Condi Who?

Two years ago I was driving down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to my then home Los Angeles. The beautiful ride was marred by one thing however, a car with a "Condi 08'" sticker. It was repulsive to say the least and scary because at the time, it seemed like a possibility. Nowadays the mention of a Rice presidential run is a joke, preempted by the laughable term as Secretary of State. She is so ineffective in dealing with representatives around the world because of the "I love George and he can do no harm" delusion that surrounds her daily life. It even shows with the mainstream media.

From The San Francisco Gate:

A few months ago, she decided to write an opinion piece about Lebanon. She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer's war. No one would publish it.

Think about that. Every one of the major newspapers approached refused to publish an essay by the secretary of state. Price Floyd, who was the State Department's director of media affairs until recently, recalls that it was sent to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and perhaps other papers before the department finally tried a foreign publication, the Financial Times of London, which also turned it down.

As a last-ditch strategy, the State Department briefly considered translating the article into Arabic and trying a Lebanese paper. But finally they just gave up. "I kept hearing the same thing: 'There's no news in this.' " Floyd said. The piece, he said, was littered with glowing references to President Bush's wise leadership. "It read like a campaign document."

And that is the state of the Bush Administration. Everything is about campaigning. It is all they know. Condi wants to make Bush look good and that is why she hangs on to her job. Even with an abysmal 25% approval rating, George and his sycophants will continue to spew bullshit that shouldn't see the light of the day from the garbage heap where it formed.

It is only a matter of time until she disappears from the public eye, any dreams of a further life in politics has been dashed long ago. The only interest in her is from the corporate masters that she has served so well in the past and of course they will probably pay her well for it. It isn't like she needs the money, but she'll do whatever she can to encourage her failed ideologies so that America and the world can continue to suffer the thoughts of the neo-con community.