Condoleezza Rice, the nation’s top diplomat, is appearing in a three-part TV interview in which she rides a bike, works on her abs, pumps iron and talks about her weight.
Public figures usually do not go public when they work on their figures, though when they do, it can help humanize their images. President George W. Bush is sometimes photographed trying to stay fit on his bike, and President Clinton took some high-profile jogs.
But secretaries of state, a job most people associate with the stiff, inscrutable language of diplomacy? Three days on TV in the gym?
Hard to picture her predecessors Colin Powell or Madeleine Albright doing the same. How about Warren Christopher? Alexander Haig? Not likely.
She’s running For First Lady…I mean, Vice-President.
Duh.
AG
First lady spot..she already has covered.
Speculation is she’s tuning up her abs for top-o-ticket in ’08. What a match-up Hillary vs Condi?
I’ll leave it there.
Nope.
VicePres.
I don’t think that many people here caught this story (straight from the anal sacs of Robert Novak) or my diary on it…BREAKING: McCain to be next RePresident..
Here it is again.
Major political contributors to George W. Bush who have never given a dime to prospective 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain received letters, dated Feb. 8, asking for donations to the senator’s Straight Talk America political action committee.
Obviously using President Bush’s direct mail list, the letter signed by McCain asks for $1,000 or $1,500 to support candidates agreeing with McCain on “key issues.” It specifically lists “limiting federal spending, immigration reform, military readiness, global climate change, Social Security reform, reining-in lobbyists, reducing the power of the special interests and putting an end to wasteful pork barrel spending by Congress.”
Each recipient received a card to be filled in for McCain’s files. “I’m asking you to update your file card,” requests the letter, though the Bush contributors had no previous card in the senator’s files.
They have given McCain the keys to the vault.
He’s sick…sicker than they will let on. Skin cancer, God only knows what else. LOOK at him.
The mark of McCain is upon him. He’ll be 72 in 2008 and he is being eaten up from within by his intelligence and the craven compromises that he has made to survive as a satrap of BushCo. A conscience is a terrible thing for a Ratpub to have, plus I’ll bet he’s got some monkey demons running around inside his head from his POW days as well. LOTS of them.
Condi will be his young, fit consort in the myth they are preparing. Then…one term in (if he lasts that long…), Condi steps in.
Ms. Corporate.
AKA The Iron Demon.
OOOOooooo…scaaaary!!!
That’s the plan so far.,
Back out the failed old…Rumsfeld, Cheney.
Phase out the front man.
Duckwalk in the SICK front man.
Condoleeeeza is the new producer of this quiz show. The overseer. The house newgress. Bet on it.
They got a way with myth, these sheet wearers. Gotta give ’em THAT.
“Anti-woman?” Anti-minority? Who…US?”
“Why…SheeIT no!!! Jes’ looka here!!!“
“Ah’ll even TOUCH the bitch if ah HAVE to.”
Yup.
AG
This last picture makes me wonder… Is Condolieza demonstrating the dimensions of George’s, uh…attributes?
That’s why Bush propagandist Elisabeth Bumiller is taking a leave from the NYTimes to write Condi’s biography. Link.
I caught that story last night, and I must say it didn’t surprise me. Bumiller has always assumed the role of Bush’s governess. Thanks for posting the link, Carnacki.
And here I thought the No. 1 rule of politics was never let ’em see you sweat. Gee, these Republicans are hell bent on turning all of America’s traditions on their ears.
She keeps working her glutes like that, she’ll be able to do double anal with Bush and Cheney in about 2 weeks
Apparently Condi decided that after the embarrasment of getting caught shoe-shopping while New Orleans drowned, she would be better off working towards getting a NBA-style shoe deal.
hatred of America and Americans all across the globe. US citizens travelling abroad are regularly advised to plaster their luggage with Canadian maple leaf stickers.
If I were she, I’d rather talk about my abs too.
I read a story about this a couple days ago, about how it sends a great message, “As busy as she is”, the writer chirped (paraphrased) “if she can find time to work out, then anyone can”.
Great. I’m all inspired.
And in another example of people who need to shut the f*ck up because they know nothing about the lives of ordinary Americans, America’s biggest Dick chides us for not saving enough of our money.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/2/134053/9275
Hey, you f*cking moron, people you are living paycheck to paycheck don’t have anything left over to save. In fact, that’s what “living paycheck to paycheck” *means. A$$hole.
I feel like I need to punch something.
Now if they could get her to spend part of her shoe budget to get her nasty teeth fixed, she might look like a model. LOL
Hey, from Jefferson all the way up to Albright and Powell, my number one criteria for Secretary of State of the United States is that they have a great ass.
OK Condi, let’s see it.
Condi Know she Hot Virgin and she’s making the most of it while she’s still yourg.
Condescending Rice and Shotgun Cheney along with Dangerous Don are the only people whose appearance on my screen force me to turn the damn thing off. george and Laura only get the mute button.
Oh, yeah, and there’s Brownie and Chertoff, Frist, Hatch, Brownback etc. I can’t think of anything wittier than that these people make me sick.
I think the poor woman is just trying to impress her husb….
Three days in the gym? She should get a real job! Maybe as an exercise instructor? Or is that what she’s planning when gwb’s term is thru?
Maybe she sees what’s coming, and is getting into shape so she can run away …
Jeez Louise, how could you forget Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger under Bush Pere?
The SecState job demands its incumbents spend outrageous hours sitting and talking and sometimes sharing meals with their counterparts and opponents. Rather than breaking bread with the world’s global diplomats, Condi patently prefers breaking heads. How did we ever get into such a very dark place as a nation?
Condi a Feature, of many, On This CD Collection!!
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Does it have the Monkey Song? (I think Tim Robins did it on SNL in 92 or thereabouts.)
I listened to a little NPR, which is usually a frustrating experience, but not today! It was that segment where the host talks to E.J. Dionne and David Brooks about how politics are playing out, and David Brooks expressed the sentiment that Bush is radioactive in the midwest and west. Woohoo! He said that the Bushies had decided that they needed his approval rating at about 47% in order to be sure of holding both houses – and it has only gone down since then. A new low of 34% today.
May I just say that when you’ve lost David Brooks, you’ve lost America?
Unfortunately for Condi, the issue of competence will have to arise at some point. The pit in lower Manhattan and the Iraq fiasco are two monuments to her utter ineptitude as National Security Adviser.