Washington Post reporter, Glenn Kessler, has just published a new biography of Condoleeza Rice. According to news reports, there is an anecdote in the book that perhaps best expresses the way the Bush Administration overall feels about workers--and about their own exhalted right to rule.
According to Rice's best friend, Stanford University's Prof. Coit Blacker, when our Secretary of State was on a shopping trip to purchase some jewelry and the saleswoman brought her earringt that she didn't deem worthy of her salary (paid for by us, the taxpayers), Rice snapped "Let's get one thing straight. You're behind the counter because you have to work for the minimum wage. I'm on this side because I make considerably more."
This, of course, from an Administration official who is part of a gang that had to be force fed a federal minimum wage raise. Let's hope she shows a bit more respect for the foreign leaders with whom she negotiates than she apparently does for the milliions of workers who pay her salary and who can't afford to call out a salesperson or be so rude.
I hope she is reminded very soon, graphically and finally in the first person, of what befell the first Marie Antoinette:
...she was executed by guillotine at the height of the French Revolution in 1793, for the crime of treason.
Saul Friedman also weighs in on the non-diplomat Rice:
...I can’t think of a single thing she’s accomplished on her watch. And it’s time for the press to catch on.
A good thought, but if the press were to 'catch on', they might have to say something about it. Fat chance.
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