Rice: ‘The American people are wise in wanting change’ from Bush.
Rice: ‘The American people are wise in wanting change’ from Bush.
Yesterday during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated her joyous sentiment about Barack Obama’s election as America’s 44th president. “It was quite a moment,” Rice said, adding, “It means this country has come an enormous distance.” But then Rice went a step further, seeming to suggest that even she has had enough of the last eight years of the Bush administration:
RICE: But of course, he is someone that I admire. He was on my committee, the Foreign Relations Committee. We have talked a number of times. He is going to do very well for the country. But eight years is a long time. The American people are wise in wanting change. Two terms is plenty. And I’m going to go back to California and on to other things.
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I hope her final destination is the Hague, if our own Congress and Justice Department refuse to prosecute this administration for war crimes!
December 8th, 2008 at 10:00 amUh oh, has she split from her “husband?”
December 8th, 2008 at 10:01 amI only wish she was “going back to California and to other things” only after about 10-15 years behind bars for crimes against humanity.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:05 amI think she’s making the generic statement that 8 years is enough for any administration, which is fairly unobjectionable. It’s only when coupled with her obvious approval of Obama that it starts to seem like disaffection with Bush.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:07 amIF BY “CALIFORNIA” YOU MEAN THE HAGUE…..YES….YOU ARE GOING TO CALI TO DO OTHER THINGS
December 8th, 2008 at 10:12 amIt’s suck up time for Connie but it wont work. We don’t want her out here either. Now she might as well go to Israel where her girlfriend is living. She’s done nothing but play the piano and deliver messages. She’s right about one thing Hillary wont need to know anything from her. Like Karl Rove is doing Connie might do the same and write a book to help cover her legal fees for the criminal charges up coming against her.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:13 amSickening how many war criminals and their cheerleaders from the Bush years (THANK GOD they are finally behind us!)are cozying up to the new administration. She should be on trial for war crimes. She is as malevolent a creature as ever there was.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:13 amMy great fear is that time will show Obama to be not much better than Bush. Let’s hope his Roosevelt starts showing, and soon. So far, however, all I’m hearing is more war, more tax cuts, more Faith Based Initiative funding of churches, backtracking on tax increases on the rich. Doesn’t look too promising yet.
“go back to California and on to other things.”
Can’t say I am sorry to see you go,Condi.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:14 amGood riddance to you and your “husb..” I mean boss.
Rice has taken her share of crap from the good old boys network. It was obvious to me she suffered from sexism and being ignored along the way from most of the old farts in the Bush regime. I think the only person who listened to her was Bush and he was always distracted by his ADHD or whatever it is he suffers from (besides the obvious psychosis). In any case, after Obama won it was clear that Rice was happy about it. I think she would have much rather worked in his administration and I bet she would have been listened to and her career fostered much more than in the Bush administration’s gang of Neocon ball-scratchers. I don’t think she was a Neocon until they sucked her in.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:14 am“I don’t think she was a Neocon until they sucked her in.”
I doesn’t say much for her personal integrity that she played along with them. She told Bush exactly what he wanted to hear, and didn’t tell him what she should have.
No sympathy from me.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:19 amEt tu, Condi…??
December 8th, 2008 at 10:19 amShellyT – one book for you to read would be “The Vulcans.” It’s the group of people, including Rice, that tried to educate Bush when he was running for President the first time. Rice is no innocent flower, and frankly, being a woman myself, I’m sick of hearing this “sexism” bullshit. Sexism isn’t a woman being appointed National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State. Try not being able to get an $800 loan because of being a single woman. That’s the way it was back even in the late 1970’s.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:28 amDon;t let the door hit ya, where the good Lord split ya.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:28 amRice added, “Yeah we totally sucked. I don’t know what the voters were thinking in 2004. Good thing we’re outta here anyway.”
I don’t think she was a Neocon until they sucked her in.
She was National Security Advisor during the run-up to the Iraq War. I can’t think of a single cabinet position more responsible for Neoconism than that.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:34 amYou’re either for the neocons or against them, right?
December 8th, 2008 at 10:46 amI for one want retribution for Bush’s all out war against our nation. He willfully squandered the health, wealth and scurity of our nation, doing more damage to America, Americans and the world than all of the terrorist combined.
On a side note, where is that stupid Margaret Spellings?
December 8th, 2008 at 10:47 amSomehow I doubt any of these people will ever be prosecuted.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:48 amharry and nancy would sign up as character witnesses.
She’ll keep busy. There’s ALWAYS gonna be a job for a shit-licking toady in government somewhere…
December 8th, 2008 at 11:00 amEight years is enough whether you like it or not, Condi. You’re not going out on your own terms, you are part of the problem and cannot rewrite your legacy. You clearly haven’t had enough of this power grab and would gladly stick around if McCrazy were president-elect.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:02 amCondi’s ALWAYS been an enthusiastic tongue-laver of the macho neo-con prostates of the bushevik regime. I am SURE she’s developed a taste for licking shit out of their asses…
December 8th, 2008 at 11:03 amAt the very least condi sleeze should refund her pay to the tax payer’s for the last 8 miserable year’s she didn’t do her job’s..Oh, I forgot, call girl’s don’t come cheap especiely in the bull shit bush white house…Wonder how much gannon got paid..Blessings
December 8th, 2008 at 11:41 amSecretary Rice has been failure. I cannot recall any administration figure in recent history that has been as ineffectual as Rice has been. Her failures, in no uncertain terms, contributed to 911. Her failures in the middle east is not even one sided, there is no side of success to discuss.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:45 amHer international accomplishments are posturing at best; photo ops with no substance. If one is to ask a regular American, which of Rice’s accomplishments should she be best known for; they’d be hard pressed. There is no accomplishment that stands out; because, there is no accomplishements (singular or plural).
She is representative of the typical inept appointments that the Bush Administration rewarded friends and cronies with. She is representative of the unqualified appointsments through out the Bush government, that caused not only 911; but, Iraq, Katrina, torture, mortage forclosures, this economic downward spiral, and a list of ills that seems endless.
She is representative of the typical political pundit talking point revisionists that are desperately spinning distortions and lies. These attempts are failing in America and internationally; history will be brutually factual in this era of videos and the internet. There is no escaping the instant information era. No amount of revionist attempts will succeed nationally or internationally; especially since this administration has harbored so much animosity world wide.
She is a shallow, superficial, self serving, complicit, Bush loyalist to the end with no remorse for her involvement both legal and illegal. Time will tell if she will answer to the perceived injustices and illegalities that many feel she actively contributed to as part of this administration.
Please, anywhere but California.
We’ve already got year-round fires, a financial crisis; thank fully, we’ve also got medical marijuana.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:56 amMy hope is this lady along with Bush and Cheney will go on to prison. She is despicable and that is a step up.
Laura must be tired of sleeping three to bed.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:58 amKeith H. Says:
Somehow I doubt any of these people will ever be prosecuted.
harry and nancy would sign up as character witnesses.
curious Says:
My hope is this lady along with Bush and Cheney will go on to prison. She is despicable and that is a step up.
One of the most amusing things I find here at TP is the endless wishful thinking about members of the Bush Admin serving time, being indicted at the Hague, being executed, moving to Paraguay, blah blah blah blah BLAH.
The 100 or so people who post here really think that is a realistic option. Does it tell you guys nothing about how far left on the political spectrum you are that the rest of the world is just going to Move On?
December 8th, 2008 at 12:11 pmAHHH SNAP SON NO SHE DIDN’T!!!!!!!
December 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pmI agree with Keltoi. All you TP’ers are a bunch of wishful thinking and idealistic people obsessed with the rule of law, justice, and restoration of America’s values. I like the company.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:28 pmOh, Keltoi, you’re right. There are 100 or less people who post here, and it is ONLY us who are thinking like this. No one else in the world thinks that anyone in the Bush administration has been involved in criminal activity. Thank you, thank you for clearing this up and pointing out to us that we are being far, far left by thinking that anything criminal might have been done, and even if it had, we are far, far left for not being able and willing to just let it all go and Move On. Silly us. You are so smart. Thank you for helping us to realize these things. I think that we should remember this at ALL times. That no one ever commits crimes unless they are poor peoople, all of whom commit crimes. Politicians are not criminals. You are so right. We apologize and you can leave now, knowing that your job is done. We realize now that we were wrong. Go, Keltoi, go into the great night and seek others to reform of their delusional ways…. go…. go swiftly now……
December 8th, 2008 at 12:31 pmYou know, Keltoi, I always believed that you were rather reasonable…but now?
Calling for justice makes us lunatics?
Screw you, you moronic wanker.
If you’re willing to just let every single sickening crime the Bushies perpetrated on us and the rest of the world go with a cavalier, “Oh well, it’s over now – let’s just move on!” I’ve got NO respect for you.
Drop dead.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pmThe Truth hurts, eh Cagey?
I’ll take it all back and admit I was wrong when Bush is indicted at the Hague. Until then? Wear that shoe.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pmIf Republicans hate Government why do they keep running for office in Government?
Do what you love instead and stay away from the things you hate!
December 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pmY’know Annie, you rarely fail to put words in my mouth to justify your writing me off – again.
I didn’t call you a lunatic. I am merely pointing out that all this Bush-on-trial stuff is just not going to happen. That it is conventional wisdom at TP that it is just so damn obvious that it needs to happen….it doesn’t make you a loon, it just makes you further left than 99% of the world.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pmKeltoi,
I think the rest of the world is watching and hoping for some payback with bated breath. They ‘got it’ long before Americans.
Those ‘unsophisticated’ voters who don’t see anything wrong with invading and maiming a country in order for your VP’s company to mop up are, thankfully, shrinking in number.
December 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pmlock her up!!
December 8th, 2008 at 1:10 pmA party of 1 is hardly 99% of anything troll Keltol…Still thinking like a true bush bot hay,,,
December 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pmThe American people and the World community are wise enough not to forget that this War Criminal chaired secret meeting in the WH, with top officials from this criminal administration, to discuss the USA’s TORTURE PROGRAM, known as ‘harsh interrogation methods. HAGUE 2009 FOR RICE! SHE IS A WAR CRIMINAL!
December 8th, 2008 at 1:58 pmKeltoi Says:
The Truth hurts, eh Cagey?
I’ll take it all back and admit I was wrong when Bush is indicted at the Hague. Until then? Wear that shoe.
Damn! Keltoi took one of my shoes!!
I want my shoe back!!!!
December 8th, 2008 at 2:34 pmKeltoi Says:
I didn’t call you a lunatic. ….it doesn’t make you a loon, it just makes you further left than 99% of the world.
O.k., so if you call someone so far left (or right, for that matter) that they are in 1% I think that qualifies as the definition of “lunatic fringe”, and thus, by extention, the implication is that saying that a person or group is in the extreme 1% IS saying that they are the LUNATIC fringe. Sounds like a fair enough assessment to me. Unless you consider the LUNATIC fringe to be LESS than 1%.
Give me my shoe back.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pmScrew you, Keltoi. You’re still a wanker in my book. A ginormous apologist reichwing wanker.
It may be ‘lunatic fringe’ to you — but *I* don’t think that calling for justice to be done should *ever* be denigrated.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pmAnd, by the way, history is FULL of those lunatics – the ones who said that the earth was round and revolved around the sun…you know, crazy shit like that.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm“And I’m going to go back to California…”
Makes rounding up the criminals that much easier – what with John Yoo being across the bay at Cal and Condi at the Hoover Inst. at Stanford…
December 8th, 2008 at 4:25 pmKeltoi Says:
It might not be realistic but it SHOULD happen. If the Nuremberg standards were applied to this administration Pres Gump and Darth Cheney at LEAST would be hanged. We OUGHT to apply to ourselves the standards we apply to others. This administration committed warcrimes including the SUPREME war crime of starting a war of aggression and they should PAY. That way the NEXT president without decency will think twice before lying us into a war or signing off on torture.
December 9th, 2008 at 12:10 am