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Women really don't get math: Just look at Condi RiceBy MAUREEN DOWD
Jan. 21, 2005, 9:58PM
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3003593><snip>
It's lucky for Rice that she's serving with men who are just as lame at numbers as she is. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz couldn't be bothered to tally correctly the number of dead soldiers when he testified before Congress. And his boss, Donald Rumsfeld, didn't realize that using an autopen signature on more than 1,000 letters to the relatives of fallen troops adds up to zero solace.
Our new top diplomat has obviously not mastered fractions. When she asserted during her confirmation hearing that 120,000 Iraqi troops had been trained, Sen. Joe Biden corrected her, saying she was off by a bit. His calculation of trained Iraqi troops was actually 4,000 -- hers was 30 times that. Maybe she's confusing hyperbole and hypotenuse.
Her geometry is skewed if she thinks she'll now be more powerful than Rummy and Dick Cheney.
Doesn't she know that the Pentagon has more sides than her Crawford triangle with George and Laura? <snip>
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Holy cow!!!!!!!For those keeping score, add that to the list of other, um, oddities.....
Okay, we actually have eight tidbits already here.
1. Condi spends a lot of weekends and holidays with Bush. I've not seen a photo of her with a date or even an escort. Do most people in high-pressure jobs spend major holidays with their boss at isolated locations like Crawford or Camp David?
2. Allegedly, Condi said "my husb--", then corrected herself at a party, to say "President Bush." (Hey, if not true, why was it reported? That has a nearly equal number of hypotheses to go with it.) Here is the text:
...At a dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven Weisman, and Elisabeth Bumiller, Rice was reportedly overheard saying, “As I was telling my husb-” and then stopping herself abruptly, before saying, “As I was telling President Bush.” Jaws dropped, but a guest says the slip by the unmarried politician, who spends weekends with the president and his wife, seemed more psychologically telling than incriminating. Nobody thinks Bush and Rice are actually an item. A National Security Council spokesman laughed and said, “No comment.”
http://nymetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/n_10245/
3. The plastic turkey trip to Iraq Thanksgiving before last. I don't have this one handy, but there was a reference to her saying that as they snuck out of DC with baseball caps to elude the press, Condi and George "looked like any other couple".
4. Someone at DU posted Blementhal's wording in Salon:
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/04/08/condi/index.html>> "Single and single-minded in her devotion, she is among his most intimate aides, accompanying him and the first lady on their weekends to Camp David."
DU poster wrote: "The wording is very suggestive and Blumenthal is careful about his wording."
5. The Aaron McGruder "BOONDOCKS" cartoon series, which asked who would Condi date? What kind of man or woman? It was quite persistent, went on and on, for many days.
5B. Okay, actually, maybe this is the kicker. Look at who didn't run the series. "The Washington Post chose not to run a recent
series about national security adviser Condoleezza Rice." --Houston Chronicle, January 19, 2004. The Post, according to some who dig into these things, has a longstanding CIA connection (I can't vouch for that).
6. They fought tooth and nail to keep her from testifying re 9-11. Claimed the president needs to have confidential advisors. (Yeah, but the way they did it seemed almost like they were asserting a husband/wife privilege.)
7. DU poster said that Richard Clarke when testifying at the 9-11 commission said it is important for a President and a National Security Advisor to have a close relationship and that no NSA has ever had a closr relationship with a President than Condi has with Bush. The poster wrote (this was months ago): "As soon as he said that I figured they were having an affair. There was something about his tone."
8. Colin Powell announces he will resign as Secretary of State. CBS News says that Condi will be offered the job -- 11 15 04. A clip of Bush is shown walking toward a podium, and he gives Condi a little kiss on the cheek as he passes by her.