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To: Follies who wrote (97597)	1/8/2013 8:54:39 AM
From: Joseph Silent	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218012

While your unabashed optimism and penchant for data may, all by itself, be wholly deserving of a very special kind of cap and flag, :) there are two things worth noting. The first is that you may have missed the point, which is not a desperate search for one example --- and non-white one at that. You could have looked for better examples. The more relevant things is this: she never seized the considerable opportunities offered by exchange programs to learn its language in the country itself. Her lack of proficiency with Russian was ridiculed in April 2005 by Pravda (admittedly an anti-U.S. publication): How did Condi get appointed as Secretary of State and labelled a Russian expert? Could it be that she told President Bush that she was an expert in rushin' around and he made her his "Rushin' expert"?Asked whether she would run for President at the next election on Ekho Moskvy Radio programme, Condoleezza Rice answered Da! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Not bad for someone who is quoted frequently by the Western press as being a fluent Russian speaker and a Russian expert, although she has never lived in the country. As for Rice's knowledge of French, which she studied at an early age, she herself admitted in 2006 that while she could understand a conversation with President Jacques Chirac of France in his native tongue, "I can't speak it, because I was never very good at French." As for Spanish, she was tutored in the language as a child, but while a graduate student in 1975, she said that "it was not a great time to get a job, particularly if the language you spoke was Russian, not Spanish." In all fairness to the conscientious Rice, she apparently did make an effort to learn some Portuguese on the way to her christening of the Chevron oil tanker, the M/T Condoleezza Rice, named in her honor during her tenure as a Chevron Director from 1991 until January 15, 2001. prwatch.org dailykos.com The truth is always hard to know. Or as easy as it is to accept that George Bush is fluent in Spanish. :) I think you could find better examples.