Interesting article about Condi featured on Arab News website

[bling bling]

"She finishes Bush’s sentences. He totally trusts her. Why? She was an unimpressive national security advisor so confused about the nature of her position she told Republican National Convention audiences that she “believed” her “job has really been to bring together people around (Bush) who can give him good policy options as he develops an agenda for foreign policy.” No wonder she completely missed the threat of Al-Qaeda.

So who is Condi? Gilbert claims she’s foremost a performer — a child pianist effortlessly playing Tchaikowsky until the adults stop clapping, which hasn’t happened yet, a beguiling figure skater whirling and twirling and “lost in her own performance.”

Rice believes in the moment and its eternal advantage. If the future looks like Gary Hart, she’s a liberal Democrat. If the future looks like Israel, then she’s a devout neocon, talking on the phone, every day, with Dov Weisglass, Sharon’s advisor, calling him “Dubi” and giving him free reign at the White House on his monthly visits where reportedly “they sit together for at least an hour and a half.” Palestinians don’t even get in Condi’s door, Dubi brags. The “Palestinian agenda” is now “frozen…removed from our agenda indefinitely,” Dubi marvels. Life has momentarily rewarded Rice. She has the “dream” foreign policy job, and recently celebrated her birthday at a little “surprise” black-tie soiree thrown at the British Embassy at which Bush was present. Oscar de la Renta sent over a sexy scarlet gown for her to don, like Cinderella at the ball.

Can the dream last another four years? Perhaps it depends on how long the party lasts."

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=54942&d=23&m=11&y=2004

[napi21]

1. Certainly an interesting opinion from an arab news group.

Seems like they see her the same as a lot of us do as well.

[DulceDecorum]

2. Viagra Alert

February 5, 2001
Ariel Sharon, who will likely become Israel's next prime minister, swears he has no trouble concentrating.

No trouble, that is, except when it comes to Condoleezza Rice.

Sharon, 73, was quoted as telling a group of Israeli television journalists and executives that he found President Bush's national security adviser so attractive when they met last summer that he could barely focus on what she was saying.

Sharon, the hawkish leader of Israel's Likud Party, holds a commanding lead in opinion polls heading into Israel's prime ministerial elections tomorrow. A two-time widower, he met with Rice in August when she made her first trip to Israel.

Sharon's interest in Rice, who is 46 and single, was first reported Friday by Israel's mass-circulation newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth. According to the article, Sharon told journalists and executives of Israel's Channel 2 News last Tuesday, "I have to confess, it was hard for me to concentrate in the conversation with Condoleezza Rice because she has very nice legs."

However, a journalist at Channel 2 who sat in on the meeting said Sharon actually said he found Rice's overall appearance attractive.

-- Lee Hockstader
The Washington Post

[signmike]

3. she finishes W's sentences?

somebody has to

[chookie]

4. Remember the song "Up on Cripple Creek"?

"Up on cripple creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don’t have to speak cause she defends me
A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one!"

[delete_bush]

5. that solves half of the equation.

Now we just need to know who starts them for him.

[DulceDecorum]

6. Englebert starts them.

He is the guy who works the humpadink.