How I Fell Out of Love With Condi
Once upon a time, I liked Condoleezza Rice a lot. I daresay I might even have had a bit of a crush on her.
Rice was a fresh face in the white male Washington policy-making establishment. Her credentials were impeccable, and she was one of the few people among President Bush’s inner circle who didn’t seem to have become totally snoggered on the neocon Kool Aid.
That Rice’s favorite song was Mozart’s “Piano Concerto in D Minor” was a bonus, and I liked calling her “Condi.” This was a nice nickname that headline writers immediately took to, and she didn’t seem to object that I liked it. At least she never said so. By comparison, I couldn’t image calling Paul Wolfowitz “Wolfie,” and I knew that he would mind if I did.
In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, I was somewhat perturbed when Rice . . . er, Condi admitted that she was still fighting the Cold War and had not given much thought to the War on Terror.
But I knew that she was one smart cookie, would learn on the run and adapt to the new realities. I even felt a little wounded by the slings and arrows of the know-it-all pundits who called her a lightweight. I had realized at that point that she didn’t know me from Mullah Omar, even though my beard is shorter than his and I don’t wear a headscarf, but I still felt like I should stick up for her.
Well, the pundits were right.
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24 Responses to “How I Fell Out of Love With Condi”
A) change the ‘lick here’ to click here’.
B) Shaun, One look at Cond-O’s record shows that she was an egghead w/almost zero real world experience.
C) Hopefully, your lack of love now includes admiting she was the worst and most incompetent NSA in history, and as a Secy of State she’s a joke. This is standard Right Wing tactic, making lapdogs out of their tokens. What Colin Powell did to himself, making himself a bitch, was disgraceful. But Condo was just vapid from Day One. Has she EVER really answered a SINGLE query on the war?
I say it’s not her being coy, but she simply is clueless! Bend over Honey, says the Prez, and Condo takes a missile up the arse, and begs for more.
Complaints that Dr. Rice is lacking in real-world experience are legitimare. Complaints that her performance in her various real-world posts are also legitimate.
Accustions of tokenism, and use of tacky sexual metaphors and language, are not legitimate criticism.
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Its in bad taste. There’s enough to criticize her for without taking it to that level. My biggest problems with her are that her Cold War background did not give her the necessary expertise in ME affairs, and she seems to be really afraid of using diplomacy rather than military force. Ignoring and isolating anyone that disagrees with you doesn’t work in the real world.
Kim: I disagree with you on this:
I don’t think that she’s as hawkish as you seem to think.
Lest there be any confusion, I most certainly do not agree with Cosmoetica’s tawdry remarks.
Lest there be any confusion, my post had a satirical overlay and I certainly was not dissing Condi for her race or gender.
Shaun,
I actually enjoyed the post (but share the other commenters’ distaste for Cosmo’s response).
I took note of a side issue, completely separate from your…ahem…feelings for Condi. I see your reactions to leaders as being somewhat emotionally based. You mention Rummy’s “stuff happens” and feel that Condi’s approach is similar. I guess I disagree on the extent to which it’s necessary or important for leaders to react emotionally, to show their outrage over situations, in order to meet your emotional needs or mine. It’s enough for me when they react with policies that make sense under the circumstances, to act in whatever way possible to correct a problem (and in many cases this administration hasn’t done so.) I don’t, however, need them to make a show of their moral indignation, their guilt, or what have you.
I fell out of love with Condi Rice when I realized her otherworldly ability to triple-talk. What is that you may ask? Triple-talk is intelligently clear and concise, deliberately ambiguous and evasive language.
‘Nuff said…
CStanley:
Well, I suppose you may have caught me out on the emotional thing, but it was more of a literary device.
I’m like you. I want my leaders to be straight shooters regardless of whether they’re stiffs (Bush pére) or emoters (Clinton).
Then there was Janet Reno, but don’t get me started . . .
It should be “Condo”, not “Condi”. Just sayin’.
I fell out of almost-kind-of-like-but-not-really with her when I found out about how she ignored the August 6 PDB and all the warnings she received all summer about terrorism.
DBK: no, at the end of a word ‘i’ is often used to show one’s sympathy for that person.
God forbid that a token who sells their soul for career advancement be mocked. PC amok!
And, she is a token, as was Powell. No amount of- heaven forfend- indignation changes the facts.
And, Mike, the i, ie, y ending is a diminutive ending used to connote an inferior status. The o ending is the shortened version of the name. That the i ending is the more popular says alot of her place as a token, by critics and supporters.
BTW- Shaun, do you admit she was a terrible NSA and rotten State Secy?
I’ve rarely heard names being shortened to an “O” ending except in jest. Most shortened names end in “-y” or “-i”: Billy, Bobby, Sandy or Sandi, Nicky or Nicki.
Not to mention of course, “Condo” would be a very odd nickname.
MvdG- She won’t negotiate with Iran or Syria as recommended by the ISG, and the peace talks between Israel and Palestine were abandoned for 6 years. During last summer’s conflict between Lebanon and Israel she waited until a good deal of Lebanon’s infrastructure was destroyed before stepping in. Previous administrations have acted to restrain Israel much sooner. I stand by my statement, but feel free to dispute it on a factual basis.
Poor Condo, she gets no love from all sides of her GOP. The paleocon, the libertarians and the neocons all laugh at her. The ‘moonbats’ can remain quiet while the Righties eat their own
O****,/strike>.Robert Novak: State Department under Rice is a mess
Bandow: Failure Personified: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Insight,Perle – Dump Condi: Foreign policy conservatives charge State Dept. has hijacked Bush agenda
But then, Condo should be happy that the likes of Novak and Perle are her detractors. Such warm fuzzy friends……
Poor Condo, she gets no love from all sides of her GOP. The paleocon, the libertarians and the neocons all laugh at her. The ‘moonbats’ can remain quiet while the Righties eat their ownO****..
Robert Novak: State Department under Rice is a mess
Bandow: Failure Personified: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Insight,Perle – Dump Condi: Foreign policy conservatives charge State Dept. has hijacked Bush agenda
But then, Condo should be happy that the likes of Novak and Perle are her detractors. Such warm fuzzy friends……
Poor Condo, she gets no love from all sides of her GOP. The paleocon, the libertarians and the neocons all laugh at her. The ‘moonbats’ can remain quiet while the Righties eat their own
O****,.Robert Novak: State Department under Rice is a mess
Bandow: Failure Personified: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Insight,Perle – Dump Condi: Foreign policy conservatives charge State Dept. has hijacked Bush agenda
But then, Condo should be happy that the likes of Novak and Perle are her detractors. Such warm fuzzy friends……
Administrator please delete comments 15 and 16 my formatting was sloppy.
The last of the 3 is clean. The comments need the old preview option!!
‘Not to mention of course, “Condoâ€? would be a very odd nickname.’
And Condi is a normal nickname?
Regardless of what she’s called, she’s a failure, professionally, ethically, and intellectually, and ripe for being mocked.
Shaun: So a black woman liked Mozart, and that’s why she was so great?
If she slammed down to NWA, would you still have loved her?
Gino, Tino, Papeo, Teo, Paco, Stizo, Reno, Renzo, Bao, and many more….
C. Stanley- do you only know WASPs?
Michael:
So, your friends call you “Mikei” and not “Mikey”? Because I thought it was a “y” at the end of the, aw, never mind. Not worth the effort, even for comic purposes.
Anyway, I prefer to call her “Condo”.
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Tell me when will you stop lyin’?
Tell me Condo Condo Condo
Could you stop being so blind?
Please don’t ignore intel again
When you ran the NSA
Tell me Condo Condo Condo
You let the Saudis fly away
Oh my Condo tell me why
Haha…no, mostly Catholics actually LOL.
Somehow I have a hard time believing that you actually know more people with the ethnic nicknames that you list (c’mon now…Paco? Seriously?) than with names that are derivations of Anglo-Saxon ones. But if you say so….
CS- I was in a gang w mostly Hispanics- Paco was my best friend, and I’ve known several others. Also, Italians are fond of the -o ending. As are Spaniards, Africans, and several Asian countries.
Most names that contain an o at the end of a syllable or name, are shortened with O- such as Condo. ‘Tis Condi which is the odd version.
So, I guess Shaun’s ‘love’ is rather shallow.