Elections Blog

Yesterday, Glenn Kessler in his Washington Post article, entitled “Rice’s pre-election appearances buck tradition — Secretary of State is expected to stay above the partisan fray,” reported on Condi’s pre-election activity with a rather critical tone. While Dr. Rice has largely avoided the megabuck politcal fundraising circuit with its infamous “rubber chicken” and photo [...]

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More than ever these days, Hollywood has a reputation for slanting material leftward and veteran filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Xanadu) is not helping.

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The confrontation between the Clintons and Condi that erupted after Bill’s interview with Chris Wallace on September 24th was (is?) based on the claim, by Clinton, that he left behind a “comprehensive plan” on counter terrorism for the Bush administration when he left office. In making his point he relied heavily on Richard Clarke, author [...]

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Hezbollah anti-Condi banner

It is disturbing to see criticism of Dr. Rice in the conservative blogosphere after her recent keynote address to the American Task Force on Palestine gala in Washington, DC, October 11, 2006. The dinner was held to honor a Republican Arab-American, (Blog editor’s note: Please accept our appologies for using a “hyphenated American” [...]

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Our enemies in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) are economically dependent, in large part, on support from oil-exporting countries. As Secretary of State, Dr. Rice has spoken of how energy “warps” our foreign policy. Without much fanfare, Dr. Rice at the Department of State, in conjuction with the Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman (bio), has [...]

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Life in Las Vegas taught me many years ago that if you want to truly understand something that you have to follow the money.  That’s what Secretary Rice did with her Mideast trip.
First, she makes an unannounced trip to Baghdad to deliver the message, “Get to work!  The meter is running.”  Then, she goes to Kurdish [...]

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In response to Bill Clinton’s outburst to Chris Wallace on FOX News, Condoleezza Rice set the record straight.  Bill said that he did everything he could to fight terorism while president.  He said he even a left a complete plan on how to fight Al-Qaeda for Bush.  He then concluded that Bush did nothing for 8 [...]

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Producer Linda Ellman (Linda Ellman Productions) was concerned that her documentary, On Native Soil, would be overshadowed by other 9-11 related programming for the 5th Anniversary of the terrorist attack that changed America even though she was able to get Kevin Costner and Hilary Swank to narrate.  (Swank spells her first name with only one “L.”).  [...]

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Condoleezza Rice has an interview in this month’s Essence magazine. I will warn you, only the first part of the interview is available free on the website. You have to actually buy the magazine to get the complete interview. They ask a lot of the tough questions, but Condi answers with confidence and intelligence as [...]

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Yesterday, Secretary Rice released the following statement in recognition of the fifth anniversary of 9-11.
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad is coming to New York. Where’s Rudy Giuliani when you need him? Ten years ago, in 1995, Giuliani booted Arafat from his city. (H/T>…

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I got a very nice email from Nate Nelson, who runs deuteronomy3019 and has recently put together Catholic Rudy Watch. Nate is calling on me both…

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A real effort for peace, or disinformation? Visit CAIR’s website and decide for yourself.

In a ploy for media exposure (Nothing wrong with that, we do it, too!), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has established “Not in the Name of Islam,” an online petition and website where Muslims can publicly denounce violence done in the [...]

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In a political gambit trying to position himself for the 2008 Republican primary by distancing himself from Bush (43) , Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel again parts company with the Bush administration and offers his unsolicited advice about the Middle East. (link)
If we get enough donors for an extra set of “brass ones” like we’re getting [...]

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Japanese troops in Iraq, 2005.Photo credit: Mohammed Ameen, Reuters

Despite incredible domestic political obstacles, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, president of the Japanese Elvis Fan Club, and not a bad karaoke singer, to boot, welcomed home his troops from Iraq after completing their entire tour of duty in Iraq — as pledged at the time of [...]

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Rumors that this is the Governor’s new executive vehicle are false.*

Yesterday, the Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, and former Energy Secretary under Bill Clinton, spoke in response to President Bush’s weekly national radio address. (ABC) He took the opportunity to lecture the President and Dr. Rice about how America needs a “new realism” [...]

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How strange, an offensive cartoon about somebody in the Middle East appears in a European newspaper (Norway), but there are no riots or burning embassies — as was the case in Denmark. What happened? In Europe, it’s apparently OK to publish offensive cartoons about Israel and not even apologize. (BBC)

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Stabbed in the back?

It is disconcerting to see Republicans bicker among themselves and jockey for political advantage. To those of us outside the beltway, the pettiness of these disputes is sickening. This week, Insight on the News, published an article, “Dump Condi: Foreign policy conservatives charge State Dept. has hijacked Bush agenda,” that is a [...]

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The Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program (website, USINFO) is administered by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. (link) In order to be “honored” with a spot on this list of infamous characters one must be an accomplished terrorist and be recognized personally by the Secretary of State. The listees are “rewarded” with a “price [...]

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From Russia with Love originally was an Ian Fleming novel (Supposedly, it one of JFK’s favorite books.) Then it was adapted for the silver screen, with Sean Connery staring as secret agent 007 saving the world while seducing exotic women. More recently, it’s become a shoot-’em-up video game. Now, it is going to be adapted [...]

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