Condi: "I'm a terrible long-term planner" (Business Week)

[blondeatlast]

Would you consider a position in business or on Wall Street?

I don't know what I'll do long-term. I'm a terrible long-term planner. I was supposed to be a music major and concert pianist, and here I sit. I love serving on corporate boards, and I find American business and our corporations to be the engines of innovation for this country and, therefore, an engine of innovation for the world. One thing I've tried to do is to institutionalize the public-private partnership. The government can't do it all. When you talk about winning hearts and minds around the world, we are but a small part of what most of the world encounters about America.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_30/b4043101.htm

[Madspirit]

1. K&r because it made me laugh

Isn't someone in her job actually SUPPOSED to be a long-term planner?
Lee

[endarkenment]

2. She loves sitting on corporate boards!

Ah, so she is like uh you know, the um paris hilton of the corporate fascist theocratic kleptocracy. That's hot!

[libnnc]

4. Free company tote bags, ink pens and coffee mugs

I'll bet she gets all kinds of kewl swag

This woman was granted a doctoral degree :banghead:

[aquart]

9. Yes. But what does a PhD actually mean?

That she knows a great deal about a very little, tiny, narrow bit of knowledge. It's a specialization degree.

[intaglio]

10. PhD is pronounced Fud so is Condi

a dull Fud? ;-)

[libnnc]

11. I think she knows very little about very little

She should have stuck to Schubert and Brahms

[Mend]

23. PhD = Phony Doctor....the kind that can't write prescriptions.

[flying rabbit]

29. Piled Higher and Deeper

[Chomskyite]

16. Gigantic salaries for only showing up once or twice a year

That's what corporate board membership entails. It's often a reward given to ex-government officials for lucrative contracts. So Condi will get offers from Halliburton, Bechtel, the oil companies you name it.

[Skidmore]

6. Yeah, did you ever notice the number of "in process" answers that

whole bunch of corporate rejects give all the time.

[bunkerbuster1]

32. Heck, don't we all?

It's great! Once a year or so you take a junket (or maybe you get stuck with hardasses who make you meet at their corporate HQ--the horror!), and in exchange for listening to stuff that doesn't really interest you, you make millions!

Yep, I love it too.

[EFerrari]

3. Good thing she's not in a position of responsibility.

Oops!

[City Lights]

5. I see her as more of a reactor than planner.

...often in melt-down mode.

[Vilis Veritas]

7. Oh great!

She spells out the Corporafascist state link right there.

"...corporations to be the engines of innovation for this country..."

The people are the fuel...without WE THE PEOPLE, there would be a bunch of scrap laying in the road of history...

Peace

[JVS]

8. I hope she runs for president

[Disturbed]

14. " I was supposed to be a music major and concert pianist.'

She couldn't make the grade on that so she decided to be a failure in other ways but still make a ton of money. She failed upwards by embracing Neo Fascism.

[DrDan]

12. uhhh . . .we have a Sec State who is a "terrible long range planner"

She is trained to be a "concert pianist"

Exactly what qualifies her for this job . . . except that her head is buried so far up the BFEE a** . . . and she is just another greedy repug . . .

[tanyev]

15. And don't forget she started off as the National Security Advisor.

You know, the one who ignored all of the terrorism warnings in 2001.

[DrDan]

20. well now we know why

long range planning is just not her thing . . .

and I feel so guilty for misjudging her all these years.

[Blu Dahlia]

13. Probably why she's single too

She put career first all her life and when the smoke clears, she's alone.

[frogcycle]

17. her level of competance is on a par with the rest of the dimwits shrub attracts

he thought she was brilliant because she knew the world wasn't flat

[BlueManDude]

18. Maria Bartiromo disgusts me alomost as much as Rice does.

[Supersedeas]

36. almost

[shadowknows69]

19. I've been trying to come up with something to add to this

But what more can you say. It is the perfect statement. Made by Miss Incompetency 2001-2007 herself.

[blondeatlast]

21. I normally would add some sort of comment, but I didn't want to cloud

the absolute self-knowledge, irony, and twisted beauty of that statement.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. I'll bet she left that out of her resume, though. nt

[blondeatlast]

24. "Ms. Rice, what would you say are your greatest weaknesses?"

"Well, Dick (may I call you Dick?), I tend to be impulsive. But once I make my mind up to do something, I stick with it till the end and I'm proud of my resolve, whether it be shoe-shopping or invading nations."

"Ms. Rice, welcome to the Bush administration!"

[eppur_se_muova]

25. "Can you remember three mistakes you've made"?

Me neither!

[11 Bravo]

26. Oh, cool, then you need to be SECRETARY OF FUCKING STATE!

No planning involved with that job.

[blondeatlast]

27. K for the swing shift. nt

[blondeatlast]

28. BTW, I sent this gem to KO. nt

[UTUSN]

30. Honey, you're just TERRIBLE!!1 n/t

[blondeatlast]

31. For a coffee and doughnuts spew... nt

[Supersedeas]

33. from the short-term perspective, most documents are 'historical' documents

[bdamomma]

34. she is so FOS, she knows what she'll be doing long term.

she is just playing the Cheney game of being secretive.

[blondeatlast]

35. I sent this to KO last night--can we get a few more sent to him?

If ever there was a "Worst Person" candidate from Condi, this has to be it.

[Cleita]

37. So was Marie Antoinette when it came to

fashion, the theater and the latest trends among the nobility. I believe Condi keeps up with couture, hot shoes fashions, broadway plays, hip places to vacation, you know those things her job lets her have. It's lovely being queen until they cut your head off.