New Chairman of Armed Services Subcommittee Blasts Condi Rice, Aims to Block Bush Surge Plan

Personal attacks from Dems? Unheard of…

Thank you, Sir, for stating the more than obvious. Between photo ops and shoe shopping, exactly how is Ms Rice earning her paycheck?

I now note that they are taking addresses as well as names. Next week do we get a free trip to the camp.

Jim Jones, get some new glasses and re-read the artcle.
You should take note that Abercrombie did not suggest “that a Democratic African-American White House official was second-rate b/c of her race,” but rather he was responding to a race-baiting question by the reporter. He said he did not know the reason why, whether the reason was, AS THE REPORTER SUGGESTED, gender or race related, or whatever, but she was constantly getting a pass on her ineptitude.

well so the bitterness begins. with all the noise, i haven’t heard anyone suggest another solution. when the ox is in the ditch the object is to get it out. so far all the dems are doing is standing around huffing and puffing. c’mon guys, get behind and push! afraid you might get your hands dirty?

This is not a race issue,he is just telling the truth.I am an African American

Will someone explain in simple words to the mentally challanged and racist Congressman from Alaska that the Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic Party and the Klan are no longer viable career options. Secretary Rice is the former Provost of Stanford, way above anything that Abercombie could possibly attain.

She is one of many idiots in Bu$h’s cabinet. Idiocy is not race or gender specific – just Bu$h-crony specific.

Praise the Lord as the religious right would say finally someone with the guts to tell it like it really is. President Bush along with Vice President Cheney and their entire cabinet are the most hypocritical, sadistic, egotistical, delusional, unethical, emotionally stumped group of individuals to ever have been in charge of running our government. These people because of who they are have put our country in the greatest danger more so then any terrorist organization ever could.
As an American citizen I feel really bad for having to say these things about the people who are in charge of our government but enough is enough these people need to be held accountable for putting our country in danger. It is our responsibility as Americans to speak out when those who have the power to do so don’t. It is our responsibility to speak out when our major media outlets remain silent if we don’t speak out who will save our democracy?

My hats off to Rep. Abercrombie, this is not an issue about race or gender its about the abilty to do the job or task imposed upon a person. I would ask the readers to think back to one task or job she has completed in the last 6 yrs. She seems to spend more time shopping for shoes, wishing about being a football comm’r, or wooing Canadians than doing her job. I have never seen a Sec. of State, who has spent less time on diplomatic issues. Perhaps she should have taken some cues from her predecessor. Like her boss she will go down as the least effective Sec. of State and National Security Advisor in history. On her watch 911 happened, because she had other things to do.

The Dems haven’t been in control for more than a week and the Republicans are up to thier old tricks again. Someone calls Condi a liar and you all got your undies in a bunch.

Condi Rice isn’t an incompetent, lying, hypocrite because of her race. We don’t hold her ancestry against her.
Let’s use Martin Luther King’s principle – and judge her by the content of character.
This would make Ms. Rice an incompetent, lying, hypocrite because of her behavior.

Rice , remember. bin Laden determined to strike U.S and Rice did nothing..Rice the one in charge of spreading good will across the world ..China and many other countries refuse to talk to her because she lies so much.Race or gender has nothing to do with anything, bad diplomats is still bad …Hawaii, you did good getting someone in charge that has a brain and courage..

Some days I wish Condoleeza Rice was an old white fat dude so she’d resign with the other old (and/or) white (and/or) fat dudes in the Bush administration.

If you had to work under W and all his lies, you’d seem incompetent too. Outside of the federal government, I’m sure Ms. Rice is a quite capable woman. However, when all of her responses are scripted per this administration’s wishes, she does indeed come out looking a bit worse for the wear.

Personal attacks from Dems? Unheard of…
Posted by: Tom
Nice one, Tom. This mess we are in is obviously the Democrats’ fault, and it is right to heap scorn on them. It makes no difference that he did not personally attack Condi – he had the gall to criticize her actions. How dare they try to shift blame to the people who have been in power these last years.

JimJones,
Just read your post on the Abercrombie issue and am wondering if you can read. I am not a “Dem,” but the man at no point “suggested that a Democratic African-American White House official was second-rate b/c of her race.” This seems like a willful misinterpretation, though I suppose somebody really could be that slow. She does constantly get a pass, as any casual observer will likely have noted—though, indeed, “Who knows if the whole question of race and gender come into it?”
If it were a Republican talking, there’d be no “Who knows?” about it; it’d simply be “she constantly gets a pass because she’s black.”
What is interesting is that Abercrombie carefully sidestepped the question and pointedly refused to make the statement you impute to him–he was shutting down a question raised by the interviewer, who was obviously fishing for some racism. Compare:
“She constantly gets a pass. Who knows if the whole question of race and gender come into it? But I can’t account for it except to say she isn’t up to the mark.”

This thread is a waste of Dudeband.
(I’m sorry, but I believe that the term ‘Broadband’ is sexually offensive)

CONGRESSMAN ABERCROMBIE is so correct in his assessment of the sitting Secretary of State. It is obvious that Negropointe was sent over to oversee the MESS that has been created at the State Department since 2004. She is good at traveling but accomplishes nothing upon her arrival or departure. Her bringing over KAREN HUGHES and her slogans is her solution to the serious problems that exist in our world…she is in way over her head and should resign,,,She was as ineffective when she held the national security adviser position, but loyalty allways over rides competence in this administration………………………….Charles Belenchia

This is the most uneducated group of people I have ever seen; No wonder the democrats won – the people who voted for them are unintelligent, uneducated and are like sheep – they just follow. If the liberals would just take a minute and think with their brain and not their emotions, they might see some sense in what our current administration is trying to do. But no, it doesn’t matter what the President or his cabinet does or says, it is the wrong thing. Think about it.

An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: “argument to the person”, “argument against the man”) is a logical fallacy consisting of replying to an argument by attacking or appealing to the person making the argument, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument.
So what is General Abercrombie’s solution? Declare defeat and depart Iraq?

I bet 90% of the people agreeing or disagreeing with Mr. Abercrombie couldn’t even articulate what Ms. Rice’s job responsibilities are, and in what areas she is falling short or excelling. Quit jumping on a bandwagon just because someone on “your side” said something inflammatory and ‘exciting’ for you.

In the end this comes down to another stupid decision by a stupid administration. Our best way forward in the War On Terror with Islamic extremists is to solicit support from moderate islamic countries. One small problem in order to facilitate that we send our top emisary and force Islamic men to negotiate with a woman which by definition in their culture makes them not men. Hmmm another well thought out strategy.

Rice has no credibility. She is a joke. I watched her testimony and it was ridiculous. You, can tell by her shrieking voice, when she lies and tells just plain crap.
She is the alibi of the Bush gang – black and woman. Sorry, but that’s how it is.
She claims to have a degree in Russian language, but she can’t speak or read a word.

Ms Rice “constantly gets a pass” as much as “she isn’t up to the mark”, to paraphrase Rep. Abercrombie, for the same reasons many other well-connected and equally overrated individuals who performed poorly in this administration : (SHARED)IDEOLOGY.
Think about Brown of FEMA and the other catastrophic fools spending billions of dollars and getting next to nothing done after Katrina.
The young upstarts who worked in Iraq and wasted more billions there
even as they watched Sadr’s militia getting their hands on unsecured Iraqi guns and American guns.
The other “experts” who got all the plum jobs going back and forth between lobbying and government.
And think about this : A little knowledge is a dangerous thing? What about a lot of it, poorly digested?
Knowledge which doesn’t go beyond recitation or exhibition of any amount of learning, knowledge with little understanding, that is the dangerous thing. Without personal judgment filtering and sorting, interpreting and further thought inspiring, all that knowledge is not just dangerous but deadly. It is, many times, what they shamelessly call “expertise”– a blank check to screw up.
A PhD and a self-professed student of history can, indeed, be much overrated.




Ms. Rice speaks very well. She is
very articulate. She really speaks
well and is articulate indeed. She
also talks well and talks, and talks, and talks. Words only!

It is really a pity that most people want to add race and gender when speaking of ineptness and incompetence. Race and gender have nothing to do with either one. Nor does the level of one’s education. Condalezza Rice is the most inept, incompetent, ethically challenged and condescending individual it is ever been my priviledge to witness in public life with the exception of George W. Bush. I am black or african-american (I personally detest that term)and a woman who is also highly educated. I have failed to understand through out this period of time why anyone, much less, a sitting President but, that is another story, would consider her opinions valuable. Is it not amazing how incompetence manages to find incompetence? It is time, whether Democrat or Republican, someone said what he or she truly felt and believed. Now, that is someone I could have confidence in…

I think the FBI needs to investigate the continued overlooking as to what some of us see as criminal behavior in her office.

Again the Democrats true colors come out…they are anti-capitalism, anti-Democracy and anti-America…
In a word..they are communists
But Bush and his wimsy administration dont have the guts, apparently, to play hardball in order to take down the Democrats…hence the election results…now we are on the ropes again
Mr President please take the gloves off and deal with these renegade Democrats once and for all…before they put this Country in the toilet