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		<title>The USS Condoleeza Rice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This made me laugh in the Huffington Post:
I don&#8217;t believe Condoleezza Rice can actually play piano. Everything else she&#8217;s ever touched has been a fraud and a catastrophe, why should her alleged musical abilities be any different? Think about it. Think about any event she&#8217;s been even remotely involved in since you first heard her [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This made me laugh in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/i-want-condi_b_118598.html">Huffington Post</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t believe Condoleezza Rice can actually play piano. Everything else she&#8217;s ever touched has been a fraud and a catastrophe, why should her alleged musical abilities be any different? Think about it. Think about any event she&#8217;s been even remotely involved in since you first heard her name. An endless string of threats and blundering and arrogant bluffs turned squalid pigfucks. It&#8217;s not that she can&#8217;t do her job; she can&#8217;t do <em>anything</em>.  I think when she plays piano the piano catches fire and the audience dies.</p></blockquote>
<p>Cynically: Is it because she&#8217;s a black woman? We want <strong>so badly </strong>to believe that she&#8217;s in her position on merit because it means that gender and/or race are longer barriers to the highest office.</p>
<p>Then again, maybe her failure is actually a validation that we&#8217;ve moved yet further than that. Blacks, women, asians, transsexuals &#8211; there are so few barriers now that those who reach the highest office are just as mediocre as the old white men who&#8217;ve monopolised those positions for centuries.</p>
<p>It kinda makes me feel good about the world. She&#8217;s just another blinkered idiot in the White House.</p>
<p>Though, really, having an Exxon oil tanker named after you should have set a few alarm bells ringing when she first took office.</p>
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