{"id":2088,"date":"2008-04-23T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/condi-schmondi\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T07:33:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T12:33:50","slug":"condi-schmondi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/condi-schmondi\/","title":{"rendered":"condi, schmondi…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bush administration disavows Carter’s Mideast talks<\/strong><\/a>
Rice rules out peace negotiations with Hamas group<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that former President Jimmy Carter’s recent talks with the Palestinian group Hamas had not been helpful, and she disputed Carter’s contention that no one in the government had tried to dissuade him from his mission.<\/p>\n

"We counseled President Carter against going to the region and particularly against having contacts with Hamas," Rice told reporters in Kuwait, adding that the administration had "wanted to make sure there would be no confusion and there would be no sense that Hamas was somehow a party to peace negotiations."<\/p>\n

The disagreement revived longstanding Bush administration tensions with the former president, an outspoken critic of American policies at a time when Israelis and Palestinians say their talks have reached a sensitive phase and Bush is planning another trip to Israel…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Condi has been such a disappointment. As National Security Advisor, she ignored the threat of al Qaeda until the Twin Trade Towers were bombed into rubble. Now, as Secretary of State, she’s not produced one single diplomatic success. Now she’s going out of her way to trash good old Jimmy for trying. I want to like her, but I can’t bring it off. She’s acting like a traditional "wife" to Bush and Cheney. She’s got the stuff to act on her own, but not the will… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush administration disavows Carter’s Mideast talks Rice rules out peace negotiations with Hamas group Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that former President Jimmy Carter’s recent talks with the Palestinian group Hamas had not been helpful, and she disputed Carter’s contention that no one in the government had tried to dissuade him from his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}