Condi Rice Plays for the Queen

Hillary Clinton has had many roles in government, but she will never be Condi’s predecessor at State.

VERY COOL. Wow, what a classy woman.

Condi Rice is a bigger idiot than her supporters. She is a disgrace to the United States and nothing but a brown nosing, propaganda spitting little screwup!!!!

Great playing Condi. I always had a feeling condi liked Hillary and I also have a feeling she voted for Obama.

She’s trying to change her image from a blood-sucking war monger to a pacifist…
No deal: she started war. She is a war criminal!

Interesting how posters here read more into this than what it was: a chance to perform for the queen with GREAT accompaniment.
Condi may be the smartest secretary of state we have ever had. She has also had the hardest gig.
Good job, Condi.

How can you people defend Rice’s pitiful job as SOS, she is a joke, just like her “husband” oh, I mean the president.

I think Condi is a great woman and has done a great job as Sec. of State.
I find it wonderful that the Queen thought she was grand enough to perform for her.
Hill will never be respected like Condi, Hill is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!
The rest of the world sees her as a joke, so what can she accomplish! Nothing!
O only wanted her there so she wouldn’t hold him up and would not run against him 2012.
To bad she agreed to take the job!
Now she is a laughing stock!

Let’s seenow….Condi is playing beautiful music…..How did Hillary get in on the discussion?

Dr. Condoleeza Rice is an impressive woman, an accomplished musician, and a smart lady. I wish we have all had more opportunity to see her musical side! Goodness knows she had a tough job as Secretary of State working for a President and VP who wouldn’t really let her practice diplomacy.

I am pleased to see Secretary Rice receive such an honor. Congrats!! For anyone whom would take this opportune time time to diminish this once in a lifetime event for her with politics should get themselves involved within the career field. Let’s see how well you do to provide your idealism to the administration when you are not the one in the oval office. Is that a challenge?! I believe it is. Whom will take it?

her rhythm isn’t very good

Rice, like Colin Powell, were the few good things that Bush did right by in his administration. They were pretty much under tight leash from the Bush administration, and had little recourse. Rice was offered these high profile positions within the Bush administration and it would have been foolish to turn them down, given the fact that they might never have been on the table again. I think Bush merely did this to give the appearance of inclusion but never really cared much. Had Obama come along before to offer them these positions they probably would much have rather been a part of his administration than Bush(remember that they were defending Bush’s policies while clenching their mouths?)

Its so unbelievable how ones image gets tarnished when one work in a bad team…

Wow! What a cool thing to do. It was an easy piece, but I’m sure she practiced and rehearsed it. Of course, ever since she was a teenager she’s been on the stage with many top orchestras.
On Friday, I’m playing Mendelssohn’s “Venetian Gondola Song No. 1″ on piano in a small recital at the Maryland Hall in Annapolis – and I dream of an audience like Rice’s some day.

You should know how many dead people you were responsible for their death from you good american and poor IRAQI mr bush feel sorry you should sorrow .do not forget Almighty God hell for the people who lie to kill and kill music should be for the ones with clean hand not the butcher like you leir

I am tired of all the crap from non supporters of the USA. I may not approve of who is in office, but I will support them and there right to speak freely. So, get off there back and shut up.

Secretary Rice regularly plays privately with a small group of other accomplished amateur musicians in Washington. I’m sure that doing so has helped her cope while working under Shrub.
Better than drink and drugs.
Oh, and though the comments about the Queen’s proper title are quite correct, she is often colloquially, if inaccurately, described as “The Queen of England” and everyone knows what is meant. Even the British do it, though they don’t like it when foreigners do.

I always admire Secretary Rice. She has done good job in difficult time. She is the woman who is real qualified for President of United State. I hope she will be one day President of United State. She is not like Obama and she can stand her own feet but Obama will rely on other expertise in many cases.

Susan Rice, Obama’s choice for US ambassador to the UN has a history under Bill Clinton that the Lefty media won’t discuss now.
“Bystanders to Genocide” in The Atlantic Monthly, Sep 2001. Authored by Samantha Power, an Obama adviser and someone who actually has a record of backing strong action against mass killings, the story does not reflect well on Susan Rice:
—At an interagency teleconference in late April, Susan Rice, a rising star on the NSC who worked under Richard Clarke, stunned a few of the officials present when she asked, “If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?” Lieutenant Colonel Tony Marley remembers the incredulity of his colleagues at the State Department. “We could believe that people would wonder that,” he says, “but not that they would actually voice it.” Rice does not recall the incident but concedes, “If I said it, it was completely inappropriate, as well as irrelevant.”—
If one believes that the United Nations is a hopelessly ineffective institution and wants to make sure it stays that way, then perhaps Obama has chosen an appropriate emissary: a woman who prefers to ponder the political implications of INACTION — they’re going to love her at Turtle Bay.

CHICAGO — Nearly two years ago, Barack Obama muscled his way into the top tier of presidential contenders by breaking fundraising records.
When the 2008 campaign books are closed, the Democratic president-elect will shatter another record by coming close to, or capturing, the title of the first BILLION-dollar candidate.
That’s roughly how much the Obama finance team will have raised for his campaign, convention, transition and Jan. 20 Inauguration events.
The vast majority of the donations were generated during the unusually long primary and general election campaigns. A financial disclosure report scheduled to be released Thursday is expected to show that Obama raised more than $100 million in the final month of the campaign, campaign aides said.
That will bring the grand total for his campaign to more than $750 million — more than the combined sum raised by President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival, John F. Kerry, in the record-setting 2004 campaign and nearly as much as the total raised by all the presidential contenders then.
The Obama team also helped raise more than $50 million for the Democratic convention’s host committee in Denver and more than $100 million for the Democratic National Committee. He’s still raising money for his transition and Inauguration. Four years ago, Bush raised $40 million for his Inauguration.

Ms. Rice’s musical skill is not just a superfluous part of her life. Musical training in classical music provides an underpinning for intellectual development, as many scientific studies have shown. It’s called the “Mozart effect,” but the brain stimulation of this effect is caused by practicing or even listening to any classical music. One study showed that the brains of accomplished, classical pianists like Ms. Rice are actually larger in some areas than are the brains of accomplished experts in other areas.