Secretary "Condi"

bullwinkle
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:09:06 +0000

I believe the context and import of what The BBC labeled as the ‘Yo Blair’ converstaion was President Bush’s statement to Prime Minister Blair " We have to stop Hezbollah from doing this *****".

Perhaps more to the point, I would also note that was a PRIVATE conversation albeit there was an open mike President Bush was not aware of. The issue presented by this thread is the choice of words in a public setting, a formal news conference covered by worldwide press, addressing a MAJOR world crisis. To that end, a point getting lost in all this is how this is seen by the rest of the world and our enemies when our envoy is casually referred to as “Condi” and given the threshold issue of how the middle-eastern world views a woman being sent there as our representative.

Words matter. They matter alot-something about the pen being mightier than the sword I think was once said. This is not understood by this administration; and there ain’t nothin’ folksy about the folks we are dealing with over there.