NYT slams condi....is she on her way out ?? (link)

[diamond14]

IMO, condi is about to find out that reTHUGlicans don't care about her at all...she'll be fired to save bush*....

according to this article, condi is real incompetent...the authors never call her 'dr. rice', not even once....



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/politics/05COND.html?hp

New to the Job, Rice Focused on More Traditional Fears
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER

Published: April 5, 2004

-snips-

But a review of the record, from testimony and interviews, suggests that Ms. Rice faces a daunting challenge because her own focus until Sept. 11 was usually fixed on matters other than terrorism, for reasons that had to do with her own background, her management style and the unusually close, personal nature of her relationship with Mr. Bush.

Still, the reality is that Ms. Rice has virtually no public utterances about Al Qaeda to point to as evidence that she was as engaged in the issue as she was in Mr. Bush's other foreign policy agendas.

Ms. Rice also created a hierarchical, corporate style in which she largely delegated policy development to others. To oversee the creation of a new strategy on counterterrorism, she relied on her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley. For Ms. Rice, in part, that preserved time to concentrate on issues more familiar to her, to tutor Mr. Bush and to translate his instincts and decisions into policy.

Her background, as she acknowledged, was as "a Europeanist." And when she briefly dropped her self-confident tone, Ms. Rice, then a professor and former provost at Stanford, said in an interview in June 2000 that as a campaign adviser to Mr. Bush, she found herself "pressed to understand parts of the world that have not been part of my scope."

A former senior administration official who has worked closely with Ms. Rice over the years painted this retrospective portrait of her as she took office in 2001: "She's a quick study, she's very smart, she has an orderly mind, and she has great self-confidence. On the other hand, she suffers in that she doesn't have a really broad background, especially in the history of different areas. So she's good on Russia, pretty good on Europe, but it drops off pretty sharply from there."

[grytpype]

1. former senior administration official who has worked closely with Ms. Rice

Clarke, probably. He's said similar things about her.

[diamond14]

2. the portrayal of condi's abilities is real BAD for bush*

remember...bush* excused his own failure to even travel internationally and his complete lack foreign policy experience...

bush* claimed that he would surround himself with experts...so that bush* own failings wouldn't be an issue for America...so he brings in condi to 'tutor' him in foreign policy, of which, condi knows nothing, except about a country (the Soviet Union) that no longer exists...

and now we know, that we need to BOOT BUSH out of our White House


GO Kerry
http://www.JohnKerry.com

[livetohike]

3. to tutor Mr. Bush and to translate his instincts and decisions into policy

This is a pretty incriminating statement regarding Bush, imo.

To translate his instincts??? One of those "instincts" being to finish what his father started in Iraq?

She's done for. I doubt she could find a job teaching again.

[calimary]

4. Nah, they'll prop her up in some knuckle-dragger think tank somewhere.

Maybe... after she's finished serving time?

Good Lord.

[gandalf]

5. This is not positive, but "slamming"?

Is it bad to delegate things to specialists? Nobody can be equally competent in many different areas.

But the NYT does not discuss perhaps even more striking signs of incompetence, like her clearly false statement that nobody could have thought of using airplanes as weapons.

[diamond14]

7. "...friend, confidante and sometime workout partner..."

"Look, I know how to manage people," Ms. Rice told reporters last month, "and I asked him to come once. We continued to have a problem. I asked him to come twice. We didn't have a problem after that."

But as a friend, confidante and sometime workout partner as well as adviser to the president, Ms. Rice enjoyed by far the closest personal ties with Mr. Bush of any foreign-policy adviser.

For Ms. Rice, in part, that preserved time to concentrate on issues more familiar to her, to tutor Mr. Bush and to translate his instincts and decisions into policy.

Indeed, Ms. Rice's biggest vulnerability may have been that when she came to Washington in 2001, she was determined to quickly tackle three tasks that had little to do with terrorism: refocusing the nation's diplomacy on big-power politics, chiefly Russia and China; fulfilling Mr. Bush's pledge of a missile-defense system; and steamlining the security council, getting it out of what she called "operational matters."

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so, condi focussed on everything BUT terrorism...and her failure to understand allowed 9/11 to happen...incompetence...as noted, condi's BIGGEST talent lies in her ability to make men 'come'....and to 'tutor bush*'...that well describes the bush* minions talent...

we need a PRESIDENT....vote for Kerry
http://www.JohnKerry.com

[Jane Austin]

6. Is she on her way out?

If she is, I think the thugs are throwing her to the woves to save their own hides.

What a nice bunch. Bush knows nothing at all about the rest of the world, except for what she's taught him, but she's expendable and he's not.

The New York Times could even be a part of the wolves/hide plot.

The worst outcome would be if sacrificing Condi took the heat off the administration and they prevail. :(