Rice Offered to Resign Following Bush's 2004 Re-Election

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217119,00.html

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she offered to resign as President Bush’s National Security Adviser as part of a broader house-cleaning following the president’s re-election in 2004.

"I did tell the president at one point that I thought maybe all of us should go, because we had fought two wars and we ... had the largest terrorist attack in American history," Rice disclosed Sunday night while en route to the Mideast.

"And when he asked me to be secretary of state, I said, 'I think maybe — maybe you need new people.' " She did not say what the president's immediate response was.

Fielding questions aboard her plane, Rice strenuously denied a claim in Bob Woodward's new book, "State of Denial," that her relations with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once deteriorated to the point where Bush had to intervene to ensure Rumsfeld would return Rice's calls.

"Secretary Rumsfeld has never refused to return my phone calls," Rice said, noting the two talked every day as part of routine "principals' calls" involving senior officials.

[WCGreen]

1. Oh that is all just bullshit designed to deflect Woodward.....

[Kikosexy2]

9. So how about...

some phone records to dispute the claims.....

[Joe for Clark]

2. Guess she shoulda gone.

Bet she's sorry she didn't go at this point.

Joe

[nam78_two]

3. Rice is full of it

And this is related to the Repug party's Pravda...

I call bs...

[CottonBear]

4. Not. n/t

[MaineDem]

5. Yeah sure!

I cetainly don't believe it was said seriously. if at all.

[goclark]

6. I can speak "Condi Talk"

Rice said,noting the two -----

" talked every day as part of routine "principals' calls" involving senior officials."



I know exactly what she means.


The call is made from her office and he talks to one/more of her Assistants, SHE does not talk directly TO him.


I can speak Condi Talk.
:toast:

[Debi]

7. Let me get this straight

She went in to her boss and offered to resign and instead he made her 4th in line for the presidency? Yep, stuff like that happened every time I tried to quit a job....:eyes:

Does something smell in here?

[Toucano]

8. Just for practice, let's examine that last sentence.

"Secretary Rumsfeld has never refused to return my phone calls," Rice said, noting the two talked every day as part of routine "principals' calls" involving senior officials."

1.) Secretary Rumsfeld has never refused to return my phone calls - yes, because Bush intervened.

2.) the two talked every day as part of routine "principals' calls - that's not a call from Sec. Rice. That's a conference call. That's not what Woodward was talking about.


Isn't it fun to examine a "denial" that doesn't actually address the facts Woodward laid out?

[partylessinOhio]

10. That 'ho' is full of it. She would never leave her "husband" or

give up her "room" at the ranch.

What a sick triangle those three are!

[bluestateguy]

11. By custom, Cabinet secretaries usually do offer their resignations

after a president gets a second term. This is not a big deal. The only person Bush is more attached to than Rice is Karl Rove.

[Parche]

12. FRIED RICE

She is one of the biggest liars

"We would have moved heaven and earth if we would have known those hijackers seats numbers"

[rocktivity]

13. I could donate more money to DU

if I weren't constantly buying new bullshit meters. :nuke:

This didn't work for Rummy, and it won't work for you. Since when is having your resignation refused something to brag about?

:eyes:
rocknation

[neuvocat]

14. So I guess she's being held against her will then.

I just dread the day when a foreign power will have to invade Washington D.C. in order to rescue her from the evil clutches of GW Bush. Poor thing, being imprisoned in a position of high power like that.

You go Condi! You go girl!