Transformed By Her Bond With Bush (Condi)

[kskiska]

Source: WP

Rice's Loyalty Brings Power and Pitfalls

Monday, September 3, 2007; Page A01

It was just two days after President Bush's reelection in 2004, and Condoleezza Rice was planning her move back home to California and to the tranquility of life at Stanford University.

But Bush had other plans. In a private meeting at Camp David on the morning of Friday, Nov. 6, the president made his pitch: Colin Powell was out as secretary of state -- though Bush hadn't told him yet -- and the president wanted Rice to take the job.

Rice hesitated. Four years as Bush's national security adviser -- through Sept. 11 and two wars -- had taken a toll. "I think you may need a new national security team," she said.

"I do the hiring here," the president countered.

As Rice considered the offer, one question loomed large: Would she and Bush retain their unique closeness if they no longer worked daily together in the White House?

"We've been very close, down the hall," Rice reminded Bush. "I see you eight times a day, and I don't want to lose that connection."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201297.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

[grasswire]

1. something's fishy

"As secretary of state, Rice strives to keep up that connection. If a meeting is not planned that day, she calls Bush in the morning. She usually phones him on Saturday or Sunday to discuss the past week, and every night she sends him a private note, describing the diplomatic issues she faced that day -- in effect, a foreign policy version of Bush's daily intelligence briefings."

What form does that note take? Supposedly, he doesn't get or send e-mail.

[Vickers]

19. I'm sure it's something classy...

...like, oh, Sharpie on edible panties or something.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. you stole my line!

[UrbScotty]

2. A touching story about Condi and her husband. (nt)

[rodeodance]

3. this is very soppy:

........In this effort, Rice's bond with Bush has emerged as her key asset -- but possibly also her critical weakness. It has made her the president's top foreign policy confidante and helped her cultivate a public image imbued with power and influence. But at the same time, friends and former colleagues marvel at how Rice has been transformed by the president she so devotedly serves -- from a hardheaded foreign policy "realist" to a wholehearted supporter of Bush's belief in the power of freedom and democracy.

This picture of Rice emerges from scores of interviews with dozens of administration officials, including Rice, and foreign diplomats, most conducted on the condition of anonymity so they could speak more freely.

Rice tutored Bush on world affairs during the 2000 campaign, seeking to make sure the foreign policy novice didn't stumble. Now, aides say, it is Bush who prods Rice to be bolder and take chances on his ambitious worldview.

"I realize that I have a close personal relationship with the president," Rice said in a magazine interview last year. ". . . At a point in time down the road, I think the decisions that the president is taking will be viewed as having been right . . . and as having left the world much more secure."

[ClintonTyree]

8. Excuse me.........

but :wtf: ....."from a hardheaded foreign policy "realist" to a wholehearted supporter of Bush's belief in the power of freedom and democracy". I repeat, :wtf:

Bush has no regard for freedom OR democracy. His constant assault on individual freedoms and his dictatorial, secretive pResidency make that statement as naive and dishonest a statement ever made.

Does "if this were a dictatorship it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator", ring a bell Condi?.

She really should consider having her head surgically removed from Bush's ass. Why this seemingly intelligent woman worships such an ignorant miscreant continues to be one of the great mysteries of Bush's disastrous pResidency. :banghead:

[The Count]

18. A "realist" who still thinks the cold war is raging on? Condi was clueless from day one

She was also plugged in the PNAC agenda from Day minus one - as her CFR speech in January 2001 (before inauguration) proves it.
Condi is someone else's tool as much as her "husb" is. Nice try telling us the two "transformed" each other". They are both used by the same master - and they know it (or at least she does)

[Supersedeas]

30. seemingly intelligent woman.....based on the behavior of worshipping Dimson?

[salin]

10. after reading several paragraphs

I gagged. See, Condi may have tutored Jr during the 2000 campaign... but it was now BoldJr who was encouraging Condi to be less timid and more BOLD in her pursuit of his agenda.

uh... did this writer used to script Dudley Do Right cartoons?

Couldn't bring myself to read the rest.

[Mz Pip]

4. 8 times a day?

They're in the wrong business... :evilgrin:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[tabasco]

5. Four years as Bush's national security adviser -- through Sept. 11 and two wars -- had taken a toll.

Took a toll on the country.

- Not a single anti-terrorism briefing conducted before 9-11, even after receiving a warning from the CIA - "Bin Laden Determined To Strike Inside United States.".


Heckuva job, Condie.

[onewholaughsatfools]

6. of course Stanford, has told

Condi to go fuck herself.......no job here for you...bitch

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Just confirms that "smart" women can make stupid choices. She has become a pathetic

puppy dog running along side this empty-headed schmuck she so adores.
I cannot imagine that she has any no self-respect left at all.
I certainly cannot figure out WHAT THE HELL she sees in him that makes her so doggedly devoted. :puke: PATHETIC. JUST PATHETIC.
I see her as the same type of female that followed Charles Manson around and worshipped at the altar of that maniac.

[clixtox]

9. A very levelheaded analysis...

And so incredibly sad for us and the world!

[wordpix]

13. I'm guessing it's his million$ that makes him so attractive

[tanyev]

11. So who can't quit whom?

:freak:

[tanyev]

15. LOL! Found the answer in a Newsweek article.

Of course, her friends and her stepmother Clara Rice offered a simpler explanation for why she stayed: "she just can't say no to that man."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368744/site/newsweek/page/0/

[wordpix]

16. "we'd basically broken down a lot of the old system"---geez, that's an understatement

You broke the armed forces, Iraq, the Justice Dept., FEMA, EPA, Dept. of the Interior and US infrastructure, to name just several. :grr:

Now, which system do you think she was referring to? :shrug: :grr:

[The Count]

22. yeah, but still surprisingly observant from Ms "nobody told us they won't be

regular hijackings" (for which they didn't bother to alert the airlines, disrupt business - cuz...duh...regular?)

[The Count]

21. Mother knows best! Some in that family are actually good people

There is a cousin, Connie - who is a respected activist. So, the problem with her is not genetic, we know that much.

[wordpix]

12. "Don't call me, I'm at the ranch," is Bush's favorite line to his close advisers.

This is reportedly what he said when he was in TX before Katrina struck. This is apparently what he said before 9-11. And his closest aides did what Lord Pissypants told them.

pRes Head-in-His-Ass did not even let his 2nd wife Condi call him at the ranch in a crisis, probably b/c Laura wouldn't have liked it.

The "Don't Call Me" pRes should NOT be president, he should be tried, sentenced, and jailed, and his assets liquidated to the Treasury.

[Dulcinea]

14. A seemingly intelligent woman falls for a jerk.

Well, Condi's no different than a friend of mine! :crazy:

She's thrown everything away for this no-talent loser, & will walk away with nothing but a reputation tarnished forever.

[Doctor_J]

17. I implore all DUers to write a LTTE about this tripe

These propagandists need to understand that their bullshit is not swallowed by a vast majority of Americans. PLEASE take 30 sec and shoot them and e-mail. Here's mine:

I certainly hope the GOP paid for that ad that was presented as journalism. George Bush is dedicated to freedom and democracy? Then why does he read all of my e-mails, listen to all of my phone calls, make me stand in a cage to hold my protest sign, and refuse to answer any Congressional questions? Ms. Rice is, like everyone else who works for this worst of presidents, a sycophant whose morals have been destroyed by misguided loyalty.

[The Count]

20. This article is an advertisement for a book - see last paragraph

This article is adapted from Glenn Kessler's "The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy," to be released tomorrow by St. Martin's Press.

[BrklynLiberal]

23. hahahahaha. Who the hell was she REALLY talking to? No way on God's green earth she could have

gotten this impression from prez shit-for-brains!!!!!

"He was warm and funny and easy to be around. I thought he had just an incredibly inquisitive mind ... You could barely finish an explanation before he was digging into it."

[Doctor_J]

25. Yes, this idiot listened to 2 days of briefings on Katrina

without asking a single fucking question I can't believe the Post would print this horseshit.

[NMDemDist2]

24. oh goodie! I finally get to use this smilie

:puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece:



:evilgrin:




what a crock of shit that article was....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. the last two pages were interesting.

He laid out how form over substance was so critically important to the woman and her staff.

[Javaman]

28. Moron*, "I'lllll do the thinnin' around here and doooooooon't you forget it"

ricechecks, "I can't quit you!!!"

god what a total pile of horse shit.

Is it me or is there some serious spinning going on to polish this turd* of a prez, lately?

The crappy ass book, rover coming out and saying he didn't want chaney, moron* denies knowing about the iraqi troop cuts, now condi, I have never ever hand an original idea ever, rice comes out with this romance novel version of her sexcapades with her husband,excuse me, moron*?

what the fuck is going on?

[Javaman]

29. Perhaps, golly gee condi is just jealous of victor ashe and his

special relationship he has with moron*?

"I know he likes me, I just know he does, but if I leave my chance to be with him forever and ever will be gone!", condi writes one night in here diary.

[Disturbed]

31. Quite a few creepy women seem to adore Busholini.

Maybe he wears some sort of lotion of fermones that attract these women?

[Javaman]

32. or the same nail polish....just sayin. nt