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May 15, 2006
How Many Steve Almonds Would It Take to Make a Condi?
While some students get stuck with Moonbat Jack Murtha or John McLame for their commencement address, the students at Boston College are more fortunate. They get to hear from Condoleezza Rice, one of the most admirable individuals of our generation.
Gifted at both figure skating and classical piano, Dr. Rice earned a PhD from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, as well as honorary doctorates from a long list of prestigious institutions. She was Stanford University's Provost for six years. During the crucial period of German reunification and the collapse of Soviet communism, she played an important roll as Senior Director of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council under Bush 41. Under Bush 43, she followed her admirable stint as National Security Advisor with her current role, Secretary of State. Her combination of toughness and grace, the clarity of her vision of America's role in the world, and her willingness to side with democracy against tyranny and with her own country against the moonbats infesting Foggy Bottom make her an ideal choice for this key position. More than a few would like to see her run for President.
However, Boston College's Steve Almond has conspicuously failed to show the appropriate gratitude for Condi's willingness to speak at his college. On the contrary, he has publicly indulged in petulant indignation that anyone not sharing his juvenile political views should be allowed to speak at BC.
Almond wrote a childish open letter to the college's President, in which he resigned his lofty position as adjunct English professor and called upon students to disrupt Dr. Rice's speech. Drawing on a partisan report (PDF) prepared by staff members for liberal Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Almond rudely calls Condi a liar and proclaims that he has no choice but to quit his job — the "adult" equivalent of trying to hold your breath until you turn blue.
It doesn't seem Almond will be missed much at BC. He received a lousy 2.8 on a scale of 5.0 at RateMyProfessors.com, and that was inflated by his "Easiness" score.
Let's hope he finds another job soon. I really hate the idea of part of my tax dollar going into this useless fool's welfare check.
With thanks to V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 15, 2006 4:45 PM
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Let the twit draw on his unemployment insurance - in as much as anything we get from the Government is paid for by anybody other than 'the taxpayers', he paid for it. Then he can get a job at Mickey D's Plastic Food Emporium ... and learn to work for a living.
Better yet, let him find a position at a community college, teaching Bonehead English to semi-evolved simians who write in crayon ('m not making this up - my Wife ran into it in a Poetry course she took for fun. The Teacher was fired for giving the little (caucasian, I add hastily) ape a failing grade).
Posted by: C. S. P. Schofield at May 15, 2006 5:42 PM
Condi's great. If I Were american and she were running for president she'd get my vote, no question. unfortunately she has one tiny flaw... as head of the state department she's been very, shall we say, positive toward the EU. US policy in the 80s and early 90s was for a unified European Community/Union as a bulwark against the soviet union, and her stint under Bush 41 seems to have hammered that particular policy deep in to her brain to the point that she supported the idea in several speeches, despite the fact that the EU is starting to resemble the USSR in a lot of ways. I suppose that's irony.
Still, everyone's entitled to a few mistakes. I just hope that the state department will look at what the EU is doing rather than what it's saying, and change its stance appropriately.
Condi in 2008!
Posted by: Archonix at May 15, 2006 6:11 PM
Adjunct professor of English? Adjunct professor of English???
More importantly, what do those higher up in the university think? We haven't yet heard from the third assistant deputy rat cage cleaner in training. Where does he stand?
Adjunct professors of English (I can't even type that without laughing) are the Al Bundys of academia. They're two for a penny. If BC runs short, it can always recruit a few more at any Burger King. Thanks for the laugh, Steve!
Posted by: Occam's Beard at May 15, 2006 6:38 PM
It would be great to see Condi go up against Shillary. It would be an election for the ages. The dynamics would be fascinating. And I assume some would complain that Americas first black President should be a man. And no, Slick Willie doesnt count, he is about as black as Ted Kennedy is.
Speaking of Teddys plane adventure when it almost crashed last week... Blown tire on takeoff was the excuse given. In reality, it was probably just an excuse when Ted went on a drunken rampage and threatened to break into the cockpit.
http://www.ytedk.com/chapter3.htm
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at May 15, 2006 9:34 PM
He looks stupid, if you want my opinion.
Posted by: Lady Heather at May 15, 2006 11:01 PM
Actually, he looks like a shirtlifter, but that's neither here nor there.
Posted by: Occam's Beard at May 16, 2006 12:21 AM
Help us draft Condi and get her elected! If we're lucky, we get get Steve to move to Canada.
Posted by: Jonathan Tethers at May 16, 2006 1:29 AM
I am guessing that in Boston, throwing a childish hissy fit over idiotic moonbat politics is a career enhancer. He'll probably be asked to head the Womyn Studies Department at Harvard.
Posted by: V the K at May 16, 2006 5:52 AM
How do you spell 'hissy fit'?
Posted by: ex-expat at May 16, 2006 7:47 AM
l-i-b-e-r-a-l.
Posted by: Archonix at May 16, 2006 8:13 AM
Good grief. How much anyone want to bet this guy spent the better part of the semester before The Great Resignation (that wasn't) lecturing his class on tolerance and the importance of various people expressing their views through literature. In case that bet hasn't shaken off all comers, let's also add in the probability that not one of the books read in his doubtless critically-acclaimed course was written by a conservative who's been dead less than two hundred years. If that.
Always fun to watch the liberals' rallying cry of "tolerance" turn to cries of "fascism" the minute the viewpoint disagrees with their own.
Posted by: The Random Yak at May 16, 2006 2:08 PM
What can I say? Sometimes you feel like a nut...
Posted by: Denise at May 16, 2006 2:32 PM
Yea, I agree. I saw him on tv and the man interviewing him was trying to make a point. I think the point was that since Almond supported John Kerry, and John Kerry supported the idea that WMD existed, that now that Almond has turned against Republicans for "lying about wmd", that to be consistent, Almond must also turn against Kerry for the same reason, otherwise we have reason to suspect that his problem with Iraq and Rice is not really moral, but politically-generated moral.
Posted by: brian butler at May 23, 2006 1:12 PM
