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EarlG

(21,826 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:05 PM Jun 2012

Pic Of The Moment: Rice: Obama Foreign Policy "Lacking"



Condoleezza Rice: Obama foreign policy 'lacking'

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s foreign policy is "lacking" and argued that "we need a greater, more assertive America in the world."

"When things are moving in many different directions as they are, after great shocks to the system like 9/11 and the global financial and economic crisis, and now the positive shock of people insisting on their democratic rights, the United States can't lead from behind," Rice said on "CBS This Morning."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77832.html

Hey Condoleezza Rice - you think Obama's foreign policy is lacking
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Pic Of The Moment: Rice: Obama Foreign Policy "Lacking" (Original Post) EarlG Jun 2012 OP
It needs the burning WTC in the background and it would be perfect... hlthe2b Jun 2012 #1
Correct! Any Photoshoppers out there? RC Jun 2012 #18
THIS WHOLE GAME SHOULD BE IN PRISON FOR TREASON HowHasItComeToThis Jun 2012 #42
Prison is too good for the likes of them. nt valerief Jun 2012 #72
Figures dumbya xxqqqzme Jun 2012 #2
I love that snide sneer of Cheney's. His true self..n/t monmouth Jun 2012 #11
Give him a break!! robbob Jun 2012 #12
Slacker in chief. Bucky Jun 2012 #64
A textbook example of the pot calling the kettle rocktivity Jun 2012 #3
Slam Dunk lame54 Jun 2012 #4
She really meant to say it is wholly lacking in disasters of its own making BeyondGeography Jun 2012 #5
Yes indeed. pacalo Jun 2012 #14
Condisleeza & Co were warned that the attacks which occured were imminent. Dawson Leery Jun 2012 #6
Has she no shame? Graybeard Jun 2012 #7
Chuckling to myself, trying to figure out who's the BIGGEST moron and/or a-hole in that photo... mike dub Jun 2012 #8
Geez, she's really grovelling for that VP slot. SunSeeker Jun 2012 #9
forgive me for pointing out that Mira Jun 2012 #10
Hee-hee. Good one! classof56 Jun 2012 #43
She's right. It is lacking didigger Jun 2012 #13
Definitely Bin Ladenless demwing Jun 2012 #16
Yup. Skinner Jun 2012 #26
still dishonest daybranch Jun 2012 #15
Yup, there we go. +1000. closeupready Jun 2012 #22
One and the same. Skinner Jun 2012 #27
Oh yes... let's force democracy on people... Fearless Jun 2012 #17
What About August 6, 2001 DallasNE Jun 2012 #19
Read Rachel Maddow's book, Drift. They knew about Bin Laden JDPriestly Jun 2012 #47
Outrageous! "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside U.S." wordpix Jun 2012 #20
Oh she is so full of shit. closeupready Jun 2012 #21
+1 harun Jun 2012 #30
Coming from the worst SOS ever..........that's a compliment thelordofhell Jun 2012 #23
She was the worst SOS Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #40
I've heard some of the shit she has said before clang1 Jun 2012 #41
she can play a piano though Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #46
Hah hah lol. Thats good though...;-) clang1 Jun 2012 #56
This is the most human I've seen her.......talking about Obama's victory in 2008 thelordofhell Jun 2012 #62
Amazing ~ Cheney must have been late with her " Puppet Pill" N/T goclark Jun 2012 #84
she read a book and had an opinion wilt the stilt Jun 2012 #52
Oh Condi! DontTreadOnMe Jun 2012 #24
LOL. Skinner Jun 2012 #28
This is very good photo shop riverbendviewgal Jun 2012 #32
Perfect! Thanks hlthe2b Jun 2012 #35
perhaps change the title oldhippydude Jun 2012 #53
Love it. rosesaylavee Jun 2012 #69
This should have its own thread! roody Jun 2012 #76
Yep. joshcryer Jun 2012 #79
Wow.. this is Facebook material. ObaMania Jun 2012 #85
Excellent deutsey Jun 2012 #87
With a lawn dart stuck in her head...eom Kolesar Jun 2012 #25
foreign policy mehrrh Jun 2012 #29
What DID they accomplish anyway? Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2012 #86
Oh, they served their base (the Haves and Have Mores) smashingly well n/t deutsey Jun 2012 #88
I guess THAT is what Obama's foreign policy is "lacking" (according to Condi) Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2012 #89
Well, "lacking" seems to be quite a step up from pa28 Jun 2012 #31
K&R Lugnut Jun 2012 #33
This made it to the facebook page of "Americans Against The Tea Party" LaurenG Jun 2012 #34
"bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US" Doctor_J Jun 2012 #36
It's really codespeak Plucketeer Jun 2012 #37
"I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile" Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #38
sounds to me like she thinks Obama's foreign policy is lacking more wars notadmblnd Jun 2012 #39
...which (sadly) it isn't FiveGoodMen Jun 2012 #61
Why is she balancing an urn on her head? progressoid Jun 2012 #44
That's the formal portrait of the Coup perpetrators lunatica Jun 2012 #45
Shrub and his blood-red tie. nt paparush Jun 2012 #48
What was lacking is the Bush LibGranny Jun 2012 #49
As opposed to the Bush policy of all war all the time. Initech Jun 2012 #50
So gloomy looking - she always looks like she has a mushroom cloud hovering above her head aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2012 #51
Every kind of scum imaginable - UGH! santamargarita Jun 2012 #54
Please before posting these type of photos......... Smilo Jun 2012 #55
That pic deserves a DUzy award! LOL indeed! freshwest Jun 2012 #57
BTW, when she says, "we need a greater, more assertive America in the world," freshwest Jun 2012 #58
yep, it is lacking, alright tabatha Jun 2012 #59
Condi, is vying for the vp spot. Happydayz Jun 2012 #60
In Kindasleezy's case vp = virulent pest. nt bupkus Jun 2012 #67
Like a hundred other DUers, my 1st thought was "lacking in wars" Bucky Jun 2012 #63
maybe she would like tell us about Lacking or april Jun 2012 #65
September 11, 2001 was the very definition of "foreign policy lacking." nt bupkus Jun 2012 #66
From a Republican point of view, she is right, Obama has a war deficit Thor_MN Jun 2012 #68
It's called "projection". GoCubsGo Jun 2012 #70
Who gives a crap what she has to say about anything at all. Ugh! n/t truth2power Jun 2012 #71
All those faces should be on a deck of cards. lob1 Jun 2012 #73
Leading From Behind otohara Jun 2012 #74
My God it looks like a PR shot from an '80s prime time soap dflprincess Jun 2012 #75
CSI Washington DC demwing Jun 2012 #78
DUzy. EFerrari Jun 2012 #82
Delusional evilists Iwillnevergiveup Jun 2012 #77
The Nerve brush Jun 2012 #80
You will never find... MustBeTheBooz Jun 2012 #81
A Doug Henley lyric comes to mind deutsey Jun 2012 #83
BINGO Joe Bacon Jun 2012 #90
please Botany Jun 2012 #91
Republican Policies Peaceful Protester Jun 2012 #92

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
6. Condisleeza & Co were warned that the attacks which occured were imminent.
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:10 PM
Jun 2012

Bushco ignored the Hart/Rudman Report.

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)
7. Has she no shame?
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:13 PM
Jun 2012

How dare Rice call anyone else lacking? On 9/11 she was National Security Advisor when we suffered the worst breech of national security ever!

She shoukd have resigned then and there in disgrace. But of course she's a Repuke.

mike dub

(541 posts)
8. Chuckling to myself, trying to figure out who's the BIGGEST moron and/or a-hole in that photo...
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:19 PM
Jun 2012

Tough call.

SunSeeker

(51,302 posts)
9. Geez, she's really grovelling for that VP slot.
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:20 PM
Jun 2012


Ya ain't gonna get it, Condie, so clean off your nose and STFU.

Mira

(22,378 posts)
10. forgive me for pointing out that
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:25 PM
Jun 2012

I think middle finger mom (our own) sneaked in behind Condosleeza's head.

daybranch

(1,309 posts)
15. still dishonest
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 02:01 PM
Jun 2012

Let me see- Is this the same Condi Rice that misled everyone on National television into believing Iraq was a bigger threat than Korea? What a liar she is.

Fearless

(18,421 posts)
17. Oh yes... let's force democracy on people...
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 02:06 PM
Jun 2012

That worked SOOOOOOOOOOO well for eight years. And then we start to back off and poof it just starts happening of it's own free will... yes let's go back to a time when we did something ineffective... dare I say... lacking.

DallasNE

(7,390 posts)
19. What About August 6, 2001
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 02:17 PM
Jun 2012

If you want to talk about "lacking" I would suggest an examination of what happened in the aftermath of the PDB of August 6, 2001 where Rice and Bush were warned that "bin Laden determined to attack inside US" possibly hijacking aircraft. That warning gave just about everything except the exact date and targets, yet you and Bush let it happen. Now that is what I call lacking. "My Pet Goat" was a higher priority!

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
47. Read Rachel Maddow's book, Drift. They knew about Bin Laden
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 04:17 PM
Jun 2012

and his terrorist organization including where he was long before August 2001. They just refused to allocate enough money to deal with him.

thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)
23. Coming from the worst SOS ever..........that's a compliment
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 02:28 PM
Jun 2012

Idiot Rice can't even bother to read a memo about terrorists.........then goes shoe shopping while a city drowns

 

clang1

(884 posts)
41. I've heard some of the shit she has said before
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 04:00 PM
Jun 2012

she was not a good soviet expert either. Maybe she was good in literature, probably not pfft. Just a waste. There is some good literature over there.

 

clang1

(884 posts)
56. Hah hah lol. Thats good though...;-)
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 05:53 PM
Jun 2012

re:
Condoleezza Rice
Early education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice
Condoleezza Rice as an undergraduate student at the University of Denver
Rice began to learn French, music, figure skating and ballet at the age of three.[7] At the age of fifteen, she began piano classes with the goal of becoming a concert pianist.[8] While Rice ultimately did not become a professional pianist, she still practices often and plays with a chamber music group. She accompanied cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Brahms's Violin Sonata in D Minor at Constitution Hall in April 2002 for the National Medal of Arts Awards.[9]


This makes her a bit more human to me, as I slap myself for writing it.

mehrrh

(233 posts)
29. foreign policy
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 02:45 PM
Jun 2012

Oh --and the foreign policy under the Bush administration was so successful, they feel they can criticize the successor?
They should go down in history as a collective, abysmal failure in all policies, foreign and domestic.
We may still be shoveling ourselves out of the pit they dug for us ten years from now.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,338 posts)
86. What DID they accomplish anyway?
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 09:30 AM
Jun 2012

I mean, other than the 3000 Americans whom died in a terrorist attack that they were warned about and did not have enough imagination to believe could happen the way it did, failing to capture of the mastermind of said attack, 4000+ soldiers that died needlessly in Iraq (which did not have WMD after all), billions of dollars spent (off the books) on a needless occupation in Iraq, causing the countless deaths of innocent Iraqis whom had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein's regime other than living under its oppression, completely snubbing and honking off the UN and most of the civilized world from day, ignoring the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Heckuva job there, Condi!

(do I really need it?)

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
36. "bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US"
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 03:33 PM
Jun 2012

Title of Security brief issued August 6, 2001. that's what I call lacking

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
37. It's really codespeak
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 03:39 PM
Jun 2012

The message she's sending is that we (the Rethugs) won't forget our arms makers if you'll just put us back in the drivers seat. We'll see to it that you have endless arms contracts, AND genuine battlefields to prove them in/on.

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)
38. "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile"
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 03:40 PM
Jun 2012
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-589137.html

and

Condoleezza Rice: But I don’t remember the al‐Qaida cells as being something that we were told we needed to do something about.

Richard Ben-Veniste: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6 PDB [Presidential Daily Briefing] warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?

Condoleezza Rice: I believe the title was, Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
39. sounds to me like she thinks Obama's foreign policy is lacking more wars
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 03:41 PM
Jun 2012

More assertive, my ass. Which multi national defense corporation has she begun working for?

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
45. That's the formal portrait of the Coup perpetrators
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 04:12 PM
Jun 2012

In case anyone has any doubts about who did it.

LibGranny

(711 posts)
49. What was lacking is the Bush
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 04:56 PM
Jun 2012

administrations understanding of terror threats that existed PRIOR to 9/11/2011!!! They are always trying to REWRITE history! F*uck them!

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
55. Please before posting these type of photos.........
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 05:50 PM
Jun 2012

put up a warning "not for the feint of heart - beware of flashbacks"

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
58. BTW, when she says, "we need a greater, more assertive America in the world,"
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 06:17 PM
Jun 2012

That and the rest of it are code words for:

Oil and munitions stock going down, let's get another big war going!

Our bank relatives haven't bought the whole galaxy yet, we need a bailout!


Feel free to add to the list.

Happydayz

(112 posts)
60. Condi, is vying for the vp spot.
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 06:25 PM
Jun 2012

I called it a week ago, when someone started that thread asking if Condi would take Mittens vp spot. Its no coincidence that her and Rubio are attacking Obama out of the blue.

Bucky

(53,755 posts)
63. Like a hundred other DUers, my 1st thought was "lacking in wars"
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 06:57 PM
Jun 2012

lacking in torture. lacking in alienating allies. lacking in recruiting terrorists to al-Qaeda and in letting existing terrorists get away. lack of fantasies

april

(1,148 posts)
65. maybe she would like tell us about Lacking or
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 07:18 PM
Jun 2012

just maybe she would like to show him how to lie!!!!!!!!!

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
68. From a Republican point of view, she is right, Obama has a war deficit
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 08:23 PM
Jun 2012

He's ended more wars than he has started and you know the war profite, er, military supply corporations are not going to be happy about that.

dflprincess

(28,042 posts)
75. My God it looks like a PR shot from an '80s prime time soap
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 11:01 PM
Jun 2012

like "Dallas" or "Dynasty".

Except Cheney maks J.R. Ewing look like a candidate for sainthood.

brush

(53,331 posts)
80. The Nerve
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 02:06 AM
Jun 2012

The nerve of this woman who help get us into two wars where the deaths of over 100 thousand Iraqs, Afghanis and Americans occured. I still remember her "smoking gun" remark about the weapons of mass destruction that Bush/Cheney claimed were in Iraq. Of course they were never found because they never existed but claiming they were there was enough to get us into two wars that was demanded by Bush and Cheney's corporate crony/masters demanded. They all made trillions. And those were different trillions than the ones handed over to the banks in 2008 during the alleged economic crash (it was sold to us as 750 billion but secretly over 12 trillion was turned over to the banks). Yeah, Condie, we're real receptive to your arguments. And wipe that blood off your hands, for God's sake.

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
83. A Doug Henley lyric comes to mind
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 06:28 AM
Jun 2012

Hey, now, baby
Have you got not shame?
She just looked at me
uncomprehendingly
like cows at a passing train...

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