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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:21 PM
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How does Condi claim 25 years of foreign affairs experience?
That's what she said. She claimed to have 25 years of experience in foreign affairs. What was she doing when she was 25 years old? And how do her years at Stanford count? (She's just turned 50.)
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:22 PM
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1. maybe in dog years ?
What kind of dog would she be, I wonder ?
Certainly not a border collie. They are smarter.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:23 PM
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2. pit bull
she allready looks like one
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pnutchuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:25 PM
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5. More like a pug
She's not viscious, just breathes that way
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Jasper 91 Donating Member (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 03:26 PM
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19. An Afghan hound, they are the stupidest
And the name is so apt.
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cheshire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:24 PM
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3. The usual protocal of this administration. Lying.
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pnutchuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:24 PM
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4. They run the media
who's going to report the truth except us and we're all enlightened. It's these deaf, blind, mute monkeys we have to turn... And I doubt that's ever going to happen, they still think Faith is a precept for an election.
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:27 PM
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7. Don't worry, there aren't that many of them.
Edited on Tue Nov-16-04 02:29 PM by DireStrike
The hardcore "faith based government" supporters really aren't that big of a voting group. Their influence has been pumped up.

However, they DO control the media, and we do need to reach out and be the voice of America. Hell, I supported the Iraq war at first. I'm just more willing to question authority than most people.

Don't forget, we have like... 40-50% of Americans that don't vote AT ALL. If we bring them out, we could technically piss on the demands of the whackos AND the blind ones.
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:26 PM
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6. The same way bunnypants claims a mandate.
With NO MEDIA CRITICISM at all! wheeeeeee! It's like a roller coaster, build America up and then ride it back down at blinding speed!
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:27 PM
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8. all of the neocons over 25 yrs old have it
they're all completely foreign to the US of A as far as I can tell
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kcwayne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:28 PM
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9. She watched Julia Childs between classes
and is an expert on French cooking.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:28 PM
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10. Well she was a Soviet "expert" who failed to forsee the collapse of the
Soviet Union - not that she was alone in that - but it just goes to show that "experience is as experience does" as Forrest Gump would say.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:30 PM
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11. not at age 25
She couldn't have been an expert at that age, could she?
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cubsfan forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:38 PM
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14. According to her webpage
Edited on Tue Nov-16-04 02:45 PM by cubsfan forever
which has probably since been scrubbed, Miss Rice (not Dr.) is 50 years old (me, too) Grad HS in 1972, took three years off from college at some point, and SURPRISE, had completed a bachelors, masters and doctorate by 1981. Uh, no. She is a fraud. Kind of like her "expertise in foreign affairs."


Mine took 5, 5, and 2. Lets' see: if I had gone straight through (which I didn't), I would have just been completing my doctorate in 1984.

Professor 2
(and Dr., but I don't play one on television)
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:32 PM
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12. here's her bio
Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.

In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.

She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.

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cubsfan forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:42 PM
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15. See post #14 as to why that doesn't scan n/t
Edited on Tue Nov-16-04 02:44 PM by cubsfan forever
Yup, I knew she scrubbed her bio re the three years off from college. She graduated HS in 1972 and has a Masters in 3 years? Uh, no. But heck, look what * oil money will do for you, eh? At least she tells the truth about ONE of her honorary doctorates.

Professor 2
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:38 PM
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13. It's "Affairs With Foreigners" get it right!
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:46 PM
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16. How can anyone who blew 9/11 even be considered?
"....we never imagined planes being used as weapons"
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:50 PM
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17. Ummm SHE LIES??!!??
She's full of shit. Did you know that the Bush admin. is chock full of people with phony degrees? Seriously, a whole shitload got their degrees from bullshit diploma mills, there was an article about it a while back because a few got busted...
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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 03:09 PM
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18. Affairs with foreigners?
n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 03:34 PM
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20. same way she does everything else
she lies

and the bushturd lock on teh media keeps her from being held accountable for it.

lie about your qualifications when you apply at Wal Mart and you get blacklisted.

lie about your qualifications to be the bushturd's top foreign affairs advisor and our nation's representative to the world (and the bushturd's dominatrix) and you get promoted.
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