November 04, 2007

Another Bush Fine Mess: Karen Hughes


BuZh rewarded a CRONY with a plum job. Not bad for a day's work at the war-crazed White House back then.

But NOW, the fat lady has come out with the flab showing in the poorly-constructed state affairs dinner dress -- Karen Hughes simply did not FIT -- not the White House, not the State Department and MOST IMPORTANTLY, not the World Stage and she has been "forced" to resign.

She will surely NOT be missed.

But will someone surface who can straddle the stage between the State Department's NEED to bolster the US need for a better world image and the INSANE White House directive to have its 100-year war in the Middle East, as insisted on by the plethora of pro-Israeli "advisors" and government staffers and officials? Well, it's Highly Unlikely!!

Rumor has it that even CONDI wants OUT, but she must SUFFER as she has no good "cover" story. She's busy, busy, busy containing the attacks on her super spending on out of control mercenaries and popping pills (see video quite a few items back when CODE PINK confronted her) ..

The costs of the Iraqi, Afghani, Lebanese, antiPalestine - and recently expanded into Turkey, Kurdistan, Syria - WARS has been high indeed. And the US State Department (always always lax on Middle Eastern diplomatic initiative but run on HUGE suitcases full of worthless US dollar$) is going to make for an entire generation of effort to correct the BuZh/Rice/Powell legacy.

Here then, is a little RIP for our buddy Karen Hughes (with a tip o the hat to John H. Brown) .. a Treasure Trove of stuff can be found Here!!

First, an effort by Looney Moonbat ...
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Iron Triangle Trifecta Defection Complete

Earlier last month - October 11th - the brilliant writer Sydney Blumenthal wrote an open letter to Karen Hughes, calling for her resignation.

To be fair, Blumenthal called for her to evolve beyond her role as the tool of the current administration; to become a true human being and a true diplomat, or forfeit her position as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs for the United States.

Blumenthal writes:

So far, to be honest, you have earned a reputation for being out of touch, for spouting platitudes without understanding the underlying issues. You are seen as oblivious to the concerns and sensibilities of groups of foreigners with whom you have met. However noble the abstractions of your rhetoric, your speeches are uniformly received as irrelevant propaganda. Even after objective observers have called attention to this pattern, you have done little to adjust. While it would be unfair to put the entire burden of transforming the image of the United States on you, it is a sad fact that your actions have deepened cynicism about American motives. And your inability to change has been consistent with the administration’s unwillingness to shift course in the face of demonstrable failure.

Hughes announced her resignation yesterday.

Almost more than anyone, Karen Hughes represents the Bush administration’s distribution of power to cronies and political hacks without regard to ability or experience. In the role of representing the United States to the world, Karen Hughes was almost as uniquely unqualified and inappropriate as John Bolten was for the role of Ambassador for the United States to the United Nations. Like Harriet Miers, Hughes sole qualification for her position was her unabashed sycophancy of George W. Bush. She not only drank the Kool-Aid, she mixed it up and poured it into little paper cups.

The question, then, is what happens now? Does the President replace someone in this position, or just admit that no amount of platitudes and good old fashioned American rhetoric are enough to make the world overlook the fiasco of the situation in Iraq? If Karen Hughes, the epitome of the Bush administration’s denial and contempt for reality, can not weave a fog of fantasy thick enough for the world, or the President, to believe, then who can?

USA A-OK!

11.01.07 -- 11:32AM
By Ben Craw

Karen Hughes, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs - the woman essentially in charge of making sure the rest of the world really likes America - announced on Wednesday that she would be retiring from her post by the end of the year. In today's episode of TPMtv we take a look back at just how wildly successful she has been in promoting America's image abroad over the past few years ...

Watch this episode on YouTube.

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