(Karen) Hughes on mission to change views abroad - and at home

[sabra]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/080706dninthughes.21bfe4a.html

Hughes on mission to change views abroad - and at home
A year into post, she says State Department must reshape efforts

WASHINGTON – Karen Hughes looks back on her first few days at the State Department as a worrisome benchmark.

...

Setting out with limited diplomatic experience abroad, Ms. Hughes was sometimes tentative on her early stops and continues to encounter sharp dissension over U.S. policy. And there was the well-publicized misstep in June when one of her top aides, Colleen Graffy, the deputy assistant secretary for public diplomacy, told the British Broadcasting Corp. that three Guantánamo suicides had been a "good PR move to draw attention."

"Occasionally, when you are out there talking, you say something you regret," Ms. Hughes said. "And that was the case there."

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On nearly every front, Ms. Hughes readily acknowledges that her job is a challenge. And that was before the war in the Middle East turned up the world spotlight on U.S. policy in the region, particularly its unyielding support of Israel.

"People will tell me we disagree with your policy," she said, recalling her first diplomatic tour of the Middle East last year, "and I make the case that we support a Palestinian state."

[saigon68]

1. "You are Getting Sleepy, Sleepy"

LOL

[Atman]

2. Karen Hughs is a blithering idiot who should be tried along with the rest

of the war criminals at BushCo.

[OKthatsIT]

49. What would be a just punishment for their crimes?

Gallows, Guilotine or Firing Squad?

[Supersedeas]

3. she is making the case with words--big face flowery words

[ShortnFiery]

4. Another example of The Administration being chock full of Anti-Diplomats!

:puke: Oh, I feel so much better now! :grr:

[Punkingal]

11. Perfect picture....

A friend of mine gave her the nickname "Nazi Cow" during the 2000 election!

[Captain Hilts]

16. She was the 'moderate' counter to Rove with W. nt

[GreenArrow]

5. because her last trip was such a success...

Miss Congenialty she's not.

[Julius Civitatus]

6. Just like O.J. Simpson is on a mission to find the "real killers"

Gimme a break now, Karen.

:rofl:

[lthuedk]

7. Hughes

regards,

Stephen Pitt

[Tight_rope]

9. I love that picture...

It truly captures the reality of the chimp* and his administration.

[lthuedk]

45. Thank you!

Bush's search for mom is over.



As for his genetic mother, I see no hope of real introspection or conscience:





I'm glad you like the image, Tight_rope.

Stephen

[Hoosier Dem]

8. Look Out...Here comes "The Gym Teacher"

Karen Hughes is just another BushCo ass-kisser. Her only purpose is to serve "Der Dumkopf Fuhrer" as his own personal Leni Rifenstahl.

Her mission doesn't matter, anyway. We have no credibility left abroad.

[Captain Hilts]

17. She looks like every gym teacher I feared in school. nt

[calimary]

36. ROFL! THAT'S it! That's IT! I've been trying to put my finger on what

it is about her that is so irksome. You just nailed it.

The gym teacher.

Never liked her. EVER. And her association with/worship of wee george only hurts her in my book. She's not gonna convert ANYBODY with her dog-and-pony PR show. ANYONE overseas can see that phony-ass facade coming, miles away. They're not gonna bite. They're not going to want to talk to her. They're not going to want to listen to her. They're not even interested. And they know she's not really going to listen to them, either, because they "get" what this "my way or the highway" cowboy crap regime is about. We did, too, in collectives like this, and SOME of the rest of our country is getting it, slowly but surely.

NOBODY's going to want to talk to us or deal with us or do much business with us because they KNOW what we're about. They KNOW we'd rather fight than talk, rather shoot than negotiate, and that the people who send karen hughes around with her fake congeniality KNOW it's all for bullshit and for show. That our "leaders" only are interested in money, warmaking, and bloodshed - both ours and especially theirs. They're equally disinterested in wasting any time with contradicta, because they know who she's representing and they just don't want to do business with us anymore. They don't believe us because we've lied to them repeatedly. They don't take us seriously when we talk peace and diplomacy because they know we've got the same money-grubbing warmongers in charge. Nobody trusts us anymore. Nobody wants to give us the benefit of the doubt anymore. Nobody's willing to risk it, or play You Bet Your Life on the strength of our word. Thanks a LOT, george w. asshole. Just another in a long line of valuables you've squandered for us, thankyouverymuch.

They can throw all the karen hugheses and contradictas and stephen hadleys and whoeverthehell else they want to send abroad to be emissaries for us to try to smooth ruffled feathers, and as long as it comes from THIS deceitful, greedy, criminal regime, it's not gonna get us ANYWHERE or accomplish ANYTHING. Regime change is the only thing that's gonna help us. Which is why we need IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL FROM OFFICE. PRONTO.

[Vinca]

42. Although I'm a feminist, this is one woman who should stay

home and bake cookies.

[Hoosier Dem]

43. preferably with the shades pulled!! ; )

[w4rma]

10. What did Hughes do to the neo-cons to get demoted to this futile job? (nt)

[IChing]

12. I was sardonic yesterday when I posted

that they needed to send her out again. But she does have a budget of a half of billion dollars.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1834227&mesg_id=1834227

"Brownie you did a heck of a job last year, I mean Karen, now remember do what you do best, lie, make inane statements and bullshit over your incompetance".

[htuttle]

13. I've never seen her and John Lithgow at the same place at the same time

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

[nancyr]

23. By golly, I think you're on to something!

[Don Claybrook]

24. Is Hughes an Ellen-Jamsian

No such luck, she still has her tongue.

Apt comparison, though.

[CBHagman]

28. But that's so terribly unkind to John Lithgow.

If you know what I mean...

[BigDDem]

14. When does she get

her Medal of Freedom?

[Jacobin]

18. As soon as the M.E. erupts into full blown combat among all

the nations.

They can give it to her in a bunker...the medal, that is

[Captain Hilts]

15. So far, her mission hasn't had any success. Other than that, great job!

[Roland99]

19. Wash, rinse, repeat...Wash, rinse, repeat...Wash, rinse, repeat

[Zorra]

20. Her job is much more of a challenge because she has less

understanding of international affairs and other cultures than a fundy republican soccer mom from Texas.

Imagine the bull in a china closet blunders in etiquette that she makes - "Why, yer that preacher over there at that mosque, aintcha? Oh, don't mind Fluffy, she licks everyone on the face...she don't bite though. Yer kinda cute, whaddya say you and me go out for some drinks and dinner over ta the Embassy - heard they's havin' roast pork tonight."

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Bet she'll get one of those fancy 'Medal of Freedom' things for

the dramatic decrease in the world's approval of the USA! Now, if we just concentrate on the ME, she might get to be a cabinet member.

Heck of-a job, Karen.

[democrank]

22. Sending Karen Hughes out to change views

is like sending "Brownie" to save New Orleans. Nuts.

[Bob3]

25. Occasionally, when you are out there talking, you say something you regret

Well yes - if you are blithering idiot things like that happen all the time.

It's the mark of just how stupid this group is that a 45 Watt Bulb like Hughes could be thought of as possessing enough of a brain to go out into public to, lie about, sorry, explain administration polices.

[sendero]

26. She'll change views all right..

... she'll convince yet another group of folks who are on the fence about this adminstration that they are in fact idiots.

[Ilsa]

27. Maybe she should start by changing the opinions of Bushies

and Fundamentalist Christian of Muslims. I am sick of hearing that all Muslims hate us and want us to convert or die.

[TexasLawyer]

29. Has she lost about a hundred pounds?

The article has this picture of Karen Hughes. I barely recognize her.

[Hoosier Dem]

30. Maybe she needs a Katherine Harris Makeover??

[sabra]

31. stress?

[colorado_ufo]

39. Almost unrecognizable.

Anorexia? Illness? I hear she's been traveling with Condi; maybe she did not want to look clunky being photographed with her.

Perhaps she misses her family. Dunno, but she don't look good!

[tanyev]

46. She hired Ann Coulter to design a fitness regimen for her.

Ann probably needed the extra cash; I hear her book isn't doing too well.

[sutz12]

47. What is with the Republican fetish with anorexic blondes?

Geez, girl, eat a couple of Big Macs, for christ's sake.

[katinmn]

44. Look at those hands grasping each other.

She looks ill. Probably from being in waaaaay over her head.

[Roy]

32. Is there ANYONE in the republican party....

that has anything more than limited experience at anything?
Why do these people fight tooth and nail, lie, cheat, and steal so viciously in order to be lead by accomplished incompetents at every position of leadership?????
:shrug:

"Setting out with limited diplomatic experience abroad, Ms. Hughes was sometimes tentative on her early stops and continues to encounter sharp dissension over U.S. policy."

[ckramer]

33. One thousand Karen Hughes wouldn't able to do so.

If the foreign policy wouldn't change, America's image won't change.

It's nothing to do with Karen Hughes.

[katinmn]

34. That fake couldn't sell $2 ads in a Texas podunk town.

She's a political HACK.

Lipstick on a pig and all that...

[Solly Mack]

35. phffffffffffffffffffft

I fart in her general direction

[calimary]

37. And she looks like she's smelling it already.

LOL

[katinmn]

40. ROTFLMAO

:rofl:

The erudite Solly joins me in the trenches when speaking about the biggest pr flunky in the history of the planet.

[Solly Mack]

50. I tootled melodiously

:)

[katty]

38. Ms. Hughes title: Head Cheerleader

[sutz12]

41. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

The PR presidency continues unabated. "They hate us for our freedoms!"

Perhaps if they did something right once in a while it would make her job easier.

[antonialee839]

48. Chimpy's nanny stricken with repetitive failure syndrome.

[Doctor_J]

51. she's going to draft smirk's resignation?

anything else is unlikely to help