"Rice rolled her eyes, turned to US reporters and silently mouthed, 'Don't hold your breath.'"

[ProSense]

"Don't hold your breath."

This started out as a post about how our Secretary of State treats valued allies but it's turned into a post on comparative media sources.

But first, what did our chief diplomat do this week during her visit to Spain?

Something my children certainly would have known better than to do in public, much less while appearing as an official representative of the US government. Certainly something that I don't expect to see during a joint press conference with Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos.

Meeting with reporters after a long session, Moratinos and Rice tried to play down their differences by noting that they shared the goal of a democratic government for Cuba. But when Moratinos defended the Spanish approach of engagement with the Cuban government and suggested that eventually Rice would see the method's merit, Rice rolled her eyes, turned to US reporters and silently mouthed, "Don't hold your breath."

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The Washington Post reported this behavior in the article, "Rice's Stop in Spain Signals Thaw; Chill Over Cuba Persists". And the Boston Globe carried the same story which noted that Rice's visit is the highest ranking official visit since the election of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero who "openly rooted for a John Kerry victory in the 2004 election, calling the occupation of Iraq "a fiasco" and saying he looked forward to a period of "no wars for oil" during a Kerry administration. Bush refused to accept a congratulatory phone call from Zapatero after the election."

The Washington Times omitted reporting the eye-rolling but did note the silent mouthing:

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CBS omitted the eye-rolling and silent-mouthing but saw fit to include the following nugget in their report.

Despite the harsh words, the two senior diplomats were all smiles at a joint press conference, calling each other "Condi" and "Miguel" and kissing each other on both cheeks. Both stressed that relations between the United States and Spain remain fundamentally positive.

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Rice should never have been confirmed as Secretary of State. She is nothing more than an incompetent Bush crony.

Diplomacy is deal-making

Condoleeza Rice couldn't be more wrong when she said diplomacy is not about "making deals," especially in the Middle East.
By Aaron David Miller, AARON DAVID MILLER is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He advised secretaries of state from George Schulz to Colin Powell.
January 19, 2007

HAVING WORKED for six secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations, I nearly fell off my chair the other day when I read Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comment to reporters that diplomacy wasn't about making deals.

Maybe "making deals" is too glib a phrase for her, but it's precisely what effective American diplomacy in the Middle East is mostly about. Her legacy may well be judged by that standard.

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Add rolling eyes and mouthing "don't hold your breathe" to her legacy.

[Inuca]

1. How embarassing! n/t

[Joanne98]

2. Condascenda is a snot nosed brat!

[Cha]

13. Eeeuu~! I like that..."condescenda"...as

she is so flagrantly condescending for someone who doesn't know shit about shit.

Is Iraq going to be the democracy that the neoCONs said it would be? You can go ahead and hold yur breath, condasleazy.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

21. AS ARE ALL IN THIS ADMINISTRATION

ENTITLED ISSUE OF THE UPPER CLASS

[orleans]

3. what a classless ASSHOLE! n/t

[BeHereNow]

9. But she has such NICE SHOES! (to the tune of $7000.00 a pair...)

BHN

[WinkyDink]

18. That's why I traveled to Europe! Oh, wait...I wasn't SoS....

[jaysunb]

4. "Rice should never have been confirmed as Secretary of State"

How absolutely true !

This woman has never done anything one could consider a success, unless you count learning "Chopsticks "... and since I've never heard her play piano, I can't even vouch for that. :evilfrown:

[ellisonz]

25. She's a "Soviet Expert" i.e. out-dated.

Having read alot of pre-2000 international relations textbooks, when neoconservatism is addressed at all, it is treated as a laughable fringe group, and these are books by leading scholars.

Stanford is such a joke compared to UC-Berkeley:argh:

[valerief]

5. What's her position in the WH admin again? Secretary of Assholes? nt

[Lobster Martini]

6. If diplomacy isn't about making deals, what the hell is it?

Call me naive, but I thought diplomacy was about reaching a mutually satisfactory agreement -- in short, a deal. Must have been misinformed.

[Lochloosa]

31. Donald Trump said the same thing about her.

Where are the deals? He thought that was the job of the SOS. To make deals.

[Cleita]

7. This whole administration is a collective of assholes.

:eyes:

[partylessinOhio]

8. Condoho is the most disgusting person ever to represent this country.

She doesn't feel the need to act right while doing her job.


Demonstrators dressed as Guantanamo prisoners stage a protest against the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in central Madrid, June 1, 2007. Rice reproached Spain in a visit on Friday
for engaging Cuba, and said it needed to do more in Afghanistan.

[Cha]

15. Then again, would the bushits have

any other kind but a classless, condescending, warmongering idgit representing them? I don't think so.

[judaspriestess]

10. what an immature asshole

how rude and pathetic. She is a C-R-E-E-P

[BlueManDude]

11. tee hee Condi.

[Robbien]

12. Interesting that Condi felt comfortable doing such an uncouth thing in front of the press

In fact not just in front, but did it for their benefit.

What, did she think they would not report it? Did she want them to report it?

strange

[swimmernsecretsea]

14. She must have wanted them to see it.

She's pretty calculating when it comes to the press, and very experienced in showing only what is she wants them to see. Anything gratuitous has to have some meaning when it comes to her.

[Fridays Child]

16. Is she one of the grown-ups that they promised would be in charge?

[calimary]

29. No kidding. contradicta is the kid on the playground who sulks and

pouts and tells lots of lies and swaggers around throwing her resume at you - the one that has no useful bearing on reality. Maybe she's the White House version of Paris Hilton, then. She does have champagne tastes in footwear designers, after all.

[YankeyMCC]

17. This administration is just getting more and more childish nt

[whistle]

19. The neoCondis are just waiting for Castro to exhale his final breath

....and the marines will be moving on over to Havana from Gitmo! The New York mafia will also be arriving shortly after to reclaim their hotels and casinos and of course the republican Cuban American community will be sailing over on their luxury yachts from Miami and the rest of South Florida to take back their plantations and re-enslave the Cuban farmers as their chattel once more. It will be a BIG Party!

[NastyRiffraff]

20. She acts like a spoiled brat when she doesn't get her way

Her entire manner says "I'm better and smarter than you" when she's talking to someone who disagrees with her, or with someone trying to get a straight answer from her. Condescendee, indeed.

[Disturbed]

23. She believes in a Police State.

Youu can’t allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them, because if they commit the crime, thousands of innocent people die,” Condoleezza Rice

[murray hill farm]

22. Sort of matches up well with her "husb...oops" antics

when he wild eyed thumps himself on the chest and says "I am the president". They are both insane.

[JVS]

24. LOL!

[Fleshdancer]

26. WTF CBS???

CBS omitted the eye-rolling and silent-mouthing but saw fit to include the following nugget in their report:

Despite the harsh words, the two senior diplomats were all smiles at a joint press conference, calling each other "Condi" and "Miguel" and kissing each other on both cheeks. Both stressed that relations between the United States and Spain remain fundamentally positive.

:wtf:

Despite the harsh words they called each other by their own names? As opposed to what exactly??? Bitch and Asshole?? As for kissing each other on both cheeks, well that's the way greetings are done in Spain...atleast that's how people greeted me when I spent two wonderful months there. It didn't mean the people agreed with me or liked me, it was just a greeting.

[Usrename]

30. I can tell they liked you..

they really, really liked you.:smoke:

[az chela]

27. What did you expect from bush's slut?????

[Decruiter]

28. More tears, lots of anger. Is this woman HUMAN? I don't recognize her as

being part of the female side of our species. I just don't get it, I guess.

She shames me!

[peekaloo]

32. She puts the DIP in diplomat.

Classy lady.

:sarcasm:

[lpbk2713]

33. Trump was right .....

[Bosso 63]

34. The U.S. policy on Cuba will work!

It just needs a little bit more time.



Yes that would be sarcasm.

[GeorgeGist]

35. Neither is politics ...

about making deals, according to our current President and Congress.:eyes: :nuke:

[Edgeoforever]

36. And see Condi painted as "the good guy" (vs Cheney) here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1031675
Enough to make you dizzy!

[roody]

37. Kindasleazy acting kind of sleazy