“Right now, there’s a vacuum,” she told a crowd of more than two thousand attending the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual dinner last night in Washington, D.C. “There’s a vacuum because we’ve decided to lower our voice. We’ve decided to step back. We’ve decided that if we step back and lower our voice, others will lead, other things will fill that vacuum.” Citing Bashar al Assad’s slaughter in Syria, Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, al Qaeda’s triumphant return to Fallujah, Iraq, and China’s nationalist fervor, she concluded: “When America steps back and there is a vacuum, trouble will fill that vacuum.”
Rice – measured in tone, but very tough on substance – excoriated Obama administration policies without ever mentioning the president by name. She mocked the naïve hope that “international norms” would fill the vacuum left by U.S. retreat and blasted the president for hiding behind the weariness of the public.
“I fully understand the sense of weariness. I fully understand that we must think: ‘Us, again?’ I know that we’ve been through two wars. I know that we’ve been vigilant against terrorism. I know that it’s hard. But leaders can’t afford to get tired. Leaders can’t afford to be weary.”
Condi Rice Blasts Obama on Weakness, Leadership | The Weekly Standard
The only problem with this is that the wrong man is in the position to step up.
Do you think she will run? She's got a lot going for her.
I guarantee you the Left would be scared of Condi. They would pull a Palin attack on steroids if she decided to run. What they did to Palin would look like nothing.
Condi Rice has made it absolutely and unambiguously clear that she has no desire to run for President.
And, I didn't say she was.
Condi Rice has made it absolutely and unambiguously clear that she has no desire to run for President.
I guarantee you the Left would be scared of Condi.
Heya Cardinal. :2wave: Yeah she has said that.....but then people have been talking to her. Now she is getting out more and speaking out. that is now evidently clear. Do you think she might re-consider?
Now that she finally is.....it will be problems for Obama's overseas team and himself.
Obama himself wouldn't want to debate Condi.....let alone Hillary wanting to take her on.
I guarantee you the Left would be scared of Condi. They would pull a Palin attack on steroids if she decided to run. What they did to Palin would look like nothing.
I don't know. She's generally eschewed the limelight and politics in general, which is why I credit her with behaving with decorum. And people have been "talking to her" about running for office for a bazillion years now. But if she changed her mind and was dropped onto the campaign trail and you'd be hearing "57 states"-like comments from her in no time. It's unavoidable. As for being not willing to debate Condi, well, has Rice even been in many televised debates? I can't recall.
Alright, but you wouldn't see the same treatment (let alone a worse treatment) doled out to Rice because Rice is nothing like Palin. I think we both understand the difference between them.
I'd vote for her before anybody else that I've heard as a possibility right now. On either side. Palin deserved what she got - she looked like an idiot and politics is perception. A lot of people on the right think that Palin is, if not stupid, definitely not the image they want to present.
Rice, on the other hand, is very intelligent. She carries herself well. I'd be hard pressed to come up with a better candidate.
But as we've heard from the right here, Obama has ruined the chances of anybody black ever getting elected again, so....can't have it both ways.
George Bush 'shamed' Condoleezza Rice, says Ehud Olmert
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shamefaced after President George W Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
"She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour," Mr Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where hundreds have been killed.
Fourteen of the council's 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, which was later rejected by both Israel and Hamas.
The United States, Israel's main ally, had initially been expected to voted in line with the other 14 but Ms Rice later became the sole abstention.
"In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour," Mr Olmert said.
"I said 'get me President Bush on the phone'. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn't care. 'I need to talk to him now'. He got off the podium and spoke to me.
"I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour."
Mr Bush has consistently placed the blame for the conflict on Hamas, telling reporters on Monday that while he wanted to see a "sustainable ceasefire" in Gaza, it was up to Hamas to choose to end its rocket fire on Israel.
Now is an excellent time to be thankful, once again, that the neocons are not in charge of our foreign policy.
Instead of wars and more wars we have measured, patient leadership.
And above all we can be thankful that the imbecile Palin and the insane Senator from Arizona are not calling the shots from the White House.
Now is an excellent time to be thankful, once again, that the neocons are not in charge of our foreign policy.
Instead of wars and more wars we have measured, patient leadership.
And above all we can be thankful that the imbecile Palin and the insane Senator from Arizona are not calling the shots from the White House.
Heya Cardinal. :2wave: Yeah she has said that.....but then people have been talking to her. Now she is getting out more and speaking out. that is now evidently clear. Do you think she might re-consider?
Now that she finally is.....it will be problems for Obama's overseas team and himself.
Obama himself wouldn't want to debate Condi.....let alone Hillary wanting to take her on.
I am sure she has debated people.....plus she has had to testify in front of Congress and directly to Democrats. Besides her being a professor and knowing what she is talking about. She has the Experience. Obama doesn't really have any FP exp. Hillary lacks the credentials to even be in a Debate with Condi.
I hope what happened to Palin happens to you one day. She had her daughter and baby messed with. Class up buddy.
Condi is an absolute class act, and would wipe the stage with mrs "what difference does it make".
The US would be in a better place if Romney had won.
The question was posed to Romney on how he would pay for his proposed $2 trillion increase in military spending, and he flat out didn't answer it. He was busy finishing his previous answer. So by the time it was the president's turn, Obama actually said, "You should have answered the question."
Obama then asserted that the United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined. That's a great attention grabber. By the time Romney finally answered, he simply said we needed a stronger military, and the Navy needs more ships because it has fewer ships than it did in 1916.
But Obama countered with the most memorable line of the night. "We also have fewer horses and bayonets." Obama's debating point was that the nature of our military has changed. He continued by saying that the U.S. has things like submarines and aircraft carriers that should suffice, and reminded viewers that the nation needed to study what its threats are and put money into things like cybersecurity and space. Obama said that the military neither wants nor has asked for this extra $2 trillion.
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