Confession: I am in Love with Dr. Condoleezza Rice

National Anxiety Center ^ | July 16, 2003 | Alan Caruba

[presidio9]

I like to think of myself as a temperate, moderate man. I have more confidence in my intellect than my heart, but I have a confession to make. I am in love with Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

While I have long admired her, I can tell you the moment I fell in love. It was while watching C-Span as she delivered her remarks on June 26, 2003 to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Not the stuff of great romance, say you?

Nonsense! How could any man not find himself total entranced by this remarkable woman when she said America has resolved "that the only true defense against a threat of this kind (9-11) is to root it out at its source and address it as its fundamental and ideological core"? Oh, be still my heart!

And it just got better and better as she told the distinguished gathering that "With the help of our coalition partners, we have deposed two of the cruelest regimes of this or any time." And why? Because President George W. Bush not only has a warrior’s spirit, but the cool analytical counsel of this remarkable woman!

"To win the war on terror, we must also win a war of ideas by appealing to the decent hopes of people throughout the world…giving them cause to hope for a better life and brighter future…and reason to reject the false and destructive comforts of bitterness, grievance, and hate. Terror grows in the absence of progress and development. It thrives in the airless space where new ideas, new hopes and new aspirations are forbidden. Terror lives when freedom dies."

This, I submit, is powerful stuff. Dr. Rice talks of "ideas", the "decent hopes of people", and "reason to reject the false and destructive comforts of bitterness, grievance, and hate." Not once during the tenure of Sandy Berger in the same position as counsel to former President Clinton, did I hear anything by way of a serious context for dealing with the very same problems that afflicted Americans during those eight long, feckless years.

While the yelping of critics assails the Bush administration and its foreign policy, at the core of it is a woman who reminded her audience that "Two years ago, President Bush told a European audience, ‘We share more than an alliance. We share a civilization. Its values are universal, and they pervade our history and our partnership in a unique way.’"

She went on to say, "Increasingly, this civilization is shared by countries throughout the world. The bankruptcy of fascism, Nazism, and imperial communism has given way to a paradigm of progress, founded on political and economic liberty." And then she issued a challenge, saying that, since 9-11, "the world’s great powers see themselves as falling on the same side of a profound divide between the forces of chaos and order." Most of the nations of Europe have, indeed, made this choice, but not France and not Germany. In both cases, history has a nasty way of repeating itself.

Both of these nations cling to notions of multi-polarity, theories of rivalry, and competing interests. Secretly they fund the Palestinians and root for the Middle Eastern despots with whom they have made commercial deals to line their pockets. And yet it is the United States that is accused of trading blood for oil!

"Today," said Dr. Rice, "this theory of rivalry threatens to divert us from meeting the great tasks before us. Only the enemies of freedom would cheer this division."

She had more to say of equal value, but who could not fall in love with a woman, advisor to the most powerful man in the world, who reminds him and the rest of us that "Democracy is not easy"? But that is no reason, said Dr. Rice, we should say "that there are those who are not ready for democracy and therefore not deserving of freedom’s promise."

I love Dr. Rice because she is living proof that, in America, we struggle to right the wrongs of the past and we struggle, even shed blood, to share our freedom with others who yearn for it. I love Dr. Rice because, in my lifetime, this nation has gone from an era when she would have had to ride in the back of the bus, but instead now works in the West Wing of the White House.

[Lazamataz]

I am in Love with Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Get in line, a-hole.

I claimed her years ago.

[presidio9]

Get in line pal.

[bvw]

Can I throw Rice at the wedding?

[presidio9]

This is MY thread joker.

[xsmommy]

are you 3 J ?

[jokar]

For your sake I hope this is a lunch time post and your discipline against daytime freeping has not slipped.

[laweeks]

Now if Dubya could get Ann Coulter as the Secretary of State, we could really have some great-looking news conferences. Even the libs would watch . . . with the sound off, of course.

[Lazamataz]

This is MY thread joker.

Don't make me kill.

Again.

[Lazamataz]

For your sake I hope this is a lunch time post and your discipline against daytime freeping has not slipped.

Slipped. Ppptptppphppptpthphppptpphphpt.

[talleyman]

You can't have her - all your Condoleeza are belong to us!

[Phantom Lord]

She is also very nice to look at...

I have a crush on her. And Ann Coulter.

[hobbes1]

This guy is a pretender I said that two weeks ago.

[Paradox]

There is this pretty woman here at work who looks like Condoleeza, perhaps 7 or 8 years younger. I end up staring at her in the hallways. She must think I am a stalker.. Believe it or not, I am not sure if she would consider that a compliment (the fact that I think she looks like Condi), so I hesitate to say anything.

[JesseHousman]

"decent hopes of people", and "reason to reject the false and destructive comforts of bitterness, grievance, and hate."

You might ask your new wife, Presidio, just what the hell is meant by a psychobabble comment such as this.

It could have flowed out of the cavernous mouth of HRH Empress Hitlery of New Yarkansas!

A people that are comfortable, knowing that their "central" government is keeping an unobtrusive profile in respect of their citizenry would never utter something as inane as this comment.

Let us know the date and I'll throw "rice" on you!

[presidio9]

Who? Alan Caruba?

[onedoug]

"...that the only true defense against a threat of this kind (9-11) is to root it out at its source and address it as its fundamental and ideological core"....

Oh, boy! When are we going to do that?

[presidio9]

Pay no attention to the guy with the butterfly net sneaking up behind you Jesse.

[SupplySider]

Wow, I thought conservative men were supposed to be "threatened" by a strong woman in a position of power!

[Pahuanui]

Leaving no doubt that love is, indeed, blind.

[NMFXSTC]

WOW! Just think of it...she's great eye candy, intelligent, articulate, I don;t think she's politically tainted or dirty...

Condi could be a real presendential threat if she wanted to run for office!

She's female, black...a nice bit of fresh air on the Hill!

[BibChr]

I have a crush on her. And Ann Coulter.

Ann Coulter has a crush on Dr. Rice??

Ew!

Where'd you hear THAT??!

Dan
(c;

[GranpaVet]

The root of 9/11??? Sounds like a attack on Saudia Arabia is warming up!

[Constitution Day]

I claimed her years ago.

All right, NOW I hate you.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

I'll stick with Ann, Condi has those laser looks than can make you feel like you want to crawl in a hole.

[4mycountry]

Don't make me kill.

Again.

pssst: Charles Henrickson

[Radtechtravel]

I saw a replay of that conference on C-SPAN days later and I, too, was struck by the way the Brits were totally won over by her astute presence, her flawless and furious flow of facts, and her persuasive poise. At the conclusion, the Master of Ceremonies gushed with effusive praise for this piece of intellectual dynamite in sable.

She could be the first female and the first black elected to national office, either VP or the Presidency, itself; it matters not. Hillary vs. Condi in 2008 means the total crushing of the Democratic Party for many election cycles.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I've definitely got a thing for Condi...but then again, Jeanne Kirkpatrick got me hot too.

Yes, really!

[swarthyguy]

>>that the only true defense against a threat of this kind (9-11) is to root it out at its source and address it as its fundamental and ideological core"....

We're still waiting Condi. Two years after 9/11.

This gang isn't going to do anything about the Saudis.

[billhilly]

Liberals say that she is not a real black woman. Compare her to Joyclyn Elders, Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKenny, Shelia Jackson-Lee and you will get their point. Real black women are all hat and no cattle.

[presidio9]

For what it's worth, Maggie Thatcher is a recent widow, but it may be too early to call her.

[Search4Truth]

Smart like a whip.

[Betty Jo]

Oh,lunchtime laughter!

Condi Rice daring to talk about rooting out terrorism?

She is the worthless twit that failed to advise her beloved leader that his old business buddies and their funders were preparing for years to kill him.

Thousands of Americans died on 9/11 because of this stupid goofy.

[Betty Jo]

Oh,lunchtime laughter!

Condi Rice daring to talk about rooting out terrorism?

She is the worthless twit that failed to advise her beloved leader that his old business buddies and their funders were preparing for years to kill him.

Thousands of Americans died on 9/11 because of this stupid goofy.

[Bahbah]

As I read the article, I wondered how long it would be before this response. Not long, oh Lord, not long. LOL.

[Cicero]

To say that we "share a civilization" with Europe is putting the best face on matters. I wish it were more true.

She goes on to say, "Increasingly, this civilization is shared by countries throughout the world. The bankruptcy of fascism, Nazism, and imperial communism has given way to a paradigm of progress, founded on political and economic liberty."

But fascism, Nazism, and Communism were all European inventions. Marx was German. Lenin was backed by the Germans. Pol Pot was trained in Paris. Hitler was German. Mussolini was Italian, and was originally a Marxist. Europe has been swept by major ideological diseases for several centuries.

[OldFriend]

With the freeing of Iraq our beloved President gave many people around the world some hope in their heart, even if they are afraid to voice that hope out loud.

[OldFriend]

Maggie Thatcher, and Golda Meier....

[Pagey]

The really great thing about Dr. Rice is a learned human being AND she's still single at her age. Hmmm, I'm still single at my age too,and Thank God for that!

[OldFriend]

When I began saying that Condi should be the veep, people were asking me......WHAT'S A CONDOLEEZA?

[rabidralph]

Real stupid goofies make double posts.

[Mo1]

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[NeoCaveman]

Hey Focault they are plagarising you I think I am in love with Condi Rice.

[NeoCaveman]

She's mine, all mine, once this restraining order gets dropped that is.

[Betty Jo]

I know very well that Clinton failed to kill Bin Laden.

So have Daddy Bush and Junior Bush.

Get your facts straight!

Condi Rice has failed also.

I hate the Clintons and the Bush's and Condi.

[Betty Jo]

My puter goofs dont kill thousands of Americans.

Can you understand the difference?

[xsmommy]

ann will be crushed....; )

[xsmommy]

goodness you are an unhappy sort, aren't you?

[adam_az]

I suspect this is news to Ann Coulter.