cbsnews.com - 12/28/2008
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(CBS) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is a key member of the administration that leaves office 23 days from now. She's been America's top diplomat at a time of enormous challenges in foreign policy. This past week she shared some of her thoughts about these historic years with Rita Braver ...
cbsnews.com - 12/29/2008
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cbsnews.com —
(AP) The two most influential women in President
George W. Bush's White House - first lady Laura
Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who are calling his administration one of the ...
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First Lady, Rice, Defend Bush's Legacy, "History Will ...
jezebel.com - 12/29/2008
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jezebel.com —
Tweaking the lines your parents used when they
grounded you, Condoleezza Rice claims that life is not
"a popularity contest," and that someday, people will " start to thank this president for what he's done." Rice brushes off the historians who are ...
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No Thanks: Condoleezza Rice Thinks You'll Thank George ...
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Rice: Much Of Bush Foriegn Policy Agenda Deserves An ‘A+’
Think Progress —
... This morning on CBS, Sunday Morning’s Rita Braver interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In a portion of the interview that does not appear to have aired, Braver noted the results of the recent Pew Global Attitudes survey which found that “the U.S. image abroad is suffering almost everywhere.” Braver prompted Rice saying, “It has to be more than just a perception problem.” Rice dismissed the poll’s results, claiming that the Bush administration has “left a lot of good foundations”: ...
Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos —
... of documents from his administration. Despite their propagandist function, the libraries provide valuable access to archives that show the president "warts and all", according to Hufbauer. But after 9/11 Bush signed an executive order granting presidents the right to withhold documents held in the libraries from the public. Historians hope Barack Obama will overturn this. And more on the absurdist Bush legacy tour. Condi on CBS's "Sunday Morning": "You and the president have both described your ...
Condoleezza Rice is asked about the "widely held belief" that she voted for Barack Obama.
Althouse —
"And as secretary of state, I'm going to keep my partisan or non-partisan views to myself on that, But I think all Americans were taken with the fact that we were able, after the long history that we've been through, that initial birth defect of slavery that we elected an African American." ...
Iraq Revisited
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Condoleezza Rice steps out of the visting team’s dugout and bats zero for one thousand:
And Rice still insists - adamantly, ardently - that the central decision that defines this administration was the right one.
“In his latest book Bob Woodward quotes you saying, ‘we should’ve liberated Iraq, I’d do it a thousand times again.’ Would you really?” Braver asked.
“Absolutely. Because I ...
Letting history be the judge
Political Animal —
... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that despite President Bush's low approval ratings, people will soon "start to thank this president for what he's done." "So we can sit here and talk about the long record, but what I would say to you is that this president has faced tougher circumstances than perhaps at any time since the end of World War II, and he has delivered policies that are going to stand the test of time," Rice said in an interview that aired on CBS' "Sunday Morning." Rice added that this administration has been concentrating solely on "lay[ing] a foundation ...
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msnbc.com: Politics 12/28/2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the country is not "race-blind" and "we shouldn't deceive ourselves that we're race-blind," but said the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a key moment in history.
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