What do you make of this picture of Boxer and Rice?

[dhinojosa]

This supposedly taken after the confirmation hearings. What are they chummy about? What can they possibly be saying? Am I the only one alarmed by this?

[WI_DEM]

1. Condi looks like the only one smiling.

[dhinojosa]

28. Probably,

I just don't see it. But maybe you're right.

[Spinzonner]

2. Barb getting tonsorial advice ?

[Sanity Claws]

3. Condi is stepping on Boxer's toes.

Boxer is not exactly smiling

[feistydem]

4. I don't buy it. No way would the ice princess smile at her nemesis after

that grilling.

[rodriguez94]

5. they are most likely still in a crowd of people

and are being "politically correct" by acting professional and chummy...all politicians do that..burns my ass up actually, but on the other hand..it comes with the territory..I mean after all, Rice will be confirmed...and then Boxer will have no choice but to deal with her so she just as well start now...it is unfortunate, but it is the facts....

[blueblitzkrieg]

6. Boxer is about to slug Condi and her stupid grin into space.

Ok, wishful thinking

[Hobarticus]

7. This was taken seconds before Boxer put her in a headlock

and drove her into the turnbuckle.

Cage Match!

[Steely_Dan]

16. HAHAHAHAHA

Don't know why that struck me as so funny....

[Hobarticus]

20. Deep in your heart, you wish it so...

That'd spice things up on C-SPAN!

[saltpoint]

32. : )

[sandnsea]

8. OMG!!! Common Human Decency!!!!

AAAARRRGGHHAARRGGHHH!!!!




Would you people grow the fuck up.

:argh:

[dhinojosa]

15. Let's say I humiliated you professionally to the rest of the nation.

and I questioned your honesty and integrity. Would you still like a big hug from me?

[sandnsea]

34. It's their lives

They have to deal with people who are rude all the time. What would you prefer, the way Bush deals with people who don't flatter him?

[louis-t]

9. condi is laughing because she knows

she's gettin' a free pass. Boxer looks like she's gonna have a stroke. I'm glad she spoke up, but I wish more Dems would back her up and vote 'no' on condi. 'Course then Newt would revive his 'nasty names' list again. Any Dem would immediately have the name 'obstructionist' placed before their names on the roster.

[corbett]

27. There You Go

louis-t hit it! What's more, Boxer knows that she'll have to work with Rice for quite some time and still has to civil, even though she knows that Rice is just another pod person.

[robbedvoter]

10. What? No Biden hug? What's your point? Why try to cast suspicion

on the one person we respect?

[dhinojosa]

19. After impeachment, Clinton played some B-Ball with Repub. Reps

Cmon, you know this is weird.

[Quakerfriend]

11. It looks to me as though

Condi is trying to humor her...almost as if to say "You didn't bother me in the least".

And, Boxer will have nothing of it.

This doesn't alarm me at all. It just reminds me of the brazenness of this administration. The in-your-face , right-back-at-you attitude they all project.

[uppityperson]

12. Looks like Condi just kneed Boxer in the belly

[theboss]

13. It's the Senate, not the WWE

Do you want Boxer to shake her hand, then hit her with a folding chair? After that Boxer can put on a Kerry-Edwards '04 t-shirt while Jim Ross screams to a C-SPAN audience, "My God! The carnage!!!"

These are educated women in positions of great power. I would hope they could behave like adults and, you know, shake hands.

[saltpoint]

33. I think you're exactly right on this. But --

-- I reallly am getting off on the part about the folding chair...

[pinto]

14. what are they supposed to do? knife each other? this is the federal

government, on international TV....surely, they can do a polite smile thing and continue to pursue their separate agendas, don't you think? thanks.

[librechik]

17. they're not friendly, Condi is preparing to devour Barb head first

"May I have your autograph? My kids just love your stance on the Ukraine..."

What a snarl!

[Vinca]

18. Typical Washington B.S.ing - that's all.

I'd make a lousy public official because I could never "make nice" with people like Condi, Don, Dick and Dickhead.

[judy]

21. Condi is smiling and saying...

"Now, we wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your favorite little dog, now would we Barbara?"

[MsTryska]

22. hmm.

either condi is really tall or ms Boxer is really short.

[saltpoint]

35. Barbara Boxer is short in height and very tall --

-- in integrity.

[NJCher]

23. allow me

Here's how I read it. CR is being obsequious and unctuous because Boxer had the guts to kick her ass.

Boxer's expression is not friendly; it is brusque. Like, hey, you may have won this round but what did you win? The chance to dig yourself in deeper?


Cher

[indigobusiness]

24. Condi welcomes hugs

wherever she can get them.

[CoffeeCat]

25. Caption for the photo...

"Barbara, I know we hate each other with the white-hot-burning passion of a thousand searing suns--but can I still get that meatloaf recipe from you?"

[dhinojosa]

26. LMAO!

brilliant

[No Mandate Here.]

29. Remember the picture of * pushing his way past Clinton at the Library open

I can imagine that Condescending Rice shoved her way through the crowd to get near enough that her court photographer could take a shot of the two of them "chumming it up".

All the way, she was saying," Gotta keep smiling. Gotta keep smiling."

When she got there, Boxer politely told her to get lost, and the flashes went wild. As we can see from this, the least pained look on Boxer's face, she was not enjoying this moment.

(I am making this up, BTW)

Filibuster her nomination. She is a joke.

[Kota]

30. Condi shook hands and talked with eveyone.

She knows she's getting the job, but she also knows that Boxer has taken away any mandate she has.

[saltpoint]

31. Boxer's criticism came from her heart and mind --

-- and she has the ovaries to speak face-to-face to the nominee as a member of a specific senate committee performing a specific protocol.

Both these women know the drill.

[blondeatlast]

36. Photoshopped?

Depth of field looks suspicious to me.