So the Bride of Frankenstein is going to go to work of that vampire Rove during Swiftboat Season Part Two?
improving the world's view of the United States is a "long-term challenge" that will outlast her.
"This will take a number of years," Hughes said in an interview Tuesday.
I'd give it more like just six months after Bush and the rest of his cast of nimcompoops leave the Oval Office.
Rice said that Hughes had made public diplomacy "strong and central" to U.S. foreign policy and had exceeded expectations in the job.
Yeah, diplomacy has always been a fundamental of Cheney's WW III strategy in the Middle East? The world really didn't ever have very high expectations for this administration after the Chinese brought down that figher jet right after Bush took office.
"Negative events never help," Hughes said...
Yeah, like getting caught lying about the WMD as an excuse to invade another country that never posed a threat to our nation and then taking the historic step of actually legalizing torture when they got caught using it at Abu Graibe?
She nearly doubled the public diplomacy budget, to nearly $900 million annually, and sent U.S. sports stars Michelle Kwan and Cal Ripken Jr. abroad as unofficial diplomats.
Now that must have really impressed Middle Eastern people who think soccer is the only sport? American audiences never took to "Skating with the Stars" either.
Polls show no improvement in the world's view of the U.S. since Hughes took over. A Pew Research Center survey earlier said the unpopular Iraq war is a persistent drag on the U.S. image and has helped push favorable opinion of the United States in Muslim Indonesia, for instance, from 75 percent in 2000 to 30 percent last year.
Another failure skillfully glossed over as an achievement by the GOP propoganda machine. Condi has never met a disaster that she hasn't been equal to.
Hughes said she advised Bush and Rice two years ago that U.S. help in ending the six-decade old fight over Israel would probably do more than anything else to improve the U.S. standing worldwide.
So this explains why Israel is now cutting off water to Palestine? What next? Baby formula?
Hughes had been splitting her time between Texas and Washington.
Since she obviously was never welcome in the Middle East, that $900,000 could have been better spent on health coverage for American children instead?
To coin a phrase from Babs Bush, "Karen has done nicely for herself."
