Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Liars?

Sisyphus does not like Condi Rice--does not like her in a tree, does not like her at the NSC, does not like her by the gate, does not like her at the Department of State, does not like her here or there, does not like her anywhere.

Sisyphus Shrugged - oh dear: oh dear, the Dr. Rice rumors are starting up again. If you've been here for any amount of time, you'll have noticed that I have very little respect for Dr. Rice. She's been lucratively wrong at every step of her career (her academic career was based on getting the Soviet Union completely bassackward in a way that was popular with alumni), she's spectacularly intellectually dishonest (among other things, she claims that she's a lifelong conservative Republican because Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond and the rest of the dixiecrats wouldn't let her father vote in the fifties - what ever happened to them, anyway?...

Everyone I've talked to who knows anything says that she was the worst National Security Adviser in history: that she decided early that she was going to make sure the president didn't hear things he didn't want to hear. Her strategy of kick-down-and-kiss-up was not good for the country. Not good at all.