although it is quite negative.

The RW has used minorities and women to do their bidding for unpopular tasks in an attempt to insulate them from criticism, especially from the left. In essence, the RW can claim that opponents of RW policies are racist or sexist for opposing the things they are sent out to do.

I'm thinking of Powell, Rice, Gonzales to name a few.

It has set back minorities and women as a consequence.

[yardwork]

15. Token torturers.

An ancient concept.

[Didereaux]

16. That sentiment needs to be on a blimp and flown 24hrs a day over every city

[blondeatlast]

39. Yes, I've noticed that as well. nt

[HughBeaumont]

9. Name one accomplishment by ANY of these assbastards.

One benefit-the-middle-working-and-poor-classes accomplishment.

Just one.

I can tell you right now it's going to be a Loooooooooooooooooooooooong time for that answer.

[YOY]

17. The "No Call" list to be removed from Telemarketers' lists

It's the first and only thing that comes to mind.

At the begining of dippy's first term...

[HughBeaumont]

21. Sorry, even that has caveats and loopholes corporations can easily skirt . . . and do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Do_Not_Call_Registry#Exceptions_to_the_do-not-call_rule

[mwb970]

29. Well, Ashcroft wrote that "Eagle" song. /nt

[HughBeaumont]

41. Which provided us with comedic material for years!

"The Mighty Eagle" . . . yeah, a mighty eagle that elects already-wealthy leaders who do nothing except make insanely rich people richer, is run by corporations that offshore all of the jobs but tell us to "keep buying stuff!", spies on it's citizens and aggressively attacks weakened and defenseless nations.

"Let the MIIIIIIIIIGHTTY Eagle SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO . . .OOOOOOOOAAOAOAOAOAoo . . .OOOOOOAR!"

[mwb970]

44. It sounds kind of hypocritical when you put it that way. /nt

[saltpoint]

10. She proves that metaphor can be incarnated.

"Fart in a whirlwind" in her case.

[Orsino]

11. "No one could have predicted violence in Pakistan." n/t

[H2O Man]

13. !!!!

Good one!

[TahitiNut]

31. perfect

:thumbsup:

[ck4829]

12. We also shouldn't forget her amazing accomplishments as National Security Advisor either

You know, she protected us so well on 9/11 and she was right on the money about not wanting the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud in Iraq.

:sarcasm:

[Didereaux]

14. She bit Stan the Stupid Virus...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/didereaux/

[malaise]

18. Have you seen the State of her Imelda-like shoe

room? Sorry that's as close as I could come. :D

[dkofos]

19. she bought some great shoes in NY while NO was drowning

[rateyes]

20. She wormed her way into the lucrative postion of

Secretary of State...great personal accomplishment. The rest of us, though, are fucked.

[Rageneau]

22. She has nice legs.

[underpants]

24. Well she WAS a very accomplished ice skater

she dominated the competitions in her youth

ice skating




black girl






early 60's

















in Alabama
ice skating



She ruled her peer group

[blondeatlast]

43. Bad, bad, underpants. I'm not laughing,

I swear it.


















:rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

25. I assume she read The Stranger to Bush.

Good story, if I remember correctly.

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. Well, she got herself named SoS. That's a hell of an accomplishment

for someone with no qualifications.

[T Wolf]

28. Replacing the "looks good but is still a right-wing asshole" Powell, thus

removing any semblence of dignity and wisdom from the SoS post.

[Bandit]

30. Didn't she grant Bush* permission to use the bathroom during some meeting?

Other than that :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

32. A few weeks back, Tweety had a panel discussing if Rice was a failure as SoS

Unfortunately, I missed the panel discussion, but he framed it that way - "Coming up after the break, has Secretary of State Rice been a failure at her job?"

Something like that.

The State Dept. couldn't even handle an expected uptick in passport applications under her reign of error.

[treestar]

33. She plays the piano

Has wonderful taste in shoes. She dated a Canadian politician once. She learned Russian, and has accomplished something for oil companies that inspired one of them to name a tanker after her.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. She Plays On A Piano

Playing on it, or playing around on it, and actually being good aren't the same thing. :evilgrin: I saw the 60 Minutes piece where she played. Puhleaze!
The Professor

[treestar]

38. I stand corrected, thanks!

:rofl:

[Javaman]

34. She has the ungodly ability of being wrong about everything. nt

[JuniperLea]

36. That mean face could scare the white off rice... eom

[pansypoo53219]

37. jill of many 'talents'

expert at none.

but, she will sound smart when she talks about this. even tho she won't really say anything. not sure if she knows the ramifications. but hey, she got the job. whoo hoo for black chicks!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

40. she hasn't been indicted

yet.

[blondeatlast]

42. She managed to make the once very efficient and usable State Department webpage* something

one doesn't want to visit before ingesting caffeine:
http://www.state.gov/

*As frequent travelers, the b@l's use it frequently, especially Mr. B.

[nealmhughes]

45. To my knowledge she remains not incontinent for bowels and bladder.

She can pronounce Ahmadminijad and Musharraf.