I Just Can't Believe She Used to Play the Violin
Anyone catch Condeleeza Rice during her Senate confirmation hearing today? Thank God for Barbara Boxer for continuing to raise the tough questions and pin them to this administration like buddy poppies. In response to a question about the War, which in part contained a reminder that our men are dying every day, Rice said something like "well we can have this conversation anytime we like, yet I would hope that you would refrain from impugning my integrity." Whoa! Looks like somebody's taking some arrogance pills here.
And it's not right either - no one can "have this conversation anytime we like" with Condi, for as soon as she is confirmed as our new Secretary of State, Rice will simply slip into the warm, bosomy cocoon that is the inner circle of the Bush Administration and only come out when she wants to be heard. Head for the mountains!
When that Senator Barak Obama was asking her a question, Rice certainly was making an ugly face - top lip pursed hard into the bottom lip, stretching her cheeks downward to expose the whites beneath her pupils, which were blazing with hatred and disgust. That's OK - we are all Sanpaku.
C'mon Condi! "Easy confirmation" doesn't mean that we all get out the party hats and don't have to answer any tough questions.
"Forasmuch as you are treading upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate
from their right.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it
is an evil time."
Amos 5:11-13
Uncle Dave Lewis
uncledavelewis@hotmail.com
PS: That piece on the Rice confirmation ran again, but this time I caught it (in the background) from a Fox News Correspondant. The way it was shaped, he mentioned that "if" Rice was confirmed as Secretary of State, she'd be the first black woman to hold down the position. But then Barbara Boxer began to take her her to task, etc. from there.
Naturally, the way Fox recounts it, they make it seem like a white woman is trying to keep the black woman from getting the job. No - that's wrong - Rice already
has the job, and Boxer is simply doing
her job by making Rice account for what she's going to do in it. "The time for diplomacy is NOW" Rice proclaims. No - that's wrong too. The time for diplomacy was two years and ten months ago.