Condy Rice @ Wednesday's Spamalot- Page 3

[theaterlover45]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 2:02pm

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Photo_Op.aspx?ci=517286

[theaterlover45]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 2:03pm

O sorry I didn't know there was only one picture lol.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 2:04pm

The issue isn't what the average American was doing. Rice and Bush work for us. They are paid with tax dollars to do their jobs. Part of their job is crisis management, which they failed to do. The woman, who didn't yell at Rice but politely asked what she was doing, has no real power to do anything. SHE can't coordinate efforts of troops or diplomats for aid, but Rice can. The blaming of the average citizen is exactly what the administration likes to do. And the San Francisco earthquake was of roughly the same magnitude, so the argument that the US has never had a natural disaster of this magnitude is false. We are at war and in the middle of a huge crisis in the South, yet our President chose to remain on vacation, and Rice decided, even though New Orleans was destroyed at that point, to catch a Broadway show. This is beyond unacceptable. With all that is going on, all due to this Administrations failings, NOT ONE OF THEM deserves to go on vacation. Look what happens...millions of lives ruined.

[theaterlover45]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 2:22pm

I agree.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:23am

I didn't see this posted anywhere on this thread, but Condi's trip to Spamalot made it into Maureen Dowd's most recent column:

"Condi Rice was seen shoe shopping at Ferragamo's on Fifth Avenue and attended Spamalot before bloggers chased her back to Washington..."

Posted: 9/6/05 at 8:58am

As someone pointed out, Katrina isn't the first disaster of this scope in the US. When a huge earthquake hit San Francisco in 1906, the response was quite rapid. There is a link below to a detailed timeline, but highlights copied below:

Earthquake hits at 5:13am.

A messenger arrived at Ft. Mason at 6:30 a.m. with orders from Gen. Funston to send all available troops to report to the mayor at the Hall of Justice. (FEDERAL RESPONSE)

First army troops from Fort Mason reported to Mayor Schmitz at the Hall of Justice around 7 a.m.

At 8 a.m., the 10th, 29th, 38th, 66th, 67th, 70th and 105th Companies of Coast Artillery, Troops I and K of the 14th Cavalry and the First, Ninth and 24th Batteries of Field Artillery arrived Downtown to take up patrol.

At 10 a.m. Headquarters and First Battalion 22nd Infantry, were brought from Ft. McDowell by boat, and were held for a time in reserve at O’Farrell St. They were later utilized as patrols and to assist the fire department.

At about 10:05 a.m. the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Station at San Diego radioed press reports of the disaster at San Francisco to the “U.S.S. Chicago.” Admiral Caspar Goodrich immediately ordered fires started under all boilers, and after a confirmation message from the Mayor of San Diego, the “Chicago” steamed at full speed for San Francisco. It was the first time wireless telegraphy was used in a major natural disaster.

At 10:30 a.m., the “U.S.S. Preble” from Mare Island, under the command of Lt. Frederick Newton Freeman, landed a hospital shore party at the foot of Howard St. to help the wounded and dying who sought help at Harbor Emergency Hospital.

Fort Miley troops, the 25th and 64th Companies Coast Artillery, arrived at 11:30 a.m.

Even with no TV or radio but only with telegraph communications, Washington acted faster in 1906 than in 2005 - Secretary of War Taft at 4 a.m. ordered 200,000 rations sent to San Francisco from the Vancouver Barracks.

Secretary Taft ordered all hospital, wall and conical tents sent to San Francisco from army posts at Vancouver; Forts Douglas, Logan, Snelling, Sheridan and Russell, from San Antonio and the Presidio of Monterey.

Secretary Taft wired Gen. Funston at 4:55 a.m. (less than 24 hours after the first quake) that all tents in the U.S. Army were en route to San Francisco.

NOW - I love theatre as much as the next person, but there is NO WAY Rice should have been watching SPAMALOT and buying shoes while New Orleans was getting swamped. She should have been in communications with other countries about disaster relief.

San Francisco 1906 Timeline

[playbill_signer_05]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:18am

"I hear that Condi was booed when the curtain went down at the end of the show"

I read this too. Yay Spamalot audience!

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:31am

Yes, I may be sitting on my ass at a computer, but I'm not the Secretary of State. I work for a temp agency, not the US government.

[Avigdor]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:17pm

she is a horrible s/s and is nothing better than a politician using race as a ticket to success.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:24pm

Dont get me wrong, I have immense sadness over what happened down south, but I find it funny that when something like this happens everybody becomes a donor, while every day in places like West Virginia kids go to bed hungry and live in cars. Hell, I live in a major city, there are mentally ill people that could be helped with medicine that everybody steps over to get to work while telling their co-workers how they donated to Katrina. It's like on Christmas, everybody has the "spirit" then 3 days later, they are all back to being their selfish asses. I know there are a lot of volunteers doing " near holy" efforts, but it would be nice if we, as a people, thought like that with or without the catalyst of a disaster.