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She is the young woman, you know, who is going to be the next US Secretary of State. A bunch of us ghosts got together to watch her confirmation hearings, and oh my, oh my. The woman can talk! She can really run on! Can you believe she talked for nine hours!?
Oh dear, dear, dear, listening to her speak was so tiring. I know ghosts aren’t supposed to get tired, but there are times and this was one of those times. And what did we learn from all this listening to Condoleezza Rice?
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First of all, she takes a long, long time to rally around her point. We had to valiantly listen and concentrate to understand where she was heading in her long essay type statements. Some of us got sleepy. Some couldn’t quite stay awake in fact. “Is she finished yet? Is she finished yet?” We kept asking. She mostly talked about Saddam Hussein, the madman-tyrant-horror-master of the Middle East. We wondered why the former madman-tyrant-horror-master Osama bin Laden wasn’t mentioned much. Remember him? He’s evidently passé these days. “Yesterday’s mashed potatoes” so to speak, (but she didn’t put it that way). She reluctantly addressed the subject of torture, which she isn’t for since she is absolutely against it. However except maybe perhaps in some cases... She explained how difficult it is to deal with the unequivocal unscrupulous out there in the freedom hating Middle East. She demurred a lot though. I thought she really evaded many of the stickier questions, and Senator Boxer thought so too. So, at the end of the hearings, I floated away thinking, “Well, she might not completely believe in torture for some others, but she sure did know how to torture me with her endless longwinded remarks and explanations.” And something very odd I noticed, even when she was smiling - her eyebrows were always frowning. I was inclined to think that maybe she had, oh my gosh, a little bit more to say? Maybe adding just one more little irritating rationalization... I must go now. We’re having a big prayer meeting up here today.
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