Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright has been in the public eye as of late out promoting her latest book and attacking the Bush administration on everything from global warming to globalization. So much so, that the Republican National Committee has fired back in kind.
Albright appeared at a Barnes & Noble in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. on January 9 to discuss what she thought would be important for the next president to consider. She saved the best and worst for last - using harsh words to criticize President George W. Bush.
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"This is a purely practical point here, and I think there's a lot of work to be done" Albright said. "And I think the judgment is that this is one of the worst presidencies we've had and people will wonder what it is that the role of the vice president is."
The original story, posted on the Business & Media Institute Web site earlier today was linked on the Drudge Report, prompted a tough response from the Republican National Committee.
"President Bush has spent the last seven years confronting the dangers that Madeleine Albright let fester under her leadership, Danny Diaz, spokesman from the RNC said to the Business & Media Institute. "No one will take seriously the criticism of a person whose idea of a strong foreign policy was to give a basketball signed by Michael Jordan to Kim Jong Il."
Albright said it was important for the next president to address the issues of "global warming, climate change and energy issues."
"The final big set of issues has to do with that bundle of global warming, climate change, and energy issues," Albright said. "Now if you look at those issues, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that they are the kind of issues that require international cooperation, which means the next president has to have a different style - has to have the capability of dealing with other countries and being interested actually, in what their national interest is and in listening."
Albright also sees globalization as an issue the United States will have to come to grips with during the next presidency and the wealth disparity issues created from it.
"There are people who come to my office and say, ‘we have to stop globalization,'" Albright said. "You can't stop globalization, but I think we have to figure out how to mitigate the worst aspects of it and the problems that have been created and I think one of the worst is that there is a growing gap between the rich and the poor."
Albright was in Washington promoting her book: "Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership."
Comments Policy
The woman who was defeated
January 10, 2008 - 16:37 ET by BDThe woman who was defeated in every single negotiation she attempted is bad mouthing someone ELSE??????? That is VERY rich.
We would all be the same
January 10, 2008 - 17:05 ET by dpc1212“If
we were all rich, that would be very nice,” Albright said. “If we were
all poor, it would be too bad, but we would be the same. What the
problem is now is the poor know what the rich have as a result of
information technology and the spread, generally, of knowledge. And, it creates a whole new host of problems in terms of disquiet and anger.”
What a load of crap from this leftist communist pig. Please go away.
Interesting quote, because
January 10, 2008 - 17:41 ET by dscottInteresting quote, because if you read between the lines here, what she is saying is if the poor didn't have TVs and internet access (information technology), they would be perfectly happy to be poor. And that people like Albright (Dems) who dole out money for votes would be out of business with dissatisfied customers. Why should they be satisfied with crumbs when they could have sliced bread? In order to get back to the previously happy state, the solution is to hobble the internet and keep the poor ignorant. This coming from a person who sits on a number of corporate boards!
Albright fears the poor since if poor can fend for themselves that means there is no reason to vote Dem. Instead of seeing the incentive of the poor to do better in their lives through better education and better jobs, Albright believes they, her and her pals, will be out of a job. How perverse is that?
Therefore the whole point of AGW and CO2 emissions controls that Albright seems so intent on bringing into effect is to eliminate the middle class as they are constant reminder that self sufficiency and not government is the solution to problems. Get rid of what makes the middle class lifestyle (cars, plane flights, etc) and walla, nothing for the poor to be complaining about. The rich are necessary for the poor to hate and claim victimization, hence the continuing need of government to soak the rich for the benefit of the poor. It's called playing both ends against the middle. As long as the middle class exists, that's hard to do and also why Marx denounced the middle class (bourgeois). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. dscott's corollary: The line between malice and stupidity is called depraved indifference.
Cavuto Video!
January 11, 2008 - 00:06 ET by motherbeltTossing this is in at the top of the thread because people asking about it at the bottom....Pat Dollard put up the video of Neil Cavuto giving Albright hell on his show today....He told her it was lousy of her to be pissing on the current President (He really said that!!)
Dollard calls it "Neil Cavuto Rips Albright a New One" LOL
Check it out....it's priceless!
Or maybe...."delicious." ;-)
Delicious, priceless, whatever...
January 11, 2008 - 01:02 ET by HermanoNeil really sticks it to the former Sec. He was a pit bull and Albright was wearing Milk-Bone underware (h/t Norm Peterson) Definitely worth the 13 minutes to watch.
Disaster
January 10, 2008 - 16:42 ET by Gat New YorkThe Clinton presidency was like the Seinfeld show - about "NOTHING." He did nothing, he accomplished nothing, and he did nothing about impending threats which led directly to 9/11. And she was in charge of their so-called joke for foreign policy.
Gat, it wasn't a "so-called"
January 10, 2008 - 16:59 ET by motherbeltGat, it wasn't a "so-called" joke of foreign policy.... It WAS a joke.
The whole dang crew left us
January 10, 2008 - 17:05 ET by bigtimerThe whole dang crew left us in the mess we are in today.
Always takes a conservative to clean up a leftist nest...that is if you have enough time and patience left to fight them all.
I saw the wreck of a spin machine on the Washington Journal yesterday morning hawking her phony book...couldn't take it.
She is an over-weight wrecking crew.
How many years will it take Dubya to clean it up?
January 10, 2008 - 17:32 ET by SyriusBT,
The current Admin. was warned about Bin Laden when they took office. They did not listen. They did not care about Clinton's Admin.'s opinion or intelligence.
9/11 happen on Dubya's watch.
Dubya was the Protector in Chief on 9/11.
Facts, go with the facts.
"The whole dang crew left us in the mess we are in today." You got that right, except, it's Dubya that got us into the mess we're in today.
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
My Logical Falicies by: Syrius
January 10, 2008 - 17:45 ET by Rihar"The current Admin. was warned about Bin Laden when they took office. They did not listen. They did not care about Clinton's Admin.'s opinion or intelligence."-Syrius
The previous Admin. was offered Bin Laden on a silver platter but did nothing about it. Bush Admin "did not care about Clinton's Admin.'s opinion or intelligence" hmm. Wonder why.
"Dubya was the Protector in Chief on 9/11"-Syrius
No terrorist attacks since 9/11. Considering Clinton helped light the fuse in 1993. I say, good job George.
"You got that right, except, it's Dubya that got us into the mess we're in today."-Syrius
See above.
When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere
'Falicies' (sp)?
January 10, 2008 - 17:57 ET by SyriusFacts, keep up with the facts.
http://www.9-11commi...
Some good reading. Enjoy!
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
Clinton/Bin Laden
January 10, 2008 - 18:09 ET by mastersofdeceitFWIW
http://www.factcheck...
(IMO not totally conclusive and don't care to spend time w/ back and forths on the net.) However regarding bush not addressing AQ:
"Exaggeration: It's not true that the Bush Administration "did not try" to address the al Qaeda threat before 9/11, though how hard is open to debate. It unquestionably got off to a sluggish start. The first principals' meeting on terrorism didn't take place until Sept. 4, 2001. That doesn't mean nothing was happening, though."
Missing typwriter W's and other stuff
January 10, 2008 - 19:53 ET by ThisnThatWhat kind of confidence would anyone have in an administration that ransacked the White House in its last days; who spent its final moments pardening criminals; and whose only explanation for all of its misdeeds was "The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"? Bush basically had to start from scratch, trying to sort truth from lies, facts from fiction. The Clintons and Albright were a disaster for this country.
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Tell Us Again
January 10, 2008 - 19:13 ET by Del DolemonteTell us again why
1. The Democrats snuck a very close friend of Hillary Clinton's (Richard Ben-Veniste) onto the 9/11 Commission.
2. Also snuck Clinton's Assistant AG Jaime Gorelick-who should have been questioned under oath-onto the same Commission.
3. Bill Clinton wouldn't testify to the Commission under oath without his longtime consegliere, Bruce Lindsey, at his side.
4. Clinton's National Security Advisor was busted for stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archives.
Folly
January 10, 2008 - 20:52 ET by Gat New YorkThe 9/11 Commission was a folly perpetrated by the Clintonistas who were desperate to coverup the evidence of Clinton's culpability. They made sure the commission was stacked with Clinton loyalists led by Bob Kerrey.
Also what exactly did Sandy Berger steal from the archives that would have been so damaging to Clinton.
Clinton had numberous chances to kill bin Laden and was too much of a coward to pull the trigger.
The current Admin. was
January 10, 2008 - 17:47 ET by dscottThe current Admin. was warned about Bin Laden when they took office. They did not listen. They did not care about Clinton's Admin.'s opinion or intelligence.
Link please, you need to prove your assertion, I doubt very seriously that you are correct. The fact that Clinton lied on TV in the Mike Wallace interview about wanting to kill OBL pretty much precludes that he said anything to W. The CIA confirmed Clinton would not give the order to kill OBL. No government agent could be so incompetent as to not to kill OBL when he had 10 documented chances to do so. Bill Clinton refused to give the order, it was strictly his incompetence therefore 911 rests squarely on his shoulders. Bill Clinton lied and 3000 people died on one day!
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. dscott's corollary: The line between malice and stupidity is called depraved indifference.
After missing a number of
January 10, 2008 - 19:28 ET by QueenMumAfter missing a number of opportunities to take the fight to the enemy, all Clinton could offer in the way of advice for his replacement was "Read the intelligence"? Sounds a lot like: "I'm outta here buddy. You can do the dirty work."
Clinton was too concerned about his own political legacy. A typical liberal coward - no principles. I don't think that Clinton was a bad president. And I believe he's a very smart man. I just don't believe he had the courage to do what needed to be done about the terrorist threat.
Power to the people!
Syrius, are you still
January 10, 2008 - 17:48 ET by motherbeltSyrius, are you still flogging that piece of tripe?
The "warning" came in the form of "Bin Laden determined to attack US." Gee, I don't know why Bush didn't foresee the WTC attack, with intelligence like that!!
What should he have done? Kept all Arab men off airplanes? Liberals wouldn't let us do that AFTER 9/11!
Facts....go with facts....Somalia....turned tail and ran.....WTC 1993....no response....USS Cole....no response....Khobar Towers....no response....Embassies in Africa.....no response...
Sorry Syrius, bombing an empty aspirin factory doesn't count.
Could those episodes be why bin Laden thought we were easy pickings???
Facts...stay with the facts.
January 10, 2008 - 18:08 ET by SyriusMB,
Once again...facts.
http://www.gwu.edu/~...
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
That memo is bogus, if you
January 10, 2008 - 18:24 ET by Dan The Man 2That memo is bogus, if you notice Al Quada is spelled wrong among other problems. I mean its such an obvious fake.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
Good Point Dan
January 10, 2008 - 18:34 ET by RiharSyrius caught me in an incorrect spelling so clearly it's important to him/her. I think now (by his own standards) he can no longer trust his own sources. Or... *gasp* you don't think bad information is OK with him as long as he agrees with it! Do you?
Liberals aren't really like that are they?
When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere.
Correction? What correction?
January 10, 2008 - 18:41 ET by SyriusRihar,
Dan's misspelling of Al Qaeda today? Clarke's misspelling in 2001? Hmmm, phonetically, Clarke got it right. Dan, not so, in trying to make a point about misspelling Al Qaeda in a report.
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
May I point out...You corrected him.
January 10, 2008 - 18:42 ET by Syrius"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
January 25 Memo
January 10, 2008 - 20:55 ET by Gat New YorkThe only reasons to even have a memo on January 25 is a direct result of Clinton's feckless leadership and cowardess when faced with the decision to pull the trigger - more than once - to kill bin Laden. The fact is bin Laden would not have been alive on January 1, 2001 if we had a capable Commander in Chief.
Syrius' Africaner Logic
January 10, 2008 - 22:07 ET by RiharIn your subject line in response to me, you wrote "'Falicies' (sp)?" That was you correcting me. I did not correct him in any way. I challenged you on your interpretation of your sources. I shouldn't have to point this out to you.
Focus, you're all over the map here Syrius.
When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere.
The thing I got right was
January 10, 2008 - 18:50 ET by Dan The Man 2The thing I got right was my satire, and you fell for it as a real critique. I was saterizing your use of bogus sources period. You are such an easy mark.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
Great Satire
January 10, 2008 - 19:16 ET by Del DolemonteShouldn't you have included a disclaimer that this link you provided came from a far-left website?
Oh, no, Del, that doesn't
January 10, 2008 - 20:48 ET by motherbeltOh, no, Del, that doesn't matter. It's only items from conservative websites that are suspect...leftist sites are scrupulously fair and nonpartisan.
I'm still waiting for Syrius to say what he thought Bush should have done, or could have done, without Liberals getting their Jockeys in a wad over alleged violations of civil liberties.
The one & only thing...
January 10, 2008 - 20:52 ET by Syrius...was to catch Bin Laden.
It's January 2008.
We are all still waiting...
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
Number of Attacks
January 10, 2008 - 20:57 ET by Gat New YorkHow many terror attacks have been perpetrated inside the U.S. and to U.S. properties since 9/11? How many were perpetrated during those 8 lackluster years of BJ Clinton?
Go drink some more kool aid with those wingnuts at Daily Koz
It's not if they attack again,...
January 10, 2008 - 21:10 ET by Syrius...It's when. Let me see, our guys getting shot at in Iraq & Afganistan have never been targets of terror attacks?!? Within your narrow definition of US properties as in buildings not citizens or soldiers, you want to say there haven't been any terrorist attacks?
Hmmm...try this link. Embassies do count, correct?
http://www.infopleas...
Stop being fed the lies...
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
Only one truth
January 10, 2008 - 21:18 ET by Gat New YorkClinton blinked - more than once - and 3000 Americans died on one day.
Hoping that Hillary is the candidate to allow the truth to pour out once and for all.
3900+ soldiers to date need to be added...
January 10, 2008 - 21:42 ET by SyriusHow can you forget the men & women who have fought so bravely?
Bush was and still is at the helm. This fact you cannot sweep under the rug, hide with lies, disprove with falsehoods.
Gosh, I wonder what will happen if a Dem gets the top job? Expose the truths or the lies? I guess we'll have to see...
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
Only one lie - Clinton
January 10, 2008 - 21:52 ET by Gat New YorkAnd they would have been alive too if Clinton had a shred of courage and pulled the trigger any one of ten times when we had bin Laden in the scopes.
He's Dead, Jim
January 10, 2008 - 23:35 ET by Del DolemonteCan you even credibly prove that bin Laden is even still alive? No, I didin't think so.
All he has to do is produce a video showing him holding up a front page from a current newspaper. He's not done that.
Given his unlimited wealth, it would be easy enough to buy any English-language newspaper available in whatever country he's hiding out in, and then smuggle it to his compound.
And tell us again how it was possible for al Qaeda to operate in every other country in the Middle East except Iraq.
Syrius, even at that, all
January 10, 2008 - 21:05 ET by motherbeltSyrius, even at that, all the "problems" leading up 9/11, as cited in that report: failure of diplomacy, lack of military options, problems in the Intelligence community, problems in the FBI....they were all described as occurring between 1997 and 2001. The report pins the start of the whole thing in 1997.
Whose diplomacy failed? Whose military plans were insufficient? Who should have dealt with the problems in the intelligence community and the FBI?
Let's see...who was in the White House for all that time except for 8 months?........
Facts are a bit inconvient
January 10, 2008 - 17:53 ET by richb313You stated a partial fact, which is the definition of a lie of ommission. A more complete telling would include the Clinton Administrations lack of a real direction in Forgien Policy. Many opportunities to deal with Bin Laden passed by. Over emphasis on the trivial in order to make his numbers look better while completely ignoring the difficult (one exception was failed health care reform). The list of absolute indifference to National Security in defference to using small projects / legislation that fed the special interests groups is too large to mention. No matter what the former Secretary of State says history will judge the Clinton Administration as one of the most corrupt and meaningless in American history. The only accomplishment of note is that the Clintons have raised pandering to Olympic levels.
You Have One Major Problem
January 10, 2008 - 19:15 ET by Del Dolemonte9/11 was actually supposed to happen on Clinton's watch, and would have, except that Mohammed Atta told bin Laden that his hijackers needed more training. bin Laden hated Slick even more than he hated Bush. In fact, when the planning for 9/11 began, he had no idea Bush would be elected in 2000.
Del... Excellent
January 10, 2008 - 19:19 ET by bigtimerDel...
Excellent points.
Too bad Osama didn't look beyond...lol!
9/11 was actually supposed to happen on Clinton's watch...?
January 10, 2008 - 20:58 ET by SyriusDeli,
It happen on Bush's watch. That's a fact. Just b/c you want to link 9/11 to Clinton, doesn't make the fact that Bush was at the helm go away.
The rest of what you said is fact? As you all say... "The link, please?".
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
Yeah, you're right
January 10, 2008 - 23:51 ET by Del DolemonteActually, the planning for the 9/11 attacks started at 12:31 PM on the day in January 2001 when the evil Boosh was inaugurated.
In the next 7 months, all of the 9/11 pilots managed to sneak into the US and then took their flight training, and in their spare time they recruited the other muscle men. In the one hour a day thay had to themselves, they also flew to New York to take pictures of the WTC. All in 7 months.
Can I have some of what you're smoking, "Professor Truth"?
Where...
January 11, 2008 - 10:59 ET by Sua Sponte 75the heck have you been the past thirty years? Maybe you shouldn't come off as everything that led up to this day occured within the past eight years....History is a tricky thing, especially when you ignore it, ultimately resulting in where we are today...
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
WRONG!!!!
January 10, 2008 - 19:37 ET by oregon_jiimClinton accomplished a lot........FOR CHINA.
"an endorsement of communism is an endorsement of slavery"
Bush has helped his buddies, no?
January 10, 2008 - 20:59 ET by Syrius"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
Whose Buddies?
January 10, 2008 - 21:02 ET by Gat New YorkBefore the Clinton revisionsists got to work in 2001 Billy was a major supported of Enron and focused the administration efforts to build that company, and turned a blind eye to their business model. He also gave no bid contracts to Halburton throughout his administration.
So whose buddies are you referring to?
The vast left wingbat conspiracy is destoying the Bush legacy!
January 10, 2008 - 21:26 ET by SyriusGatNY,
Are you serious?!? Wow, the link, please?
How much to fill up nowadays? Crude oil in 2001...$22.95/barrel, in 2008...$96+/barrel.
I forgot it's not Bush running the White House it's President Cheney!
Syrius
"Fear is the mother of morality." -Nietzsche
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
And have a nice day!
January 10, 2008 - 21:49 ET by Gat New YorkYour media and your guy:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502EFD8153EF932A15751C0A9649C8B63
see starting paragraph 5: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-crier/abramoff-scandal-just-ano_b_16216.html
and Clinton awarded no bid contracts to Halliburton in Yugoslovia and the Balkans (look it up yourself).
Go say hi to that Napoleonic nitwit Markos.
"We Were Caught Napping"
January 11, 2008 - 00:01 ET by Del DolemonteI'm quoting Bill Clinton's Energy Secretary Bill Richardson here. That comes from his remarks at a very hostile public hearing in Boston in 1999, after he admitted that he and Bill Clinton had ignored warnings from OPEC a YEAR earlier that they were cutting production.
As a result of their ignorance, the cost of heating oil jumped from 69 cents a gallon to $1.89...in the middle of winter.
By the way, Professor Truth, did you know that a couple of Democrat Presidents were in bed with Halliburton? Lyndon Johnson colluded with them for 7 decades, and Bill Clinton gave them no-bid work in his non-UN-sanctioned War of Choice on Kosovo.
Goebbels, You Say?
January 11, 2008 - 00:10 ET by Del Dolemonte"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -Goebbels
"We're all going to have to rethink how we deal with the Internet. As exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function." Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1998
haifbrite
January 10, 2008 - 16:43 ET by the mad poleJust as ugly on the inside
Albright
January 10, 2008 - 16:43 ET by mastersofdeceit"U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright took his(Clinton) place as the parties kept trying to reach agreement."
How'd that work out?
http://archives.cnn....
Globalization
January 10, 2008 - 16:46 ET by KC MulvilleMight as well get used to the idea of a one-world government, I guess. Madame Albright, being an important international figure, can we beg you to help us?
Jeez, talk about self-promotion ...
By the way, are we supposed to apologize to the world first, and then hand over our money, or is the other way 'round? And let's get started on wiping out any trace of national or cultural identity. We'll all have to learn to obey the prescribed order for the globe, and dissent won't be necessary, because the international experts won't be wrong.
Peter Sellers, you died too soon.
STFU Witch
January 10, 2008 - 16:48 ET by NoMoreClintonsThis failure of a political hack should not have the nerve to criticize anyone. I suppose she thinks the Clinton administration was just the greatest. Now she's backing HillBilly. What a loser.
Leftist swine.
January 10, 2008 - 16:50 ET by rbosqueLeftist swine.
Champagne bottles were
January 10, 2008 - 16:51 ET by Roger the ShrubberChampagne bottles were uncorked at the estate of Franklin Pierce upon hearing the news.
Maddy sour Maddy the sweet milk needs curdling
January 10, 2008 - 16:52 ET by Lame CherryI saw this old hag on Charlie Rose last night and she is still the Helen Thomas gas of idiotic shrewness.
The one point someone needs to ask Maddy is this, "Maddy do you remember when Bill Clinton paraded you out in front of the White House and all you stick soldiers stepped forward and said "Bill Clinton did not boink Moanica. The moaning we heard was a dog.............
Do you remember that Maddie and a few days later Bill said he did do it?????
Remember that Maddie? How you and only the other mental retard liberals beleived Bill Clinton while 5 billion 999 million 999 thousand all knew Bill was a liar?
Remember that Maddie how stupid you were? Babe when you are that stupid don't go around telling the world what you think George Bush has done or not done as you still are the same sour old stupid female you were in believing Bill Clinton.
*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS
And after he convinced her
January 10, 2008 - 16:57 ET by motherbeltAnd after he convinced her to go out and stick up for him, he made a fool of her. And still she defends him.
Pathetic.
I'm confused
January 10, 2008 - 19:41 ET by oregon_jiimdid Clinton lie? I guess it all depends on what my definition of IS is.
"an endorsement of communism is an endorsement of slavery"
Didn't Madame Halfbright
January 10, 2008 - 16:55 ET by motherbeltDidn't Madame Halfbright get the memo? There is not "global warming" AND "climate change." Global warming now IS climate change. New terminology.
That anyone connected with the Clinton administration's years of head-in-the-sand appeasment over attacks on US interests abroad would dare to criticize another President is chutzpah to the nth degree.
Keep it up, Maddie. All your badmouthing of this President won't erase the blunders by "your guy" that made Osama bin Laden think we were ripe for the taking.
Aunt Bee
January 10, 2008 - 16:58 ET by planetrepublicanAunt Bee at State and Lurch at Justice (Janet Reno). Do nothing and did nothing.
Credit
January 10, 2008 - 17:09 ET by jay_1975Lets give some credit here, Reno did get one kid deported at gun point.
jay... Easter morning no
January 10, 2008 - 17:11 ET by bigtimerjay...
Easter morning no less.
What a tough broad...
Lets not forget
January 10, 2008 - 17:56 ET by doug1950Lets not forget how effective Reno was at quieting those pesky Branch Davidians in Waco too. Then the massive coverup of the evidence that followed. It took less time for GW and our military to take Iraq and Sadam down than it did for Reno to take down the Davidians. Do we really want these people back in charge of things? Ineffective, inefficient and impotent at every single thing they did.
Good one! lol By the
January 10, 2008 - 17:14 ET by jdhawkGood one! lol
By the way, halfbright has a little 'ol practice in D.C. "advising" for ridiculous fees corporations etc. on the "intricacies" of foreign affairs. That is why she uses her former title, Madam Secretary, to get in front of any and all media and flog the "attributes" of the sainted Clintoon administration - her only claim to "fame." And, of course, the drive by media can't wait to hear from Madam Secretary especially because she lambasts this administration for among other things defending the United States.
Did you notice that when she is in front of camera, Helen Thomas is no where to be found? hmmmm . . .
Whose Interests?
January 10, 2008 - 17:05 ET by Pete Wilson"She said the next president needed to do a better job of being aware of the interests of other nations."
That quote is from the article in question.
It is my understanding and belief that the Administration of the President of the United States, including the Secretary of State, is concerned with the interests of THIS nation. While it is nice, when possible, to cooperate with other nations, the interests of this nation should be paramount.
And that is my opinion, Madame Former Secretary.
Pete
Trying to remember who it
January 10, 2008 - 17:35 ET by motherbeltTrying to remember who it was...the Secretary of State who would interview all new Ambassadors with the question "Where is your country?" The new diplomat would usually point to France, or Germany, or Rangoon...wherever they were the ambassador to.
He would then jerk them up by pointing to the US and saying, No, THIS is your country.
Too bad Maddie wasn't in the room.
mother, ...and let's not
January 10, 2008 - 18:15 ET by msh1973mother,
...and let's not forget that this woman met with Kim Jong Il, she is a complete joke!
Exactly!
January 10, 2008 - 18:48 ET by Pete WilsonToo bad our "leaders" do not know which country is theirs, also! Perhaps they all need a little geography lesson.
Every time Bush gets some
January 10, 2008 - 17:11 ET by buddycEvery time Bush gets some positive PR they trot out retards like Carter, Conkcrude, Berger (prior to pleading guilty) to slam him. Do any of you seriously care what this retard says or does. She is the one who came out of the cabinet meeting and told the press that Clinton was telling the trust about not having sex with Lewinsky! She is the one who wanted that poor little kid in Florida sent back to Castro. She is the same one that got screwed by the North Koreans and the same one that got us invovled in Bosnia where we bombed the Chinese Embassy. She presided over a state department that created havoc in the Middle East.
My favorite was the time
January 10, 2008 - 17:42 ET by tracheostomyMy favorite was the time Clinton's Mid-East peace proposal failed, and Albright was chasing after Arafat's limo in high heels.
It was priceless and I loled.
-PJ
"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07
She should shut her yap
January 10, 2008 - 17:31 ET by landshark"I cannot recall a time when our foreign policy was in less competent hands."
Peter Krogh, dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, referring to Madeleine Albright as Sec. of State
Wall Street Journal, May 1999 *
And this is someone described as her close friend and mentor. With friends like that, huh Madeleine?
* I guess I should note that the link does not go to WSJ but, rather, to a Time magazine article that references the WSJ piece.
If the HillBilly team gets
January 10, 2008 - 17:17 ET by TWOTIMETUNAIf the HillBilly team gets back in office...........Albright will be back on the Cabinet.
Democrats are either Parasites or Parasite Enablers
Albright will be back on the Cabinet
January 10, 2008 - 19:54 ET by wizardjrWhat as, a book end? Oh wait... the Cabinet of presidential advisors. Never mind. ;-)
Albright wouldn't recognize
January 10, 2008 - 17:17 ET by drillanwrAlbright wouldn't recognize a bad presidency if she were "knee" deep in one ...
Oh, that's right ... She was.
The phrase "knee-deep" is a
January 10, 2008 - 17:37 ET by motherbeltThe phrase "knee-deep" is a loaded one when talking about the Clinton Presidency....
mb and
January 10, 2008 - 17:40 ET by bigtimermb and drill....
ROFL...
I was going to comment on that earlier in the same mind set, you beat me to it, as always you put it better than I could of.
She obviously forgot about Jimmy Carter, LBJ and Ford.
January 10, 2008 - 17:31 ET by CrashGrandpa Munster lost her credibility when she articulated her sanity by suggesting that the world would be safer if every country had nuclear capabilities. Not as much as a peep came from the anti-gun crowd.
Take that Back!
January 10, 2008 - 18:03 ET by fitzfongHow dare you compare Madame Albright to Al Lewis! Grandpa Al was far more intelligent...not to mention better looking.
The only global warming the next President should be concerned about is related to the self-serving gas spouted by frivolous has-beens like Allbright. By the way, Crash, in that list of worst Presidents, you missed her boss.
I'd take this as a sign of
January 10, 2008 - 17:43 ET by Free ThinkerI'd take this as a sign of success.
Let's see: Notbright implies
January 10, 2008 - 17:45 ET by FryeLet's see: Notbright implies the bugaboo of all human ails is global warming and climate change (one and the same), stating these issues require someone who can deal with other countries. These so-called 'other countries' is the IPCC, over two-thousand members nominated by their respective governments, many of whom are enviro-activists and full-fledged alarmists. This tired criticism has been trotted out so many times it's lost all its tread. But hey, if it sells her book, isn't that what matters? The truth certainly doesn't, nor do the facts.
This is HDTV! It's got better resolution than the real world!