Rice sides with Bush, rebuffs Cheney: ‘We owe’ Obama ‘our loyalty and our silence.’
Rice sides with Bush, rebuffs Cheney: ‘We owe’ Obama ‘our loyalty and our silence.’
Earlier this month, former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Obama, saying his policies “raise the risk” of another terror attack in the U.S. However, last week, former President Bush rebuked his former VP. “I love my country a lot more than I love politics…I’m not going to spend my time criticizing him,” he said. “He deserves my silence.” Last night during her appearance on the Tonight Show, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sided with Bush:
RICE: My view is, we got to do our way. We did our best. We did some things well, some things not so well. Now they get their chance. And I agree with the president; we owe them our loyalty and our silence while they do it. [...] These are quality people. I know them. They love the country and they won’t make the same decisions, perhaps, that we did. But I believe they’ll do what they think is best for the country.
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President Obama hit back at Cheney on 60 Minutes last Sunday and The Hill reported this week that congressional Republicans are urging him “to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input.”
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Rice sides with Bush, rebuffs Cheney: ‘We owe’ Obama ‘our loyalty and our silence.’
…and you owe the American public your incarceration.
(Side-bet snark: How long before Limbaugh cites this as a racial-solidarity thing?)
March 25th, 2009 at 11:42 amRice sides with Bush, rebuffs Cheney: ‘We owe’ Obama ‘our loyalty and our silence.’
– - And here endeth the oogy menage et trois.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:43 amAs in the past, Condi Rice doesn’t want to contradict her husb–ahh, president. She’s such a good little wife.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:43 amThe only mushroom cloud she needs to fear is the one continually erupting from her lying pie-hole.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:45 amGood for her! At least she isn’t blathering like our very own Darth Vader.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:45 amApparently, Cheney is a lot less scary to his colleagues now that he is not carrying a loaded weapon.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:48 amIn America, we cherish the folks who once in a great while, tell the truth.
Even if they never did it before.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:48 amlarkohio Says:
Good for her! At least she isn’t blathering like our very own Darth Vader.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am
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She’s hoping some good behavior will reduce her sentence after the War Crimes tribunals.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:49 am5. Keith H. Says: The only mushroom cloud she needs to fear is the one continually erupting from her lying pie-hole.
Extra points awarded for using “pie-hole.”
Mmmmmmm….pie…..
March 25th, 2009 at 11:49 amRICE: My view is, we got to do our way. We did our best. We did some things well, some things not so well. Now they get their chance. And I agree with the president; we owe them our loyalty and our silence while they do it. […] These are quality people. I know them. They love the country and they won’t make the same decisions, perhaps, that we did. But I believe they’ll do what they think is best for the country.
OMG that’s the most intelligent and truthful thing I’ve ever heard Rice say – shocking.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:49 am.
Of course, she had no idea?
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March 25th, 2009 at 11:51 amA contributing factor could be that Dick hasn’t grasped the fact that he is not Vice President anymore?
March 25th, 2009 at 11:53 amUmmm…. I think that what you people owe the president is a confession.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:55 amsound alot like “please don’t press charges!”
March 25th, 2009 at 11:56 amEvery once in a while, Condi experiences remission from Stockholm Syndrome and reconnects with her conscience. Last time it happened was pre-2001.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:56 amvinylspear Says:
A contributing factor could be that Dick hasn’t grasped the fact that he is not Vice President anymore?
Ahhh, but Cheney does not belive in polls, and elections are polls (note that they did not win elections — they rigged them). So, in Cheney’s mind he STILL is VP: he’s just been belligerently run over by liberal democrats.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:57 amOf course they want Cheney to shut up. Because every time he opens his mouth he points a finger at the Bush Crime Family and all they have to account for. Rice and Bush would rather that kind of stuff remain quiet and out of the public view.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pmthedeadparrott Says:
In America, we cherish the folks who once in a great while, tell the truth.
Even if they never did it before.
No, in America we cherish the folks who don’t lie to us period. Telling one truth in the midst of hundreds of lies, does not qualify someone for being cherished.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:03 pmHere’s the difference between GDumbya and Darth Cheney:
GDumbya is maintaining silence and so is merely thought a fool.
Darth Cheney opened his mouth and removed all doubt.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:04 pmJ. Fred Smug Says:
Every once in a while, Condi experiences remission from Stockholm Syndrome and reconnects with her conscience. Last time it happened was pre-2001.
I think her Stockholm Syndrome is alive and well. I think what she is doing now is entirely self serving. If Cheney keeps out there reminding us of all the crimes they committed it’s only going to make the people madder and more determined to have them prosecuted. She would rather they all keep a low profile until the threat of prosecution is past.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:07 pmShorter Condi: And mebbe if we’re really, really quiet, they’ll forget to put us on trial for all the crap we pulled…
March 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pmtom,
CNN: Former President George W. Bush will make his first domestic post-presidency speech on May 28 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, his spokesman, Rob Saliterman, said Wednesday. Bush will be speaking to members of the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan. The event will be closed to the media. Separately, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also will address the economic club on April 30
Oh, they speak. They speak.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pmPardon my cynicism, but I think Bush and Rice have decided that their legacy will be to ride Obama’s successful coattails. They’re keeping quiet right now so they can later lie and say that they laid the groundwork and allowed Obama to finish what they started.
PEACE
March 25th, 2009 at 12:10 pmOnce a tool, always a tool.
I ain’t buying it.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:10 pmRice sees the light? Hardly! Rice sees that she, too, is a complicit criminal in all of the illegal acts of the Bush Administration which will soon be investigated formally.
Rice is no idiot. She sees the handwriting on the wall. Besides, “orange” is definitely NOT her best wardrobe color!
She’s cooked and complicit. These are the words of one begging to not be imprisoned.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:11 pmMaybe her bedroom trysts with Shrubby will soon be outed, too?
March 25th, 2009 at 12:12 pmWho knows why she feels the need to crawl on her knees?
Stockholm Syndrome, indeed! She knows she’s going to prison and she’s playing nice now. No one’s buying it, Condi – absolutely NO ONE!
March 25th, 2009 at 12:13 pmLeading human rights organizations in the United States on March 20th presented charges of human rights abuse and torture against the U.S. government to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which can recommend actions, including prosecutions, to the U.S. government, other nations’ governments, or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Colleen Costello of the World Organization for Human Rights USA, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Jamil Dakwar of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) spoke at the hearing in Washington, D.C., on “Accountability for Violations of Human Rights in the United States.”
The speakers presented evidence of torture and insisted on the need for prosecutions. A representative of the U.S. government defended torture, or rather the refusal to prosecute torture, or rather he avoided the topic while managing to speak at length. The career diplomat taking the stage for this Colin Powell moment was Lewis Amselem, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of American States (OAS).
PT 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoWX3y1cjIo
PT 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH0ZD4WBA4E
POWER POINT
http://afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/iachr.ppt
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March 25th, 2009 at 12:21 pmThe only Rice and Bush owes us is a visit to the Hague!
March 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pmAfter seeing Will Farrell’s special on HBO, I will never see Rice any other way.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:27 pmMarie,
March 25th, 2009 at 12:30 pmI don’t even think San Francisco thinks her to be a treat.
Why do we let war criminals walk around free?
March 25th, 2009 at 12:35 pmRice: They love the country and they won’t make the same decisions, perhaps, that we did. But I believe they’ll do what they think is best for the country.
… which is a way of saying, “… as we also did what we thought was best for the country … and not just for the best of Dubya, the Republican party, or Rove’s political tactics…”
Cheers,
March 25th, 2009 at 12:38 pmctcadguy,
Because they’re Americans and we all know…
… Americans are above the Rule of Law, YES?
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March 25th, 2009 at 12:47 pmYou owe this to the American people as well. Better late than never I suppose.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:06 pmbackup and Condi both making sense on the same day? It’s the Apocalypse!
Too bad Condi is a habitual liar. Even if she is telling the truth now, no one will believe a thing she says, ever again.
And no, she is not welcome in SF.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:10 pmMax-1 Says:
ctcadguy,
Because they’re Americans and we all know…
… Americans are above the Rule of Law, YES?
Now that is just ridiculous.
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RICH Americans are above the law.
“F uck the poor.”
March 25th, 2009 at 1:12 pmWell, slap my fanny and call me “Lollipop.” Condi actually might have a soul afterall.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:46 pmMarch 25th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
That animal, Condi Rice, has preside on secret meeting in the WH to discuss methods of TORTURE which were included in the USA TORTURE PROGRAM. All in the name of the ‘American People’. If this War Criminal does not face prosecution, there will never be “Restoring America’s stand in the World”.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:42 pmWhile they are walking freely, speaking freely on TV, the USA is nothing but a laughing stock of the planet! Specialy with the economy in shambles and MR Obama continuing the Iraq occupation, continuing Afheganistan occupation and escalating attacks in Pakistan. Where is the “CHANGE”??? Where is the Rule of LAW?????
There is nothing new with Girlfriday Rice. She will side with the former clown President.
As much as I can’t stand Rice and her ties with the Iraq war propaganda and other crimes committed in the White House while she was National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, at least she found a brain when she said that she will not join the choir of dittoheads in attacking Obama and stay silence. That is the least she can do. Rice, Bush, and Cheney have been out of office for over two months. And Bush and Rice are now staying mum of criticizing Obama. Yet, Cheney is not. And it tells me who is the most worried about the Obama Administration.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:06 pmIn Other Words: She wants Cheney to shut the fark up before he drags them all into a war crimes investigation.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:08 pmAre she and Bush still sleeping together? I thought that was over. Well hell, if Laura doesn’t mind who am I to say nasty?
I wonder if she can still lie and spit through her teeth at the same time.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:10 pmOh, FINALLY, she makes an intelligent remark!
It’s a little late, Sweetheart. Hundreds of thousands dead and wounded, the global economy in shambles…
Too bad you couldn’t have been this profound for the past 8 years while you were destroying out world!
March 25th, 2009 at 9:38 pm