Jack Straw Joins Condoleezza Rice's 2008 Presidential Election Campaign
It looks like Jack Straw is doing his bit, to support his local NeoCon[lite]...
Friday, Oct. 21- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Secretary Condoleezza Rice will fly together to Tuscaloosa, Ala. in the morning. They'll have a formal arrival ceremony there. They will then drive over to the Bryant Conference Center on the University of Alabama campus, where they will both give major speeches at the Blackburn Institute. Dr. Blackburn was Rice's father's mentor.
Rice will then have lunch with the Blackburn Fellows, some British students and the Marshall Fellows. On all of the events Jack Straw will be with her.
They will then drive to Birmingham and they will tour the Brunetta C. Hill Elementary School. That was Rice's elementary school when she was a girl.
After they visit the school, they'll travel to the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center, where they will do an event and be briefed on some of the modern technology advances at UAB. One of the strategic objectives for the trip is to highlight some of the facets of the new Birmingham and the new Alabama.
Secretary Rice and Foreign Secretary Straw Friday night will host a thank you reception for all the volunteers who worked on the Hurricane Katrina relief. It will include the Alabama National Guard and local citizens. One of the things you'll see during the visit is a heavy emphasis on the Katrina relief since the United Kingdom provided a lot of relief there.
After the reception, Straw and Rice will have a press dinner with members of the American Press and the British press at a downtown restaurant yet to be determined.
Not that Condi admits to any desire to move into the Whitehouse of course... having repeatedly dodged the question:
RICE: Tim, I'm flattered that people think of me in that way, but I think it was on your show that I said I don't know how many ways to say no. I really am – I'm not somebody who wants to run for office, haven't ever run for anything. I don't think I ever ran for high school president. And I think I'm doing what I need to do, which is to try and promote American foreign policy and American interests, the president's democracy agenda at an extraordinary time. And to the degree that I can do that across the world, that's what I'd better keep doing.
At least now we understand, what the Bliar means when he talks about his 'influence' on US politics.
by Anonymous on Oct 19, 2005
by Anonymous on Oct 19, 2005 - 02:22 PM
If she thinks she is really promoting "American Foreign policy and American Interests" she is doing a very poor job.
And now I see the bastards are refusing to pay the congestion charge.
Scum.
by Anonymous on Oct 21, 2005
by Anonymous on Oct 21, 2005 - 03:28 PM
"I'm not somebody who wants to run for office, I haven't ever run for anything. " , always read and weigh. Of course she doesn't want to RUN for office, of course. Too many risks. If, as rumoured, Cheney has worn his knees out by using them to impart smart blows on groins and decides to spend more time with his fishing rod - the delightful Bathroom Assistant to POTUS would willingly fill his shoes as Veep...ready for '08.
Which leaves the problem of who will fill her Ferragamo pumps ?
Does this perhaps, explain the assiduity with which Jack Straw, that Colossus that bestrides the world , follows her about ? .... hoping for Bathroom encounter moment perhaps ?
Just as well they didn't send the Pensions King, Casanova Blunkett.
Mean comments all round. I
Mean comments all round. I think Jack "The Torturers Apprentice" Straw did a good job squiring Veep elect Condi, the "Whore on Terror" around AL.
One benefit for us, it kept him out of our hair for a day or three. Apparently after tailgaitin' in Tuscaloose, the surging crowds anxious to touch the hem of his raiment couldn't figure out who he was, variously calling him Mr Shaw, Snow and Blackburn.... and I love this Mr England.