Obama, Rice huddle on arms treaty, other issues

[Synicus Maximus]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is meeting with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to talk about a pending arms treaty with Russia and other issues .

A White House official said Rice and Obama have a "cordial relationship," and the president looks forward to Friday's meeting covering "a range of foreign policy topics." The official isn't authorized to speak publicly and insisted on anonymity.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101015/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_rice

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Huh?

[JuniperLea]

1. Just more reaching across the aisle...

I don't think it's a big deal.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

[gateley]

2. Yeah, but she is so not qualified! Hope it's more for show than anything else,

although I'm not sure how many across the aisle really liked her. She's b.l.a.c.k. you know.

[JuniperLea]

6. And I hated that thought for many years...

Yeah... I really hated her for allowing herself to be a T-word. Just pissed me off royal. They weren't all that kind to her.

She's always had a soft spot for Obama... she gets that swoony look, donchano. Maybe he can make her a mole for the cause... dreaming, I know.

[Kang Colby]

54. Team of rivals .

This is a well documented Obama strategy. I see nothing wrong with it ???

[No Elephants]

40. LOL!

[Auggie]

3. The Secretary of State is Hillary Clinton...

:wtf:

[msongs]

4. yeah but hillary is not a bush appointee so what does she know lol nt

[David Zephyr]

63. +1

Why wasn't Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the "huddle"?

This just looks cheesy and is another amateurish mis-step by Obama.

Condi Rice is a war criminal.

[AlbertCat]

5. President Barack Obama is meeting with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

RICE?????

Wasn't she the National Security Advisor when we had the worst terrorist attack on US soil ever?

Well, maybe he's trying to find out what NOT to do.


Condie...go play a piano and STFU. We don't want or need you for anything.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. I hope that the neocons are not up to their nasty tricks?

[No Elephants]

41. She is supposed to turn down the President's request for a meeting? If she had, what would we say?

[warrior1]

7. she had the worst

failure of any sos, she knows nothing.

[Iowa]

8. Why doesn't he just make it official, change parties, and get it over with? Pathetic.

[area51]

48. +1 n/t

[choie]

60. I totally agree

nothing like collaborating with a war criminal - WHICH SHE IS!

[Lorien]

67. Simple: the Right is racist. It's easier to dupe the Left

because we want to believe in anyone who is well educated and makes a great speech after our eight long years with President dumbfuck. Some here fell for it. The rest of us focus on deeds over words, and we know that he and BushCo are playing for pretty much the same team. In 2012 we'll be told to just deal with it and vote for him because the teabaggers are worse, blah, blah, blah. The fix is in.

[defendandprotect]

9. Hey ... let's be grateful he hasn't brought Kissinger into the WH yet .... !!!

[KoKo]

30. Kissinger is in the background with Geithner...but to bring CONDI BACK? To Meet with Her?

:shrug:

[No Elephants]

42. Hank probably doesn't travel much, but I have zero doubt they've spoken.

I don't think input is a bad thing--unless you seek it for purposes of triangulation and/or otherwise misuse it.

And there's always Kissinger's Timmeh.

[golddigger]

10. Fuck this shit.

[Doctor_J]

11. Unfuckingbelieveable

This is sickening.

[saigon68]

38. Kinda--Sleezy Rice

[Doctor_J]

47. Maybe he needs help with "Historical Documents", like "UBL Determined To Strike In US"

Which she chose to ignore a month before her boss oversaw the greatest act of terrorism in US history.

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. If I were Hillary, I would be uber pissed.

[AlinPA]

17. What the hell is going on? Hillary is SOS. This is not good.

[David Zephyr]

64. I agree.

.

[katandmoon]

13. She helped lie us into an illegal war. Now Obama is treating this war criminal like she has any

credibility?!

The betrayals from this administration just never end.

[readmoreoften]

14. Hard to prosecute when you're asking the war criminals for advice.

Maybe that's why he hasn't prosecuted.

[AlinPA]

15. Condoleezza Rice? What?

[Owl]

16. I try so hard, but am getting weary.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. Obama should not go near her, she's trouble!

[UpInArms]

20. gah!

:puke:

Don't go near kinda sleazy, 'bama, she's just a lying POS

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/testimony.htm

[Owl]

21. WTH?

[elleng]

22. RUSSIA/SOVIETS HER SPECIALTY, STUDIED UNDER ALBRIGHT'S FATHER.

He's too smart to ignore potentially valuable expertise.

(Capped this, to get attention of all the nay-sayers here.)

[Blasphemer]

25. That was my first thought too. Rice has always treated Obama respectfully. He is doing the same...nt

[elleng]

27. As he should.

[avaistheone1]

49. Rice is a lying sack of ****

She deserves no respect.

Rice can take her mushroom clouds and deposit them where the sun doesn't shine.

Hundreds of thousands of people have died for her lies.

[elleng]

52. You could use some edumacation.

Start here.

http://www.aolnews.com/politics/article/condoleezza-rice-talks-race-relationships-in-new-book/19673921

[Dappleganger]

56. +100000

It is quite telling how certain people on this forum are so quickly supportive of republiCONs.

[Phil The Cat]

72. Every conman and conwoman should be broke and in prison

For supporting military war against people of other nations, and political, economic, and criminal code war against Americans!

Just think of ALL the jobs we could create by locking up MILLIONS of knuckleheads for being against America!

Construction workers, prison guards, social re-education specialists, and all the millions of progressives filling the conservative's old jobs!

Not to mention all the quality housing that could be given to the homeless and oppressed! And even MORE caregiver jobs helping them take care of themselves and their houses!

As long as the prisons are not near me, of course! I CAN'T STAND the smell of Aqua Velva and smugness!

[choie]

69. He can treat her with respect

by saying "hello" when she says "hello", but consulting with her is a whole other thing - shit...I don't give a damn what her academic credentials are - one more time: SHE'S A FUCKING WAR CRIMINAL!

[KoKo]

31. Hillary is very close to Madeline Albright...Maybe it was Hillary who suggested the Condi Meeting?

Please tell me it was Hillary and not OBAMA who suggested this and arranged it.........

[elleng]

32. Who knows how he got the idea? And why should we care?

Shouldn't we be happy he's as smart as he is to take advantage of all available resources, to look for answers to the zillions of issues he has to deal with?

She was on Tavis Smiley this week. But Prez O knows he has Russia issues, and certainly might have come up with it on his own. Or thru V.P. Biden, or SOS Clinton, or FLOTUS!

[KoKo]

33. You don't know who Condi Rice is and what she did in the Bush Administration?

You really think that Condi Rice is capable of giving advice on ANYTHING?

WHY..do you think that?

I didn't check your profile to see how long you've been here on DU...but if it isn't long...then you might be innocent about Condi Rice ignoring the 9/11 warnings before those planes killed almost 3,000 people ...and you might not know her history.

If you've been around here since around 2001...and are defending Obama meeting with this abomination..then I just feel sad about how ill informed you are.

[elleng]

34. Slam undeserved.

I've been here, and been around.

SHE didn't ignore, HE DID, and cheney's crew ignored her. I guess you were sick that day, eh? We'd like to think she should have been more assertive, but you do remember rumsfeld and the rest of the group, don't you?

He and they ignored Powell, too. Remember???

[katandmoon]

36. Would you defend Cheney if Obama consulted HIM?

[elleng]

37. Never.

He's no damn Russia/Soviet expert; SHE IS!

[katandmoon]

44. Obviously -- I didn't mean, consult Cheney on *Russia/Soviet issues.*

[elleng]

46. or anything.

We've got to remove ourselves from knee-jerkiness, and not cut off good advice in spite of the fact we don't care for where it might have come from. We've got to be adults, and allow Prez O to be an adult about governing.

[Dappleganger]

57. Well said!

[katandmoon]

35. Capitalize all you want. You can't cover up the fact that Obama's consulting a repug war criminal.

[Dappleganger]

58. Exactly--she is complicit in Bush's warmongering.

To state otherwise is to participate in the same revisionist history which the repugs do every day.

[Dappleganger]

50. SO WHAT???

Spin it any way you want but she's still Bushie's con woman who was complicit in his failed presidency.

[elleng]

53. Wouldn't want to confuse you with any facts, so ignore.

[Dappleganger]

55. If you wish to be dismissive

of the FACT that Rice is a republican, BUSH devotee and confidant, that is your own ignorant fault. I for one will never forget that any right-wing influences which the president welcomes is a threat against our democratic principles and a slap in the face against those who worked hard to get him elected.

[AlinPA]

68. Valuable expertise? She lied us into a war for crissakes. She, Powell, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and

the whole pack lied and are responsible for over 100,000 deaths.

[boppers]

76. Lesson to be learned: You don't consult Russian experts on Iraq matters.

Consulting with the wrong people leads to disastrous results, like the 500,000 slaughtered by Clinton and Albright.

[U4ikLefty]

78. typical Boppers

[U4ikLefty]

79. typical boppers

[boppers]

75. +1. She's an expert in the field.

I don't like the teams she's played for, but ignoring her expertise is wasteful at best.

[COLGATE4]

23. Jesus Christ on a crutch! What in hell is Obama thinking, relying

on this POS for any advice on foreign policy? Plus, it's a hell of a slap in the face to Hillary who, from all accounts has been a really good soldier as SOS. Unbelievable!!!!

[lonestarnot]

24. omg

:puke:

[unkachuck]

26. I thought Rice was a Republican?

....did we run out of Democratic Russian/Foreign Policy experts?

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[KoKo]

29. WHAT? I'd read that Condi (Dragon Lady) Rice was on a Tour to prepare to Run for House or Senate...

but meeting with Obama? This just cannot be. This must be Right Wing Propaganda of the Worst Sort!

[democracy1st]

39. more bs! we're caught between a rock with these guys.

[harun]

43. Effffffff that BS. She is a war criminal, along with the rest. Psssst, Obama, we have

elections because we don't like those people. We don't want them influencing policy because their ideas are corrupt and their policies bankrupt.

[Haole Girl]

45. This makes my head hurt

more. :-(

[lunatica]

51. "Oh Mr. President! Who could have guessed they would use airplanes as missiles?!"

"We were all innocent! Can't you tell by the look on my face?"

[ipaint]

59. And the merging of the two major parties continues. Good PR for condi

queen of water boarding, imaginary mushroom clouds and endless death. I'm sure the defense contractors milking the country dry are pleased too.

[hedgehog]

61. Who better to explain the thinking behind our relationship

with Russia under Bush?

Got to know where the dirt is if you want to clean out the stable.

[ipaint]

62. Condi is a war criminal, if Obama just has to tap into her vast

expertise it should be from her jail cell. She OK'd torture, she lied us into war. Obama has said torture is a violation of international law. She is an unpunished war criminal. Treating her as a learned colleague legitimizes her crimes. Prosecute then pick her brain if he believes she is so knowledgeable he can't do without her opinion.

[David Zephyr]

65. Gag me.

Pathetic.

[ixion]

66. Way to keep the neocons in power, Barak

:puke:

Rice belongs in a cell in the Hague, not meeting with you.

[Joanne98]

70. *&^%$

[lunatica]

71. So now Obama 'huddles'?

Talk about biased and slanted journalism. A meeting is now a huddle? The spin makes me dizzy.

[yurbud]

73. russia is her area of expertise

To the extent that she's an expert on anything

[The abyss]

74. I will say it again.

Once more for the cheap seats – This woman is a war criminal!

They hung better humans in the aftermath of Nuremberg.

[Skittles]

77. DISGUSTING