NEW POLL SAYS CONDI WAS DANDY

New York Post ^ | 4/10/04 | DEBORAH ORIN

[kattracks]

April 10, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice's testimony to the 9/11 commission gave a boost to President Bush and helped convince Americans that his administration did all that could be expected to prevent the terrorist attacks, a new CNN poll shows. The poll - taken Thursday after blanket TV coverage of Rice's dramatic appearance - found that 48 percent of Americans now think Bush did all that could be expected while 40 percent disagree. That's a big shift from 10 days ago when 54 percent said Bush didn't do everything possible - that was at the peak of the furor over Richard Clarke's claim that the president was asleep at the switch.

[kabar]

That explains why the leftist media and the Dems are so desperate about the Aug 6 PDB. They are clutching at straws trying to blame Bush and using revisionist history to restore the pitiful Clinton legacy.

[RightOnline]

That session with Condi was a joke. Nothing more than grandstanding for the cameras; for the folks back home. The applause was disgusting.

[Toespi]

Whenever I have heard Condi Rice speak, her voice has always sounded a little shaky and "weak," which is more of a physical trait. I did not find her to be nervous, actually I thought she was more than ready to be there.

[boxerblues]

She put them in their place very quickly. You wanted answers, they got em.

[lepton]

bookmark bump

[alnick]

Condi's voice has a natural waver. That's just her voice. I got the same impression (that she sounded nervous) the first time I heard her speak.

[mountainfolk]

I agree. The longer she talks the waver seems to smooth out. My first impression of Condi was that she was nervous but she is obviously in control and so intellectually superior to those RAT hacks whose agenda was glaringly apparent. I was not in favor of her testifying in public because I felt it would not resolve anything and the RATS would say they needed just one more thing to convince them. And then another, and another. Such has proved to be the case since they now want a memo that will settle nothing but give them more media time to propagrandize. Oh well, Condi Rice can handle that too.

[AnAmericanMother]

It's just a vocal cord thing. My great-aunt had the same waver in her voice all her life.

. . . but if you thought you could roll her because she sounded like a sweet little dithering old lady, you were quickly disabused of that notion.

I think strong-minded folks with this sort of voice have learned to use it to their advantage. Bent-veniste thought he had her, and then BAM!

[LS]

My mother, who is in her 80s and doesn't know a "PDB" from "R&B" keeps saying, that "whatever her name is sure is smart."

[LS]

These are the same "ficle boobs" whom Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln placed their trust in and whom Madison and Washington and Hamilton feared.

[Toespi]

Yesterday, on Rush, he played a sound byte from one of the 9/11 widows attending the committee hearings, I think it was one that was interviewed by Katie Couric yesterday. She says "think of all the other PDBs that THIS President may have recieved, what do they all say?" SO, you are correct, they get the August 6th briefing and now they want them all. It will be never-ending because they are looking for something that is not there.

[bvw]

"think of all"

That's a stock phrase from the political consultants's playbook.

[Unicorn]

Has the NOW issued a statement about this ganging up on a women. Just wait it's coming yeah right

[Cloud William]

Yesterday, on Rush, he played a sound byte from one of the 9/11 widows attending the committee hearings, I think it was one that was interviewed by Katie Couric yesterday. She says "think of all the other PDBs that THIS President may have recieved, what do they all say?" SO, you are correct, they get the August 6th briefing and now they want them all. It will be never-ending because they are looking for something that is not there.

Surely someone here must know... are these women the same group that refused to accept payment from the 9/11 victims compensation fund, opting instead to sue the government (to "find out what really happened" or for even more money than the proposed settlement, or both)?

If so, I'm sure they have the purest of motives. ( /sarcasm )

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Too bad they didn't also ask whether Clinton had done all he could.

Come on, maryz. The American people don't want to wallow in the past. They want to get back to the business of America - education, health care for uninsured single moms and minorities, and making the richest 1% pay their fair share.

[cyncooper]

I did watch a bit of MSNBC after the hearing--and as a result joined the ongoing boycott some freepers have formed.

But during Dr. Rice's appearance I was on Fox.

[savedbygrace]

I understand we were underdogs during our nation's founding.

[freeangel]

"Rices appearance drew a higher than usual audience to cable new channels for that time of the day"

Of course, the major channels carried it too. But who would have thought that her testimony would be tuned on in the back of the hair salon(at 11:30) with the stylists running back to catch it every chance they got? Go, Condi, go! They all were applauding her "smokin" the dimwits.

[wardaddy]

Americans also don't like seeing a polite woman bullied.

[Let's Roll]

Her voice always sounds like that - fortunately her brain and heart work just fine.