Rice raises awareness of ‘golf as a sport.’
By on Jul 9th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Rice raises awareness of ‘golf as a sport.’
An aide to Condoleezza Rice said that the Secretary of State has “got the bug” for golf. She “even carries her clubs on diplomatic trips to Asia so that she can get in a few holes during long layovers in Hawaii.” Her aide added that Rice “would very much like to do what she can to raise awareness of golf as a sport.”
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I don’t think she is golfing with that club.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:13 pmFu(k the Middle East, she not only plays the piano but the fiddle as well!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:13 pmI’m as blue as they come, but honestly… who cares?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:15 pmYeah, because there isn’t anything more important for the Secretary of State to do.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:15 pmA big achievement indeed for a job like Secretary of States in time of war…!!
Playing golf…!!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:15 pmThe secretary of state should not be allowed to play sports or do anything recreational.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:16 pm…”so that she can get in a few holes during long layovers in Hawaii.â€
Along with Jeff Gannon & Mark ‘fingers’ Foley.
I kid you, Kondi.
Seriously, where is diplomacy? She’s been hiding out for nearly a month now, getting in a few holes.
Is she playing with Mary Cheney?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:16 pmHeaven help the PGA/LPGA if this woman does for golf what she’s done for Middle East diplomacy…
July 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pmThe Bush administration comes through again. We have an insane war, failed policies, burgenoning national debt, wave upon wave of scandal, blatent disregard for the Constitution and what are we focusing on? Golf as a sport?!?!?!!! When is she going to push for a Constitutional Amendment stating that kittens are cute! February 2009 cannot come soon enough! Impeach Bush and Cheny and Save My Sanity!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:18 pmRice needs to resign, then she can go play golf all she wants.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:18 pmWow. Ol’ Condi displaying the same level of insight and perspicacity she has brought to diplomatic relations. Who could have known gold would be so underappreciated and unknown throughout the world.
Thanks $DEITY for such a fine, upstanding diplomat as Condi to represent us to the rest of the world.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:19 pmQUESTIONS FOR CONDI
by Margie Burns
1. Dr. Rice, you were admitted to the University of Denver when you were still in high school, while your father was Assistant Director of Admissions at the university. Did you take the ACT or the SAT for admission, and did you meet all admissions requirements that the other incoming freshmen had to meet?
2. Dr. Rice, you have stated candidly in interviews that your first love was not political science but piano, and that you switched to Poli Sci halfway through college because it was a major you could finish in two years. When you were admitted to the rightwing graduate program in political science at Indiana, who paid your tuition there? When you returned to complete a doctorate in political science at U Denver, who paid your tuition there? When you were sent on an extensive trip to Eastern Europe, as a graduate student, how was the trip arranged and financed?
3. Dr. Rice, your biographies show that you were an intern at the Rand Corporation. Did Rand pick up any of the costs of your education? Was the internship a paid or unpaid? You subsequently became a board member at Rand; have you fully disclosed your financial support from Rand over the years?
4. How did the Hoover Institution at Stanford come to choose you as a Fellow, at $30,000 per year, back when full professors in political science made an average $34,000?
5. How was your transition from Hoover Fellow to tenure-track Stanford faculty arranged, and by whom? Did you continue to receive income from the Hoover Institute?
6. How was the publication of your dissertation as a book, by Princeton University Press, arranged?
7. Between the time of your start at Stanford and your promotion to tenure, did you publish any scholarly articles besides the dissertation?
8. When you served on the board of Chevron Oil, did you agree with company opposition to the sanctions against Saddam Hussein?
9. Do you currently receive any income or anything of material value from ChevronTexaco? Will you return to the Chevron board when you leave government?
10. Did you participate, directly or indirectly, in the oil policy decisions formulated in the early months of 2001 in the office of the Vice President? Were your colleagues at Chevron cognizant of plans for Iraq by the Vice President?
11. Thomas Stephenson, venture capitalist, donated $2 million to Stanford to provide an endowed chair for you. Have you received income from that interest while serving in government?
12. Have you ever disclosed or released publicly a full accounting of your financial interests, while in government?
13. Do you now receive or have you during your time in government received anything of material value from Rand, Chevron, other companies with which you have ties or companies connected to the Stephensons?
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/1566
July 9th, 2007 at 3:19 pmSorry Ma’am, Tiger is taken.
But seriously, what part of “The US is bogged down in Iraq and what are you doing about” don’t you understand?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:20 pmThe american people would be thrilled if Rice would just do her job! Forget raising golf awareness – just do the job, Condi!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:21 pmKinda-Sleazy-Lice is a War Criminal and a Pathological Liar.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:21 pmBetween shoe shopping trips to NYC and golfing in Hawaii, I’m happy to see that Condi is keeping abreast of whats really important in the world.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:22 pmGood questions, Perry and no doubt she doesn’t have the answers to them. She’s a typical Bushie “fraud” – nothing more. I thought she got a “mail order degree” but I see she’s even trumped that one with her dad as Dean of Admissions – what a colossal joke!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:22 pmOur “shoe shopping Katrina” now is into golf cleats! Wonders never cease!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:23 pmMore aluminum tubes.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:25 pmIf Condi Rice wants to play golf, fine. But to “raise awareness of golf as a sport”? Um…doesn’t the average American already know that golf is a sport? I wasn’t aware this was one of our hottest educational needs.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:27 pmHow about raising awarness to Global Warming you dumb #@*& ?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:28 pmHer aide added that Rice “would very much like to do what she can to raise awareness of golf as a sport.â€
Isn’t golf already a sport? (no, not the drink as much as possible while hitting on the beer cart girl before driving the cart into the nearest pond sport)
Well, I guess Ms. Rice can pair up with O.J. Simpson while searching for hypotheticals and non existent entities!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:28 pmCondi has been playing with Dumbya’s balls and putter too long.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:29 pmUm … there is no argument over the status of golf as a sport … cheer leading however …
July 9th, 2007 at 3:30 pmThat’s great, can we retire her to some top post at the LPGA then? Please?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:31 pmPerhaps she’s trying to line up her post-Bush admin job? Wasn’t there a rumor about her becoming the NFL commissioner?
All I know is that she is complicit in all of the damage inflicted on the planet by this administration. She’s lied over and over again and covered for so many cheney/bush misdeeds that I’m sure that she’ll be taken care of very nicely thank you very much.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:31 pmGolf? Golf? Never heard of it. Maybe I need more awareness of the sport. It is a sport, you say?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:35 pmHrmm..I think Tiger Woods did that already. Thanks Ms. Rice, how about doing the job you are actually paid to do instead?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:35 pmI don’t like Condi…
July 9th, 2007 at 3:39 pmCondi “would very much like to do what she can to raise awareness of golf as a sport.â€
Goodness, my yes, that’s essential.
If she could raise awareness, maybe more young tykes would start to play the game, and it could become more visible in the world’s sporting landscape–you know, get national and international tournaments established, maybe even some prize money for the best players. Gosh, maybe they could even get the game *televised*!
My heart is racing with the possibilities!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:41 pmPretty much confirming that she’s a lesbian.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:42 pmToo bad she can’t raise awareness of detente…or try it sometime.
GREAT questions posted above. Doubt you would ever get answers. Remember, this administration – every last one of them – is a chickenhawk, liar, warmonger, and criminal.
Ah, I taste the sweetness of The Hague!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:44 pmLook, I like golf, too. But seriously, aren’t there enough people touting golf as a ’sport’ already?
I just have to believe that there are more pressing matters on thedesk of the Sec. of State’s desk. I could be wrong, but that would set a bad precedent.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:45 pmNever has the phrase “a good walk spoiled” been more accurate.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:46 pmHer aide added that Rice “would very much like to do what she can to raise awareness of golf as a sport.â€
Interesting. What is this “golf,” of which you speak? I am not hearing of this. A sport, you say?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:53 pmGolf is something that bores me to tears.
guess I am too much of a contact sport fan ( football, boxing, full contact karate), that golfball never hits back, no sport in that lol.
That being said, shouldn’t Condi be negotiating us out of the messes we have gotten into ourselves all over the world?
July 9th, 2007 at 3:53 pmSeems like she has much better things she could be doing
Condi scores hole in one with Mary Cheney!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:59 pmOh right, Condi will probably do as much for golf as she has for FOREign policy. Condi, leave the game alone. It’s doing just great without you. Why don’t you just go play piano at a gay bar or something else useful and at your level of expertise? Maybe St. Daryll can set up the gigs.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:03 pmThanks Spit take for the laugh!!
Condi has to keep herself busy because the boys don’t allow her to play in their war game!
July 9th, 2007 at 4:04 pmShe should start carrying Frisbees.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:07 pmAnd golf of all sports. The sport that sucks up the most resources so a few fat rich people can hit a ball around. Perfect.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:08 pmPretty much confirming that she’s a lesbian.
Comment by werenotgonnatakeit — July 9, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
Katherine Hepburn loved golf. She was no lesbian.
Take it back.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:12 pmI was going to post some snark about maybe doing her JOB instead, but I don’t think I want her doing that either.
Why do I get the feeling she’ll be sounding like Colin Powell in a few years? On her book tour.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:17 pmI am so proud of our State Department! Such a clever way to make the war end, and make the world love us once again. Perhaps it will even bring an end to the Democratic Party, as everyone knows who belongs to the Country Clubs.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:22 pmAnd Condi can work on her tan while she’s on the links!
I despise golf, I tried to like it in the 1990s when it became “trendy” & non-a**holes started to play, but I really ccouldn’t get past my revulsion for it, & Rice & her friends are the reason.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:31 pmWe must neveer retreat in the fight against Islamo-stalinism and the crypto-sexular mutualisn fifth columnists!
Now watch this drive….!
July 9th, 2007 at 4:33 pmPerhaps she can practice getting out of that sandtrap in her own making called Iraq.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:36 pmShe is pushing to be Commissioner of the PGA; if there is such a position. She did OK as a provost, but failed in war and diplomacy.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:38 pmI wonder if Condi visits Palm Springs often? She should! The Dinah Shore Golf Tournament would be a great little vacation for her.
I guess Condi even carries her own clubs to get in a few holes wherever she is. Sounds like a really good fit for her.
I think the tournament is sometimes played at Mission Hills. How appropriate! After the Dinah Shore Weekend, Condi can say:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:38 pmI haven’t heard ANYTHING from Condi Rice for weeks now.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:53 pmI find that extremely refreshing based on what it means when I do hear her noise.
WOW – she can be the chairman of the sports department of the White House.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:11 pmI find it totally unacceptable, no matter how unrealistic it may be, that our leaders have time for fun and games while others are dying for their lies and folly.
I am deep in “Fiasco” now and the book is both reaffirming and infuriating. These leaders must not be allowed to continue without punishment.
Golf – isn’t that the game for the elite class?
July 9th, 2007 at 5:13 pmMs. Rice’s statement convinces me that Rod Serling was in my house this morning and I didn’t notice him. Is everybody in the Administration on drugs or are they having a Most Insane contest? I’m guessing its the Most Insane, ’cause if it was drugs then they’d at least be amusing. February ‘09 cannot come soon enough.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:33 pmUm…doesn’t the average American already know that golf is a sport?
No, golf is a game, not a sport.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:34 pmMaybe I am wrong, but I think the vast majority of Americans would have problems trying to relate to golf “as a sport”; don’t most Americans play baseball? Isn’t golf a bit on the expensive side for most families to afford?
Also, give nthe major blunders the Bush administration has committed in 6 years, I would think Sec. Rice would find little time for golfing while traveling. Shouldn’t pesky issues such as, say oh, Iraq weight much more on the agenda than golf?
But such are the priorities in this White House.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:36 pmI guess in you liberal twisted world of hate, Condi can’t have hobbies? Express her enjoyment of a game? Have a life outside of politics? Do you listen to the hate you have, when a person whom you disagree with simply states her affection for a game? So far you have accused her being a lesbian and playing with Bush’s shaft and balls. Funny, yes. Retarded, yes. But the hate is still very funny and sad. “Condi can work on her tan”. And you call republicans racist homophobes.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:36 pmH E L L S P A W N W A R C R I M I N A L
July 9th, 2007 at 5:45 pmBill Clinton was playing golf in 1997 when he got a call from the State Department advising him that Saudi Arabia had Osama Bin Laden in custody and what do we want to do. He finished his round without giving an answer to that urgent question. By the way, he eventually told the State Department to do nothing. Saudi freed him where he was kicked out and sent to Afghanistan. And we all know the rest of the story? Wait, I forgot about some of you in here; 9/11 happend and over three thosand of your fellow Americans died.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:49 pm“I guess in you liberal twisted world of hate, Condi can’t have hobbies?”
Actually, no, I *don’t* think she, the f-ing secretary of state, should be spending time on her hobbies while this country is fighting two foreign wars.
“Express her enjoyment of a game?”
Oh, you mean hobnobbing with the golf pro? No, I think she has better things she should be doing with her time.
“Have a life outside of politics?”
She’s the secretary of state, she has no life outside of politics. Not to mention that she has no family, children, pets, etc. Her life has always been her work; she should continue the practice.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:02 pm#56 I guess in you liberal twisted world of hate, Condi can’t have hobbies? Express her enjoyment of a game? Have a life outside of politics? Do you listen to the hate you have, when a person whom you disagree with simply states her affection for a game? So far you have accused her being a lesbian and playing with Bush’s shaft and balls. Funny, yes. Retarded, yes. But the hate is still very funny and sad. “Condi can work on her tanâ€. And you call republicans racist homophobes.
Comment by Johnny Swank — July 9, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
I think you are mixing being pissed off with hate. These people (Democrats included) have lied us to war with a $1.4 trillion bill on the way, eroded the Constitution, allowed the dollar to collapse, kept health care beyond the reach of many people, polluted, killed, screwed up disaster relief….Oh, I could go on, but you get the point. If you are not angry with the actions of the US government, starting with Lyndon Johnson and right to Bush, then you are either filthy rich, a Fundmentalist, Sadistic, or Insane.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:14 pmGolf is NOT a sport. Too many fat@sses on the course to even make a straight face argument that it is…
July 9th, 2007 at 6:18 pmMarie,
To the Bushies, golf is just for your common ordinary millionaire. They need a more snobbish sport–not golf. Heavens no! Therefore, polo fits their elitist image.
When the Bushies play polo they get to horse around; there’s a lot shit to clean up ( poor folks get to clean that up ); they can wear their fancy polo shirts and knee-top boots, when they talk to Prince Charles they’ll have something to talk about other than King-talk and Prince-talk; and best of all it’s better to break an arm, like Prince Charles, than lose your life in Iraq.
Oh! When you do break an arm, it’s even better to have a NON-SICKO health insurance policy that all of the Bushies have. That sure beats a long stay at Walter Reed.
Gotta go to work now. It’s time to clean up all that horse shit.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:18 pmGolf is for fat f#cks
July 9th, 2007 at 6:19 pmGolf is for fat f#cks
Comment by JT — July 9, 2007 @ 6:19 pm
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You mean like Tiger Woods?
July 9th, 2007 at 6:44 pm#62 John gilpins
LOL!
I attended two polo events a few years ago — I was so out of my element, I stayed on the fringes of the crowd so as not to be too noticeable.
Your post reminded me of something said by a federal judge in the Denver Post today on the shameful state of the DOJ — he referred to the Augean stables — the enormous horse stables full of so much shit that Hercules had to redirect two rivers to flush them out.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:01 pmI wish she would move on to “raising awareness of golf as a sport” becauase she clearly hasn’t done shit for American security or diplomacy.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pmThis is the woman who doesn’t have time to reply to John Conyers’ letters.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:12 pmComment by maralenenok — July 9, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
Conyers is corrupt!
He needs to resign!
July 9th, 2007 at 7:27 pmMaybe if she had spent less time thinking about golf and more time reading briefings as National Security Advisor, she wouldn’t have been completely blindsided on 9/11.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:50 pmWonder how many Southern country clubs a non-white woman can get in to these days…..too bad there will be many more than 18 holes dug in Iraq today on account of her cohorts.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:22 pm‘Rice “would very much like to do what she can to raise awareness of golf as a sport.‒
…along with Shock and Awe events broadcast on FOX.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:50 pmCondi thinks this administration has created the perfect souffle. This dumb woman and all her colleagues in the admin. are in total denial that not only did the souffle not rise it somehow exploded all over the oven and somehow managed to catch not only the stove on fire but the whole damn house has burned down and is now threatening the neighborhood.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:51 pmHey! Condi! What about that subpoena?
July 9th, 2007 at 9:12 pmMarie,
I’ve never been to a polo match, and I would be out of my element, too.
The shit is sure piling up now.
Bush may not sleep too well tonight. I think today is a turning point as whatever loyal support Bush previously had from his conservative Republican base has now evaporated. I feel as if the Libby commute brought everything to a head. The Libby commute just showed everyone how out-of-touch George Bush really is with reality. George Bush is living in a fantasy world.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:19 pmWhile Sec. Rice focuses on golf our soldiers continue to die in Iraq for a policy that has failed. While soldiers get blown up by suicide bombers and IEDs she spends her time like this? She has no credibility left. She went in front of the American people and Congress and talked about mobile labs and mushroom clouds that didn’t exist. She twisted the intelligence to make a false case for going to war.
July 9th, 2007 at 10:03 pmHer handicap is bush43.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:26 pmAnd we all know the rest of the story? Wait, I forgot about some of you in here; 9/11 happend and over three thosand of your fellow Americans died.
Comment by Johnny Swank — July 9, 2007 @ 5:49 pm
You forgot the part about how over a half a year into the George W. Bush pesidency National Security Advisor Condi Rice and President Bush himself ignored an intelligence report titled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack inside the USA” as well as warnings from some FBI agents about the uncanny number of non-resident Arabs suddenly enrolling in US flight schools wanting to learn only how to fly but not to take off and land. What happened after Bush’s five-week vacation? 9/11, and 3000 people, not all of whom were Americans, dead.
July 10th, 2007 at 2:27 amComment by Lora — July 10, 2007 @ 2:27 am
All Clintons Fault!!!
If Clinton would have taken out bin Laden then none of that shit would have happened.
The only reason Clinton didn’t take action is because he didn’t think it would be worth it.
July 10th, 2007 at 2:59 amCLINTON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 911!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You surrender monkeys…
Wonder how many Southern country clubs a non-white woman can get in to these days…..too bad there will be many more than 18 holes dug in Iraq today on account of her cohorts.
Comment by Retrogrouch — July 9, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
Fukc You!
You anti-American Islamophile piece of shit.
July 10th, 2007 at 3:00 am