UPDATE: More here:
She gave several interviews to the British press, and almost every one was dominated by questions about her rough reception.What poise. What nerves of steel. Tell me again why she wouldn't be capable of handling presidential campaigning.
"People can say whatever they wish," she told The Lancashire Evening Telegraph. "I know where I stand. We made the right decision" in Iraq. "I was fully supportive of the decision."
During the news conference in Blackburn on Saturday, the boos and jeers rose to greet the secretaries as they spoke. Referring to the protesters at one point, Ms. Rice said, "They make my point. A democracy is the only system of government that allows people to be heard peacefully."
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This is journalism? Yeesh.
I happened to catch Condi's brilliant speech in a C-Span rerun in the wee hours . . . She got it just right, but her audience is too much into their hatred of GW to hear:
What do I mean by "liberal" democracy? Well, first of all, I mean capital "L" in Liberal, as in Liberalism, the theory of politics that took shape in the minds of Englishmen like Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, and even a Scot or two, like Adam Smith. The ideas of Liberalism were, of course, later refined and applied and written into the American Constitution by men like Hamilton, and Jefferson and Madison. And all of these individuals were trying, in their own way, to solve one of history's oldest quandaries: How can individuals with different interests, and different backgrounds, and different religious beliefs, live together peacefully and avoid the evil extremes of politics: civil war and tyranny, or as they would have said, the state of nature or the oppression of the state?
In their answer to this question, the theorists of Liberalism transformed politics forever. They declared that all human beings possessed equal dignity and certain natural rights -- among these, the right to live in liberty, to enjoy security, to own property and to worship as they pleased. These universal rights, established and embodied in institutions and enshrined in law, would then establish the principled limits on state power. But that was not all. They had another equally bold idea: For government to be truly legitimate, they argued, it had to be blessed by the consent of the governed.
But don't try to confuse the BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) sufferers with the facts.
Ruth Anne: I thought of the same comparison. Maybe she's faked her interest in the Beatles, but it's possible that she's not lyrics focused. She's a musician herself, and there's a lot to the Beatles besides the lyrics.
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Maybe Condi is a fan but not obsessed enough to know the lyrics of every garbled, shouted, growled rock song. Good thing they didn't ask her about Louie, Louie.
Oh, and here's an article (equally silly but at least flattering) about how everyone's going gaga over her.
The press seems determined to keep her on the women's page...er, the lifestyle page, no?
PatCa: But the thing about Sgt. Pepper was that it was the first album (or the first conspicuous one) to print the lyrics on the cover. If you were there at the time and a Beatles fan, you read the lyrics. (And then talked way too much about what they meant.)
I did read the lyrics, but time has done its damage. :)
That is the most hyperbolic statement uttered by anyone anywhere, ever.
Well, it was the most hyperbolic, for about 13 minutes :)
Don't know if Condi will run in 2008, but damn don't ya wish the current guy actually stood up to the protesters himself like this?
In re: how many holes it takes to fill the Albert hall, I am glad to actually know where Blackburn, Lancanshire is. Greetings to everyone in Blackburn!
Hyygasdk: Finnish sister city of Blackburn, Lancanshire, along with Lowell, Massachusetts and Toyooka, Hyogo prefecture.
What poise. What nerves of steel. Tell me again why she wouldn't be capable of handling presidential campaigning.
I haven’t heard or read anyone suggesting that she would not be capable of campaigning. The criticism that I have heard is about Secretary Rice that someone running for president ought to have prior executive experience or have held some other elective office.
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