Clarke is an opportunist and a liar.

This fellow is a simple disgruntled employee and a liar. He was passed up on a promotion, then demoted, then resigned by submitting a resignation letter which praised Bush. Since then he has written a book condemning Bush, accusing him of inaction, and alleging that Rice is dummy.

But the lies do not stop there and to prove my earlier contention, that this man is an opportunist, I refer you to anew finding revealed on CNN’s Late Edition. Clarke has claimed to be a registered Republican. This is true. However, in the last decade Clarke has financially supported only two candidates both of whom were democratic senators.

I end with more musing from Lady Ann.
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Chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's "facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term "al-Qaida."

Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger -- but the black chick is a dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals could map out the relative intelligence of various black government officials for us.

Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education? Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office Building at night before the president chose her -- not him -- to be national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial expression" on Maxine Waters -- a woman whose face is no stranger to confusion or befuddlement -- left the "impression" that she didn't understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate crime.

As we know from Dr. Rice's radio interview describing the threat of al-Qaida back in October 2000, she certainly didn't need to be told about al-Qaida by a government time-server. No doubt Dr. Rice was staring at Clarke in astonishment as he imparted this great insight: Keep an eye on al-Qaida! We've done nothing, but you should do something about it. Tag -- you're it. That look of perplexity Clarke saw was Condi thinking to herself: "Hmmm, did I demote this guy far enough?"
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