{"id":277,"date":"2009-05-04T00:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T04:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-05-04T00:38:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T04:38:38","slug":"why-condi-was-my-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/why-condi-was-my-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY  CONDI  WAS  MY  CANDIDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people were surprised when I said here last year that my candidate would have been Condoleeza Rice, and had she run for President, I\u2019d have taken time off work to campaign for her.\u00a0 Quite apart from being strong on \u201cmy issues,\u201d she had proven herself to be brilliant, super-competent, and more self-made than any other candidate from either major party.\u00a0 Apparently, she was too smart to take on any more thankless tasks, and didn\u2019t run.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a clueless lad took advantage of a question-answer session when Ms. Rice was speaking at a college campus, and tried to trickbag her with a question about government-sanctioned torture.\u00a0 Watching the video on YouTube, I was struck with the kid\u2019s pompousness\u2026and couldn\u2019t keep from smiling as she dissected him, handing him his butt on a verbal platter.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i6b_MaBNrmY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i6b_MaBNrmY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You could say she \u201cwaterboarded\u201d him with his own regurgitated media Kool-Aid.<\/p>\n<p>Watch, learn, and enjoy.\u00a0 The clip I saw was marked \u201cCougar Alert,\u201d apparently by a youngster since I\u2019m told that \u201ccougar\u201d is a term today\u2019s younger generation uses for attractive, sexy older women.\u00a0 To geezers like me, of course, Dr. Rice is a younger woman.<\/p>\n<p>The lad who made that posting simply got the feline species wrong.\u00a0 Had the kid with the microphone who started a fight he couldn\u2019t finish asked me for advice beforehand, I would have warned him, \u201cTigress Alert!\u201d Alas for him, it\u2019s too late now.<\/p>\n<p>And I still say \u2013 \u201cCondoleeza Rice for President in 2012!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people were surprised when I said here last year that my candidate would have been Condoleeza Rice, and had she run for President, I\u2019d have taken time off work to campaign for her.\u00a0 Quite apart from being strong on \u201cmy issues,\u201d she had proven herself to be brilliant, super-competent, and more self-made than any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}