CNN front-page teaser: "Condoleezza Rice dazzles audiences abroad "

Condoleezza Rice...she's ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!

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"Condi on the Rise
The new Secretary of State is dazzling audiences abroad--and outmaneuvering her rivals at home"

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1039707,00.html?cnn=yes

Sometimes the hardest thing about being Secretary of State is managing relations with 191 other countries across the globe. And sometimes it's just making nice with three or four of your colleagues in the Cabinet. Colin Powell once told his British counterpart, Jack Straw, that intramural squabbling in Washington kept him from traveling. Every time he stepped onto an airplane to fly overseas, Powell said, someone in Washington stuck a knife in his back.

A shiv in the ribs is one worry Condoleezza Rice doesn't have. As she flew across Asia last week in her latest overseas trip, holding private meetings with leaders of six nations and appearing almost everywhere on TV, it was clear that in two months in office, Rice has consolidated her power as the chief exponent of the Administration's foreign policy, a perch bolstered by her exceptionally tight relationship with George W. Bush. Rice and Bush are closer than any other President and Secretary of State since Bush 41 and James Baker did their memorable duet 16 years ago. And Rice and Bush may have an advantage over that team: unlike Baker, Rice doesn't have to worry about becoming bigger and more popular than her boss. She already is.

In Asia last week, she garnered big headlines and huge photos by saying and doing perfectly ordinary things. She schmoozed election workers in Kabul, did the normal round of interviews on local TV and flung herself into a bear hug with Hawaiian-born sumo superstar Konishiki in Tokyo. Reporters from Washington to New Delhi pressed her on whether she would run for President in 2008. Her reply: a not-quite-Shermanesque no. "She brings the spotlight with her wherever she goes," an aide says.

Around the globe, diplomats are busy comparing notes on what they see--and they aren't talking about her stiletto boots. To some, Condi's rise augurs a return to a more pragmatic U.S. diplomacy for an Administration exhausted by war, occupation and ideological infighting. That perception was given a boost last week by Bush's announcement that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the war in Iraq, would leave the Pentagon to take over as head of the World Bank--another sign that Rice and her realist deputies have gained the upper hand over their neoconservative rivals at the Defense Department. In policy, too, the Administration has shown a new willingness to work with allies, most recently by signing on to European efforts to negotiate an end to Iran's nuclear program. Says a French diplomat: "We have heard things and seen things that were unthinkable a month ago, and she's part of it."

because I know my only reaction would be to puke every time she lied.

...and it's a direct quote.

signs with ..con rice as an assassinator?

cnn isn't showing all the protests signs of cobrahead abroad.

she isn't dazzling anyone but bushbots and they don't anything..they're dazzled by bush.

to last very long. Nor do I think that Condi is here to sell a kinder, gentler foreign policy.

She is here to play the western energy oligarchs hands' for them at the UN table. My suspicion is that Condi will have to sell the level headed
rep for an additional series of big lies regarding Syria or Iran.

Of course, as we continue to unilaterally attack other nations, the likelihood that we *will* find one with WMD's, and the will to use them increases.

so I read the article, thinking, gee,did they mean throngs of cheering Condi fans? Nope. They referred to lots of flash bulbs from press. Big difference, and very misleading headline.

... the anti-US demonstrations going on in the streets wherever she went? The anti-US placards with her name on them?

Ah, well.

As relavent as a type writer repairman.

Gosh, what a surprise! CNN shilling for their Imperial Masters!

What's next? Will the sun start rising every day or something?

http://www.viewsunplugged.com/VU/20040504/reflection_condiRice_pf.shtml

Careful, Condi. European audiences are generally a little more critical of concert pianists...

our society, have always been among the best and brightest in our country's history. From Tubman to Jordan to Chisolm. I don't like Rice at all, but I will be the first to admit, that she is head and shoulders above the "people's choice" for President and ALL of the members of the Congress. She is sharp, articulate, smooth, cunning, and a B***ch! You would think that the RW would be embarrassed that she is really a reprentative of the class of people who have been routinely scorned, abused, accused, ignored, and deplored. It's all so amazing to me.

It's funny but I don't recall these people going ga-ga over the first female Sec. of State appointed by President Clinton.

in her new Under Secretary's role at the U.S. State Department. At that point, I'll know I'm truly trapped in The Matrix and I can just sit back and watch the show.

This is sick stuff. And Karen Hughes? If the media can spin her to sound the least bit empathetic of other nations, then - hell! - we've lost and the Corporate Fascists have won the war. Disgusting :P

do you remember one SINGLE occasion when Condi as NSA sided with Powell over the neocons?

ONE single occasion?

This article is full of ridiculous lies.

"A shiv in the ribs is one worry Condoleezza Rice doesn't have."

complete bullshit - you simply don't get to that level of power in politics without generating tons of enemies and underlings just waiting for you to fuck up.

The more they (CNN) tries, the more we know the opposite is true! She has NO credibility with the world community and being treated with courtesy simply means only that, empty protocol, nothing more.

...have the world MESMERIZED

Puh-leaze! I just ate! And don't you think it's odd that these people who think Condi's so wonderful didn't want their names used in this article?

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rocknation

As in, Bush is a puppet, and Condi performs the voice.

Or maybe its just becasue they all speak in Rovespeak, they all sound the same.

I bet there is some subtle european humor in his statement.