Early ,'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
One things seems clear regarding Condoleezza Rice’s stewardship of the State Department: she did not command the admiration of many of those who worked with her. The reaction of State Department employees as Hillary Clinton arrived this morning apparently bears comparison to the liberation of Paris at the end of World War II.
Huh. I'm kind of surprised to hear the negatives about Rice's tenure re: self-aggrandizement. While I knew she did her job shilling Bush's Let's Pretend approach to foreign policy, I'd had the impression that she was unique among Bush's cabinet (after Powell's departure, anyway) in being qualified to hold the position she was appointed to.
From Tom's link:
Here’s Eric Kleefeld’s report of [Clinton's] remarks:
This is going to be a challenging time, and it will require 21st-century tools and solutions to meet our problems and seize our opportunities. I’m gonna be asking a lot of you, I want you to think outside the proverbial box. I want you to give me the best advice you can, I want you to understand there is nothing that I welcome more than a good debate, and the kind of dialogue that will make us better.
Has Hilary always been like this, or is she channeling Obamna?
I'd had the impression that she was unique among Bush's cabinet (after Powell's departure, anyway) in being qualified to hold the position she was appointed to.
I'd say that I've heard a lot more negative appraisals of her leadership at State than positive.
While I knew she did her job shilling Bush's Let's Pretend approach to foreign policy, I'd had the impression that she was unique among Bush's cabinet (after Powell's departure, anyway) in being qualified to hold the position she was appointed to.
You can be completely qualified and still self-aggrandizing and hard to work for.
The reaction of State Department employees as Hillary Clinton arrived this morning apparently bears comparison to the liberation of Paris at the end of World War II.
According to my FiL, this is not really the case.
[eta: Not that Condi was winning any World's Best Boss awards, but career diplomats are skeptical of HRC's willingness to work within the existing bureaucracy vs setting up her own special envoys with their own independent offices. Apparently this was something that was done during Bill's term often enough to be a concern.]
I started to cry in the car again when they said "President Obama."
I cry every single time I read or watch something about him, and all I'm doing is reading and watching things about him. I've wanted this since July of 2004. I can't believe it's finally happened.
I'm curious - how do the First Daughters get to school? Does the Secret Service take them? Is there a whole motorcade, or just one Chevy Suburban?
In the videos clips of their first day of school, it looked like a three-car motorcade, I think -- the girls and their mother in a van, with a car in front and behind. (This is just what I remember from the bits that I saw, though, and it could be different when it's not the first day.)
Yeah, I'm a little skeptical of anyone welcoming HRC with more than open arms there--not just open armed but on the ground crying the way they make it sound??...I mean, even if Condi wasn't the world's best boss, Hil as Savior takes a bit of mind twisting, I'm thinking.
Has Hilary always been like this, or is she channeling Obamna?
I suspect that among his skills we're going to find "bringing out the best in those around him".