Condoleezza Rice: "I was supposed to be a concert pianist, and here I sit"

[kurth]

JULY 23, 2007
IDEAS -- FACE TIME WITH MARIA BARTIROMO
By Maria Bartiromo

A Resolute Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been at George W. Bush's side since he was sworn in as President in 2001, first as National Security Advisor and now as the nation's top diplomat. Like the President, she has been pilloried for not adequately recognizing the al Qaeda threat before September 11 and for helping to lead America into a quagmire in Iraq after the attacks. But her resolve has never wavered, and her poise has rarely been pierced. Both those qualities were on display during a lengthy and compelling discussion at the State Dept...

Will you serve as Secretary of State until the end of the President's term, and if so, what are your plans for the future?
I don't have any plans to do anything but be Secretary of State and try to complete the very ambitious agenda that the President has laid out. After that, I'll go back to Stanford . I'm actually on leave. I'll probably think some, write some, speak some, and hopefully teach some.

Will Vice-President Cheney serve out his term, and if he were to step aside, would you accept the Vice-Presidency?
Oh, the President has a perfectly good Vice-President. I fully expect he's going to be Vice-President till there's a new one.

Would you consider a position in business or on Wall Street?
I don't know what I'll do long-term. I'm a terrible long-term planner. I was supposed to be a music major and concert pianist, and here I sit. I love serving on corporate boards, and I find American business and our corporations to be the engines of innovation for this country and, therefore, an engine of innovation for the world. One thing I've tried to do is to institutionalize the public-private partnership. The government can't do it all. When you talk about winning hearts and minds around the world, we are but a small part of what most of the world encounters about America.

What will your legacy be?
It's too early to think about legacies. Today's headlines are rarely the same as what history's judgment is going to be. If I look back, though, what I'm most glad we did is to put the promotion of democracy at the center of American foreign policy. I'm a firm believer that unless America stands for the fact that every man, woman, and child deserves to live in a system that permits them a say in who governs them, that permits them to educate their boys and girls, to be free from the knock of the secret police at night—unless we stand for those very basic human rights, no one will.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_30/b4043101.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_around+the+globe

[illinoisprogressive]

1. too bad she did not follow her original career path with the piano

[zehnkatzen]

2. Sounds Like Someone's Inner Self is Speaking Out...

I'm a terrible long-term planner

Well, at least one of the copped to it.

I was supposed to be a concert pianist, and here I sit

In a world where Ms. Rice's photo is found on album covers rather than in WH photographs, we'd of all been better off.

[WCGreen]

3. "I'm a terrible long-term planner.."

No shit Condi...

No Shit...

[TomInTib]

7. See #6, WCG...

[WCGreen]

12. Yep...

That about sums it up...

[MrMickeysMom]

4. War is Peace, weakness is strength and she still looks reptillian to me

[rodeodance]

5. sitting beside the Pres. yup

[TomInTib]

6. "Concert pianist"? Like hell, you false-faced whore.

Here is a paragraph from Judith Warner's piece in Saturday's NYT.

'Rice, I read in the recent biography, "Twice as Good", is so incapable of empathy that, in her late teens, and after years of assiduous and ambitious practice, she was forced to give up her dreams of becoming a concert pianist because her teacher felt she didn't have the "interest or inclination" to "make someone else's thoughts and emotions (her) own."'

Mods, I hope that you can let this stick w/o link. I typed it directly out of the column and gave credit.

I believe this details that awful person in a thumnail, in a nutshell.

[Mr Rabble]

8. Insane. "Promotion of democracy...

at the center of American foreign policy"? Is there anyone besides the backwash who actually believes this?

This woman is incorrigible. I am simply in awe at her audacity.

[Ian David]

9. And if Hitler had been a better painter... n/t

[Dr.Phool]

10. They could make a keyboard out of her teeth.

At least she'd contribute something to humanity.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. And Bush was supposed to be a front porch banjo boy

but I think he screwed that up, too.

[JeffR]

13. Banjo-pickin' is hard work!

[Skip Intro]

14. is she pining for her childhood dream after having ended any future for so many?

If I didn't have some respect for those who might be offended, I'd let loose some language here.


I'll just keep it to fuck that murderous bitch.

[conspirator]

15. Colin Powell was the actual liar n/t

[ljm2002]

17. Condoleezza has lied so often...

...that it is impossible to pick out just one. She is the epitome of the corporate mealy-mouthed dissembler, and she does it very well, until you learn to real the "tells" -- then you realize she lies pretty much every time she opens her mouth. When she doesn't lie, she immediately correct herself ("As I was telling my husb... As I was telling the president...").

[Skip Intro]

19. more...? n/t

[edbermac]

16. Pianist? She wouldn't last 15 seconds on The Gong Show.

[Swamp Rat]

18. She was NEVER going to be a concert painist.

NO WAY! :eyes:

[Crankie Avalon]

20. Concert pianist??? Not nearly, but she'd definitely give Nixon a run for his money...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCsGSMze_6Q