sounds like she's writing her own history already.

Well said Condi. I am not a huge Bush fan but all this talk lately about America needing to regain our respect and so forth in the world is so juvenile. Unfortunately a large portion of our celebrity obsessed US Citizens are more concerned with how "popular" we are rather than doing the right thing on principle. Yeah lets show the world how little substance we actually posess by groveling so we can keep our prom queen title. Of course we need to try and have positive relationships with the world but this abstract notion of a "world respectometer" just doesn't exist but in the vapid minds of those more concerned with popularity (read: shallow self gratification) than principle (read: doing the right thing and not apologizing for it).

No surprise here — look who she's "palling around" with…

Most of you people are fools,. Obama has no intentions of changing anything in Iraq. Look at the people he lefted in place. THe war is won.

When I was in South Africa a few years ago all I heard was how people hated Bush and his policies. I got drilled with questions about how we could be so dumb to vote for him twice! Once again this shows Republicans are out of touch.

America should be thanking the Bush administration, our Armed Forces, Intellegence Services and Law Enforcement for America not being attacked again after 9/11 because they fought terrorism as a war not a police action like the previous democrat administration and the current democrat controlled Congress and Obama administration are wanting to treat terrorism as a law enforcement issue again. But Americans are only worried about the now not the future and are wanting immediate gratification not patient for the long haul. Keep the liberal lawyers out of fighting terrorism since their whole job is to win at any cost including the release of terrorist on American soil.

Ed, Santa Fe, NM December 28th, 2008 7:26 pm ET
SHUT UP AND GO AWAY, RICE
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SHUT UP AND GO AWEAY, ED, SANTA FE!!!!!!!!!!!

so if u crook and lier dinasty incompetent and u perfect becoming US politicians, bush UNamerica put border patrol in the jail and giving pardon to drug dealer and crook criminal

Texas Teacher December 28th, 2008 7:22 pm ET
Jason in SC…. you are indeed delusional!
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NO — Texas Teacher — YOU are delusional!!!!!!!!!!!. Still sending smoke signals, are you? Still building a shrine to EVERYTHING that is black, are you? Geeze — YOU are a teacher? I pity your poor students! (though I doubt you're REALLY a "teacher." ) NO good teacher would post crap like you do !!!!!!!!

How the people going to thanks to a bunch of the people lies to the world and destroy some other people life ?

anywhere I read some rethuglian post in this blog. I always notice how the rightwingnutters would rather see the country fail and go bankrupt than be fixed. by a more intelligent leader. You should be thankful that you still live in a LIBERAL and PROGRESSIVE country. which is going to be presided by a LIBERAL and PROGRESSIVE leader. because come to think of it if this country will be run by another wingnutter like your idol. with a retarded conservative views. your head will be rolling on the pavement. It's not the liberal who makes a country socialist it's your party's backward oppressive views.

I don't agree with Rice's perspective but I still respect her as a fellow educated black woman and she is entitled to her beliefs. It is the job of the SOS to support their President and that is what she is doing. I also don't like the person who referred to Bush as her "husband." You sound ignorant. It will be Hillary's job to support Obama but that won't make him her lover. Come on, let's do better than this. It scares me that some of the people on this board are parents…I hope the children don't end up this ignorant. This is just her personal opinion, not fact, she stands by her beliefs and we can disagree with the beliefs without attacking her as a human being. She often seems to get more hate than Bush himself. Gee wonder what that could be about? At the end of the day, the President makes the major decisions.

Also, to the person mentioning the abortion statistic, what are your sources? Why don't you quote how many children are abused, raped and forsaken that are alive. Oh, no one cares about those because they don't meet a polarized agenda. What about little Caylee who was murdered yet the death penalty was already removed from the table? Ah, see people care less once the child is born. I bet not one so called pro-lifer does ANYTHING to help the living once they are here. I am sure they roll their windows up at the adult homeless men who need money…I saw someone with their pro-life bumper sticker do that while I handed the guy a five. It is each woman's decision to make. Period. Do something for the people alive then talk about pro-life.

I've always thought Condi had a crush on Dubya. This lends credence to that…either that or she's drunk.

For those thanking Dubya for "keeping us safe", ummm…9/11 happened on HIS watch! Hello?! He had a memo that terrorists were planning an attack in the near future and he did NOTHING.

That's it Condi. Blame the ineptitude of this administration on historians.

That'll work.

She knows she up for war crimes too.

I'll thank the troops instead. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You were able to fight the war on terror with honor and integrity. Mr. Executive Privilege was unable to do the same. Good riddance.

Condi has hair that resembles Darth Vader's helmet.

She is a smart lady and inside she knows Bush is a failure.

Boston Irish

Congress was Democratic for only two years of the Bush debacle. The other six were Republican. Stick that in your self righteous pipe and smoke it.

Yes, I'm sure the people of New Orleans will feel very grateful to Bush and his cronies for sitting with their thumbs up their backsides and letting those same people rot.
I'm no supporter of Obama, I was and still pro-Hillary, but at least he seems to be more competent then Bush.

Condi , shut your lieing mouth ……
You are a war criminal , just like your boss, ( and lover ) Geo. W ., …..
You both, along with Dick Cheney and the rest of your neo-con crew, should be charged with war crimes, and made to stand trial in the Hague …..

" Thank Him , Indeed "…… You`re Nut`s …….

Condi! How could you?! I always thought you were intelligent, but now I wonder. I was always proud of you, even though you are a republican; because you are from my home city, Birmingham and because you are a black woman who made it this far, but this is it! I'm putting you out of the city, out the female, and out of the black. Your just another Bush-bot. That's all

Uhm!! Aaahh!!!! Hhhmmm!!!

I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!

Iraq
Katrina
The Economy

Need I say more???

Condi,
WAKE UP DEAR!!! PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!!!

I never voted for Bush and I hate the situation we are in but I don't entirely blame president Bush. I admire him and his wife laura and wish them the best. As far as that trash that is about to take over our White House, that scum will NEVER get this democrats respect nor support.

when someone stands up for us there idots,its funny how bush was in bed with the saudis but they are glad to see him go,he was responsble for high gas prices but now its consumption,cnn and most of you people are ideots,little buy little you will start hearing the truth why things are the way they are so nobody can bame obama,do you forget that the dems have been in control for 2 years why do you thin k that there so in favor of these bail outs.you people are so stupid you make me sick.

Ms. Rice is an exceptionally intelligent woman and has accomplished much in her life, but she is going to be forever tied to President Bush and his administration. The measure of a President's legacy is determined by future historians. They will look at the nation when he came into office and look at the state of the country when he left office. Bush has prevented any further terrorist attacks within our borders since 9/11. Bill Clinton also prevented any further attacks within our borders after the World Trade Center was first bombed in 1993. The economy tripled under Bill Clinton's two terms. The economy is far less than it was when Bush first was elected. We are fighting in two wars, our reputation is in shambles and we are on the verge of a depression. History will judge Bush and Rice and it is hard to imagine a glowing review. They have no one to blame but themselves.

Yeah, right, thanks but no thanks. I am sure late night comedy will miss you george.

I didn't even read the article. The title has me lmfao!!!!!!

Condi needs to be strung up with George, Dick, Karl, Wolfowitz, Addington, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Addington, Yoo, Rumsfeld and all the other criminals that have served in the Bush White House.

Unprovoked wars of aggression are considered the highest of the prohibited war crimes discussed in the Geneva Conventions, so Condi at least deserves some attention on that front, for her part in deceptively selling America on the idea of the illegal Iraq invasion and occupation… And she was also involved in some meetings in which TORTURE (err, excuse me, "enhanced interrogation techniques") was directly authorized at the top levels (check out the Senate Armed Services Committee Report from earlier in the month). It's really no surprise to hear her defending her co-conspirators, but that doesn't change the facts of the total disregard they've shown to laws both federal and international.

Honey, I would not hold your breath if you think our brave young men and women that were maimed over in Iraq, and then have to return to America and fight the rats at Walter Reed for attention, are ever going to thank the man whose lies put them there.

Just keep up the reptilian party's talking points to prove you are still a "real American" reptile!

ohh to the author "change will be soon" bush wansnt wrong although we lost 4000 brave men and woman in iraq we have lost well over 7 million babies due to abortion since the start of the iraq war. Thats something your savior Barack Obama supports. Its also strange i heard obama say in an interview on cnn that he will just get rid of our bases out of iraq not take all the troops out so i guess he thinks president Bush was smart to go because he is also taking back most people including Gates and men and woman in the pentagon who work and belive in our President Bush so wake up and realize Bush has been great!!!!!!!

What drugs is Conni using?

Happy New Year, do you honestly think Bush and his cabinet are responsible for the mess the US is in today?? What happened to the democrat controlled congress? I think Barney Frank and his bozos, Pelosi, Reid and the non voting Obama have a lot more blame regarding this mess. But you are so set on blaming Bush for everything, you forget what the do nothings in congress failed to do. Oh, excuse me, they weren't "do nothings", they were busy trying to cover their butts because they could see what was coming and were NOT about to take the blame for anything. You are handing them a "Get Out of Jail Free" card by blaming Bush for everything and playing right into their hands. Thanks for nothing.

Fianlly someone who stands up for what they believe in. Not like Obama who has to pretend to brush people under the rug for something they do because he is trying to please the elite far left
media. God bless President Bush and Rice

You think so Condi??? You really think so???

You just keep saying that. What ever makes you feel better, right?….

I, for one, will NEVER forget what I went through during the Bush years…..

You just keep trying to rewrite the history books Repubs….just keep trying….

Condi, only a Retardlican like yourself would think anyone other than a multi-millionare would thank Bush for anything. Please take all your Retardlican friends and go lick a window so the country can recover from the damage you and the rest of your retard buddies has caused this great country.

Ms. Rice,

Self-serving, chest-thumping tripe. You do not need to twist the knife in our collective consciousness—Americans feel betrayed, we are broke, we have lost our friends in the world. You have aided and abetted the execution of those events, and now you want our thanks, vicariously, by asking us to thank the President.

Are you really as shallow as depicted in the Oliver Stone movie, "W"?

I would thank him to be gone.

I would like to know what planet Ms. Rice is living on. No one will ever that Mr. Bush for the last eight years. It is going to take eight more years for another administration to dig us out of this financial hole Mr. Bush has put us in.

People will thank Bush.
And pigs will fly.

I totally agree with Secretary of State Rice, who knows what she is talking about as opposed to so many bloggers and media interests who really have no concept. President Bush did not cause 9/11, which proves what naive and out-of-it leaders preceded him in the Presidency. We know what Billy Clinton was most interested in, and the men before him wanted only to "keep the peace" even when our own country's interests were being betrayed.

To "aware" you scare me silly with your racists comments and very narrow thinking. Whoever you are, if there are others like on this earth, woe unto us all !!!!!!!

With people like you in this country, who needs terrorists!!!

Condi Rice is deluded. Can't help but look forward to her exiting the world stage along with her "husband' Bush.

They are going to thank him just as people such as I who grew up in the Depression thanked Herbert Hoover.

I wonder how many of you Bush haters voted for him, twice. Most of you are sooo fake. If Bush single handedly brought down the whole worlds economy, then I'm glad to have voted for such a powerful man.

Just because it's hip to bash Bush, you want to join the bandwagon. Spineless followers you are!!!!

DREAM ON!!!

She's Right

Bush will be electing democrats for years to come.

In that respect we can all thank him.

This woman is completely delusional. She has been completely ineffectual as secretary of state. How's the peace process in Israel going, Condi? Remember, the one you said would be solved in a year?

I know history, and neither you nor Bushie will be viewed favorably.

Miserable failures…both of you. Thank God we have < 3 weeks until you dolts vacate the White House.

Those people who thank President Bush for "keeping us safe" are foolish. It's like my elephant-repelling belt buckle: I'm wearing it and I don't see any elephants, so it must be working. And it only cost me 500 billion dollars and 4,000 U.S military lives! Bush had nothing to do with your safety. In fact, the biggest attacks on U.S. soil happened on his watch.

LOL in your dreams Condi.

Oh, my, but the old Texas Teacher is rather cynical tonight…. but that is due to many many years of watching politics! I thought I had seen it all in my life time…. but this administration takes the proverbial cake!

Phew… I am glad it will be over in just about 3 weeks!

Bush's legacy has been set.

War on Terror: He couldn't finish the war on terror at Afghanistain and moved valuable resource to Iraq War and let Taliban and al Queda come back,

War on Iraq: He misled American to invade Iraq, cost 5000 American soldiers life and 20,000 wounded. Abu Ghrab instance forever tarnished American Amry's reputation.

National Debt: His administration doubled national debt to 10+ trillions.

Economy: American are experiencing the most severe recession during his last year administration. He couldn't either prevent nor react during this crisis.

The comments made by all the people who do not like the Bush family, they have to realize he was their country's leader for 8 years and they should get their facts together now for this new President. let them ask themself this question "What is this new President going to do for me? Are they expecting a mule and 40 acres? Wake up you dreamers it is a tough world out there now, and you blame who you want to, but, start deciding on a new victim because Obama is not going to do one third of the things he promised, it just has to take time for improved results….Betty

smoke another fattie, condy!

you and george will be known as the biggest losers
we have ever employed at your positions.

why would anyone even interview these idiots?

A. Bert…. I bow in your general direction…. your eloquence is only surpased by your complete understanding of the Bush administration and the horror they have perpetrated on the whole world. And Condi…. wasn't she the one who sat on the Clinton information about bin Laden?

Thank George Bush? For what? Providing us with humor because of his gaffes? Rice is so protective of Bush, you'd think she's in love with him.

I thought you had to know/do something or accomplish something to write about it. If you write about your life /accomplishments of the worst administration in this countryshistory you might make a dollar or so from it. Make sure that it isn't promoted as fiction.

Additionally, people will thank Bush for teaching them to save again. Americans saved 270 Billion in October, compared to a year ago when it was only 60 Billion. I agree with Condi, true historians will see the long term benefits Bush's policies have given American and the World [and for the record, we are not the most important people in the world... we are humans just like everyone else]. However, the liberal historians will never see the positives of Bush, much like how people ignore the bravery of another heavily misunderstood president, Andrew Johnson.

Thank Him? When he's gone – How about Thankful!!

Thank you for bringing our economy to its knees. Thank you for lying to the American people. Thank you for bringing our country into a war that has cost lives for no reason whatsoever. Thank you for allowing Iran to aquire nuclear weapons without doing anything. And thank you for holding people indefinately in Guantanamo Bay. As long as you don't do it on American soil, it is O.K., right?

Well Condi, We've already thanked Bush for his thoughtless actions, One way we thanked him was not to have HIS endorsed pres. canidate in office this Jan. and a free pair of shoes from Iraq!! What else does he deserve…

Oh, lord, Griff is off his meds again. Someone get him some help!

Seriously, though, what do we expect from Condi Rice? She's a great friend of W and is just as complicit in anything crooked he and his buddies have done. She just received her reward – an appointment to some committee or another. I wouldn't believe anything this woman has to say.

WHY??? Did he get us a cushy job on the board of Kennedy Center?

HAHAHAHAHA…

the shield of stupidity and arrogance protects all of Bushco from any sense of reality…

SHUT UP AND GO AWAY, RICE

SOME DAY A LOT OF THESE SO CALLED DEMOCRATS , THAT LOVE AN E,ECTED THE BIGGEST LIAR OF ALL TIMES, I SHOULD SAY HELPED PURCHASE THE WHITE HOUSE.

ALREADY BEFORE HE GETS IN OFFICE , WE ARE SEEING A TASTE OF WHAT WE WILL WITNESS THREW OUT THE NEXT YEAR'S.

RICE HAS DONE A GREAT JOB. SO LETS GIVE HER CREDIT FOR A JOB WELL DONE.

AN SHE IS A CITIZEN , AN DOES HAVE A VALID BIRTH CERTIFICATE , THATS A LOT MORE THAN BARRY CAN SHOW. MAYBE WHEN HE COMES BACK , HE CAN SHOW US ONE , YET PLESE DON'T CHECK THE PAPER , FOR YOU WILL FIND IT HAS BEEN FRESHLY PRINTED IN PAST WEEK .

tHEN THIS DAY HIS STAFF , ON TV , WERE TALKING JUST LIKE HE DOES , AH , HUH , AHH , AN MOST EVERYTIME THAT HAPPENS , THEY ARE LYING. AS USUALL.

Thank you so much, Bush, for helping my house lose $70,000 in just one year.

Yes, Ms. Rice, we will sure thank him on Jan. 21, 2009…thank him for finally getting the heck out of the White House. Heck, we might even thank you for also getting out of the White House!

Bush will definitely be a part of history that my kids and grand kids would read about …. regarding how he was the 'worst' president ever for his ill conceived decisions, stupidity, and arrogance.

Jason in SC…. you are indeed delusional! Europeans are not against the American Citizens, but they despise Bush and his administration!

They will welcome Barack Obama with open arms just as they did during his visit during the campaign. The whole world is cheering at the end of this administration and their war mongering! And I am right there with him… and long with over 75% of all Americans!

Obama has an up hill road to travel, but at least he has the intelligence to do it wisely with the help of the most educated and intelligent minds this nation has to offer!

Get over it…. your party lost for very good reason!

People will, unfortunately those "people" aren't Americans but the enemies of America.

Some years ago Ms. Rice referred to President Bush as her husband in error at a party as published in Newsweek. I think maybe she has become to close to President Bush to see clearly. He is one of the worst Presidents in all times. Look as where this nation and the world is today because of him and his adminstration. I think history will not at all be kind to this President.

I think you are right Ms. Rice. By the way you have been very good for this country. Clinton will be a joke. There is no way she can fill your shoes. Thank you for your service Ms. Rice and thank you Mr. President for your service and for protecting me and this country,
even though there are people who will be sorry for what they have said about you.

??? Does Condoleezza Rice have any credibility left?

No? I didn't think so.

Therefore SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON, OUR NEXT SECRETARY OF STATE – - – COME ON DOWN!!!

SENATOR JOE BIDEN, OUR NEXT VICE PRESIDENT WITH "TRUE" FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE EXPERIENCE – - – - COME ON DOWN!!!

I have a serious question…..why do liberals care what other countries such as Europe think of us so much? Because the last time i checked, if it was not for us, they wouldn't be there anymore.

When was the last time most countries liked us?
I can barely remember that, but you may take note that millions of people around the world are applying for our visa lottery every year.
They may be loud in anti-American, but they would move here immediately if we let them. It's not that the louder ones are always right. They are just loud. It seems to me that many Americans feel each individual European is smarter than an average American. That may be sadly true if we look at our failing education.

Prof. Rice is absolutely right. If the people did not send Clinton to jail, (not for Monica), they have no reason to send Bush to jail. If they have any ground in impeachment, they would have started it long ago.

this is from a woman who as secretary of state never solved one problem in all her years. can someone point out one accomplishment?

Steve "Thank him? THANK HIM?!?!
Get lost already you arrogant rethug lady you!!

You are racist! Sounds good?

Wow! Only 23 days' and counting til the horror on Pennslyvania Ave is all gone,…Flush!!!

What a joke!

Thank George W. Bush? For what? Unashamedly stealing an election (or two)? A war that never had to be fought that was waged with unprecedented incompetence? Allowing Bin laden to get away with 9/11? Allowing New Orleans to drown? Leaving us a debtor nation? Leaving us with a reactionary supreme court? Driving American prestige into the ground while tearing up the Bill of Rights? Guantanamo? Torture?

Yeah…he will be thanked alright…for leaving.

Bush and Cheney say history will judge them. History will judge Amercians for allowing them to stay this long.

OMG, you Lefties are a bunch of racists! You are just being hateful because she is black. She doesn't look like the "guy on the dollar bill". How does it feel, Obamites?

Poor Condi.. so deluded. For her sake I hope she remains in a clueless fog because the reality of what she was a part of might be too much for her to bear.

Please tell me this lady is not for real, Why would anyone other than Bush be glad of the thing that was done to this contry. Here you have people loses their jobs/home and is that something to be glad about I am glad they both will be out of office soon.

And so I feed you: CNN… Then I listen…. Your so liquid…. Just like a "Message in a Bottle". You invade your own Beach….

I voted against him twice, but, Good Grief, Bush is NOT responsible for every thing wrong with this Country right now.

How naive you folks are!
How are we ever going to get back on our feet with the attitudes some of you people have?

If it wasnt enough that she kissed up to everything that was wrong with this presidency….Yes , she is definitely trying to cover her behind.

BUSH IS THE REAL TERRORIST !!!!!
You destroyed the lives of so many innocent people in this world and one day you will face your own demons!!!
MAY ALL THE DEAD SOULS OF KATRINA, IRAQ,AFGHANISTAN, HUNT YOU DOWN IN YOUR SLEEP!

Condi you need to go to AA. Clearly you've been drinking! Thank Bush for what? Driving us into the ground?

And by the way, PEBO will not be the first black president of the USA!

The only color PEBO has is from the Kenyan father who deserted him. PEBO was raised white and had a Caucasian mother.

Now, Michelle is black!

I am curious, Sara from Arizona, what your idea of a good choice for Secretary of State might be?

She got to be kidding thank him for what he the worst president in US history…..Why should I think him when I lost my job and my friends, family lost there jobs throughout his 8yrs….Go get a life Rice no more Bushes

Bush has as much chance to be thanked later on as Obama has a chance to be a great president. Don't bet your next paycheck on either, folks!

I disagree with her and time will tell whether or not people will thank him for what he has done. I don't think Americans will thank him. He has done more damage to this country and to its image than good. Of course she will say what she has because his bad image also reflects on her and everyone else in his administration.

Never a Bush fan, but you never know..
If things continue to sour in the Middle East, our presence in Iraq (no, we are not leaving any time soon…we are in fact establishing military bases there, and yes, Obama knows this) could, in hindsight, be the best thing we have done the past decade.
Even if it was initiated on faulty information…
And, I will respect anyone's viewpoint about what jerks we are in the US by anyone who is willing to give up their lifestyles, sexual and religious freedoms, their SUVS, their HDs, their daily bread and fresh water, their Constitutional rights, etc.
Because all too frequently, that is what too many live without on the other side of our oceans, or even just South of our Borders.

As for prosecution? The Congress is DEM– What's the Delay if there is a case to make?

Grow Up.

My America attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice have a lot to answer for in the future. Our country, although supposedly at war, has near no border security and Homeland Security Chief Chertoff has illegals cleaning his house. Face the truth and ,hopefully, you'll face trial in the near future for crimes against humanity, our Constitution and supporting torture. Maybe you all can vacation at Guantanamo?

Rice must be dreaming!

Thank you President Bush for keeping us safe.

Certain European countries do not like us. Trust me, I have experienced it. But, they like us in Latin America.

Condi, in your dreams. You've really lost it. Thank him????

I'd like to thank him for going away….

The level of denial surrounding the Bush administration is so so sad. It prevents them from seeing and acknowledging past mistakes, and thus switching to a better course of action. That's why this country is currently stuck on the wrong path.

Thank Him??? Is that what the Iraq was doing with his shoes??

Sounds like most of the posters here have drunk alot of the CNN koolaid. Nothing better to do than sit around bad mouthing the people that protect the freedoms you hold so dear!

The only thing I'll thank him for is getting the heck out of the White House January 20th.

She can only hope this will be the case. How else can she live with herself after being such a loyal follower all these years . . . . .

Condi is right on, you people are so brainwashed by the liberal media you cant even see the truth. I would vote for both Bush and Cheney again if I could.

Remember, this is the same woman who suddenly doesn't believe in Affirmative Action, when it was Affirmative Action that got her the job of Stanford Provost absent the usual tenure and qualifications!!!

Lynn in CT,

While I won't stoop to calling you names or saying that you're lying, I will say that I lived the first 9 months of this year in Germany. And while I found that the majority of people did not necessarily like President Bush, I found literally zero "anti-American" sentiment. This held true in Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and France–and if you have honestly spent any time over there at all, you'll admit that no one has any aversions to talking about politics, one way or the other.

As for Bush's "lies", I'd like for any one of the moronic Obama-bots on here to tell me just one thing that he said that was not previously said by both Clintons, Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, Tony Blair, Jean Chretien, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder, Boutros-Boutros Ghali, Kofi Annan….and countless others. Either they were all "lying" or there was an intelligence failure of monumental proportions–you can't have it both ways and lay it all on Bush.

Yes, the economy is currently in the toilet. But that is no more entirely the fault of Bush than it is entirely the result of the Community Reinvestment Acts of 1977 or 1995, both of which REQUIRED banks to lend to people who could not afford a mortgage.

I truly hope that Obama is a fraction of what his supporters think of him. If so, I'm sure the streets will be paved with gold and will each have our own big rock candy mountain in no time, not to mention the cures for cancer and AIDS. And of course, there will never be another person in the world saying a bad thing about "The Great Satan", America (for most of you who seem to fall between the ages of 12 and 18, we were called that long before Bush was ever president.)

Yes, I am an Independent, and I thank Bush for many wise decisions! I think in the long run history will treat him very well!

On the other hand, PEBO, the Chicago bred palm-greasing, wound salting politician scares me silly! Saul Alinskey's son claims his father, the community organizer who wrote "Rules for Radicals" gave PEBO the tools to win the election.

yup. thanks, george for your unparralled incompetence in sending 4220 americans to their meaningless deaths in iraq; thanks george for your unparrlelled incompetence in handling the disastor (ongoing) which was Katrina; thanks george for, because of your illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country (didn't Hitler do that in Poland in 1939?), your unparalled incompetence because of the cost of that war you love so much, has destroyed this economy; thanks george, for your total disregard of the bill of rights (except, of course, for the 2nd amendment, for which you owe the NRA for your election); thank you george, for your unparalleld incompetence in almost every area of government touched by your regime….to Condoleza Rice, I merely say…"WHAT ARE YOU….NUTS?..ARE YOU, AS PART OF THIS MOST INCOMPETENT OF REGIMES THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF EXISTING UNDER, IN COMPLETE DENIAL…WHAT AMERICA WERE YOU LIVING UNDER IN THE PAST EIGHT YEARS…????" GOOD RIDDANCE TO THIS MORON AND ALL WHO BENT LOW TO KISS HIS A–!

Ms. Rice, I know you have to be loyal to your party, but maybe just saying nothing at all would make you look smarter(and saner)!

Rice is as big an idiot and ego-maniac as bush.

Can you say "Robot?" I wonder what color is the sky in Condaleeza Rice' world? All I can say is 23 days… 23 days…

Thank you Mr. President. You have successfully created an entire new generation of terrorists for our children.

Thank you

Wow, Condi, you're right – people will thank George W. Bush for what he has done.

Too bad the people doing the thanking are all enemies of the USA.

Bush and his cabal of thugs need to be facing charges for what they have done.

Don't count on it, Condi.

Let us not forget that we elected the guy in 2004. We elected someone else in 2000, but Florida ….

90% of us supported him at the beginning of the Iraq fiasco. I did too, though I voted against him. I believed Powell when he said that there was "no doubt" that Iraq had 2,000 TONS of bacterial and dirty nuclear material. That convinced me that they were intending to use it, probably against Israel, and that we should intervene. I was a fool. At least, I was fooled.

In the end, it is the voters who voted for him that are to blame. They should have known better. I certainly did.

Let's make a true historical examination of the eight year of the Bush's administration and take a look on these perspective as a true American:
1) The episode of 9/11- a sudden flight of despair, as it was, which surged through every American;left most of us with a sense of national humiliation and a perpetual mood of fear of external enemy whose methods of attacks being so unpredictable and its design unthought of by the civilized world.
2)Was it not a show of ruffians of middle- ages working their way through tha dawn of 21st centuary.
3)When the nation was plunged in deep sorrow,the President came into the arena, soothed the depressive feelings of the nation and made a promise to the world that the attack would not go unpunished.This attack on us was not a revenge of the enemy for our any action. If at all, we were responsible to the enemy, we were helping the nations of the Middle East, we had acted with our best intentions to help the Israel-Palestine tangles and many more.
4)In short, this administration's actions were all positive. It brought sucess to the war of Iraq before its term, as promissed. Remember, this
action was necessary first step to bring a lasting peace in that area.

Wow,Thanks for going quietly.Whew what a discrace to mankind.

Which people???

DOC: so you are contrasting between bush and the prince of peace? why? we all know that only your obama is the true messiah, right?

give me a break: so, anytime you lose something, it's because someone stole it from you? i'm sure you were a sore loser at sports too, right?

thank you, secretary rice, for all your dedication and effort these past several years. your own country has often treated you unfairly, even turned on you, but you still traveled the world to defend and represent our nation. your credentials and experiences are astounding…more than i can say about certain other secretaries of state.

at least you were chosen based on background, not "ummm…i didn't choose you as my vp…ummm…a lot of people are upset…can i offer you the state department instead? are we cool now?"

Like I have said before, I respect Bush because he is our President. But, to thank him for what he has none I say "No! No! No!"This country is in serious trouble why can't you see that. This mess has speaded across the world.

God Please Bless America like you once have and not only us,but other nations as well. Amen.

IS SHE SERIOUS ????????? SHE cannot be SERIOUS !!?!!

Did I miss something ?

Time for a random drug test…..

nice comment texas teacher….look at what israel is doing right now on Gaza…i hope god punishes the REAL terrorists of the US and Israel…that's crazy that a rigged site like CNN would post your truthful comment

Let's see, Americans will be thanking GW – hmm, in whose lifetime? Sorry Condi but I don't think so.

We were at war with Sadaam since the first gulf war. He repeatedly broke the cease fire terms. Bush just took care of it.

All you do good naive liberals can't stand the fact that Iraq turned out for the better and you almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Now your Messiah has to make a hard choice, and it looks like he will dissapoint you.

Swallow your pride,

Ms. Rice is delusional and has no clue. She should have been fired right after 9/11. Of course though Republicans have managed to make Ronald Reagan into a hero. Unfortunately a lot of the things this administration has faced is a direct result of the choices Bush and his administration have made. Most Americans understand this.

For all you Obama haters, why not give Obama the same opportunities you have given Bush for the past eight years. Why are you all trying to hold him to a different standard than you are holding Bush?

The Kool-Aid is cold this time of year. Too bad George made you abort your love child those years ago…it would have been the only part of him you could have held onto. Once he's out and people start to investigate, you and all the others will be thrown under the bus as he sits on his Parguayan estate safe from extradition.

I cannot imagine we have people in this country like 'Proud American'. This guy is a radical lefty. He likes to spill the venom everywhere. CNN should censor such unpatriotic messages. Get a life.

I will always be thankful to Condolezza rRice and in particular our president George W. Bush. This genuine proud American is safe today because of him. Thank you Mr. President and we will miss you.

There are times when just keeping your mouth shut would be best. Ms Rice, if you are reading this, I'd suggest you be careful. There are many people who are looking to lock up your boss and others. Their actions were criminal and deserve punishment.
I'm not sure how you (and Laura for that matter) look in the mirror everyday.

is this lady high? who is going to thank Bush?!! I think the world will celebrate the day Bush leave's office…. everyone will say, retard just left the building

Dunmber than I thought

Justice will not be served unless Bush is turned over to either the Iraqis or the ICJ for war crimes. Maybe they'll use the same rope they used for Saddam.

Please note: I am not advocating violence against the President. I support remanding him to the proper authorities, and letting justice be served after proper judicial procedures.

And the comments that you lefty's make about Bush make righty's give it right back to Obama. So, as some say, you reap what you sow.

The only people who will thank him are those he pardoned, Osama bin Laden, the CEO's who got bailouts, and the Saudi's.

Ms Rice.. I know you just adore W but you really need to rethink your idea that WE THE PEOPLE will change our minds about thinking he is the worst, most useless, piece of dung to have occupied the White House in this countries history. I know, you have to champion your boss but give it up because it won't help any. We have already made up our minds and it won't change. Not even when his little brother tries to invade the White House. A Bush is a Bush is a Bush.. WAR MONGERS TO THE END….

Cant wait for Hillary to take over Ms Rice

Will be thanking George Bush for what he's done? I think not.

Bad intel put us in Iraq. Intel that was being disseminated by Saddam. He was attempting to scare Iran with fears of chemical weapons. This intel was being gathered by many different countries, including Russia. So, blame Bush for bad intel. Once we were in we couldn't leave. What about Libya? They are no longer a terrorist threat. And the Supreme Court stopped the counting of ballots because Gore wanted to pick and choose which counties to recount. That is illegal, as we saw in MN. So, the Supreme Court said all counties must be recounted. And, there wasn't enough time based on the timelines established. Those timelines could not be changed. So, all you closed minded people believe what you want, but these are the facts.

Two wars, over 4,000 Americans dead and 25,000 Americans wounded, Walter Reed, Katrina, highest unemployment in 26 years, borrow and spend on bridges to no where leaving the highest deficit in ever, nothing done on Social Security, Immigration, or reforming the tax code… $700,000 bailout for Wall Street …

Cheney with his 5 excuses for not serving in Vietnam, Harriet, Rummy, Wolfie, "I don't recall" Alberto, Scooter Libby, and you're doing a heckava job, Brownie as Bush flies west for a fund raiser.

American people don't know the 1/2 of the damage that has been done to the environment, the Constitution or the country.

If Bush wants the credit for a few things done in 8 years, with a GOP Congress, then he'll have to take the blame as well.

I can't think of anything to thank this man for.

There were 8 years between the first attack on the World Trade Center and 9/11…..who gets credit for those "safe" years? There were 9 months of a Bush administration prior to 9/11….whose watch did that happen on?

Ms Rice and others are attempting to re-write history…..those of us who are living through it will not forget.

It just goes to show how humans can rationalize anything.

Unbelievable – I am at a complete loss for words. Has anyone in the Republican Party been listening? thank him? OMG – Unbelievable.

And here is my one finger salute!

Bush beat you twice…..

Good lord, man…. have you been living under a rock? It appears so…. how anyone could think this man and his administration has done anything admirable is beyond comprehension! Wait a minute….

Oh, wow… come on, Laura! I mean seriously…. stop the charade… or is it Condi? You Republican women continue to sing Stand By Your Man… like the codependents you so obviously are!

Wake up and use that head on your shoulders for something other than an Easter Bonnet!

"Bush Beat you democrats twice, so who is the IDIOT?" I'm willing to bet my next 5 paycheck your parents are brother and sister. Your a complete idiot.

Thank him that he is finally GONE. Thank GOD

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

This from the same Bushy that was national security advisor and missed the info on 911. Didn't catch the faulty info on WMD's. Couldn't get anything done on foreign affairs. When she worked for Bush 41 and she was in charge of selling equipment and technology to Saddam it was a differant story. So she more than anyone else should have know he didn't have WMD's

Your a loser like bush is rice now go fix that gap in your teeth

We shall certainly thank Bush for going.

I didn't know Condi Rice got high because she must be smoking something if she thinks we will be thanking that idiot.

This pig lets out one more great big belch as she pushes herself away from the dinner table.

A complete and total change in U.S foreign policy is the only route to any favourable world opinion on the U.S.

Nothing less will do it.

Ms Rice has had eight years of flying around the world in comfortable jets, getting her expenses paid by the public purse, The U.S is all the worse for her many failed trips.

She is of course loyal to this President who provided her with this failed opportunity.

Ms. Rice. Could you please lead us down the yellow brick road to OZ. We have followed you and your leader around long enough.

you have got to be kidding me; all of the grief this admin has caused we are suppose to thank him . are you delusional?

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought there was at least one smart person in Bush's cabinet but I was WRONG!!! VERY WRONG!!!! Ms. Rice if I just would like to tell you that YOU SHOULD BE ASHAME of yourself, and the fact that you could look at yourself in the mirror when the U.S. is in the shape that it's in HURTS 75% of AMERICANS….PLEASE GO AWAY ASAP!!!!!

Proud American December 28th, 2008 4:06 pm ET
I'm sure all the parents and family members of dead American sevice men and women will be the first in line to say thanks . . . .
_______________________

Listen, you little snot-nose! American service men and women VOLUNTEER to serve in Iraq because they want to keep YOU safe HERE.

YOU — you little snot-nose — can blog all day from your mommy's basement — and YOUR "efforts" make absolutely NO difference in the scheme of things!

keep smoking it Rice

What else can she say…. She will be a part of the failure of bush administration , nothing else to expect …

Will we really be around to see the history of this supposed good that has been done?

Want to bet someone else life on that Condi?
After all, that is what you folks do best!

WHAT THE HELL HAS GEORGE BUSH DONE FOR AMERICA? IS CONDI RICE SMOKING THE SAME WEED AS GEORGE BUSH? RICE ,BUSH,RUMSFELD AND CHENEY MUST BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES AND THE KATRINA DEATHS. CONDI RICE SHOULD BE ASHAME TO BE A BLACK HUMAN BEING. SHE ALLOWED HERSELF TO BE USED BY A RACIAL PARTY OF THIEVES AND CROOKS. WHEN WILL THERE BE A BLACK REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT.YOUR ANSWER IS NEVER—NEVER—NEVER.

Yes, thank you Bush for the golden age of political comedy that you spawned!

Thank you for keeping us safe for 7 1/2 years Mr. Bush. I hope that Obama can do the same. If not, that means Bush did a better job.

The war was not worth it. And it could be fought in a more structure way. Last, I dont think you can change the minds of a 5000 year-old country. You'll have to get rid of anybody over 40 to achieve peace. God led the Israelites in the desert and waited until all the OLD GRUMPY generation died before they reach the Promise Land. You cant train an old dog, new tricks. Other than this, there's an expiration date on the human race. It's just all coming together for Armageddon.

The girl is living in a bubble

This is just another incompetent remark made by one of the many total incompetent "yes people" who was appointed by the most incompetent (and fraudulent) President we've ever had. No big deal. Thankfully, it will soon be over.

All democrats spent (and will continue to do so)hours and energy to blame Pres Bush for every thing that went out of expectations for the last eight years.
Truth is those democrats are able(for they are alive)to do so because during eight years this country was safe under this president, and so everyone still alive to blame him for absolutely everything so called ‘wrong’.
You know he is so brave that he never was afraid to become unpopular since he knew exactly what to do to keep this beloved land safe. Pres Bush is indeed a patriot of high latitud. He never claimed to have all the answers but he did what was needed to keep us alive
And once again, for the records, it was THE BLASTED ALMOST FULLY DEOMOCRAT CONGRESS WHO BURNED DOWN OUR ECONOMY!
EAT THAT!

I always thought Condi was intelligent enough to know when and what to say, obviously I was wrong. Condi has a free ride for the rest of her life while most Americans are suffering from Bush's failed policies. The arrogance of Condi is no different than Bush or Cheney and I'd like to straighten her hair out.

Rice and the rest of idiots people in the white house needed 2 be put in prison for life. lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm losing respect for Rice almost as fast as I lost it for Bush. "Faced tough circumstances"…. If she means self inflicted, boneheaded mistakes that result in tough circumstances, then yes, she is correct.

@ Bush beat you democrates twice, so who is the idiots? Listen pal, YOU ARE THE IDIOTS WHO VOTED FOR HIM. People like you are just nuts.You can hide behind that monitor and call us names, but would never have enough b**** to say it in public!!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE SO PATHETIC

Bush may have done a few things right – but the war in Iraq was totally off the map! And because of that any credibility he may have garnered became a wash. I just don't see history treating "W" very kindly….but as with everything time will tell. I'm waiting.

This statement was made just before she exited to go to her UNFORCLOSED home and millions of Halliburton profits made from this war.

I think she may be confusing herself and her fellow Republicans with America as a whole.

The economy is imploding, and the world is a MESS. We will remember GWB, but not many positive things. His administration is trying to spin that the US is safer because of his administration, but his administration has allowed Osama Bin Laden to survive by fighting a war in Iraq that should never been started, and allowed a Terrorist organization to come to power (Hamas) that is raising it's ugly head this week.

Nice legacy!

If anything, Americans abroad are even more at risk now than before 2001. The Bush Presidential Library ought to be simply a dirty outhouse on his Crawford Ranch, with a pair of shoes hanging on the door. That's more fitting for a War Criminal.

"What the administration is responsible to do is to make good choices about Americans' interests and values in the long run — not for today's headlines, but for history's judgment," she said."

Rice's statement makes any educated person think of Abu Ghraib.

I lost all respect for Condi whaen she was the NSA, I never had respect for Bush – he has all but reuined this country and did a danm fine job on screwing up the planet.

What a tool, which I guess makes Condi a plumbers helper…

Good ridence to bad trash.

Again, for the past eight years, Katrina best describes how the country was administer – reaction to no action.

With the policies and budget structure, whole entire economies FELL before his feet. One word describes his readiness for anything that he touches: Katrina. Certainly, this is not the GOLD standard for being a Christian. Can you imagine at the seat of judgement and God calls Mother Theresa and W? Who best serve with honor and grace and showed the love of God?

Obviously Ms. Rice has been smoking something. She's as out of touch as her boss. Bush's policies will not stand the test of time. Hopefully most of them will be overturned and America can once again attain a level of trust and admiration as it once did before Bush and Cheney snuck into office in 2000.

First of all, Bush STOLE the first election. He didn't win it, the Supreme Court of Republicans gave it to him.

Second, He narrowly won the second term with 50% of the popular vote.

I think you've been in Alaska for too long, the frozen temperature got to you.

Obviously Ms. Rice has been smoking something. She's as out of touch as her boss. Bush's policies will not stand the test of time. Hopefully most of them will be overturned and America can once again attain a level of trust and admiration as it once did before Bush and Cheney snuck into office in 2000.

And not to mention . . . IRAN has MORE POWER in that Region, than they ever had = And we owed that THANKS TO SADDAM HUSSEIN for controlling IRAN.

NOW THE WORLD, IS AT MORE RISK ! ! !

THANKS GW BUSH!

Condi Rice is 100% correct. History will look favorably upon President Bush. The lefties still suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome need to go get psychiatric help.

Rice is delusional.

the last comment was for PhilT

The highest praise for Bush will likely come from Osama bin Laden.

What is this, Ms. Rice, a slap in the face? Thank him? For what?

Jeez! You just don't get it, do you?

Its basically adding insult to injury.

You make me sick!

Looks like Rice was well schooled in talking points as well.

Crimes it sounds as though you are on the side of the suicide bombers and Sadaam Husseins side I suppose because the Iraqi people are in antohter country we should sit by and let them suffer under the hand of a genocidial maniac I suppose you feel the same way and wish Hitler were never taken out of power.

Please!!!!!!!!!! what drugs are you take condi. the only thing I can think to thank him for is GETTING HE!! OUT OF WASHINGTION AND TAKING you, crazy cheney and the rest of the lying,cheating war mongers with him.

You mentally challenged on here who keep pointing at Iraq as the Bush issue, forget that. ALL of the democratic leadership were FOR going into Iraq — Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, B Frank, Clinton, Kennedy, Biden, Dodd, Richardson — ALL of them. Why? Because they, like Bush, were misled by Saddam Hussein who was trying to make the world think he had WMD in a ploy to keep Iran from attacking him …. So enough of Iraq. And before you start praising Obama for voting against the War – forget it – he has never VOTED against the Iraq war — but he has voted FOR every single Iraq funding bill. Had Obama been in the Senate at the time, he would have voted with his party and for the War —- end of story

And you Obama zealots and loonies who think Obama is your savior – forget it — You are still going to have to go out and get a job — likely the first one you have had in your lives

You were Secretary of State for 8 yrs, yet you were as clueless today about the WORLD as the day you started..very shameful. Bush has it too..unusal strong resistance to both global knowledge & domestic problems.

She's 100% correct; it's just a shame now, that the MSM has flooded any and every avenue with the minority liberal opinions. If the entire country could be polled, in a unbiased manner, you'd see that it's center-right toward conservatism…however, the loudmouth libs get the airways because the media love the speculation…already, Campbell Brown, from this very station has soured against Obama in several incidents.
Rice is dead on, because Americans are so selfish, and self-centered that they cannot see beyond immediate gratification…and that's dangerous. Too many are standing with their hands out, ignorant and lazy, wanting the goverment to wipe their noses…Hopefully, all will see that the MSM has poisoned any good that Bush as done, and it will be evident when we have another terror attack on this soil, and Obama's inexperience really comes to light.

One year from now most of you will have buyers remorse and will be wishing Bush did run again

while the loss of soldiers lives are hard to bear but how many more have been saved by their sacrifice how dare any of you idiots to belittle their efforts. Bush was blamed for evrything from cause a hurcane to the finacial crisis why he must be super human or something. Idiots one man does not control the greed that has brought us to our current state, most americans have been living beyond their means includings corporations thats not the fault of any President or any po;itical party it is human nature's bad side. I thank Bush that we haven't seen anymore attack like 911 and no interns were harmed during his presidency

Condi, as much as I respect you . . . YOUR VERY WRONG!

Bush took our Troops into a DEAD END SITUATION=IRAQ

We have lost over 4,000 and need to provide healing for over 200,000.

Condi, the Economy in in despair. . .people need JOBS–that Bush have given his blessings on to be OUT-SOURCED.

Condi, cost of living has escalated to the point of making a decission to (1) Buy Med's (2) Buy Food (3) Keep a Roof over your head!

CONDI, WHAT BENEFIT HAS AMERICA RECEIVED FROM BUSH ? ? ?

Are these people high or something? We are in hock to China for $5Billion for cheap crap in trade that at times kills folks, the Gaza Strip is in humanitarian crisis, and yes, yes people from all over the world hate us. How does shady trade agreements and political manipulation of life benefit Americans, now or in the long run? I mean, is she just continuing a script or really this clueless? I am so glad this is over. I think they are buying into their own bull. Delusional!!!!
When seeking revenge for the 2,740 Americans killed in 9/11, we have willingly sent 4,218 Americans to their death in this war. Yeah, nice work George, thank you, more like…@#$% you.
It is sad that someone as smart as Rice, could be so obtuse.

She means we will be thankful he is leaving!

"And I am quite certain that when the final chapters are written and it's clear that Saddam Hussein's Iraq is gone in favor of an Iraq that is favorable to the future of the Middle East; when the history is written of a U.S.-China relationship that is better than it's ever been; an India relationship that is deeper and better than it's ever been; a relationship with Brazil and other countries of the left of Latin America, better than it's ever been …

and to add to the history books that will be written with these statements:

"And the US, itself, so involved with everyone else's business and not tending to it's own issues, hit an economic low that left families without houses, no medical insurance, corporate big money greedy ***holes still flying thier private jets to fly to Washington and ask for more money from the govt, while US citizens can hardly afford gas and groceries….."

But we sure have helped out other countries and spent OUR money doing so!

OK apparently this woman is either talking a 1000 years into the future or the cocaine GWB was using is starting to get t her

Is she kidding? Bush has trampled all over the constitution , started an illegal war , tortured who knows how many so called "terrorists" , He and his administration (mainly Cheney and Rumsfield) should all be tried for war crimes ! David Letterman was right. It's a shame Barak can't start his administration early .

Denial is more than a river is Egypt.

The headline must be refering to Jan 21, 2009 when he LEAVES the White House.

Bush was dealt a lot of bad cards, and he did the best he could. I would not be too quick to judge him. The folks on this thread are not my fellow Obama supporters – they are largely Bush haters; iliterate Obama supporters; and liberal looney tune goofballs who do not work – pay no taxes – and are looking for a free ride. The people on here give Obama and the rest of us working Dems a bad name —

Yeah, Ms. Rice!

Of course, you have to defend the most rotten US presidency ever – and you were a big part of it.

Weren't you the one who went on national TV and told us about the mushroom cloud?

You and this whole administration are a huge disgrace, and your only hope is that Americans are forgiving.
Thats right, you will undoubtedly, get into the lecture circuit in some right-wing TV network, charge huge fees and teach at some university. God help those audiences and of course, those hapless students.

Secretary Rice is absolutely correct. After 9-11 Bush kept us safe — and for that he deserves all the credit in the world. Obama zealots and other liberal loonies should hold their judgement on Bush until the see how deeply Obama takes us into Afghanistan; how long he takes to get us out of Iraq: and whether he can keep the US as safe as Bush did after 9-11.

THANK YOU CONDOLEEZA!! Someone has finally stood up for Bush and said the truth. He has done more good for our country than bad. Why has there not been anymore terrorist attacks? It's being kept overseas! I wish the war was over but it's protected our country. You can't blame Bush for our job loss! Who set up those policies up for our companies to go overseas? It was the Clinton administration! It doesn't happen overnight. Right now the American people is looking for someone to blame for the problems we have. It's not all of Bush's fault. In time America…. you'll have more appreciation for what he's done.

The day I will be thankful is the day that war criminal murdering cowboy is in prison or dead.

I always suspected Condi was on drugs. "Bush Beat you democrats twice", so who is the IDIOT? I'm willing to bet my next 5 paychecks your parents are brother and sister.

the worst president ever had the worst sec. of state working for him. she ought to be ashamed of herself. i think we know why she got the job to begn with.

A man ..who should have remained the cheerleader of the team ..

… not the manger…

>> when convicted of war crimes his legacy will be complete!!

After what happenedI to the repuplican party in the election, Condi still thinks that we are so stupid, to the point that she can make us doubt ourselves with this stupid interview. I honestley think people like Condi will not get it till we start boycotting any network that interviews her or her like.

This president has gone on the offensive after terrorists, not sat on his hands waiting for another meaningless UN decree or sanction or legal courts to rule. He did not cave when the going got tough, but ordered a surge, that brought stability and success to Iraq. AQ in Iraq is no longer a threat. AQ in Afghanistan is on their heels. Terrorists no longer think of us as a "paper tiger" . God Bless Condi and George.

the only thank yous will come from the profiteers of this insane war.

A man ..who have remained the cheerleader of the team ..

… not the manger… when convicted of war crimes his legacy will be

complete!!

Yeah we can all thank him and all his cronies for planning and executing the 9/11 attacks to instill fear into the general population as a means to justify 2 fraudulant OIL WARS and bankrupting our country! Thanks Mr Bush you're a credit to you're family name! JERK!

THANK YOU CONDOLEZZA!! Someone has finally stood up and spoke the truth about President W Bush. I agree with every thing she said. He has done more good than bad for the American people. If you want to blame Bush for our job loss,

What happened in IRAQ happened and there is no turning back. We have to learn to move forward and take on new challenges that will hopefully bring us to a better place.

By no means am I a cheerleader for war. If it can be avoided – avoid it. However, when it is truly necessary, then there is no other choice. Although I don't feel that the IRAQ war was truly necessary, there was some good that came out of it (if you look at it as getting rid of corruption).

I disagree with Condi on the part where she says that it is not true that Americans are disliked around the world. Condi met with world leaders not the common people. When you see the news and see people burning the American flag and shouting hate, then that alone lets you know how people feel.

I am open to history and I hope that history does tell us a different story. I am hoping that GWB was doing the right thing. I do agree with Condi that we will have to let history tell us the true story.

Under the Obama administration, I hope we can get our good name back. I hope that other countries will begin to heal from whatever hatred they have in their hearts.

Thank him? For what???

Alienating our allies with his "You're either WITH us or AGAINST" us attitude on the war on terror and the war in Iraq? (No room for any compromise there.) We've already seen the lack of evidence which was supposed to be rock-solid, which led Americans like sheep, into the Iraq war. Even our allies cannot wait to see Bush leave.

Did not follow up on the Clinton administration's intel regarding Bin Laden until 9 months into his presidency?

Spending a whopping 30% of his eight years as President on vacation?

Alienating and dividing our own American people by questioning their patriotism, intelligence, and religious faith -for not supporting his call to war?

Trampling our civil rights in the name of "security"?

Trampling our Constitution to establish an imperial Presidency?

Turning a budget surplus into a deficit? ($480 billion for next year alone -not including two wars, bailouts, and stimulus packages.)

Embracing deregulation and tax cuts for the privileged, while turning a blind eye as our economy melted down?

You must be kidding, Ms. Rice.

(I doubt you'll print this, CNN.)

Sounds like Condoleeza Rice is a very smart woman. Unlike Powell she hasn't sold out just because color of her skin. She may have even voted for obmanation but she still has dignity enough to speak the truth. Look this lady has been all around the world she's no dummy. Like she said the TRUE historians will write the truth AFTER President Bush is out of office. True historians do not consist of CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and the other trash stations who seem to report only what they think benifits their man. How many did you see report about obama going to visit the troops and how the men and women didn't applaud, cheer or even get out of their seats to shake his hand? They only responded when he came up to them. Didn't hear that news story did you? Well it was on a smaller station. Thank you Condi for being a true American before making decisions just because you are the same color as barack. Historians will prove President Bush was a great President and he realized 'This is not a popularity contest". God Bless You Mr. President Bush

Yes We see all the Middle east progress Condi. You were a nothing working for a nothing boss and need to go back to California and do whatever you want . It doesn't matter just as your last 8 years didn't matter.

Dear Ms. Condoleeza Rice:

We will certainly thank President Bush and the Republican Party for the following:

1) Making us less Safe around the World.
2) Killing 4318 troops in a war we did not have to fight.
3) Destroying the American and World Economy.
4) Not willing to listen to the American People.
5) Making some of the dumbest statements on recorded.

We will thank him alright for ….NOTHING.

He's our President and God Bless him, but these next few weeks can't go by quick enough.

Texas Teacher, You are SO Right !!

Larry
Houston, TEXAS

I agree with her, She's a very smart lady. I sure wish she would run for President someday. If people don't appreciate the good things that Pres. Bush did, then so be it. We'll see how they feel after 4 years of "The One".

Yes, because the pounding the Republicans have gotten in the last two elections (for Pres/ Senate/ Congressional seats) wasn't enough of a message to say.. we are NOT thanking you for your work governing this country? Yes, go back from whence you came, and stay away. Please just go away.. and I will thank you for leaving the US alone, forever on.

Please, one could lip-sync the gibberish that has come out of this woman's mouth over the past eight years. Good bye and Good Riddance.

Only an idiot like yourself Condeleeza would think anyone would ever thank Bush for anything. You are part of the problem there too Condi.
You neo cons are all the same. Disgusting. Should we be thanking him for the tanking economy, the job loss rate in this country. Is that what we should be thankful for, you pathetic woman?

The only people that will thank him are the owners of Halliburton, who profited millions off of this war.

no, miss. rice, they won't.

At Nuremberg, Hermann Goering said that one day the Germans would erect statues of him. Still waiting for that one, too.

I didn't vote for Bush but I really believe that he did the best he could given the advise he got from people who should know what to do. Like many, I do not blame him for the wars we are now in. I just pray that we can come out of it with some understanding.

Dr. Rice is the most stupid smart person I know. How clueless can you be?!

Is this woman kidding or just in denial. Incredible that someone that intelligent could believe the B.S. she's saying. Bush will go down in history as being one of the worst if not worst president ever.

BB
Bill Clinton already admitted that he and the other dems should have kept tighter controls on Fannie and Freddie. You need to ask Barney Franks and Chris Dodd about the mortgage crisis. They should be in jail.

we've got more than enough lawyers hungry to file law suits against bush and his thugs.

BANKRUPT THEM ALL!

that's the only thing they understand!

This kind of statement shows how Ms. Rice is disconnected from reality.

G B did a great job the war is over there not here. Wait until; the messia BO takes over then we will have something to worry about…

my how soon the voters forget remember the constition

THANK YOU GEORGE….. WAIT UNTIL THE MESSIAH TAKES OVER….

MY HOW THE VOTERS FORGET SO EASY THEY DON,T GIVE A CRAP ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION OR WHAT IT STANDS FOR… LIKE BEING BORN IN THE USA TO BECOME PRESIDENT

THE IDIOTS PUT OBAMA IN OFFICE, HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE BEFORE THEY ADMIT THAT THEY MADE A MISTAKE…

Thank you Bush for exposing the GOP for the warmongering, constitution-hating, pocket-of-big-business, hypocritical organization it is.

Thank you Bush for destroying the republican party.

Thank you Bush for serving as an example of ignorance and ineptitude for all future Presidents to learn from.

Lastly, thank you Bush for leaving office. Don't let the door hit you…

Bye, Condi.

Please stay away from the West Coast…….find someplace else to be ineffective.

Thank you Mr. Bush: for our lack of national defense on 9/11, for playing off of the nation's emotions and deceiving us into war, for nearly 5,000 US deaths in Iraq, for nearly 1,000,000 Iraqi deaths, for the empowerment of global terrorism by providing an international training ground for our nation's enemies, for the illegal occupation of a nation, for making torture "the law" and an international American trademark, for desecrating the US Constitution with your Patriot Act, so-called, for violating posse comitatus by establishing the US military as national law enforcers, for financing American and foreign mercenaries while giving them a license to kill in Iraq, for instigating more war with Iran and Pakistan, for the obliteration of habeas corpus by allowing our "intelligence agencies" the right to abduct, incarcerate and torture US and foreign nationals in other countries, for killing our economy for four years with high gas prices, for giving Cheney's Haliburton an uncountable number of no-bid contracts in Iraq and beyond, and, unless we forget, for the victims of Katrina who were left for four days to die as the world looked on, and on, and on, ad infinitum. AND Condi, thank you also for your help in making all of it, and so much more, possible!

Never seen a group more retarded and unaware
of reality than these clowns.
Get a grip !
A yes, we will thank Bush & Co. they are leaving for good.
Too bad they can't leave sooner.

Thank him?

This man will be lucky if he doesn't spend time in JAIL.

Thank you Mr. Bush…….and GOOD BYE!!!

What should we expect to hear from Rice talking about her boss?? that he will be remembered as a bad Pres. ever???

We all know, you both, you made the country slip backwards and created more enemies around the world.

I hope when they are writing new psychology textbooks they give as examples of cognitive dissonance this statement by Rice & the statements by Laura Bush about how her husband is this great leader and all the rest of the self-deceptive nonsense coming out these people.

"a relationship with Brazil and other countries of the left of Latin America, better than it's ever been …"

Say what?

The fact that the US has the relations it does with Brazil is due to benign neglect, certainly not because of any effort on part of the Bush Administration. And as often as the US trades insults with 'other countries of the left' I'd hardly call those relations 'better'.

I can't wait until these people leave their bubble…they are in for a hock

Rice can use all the smoke and mirrors she wants to put a positive spin on Bush's presidency. The fact remains that he, with the help of his brother and a network of 'good old boys', stole the 2000 election and was ultimately appointed president by a supreme court packed with conservatives by previous Republican presidents.

Characteristic of his presidency is one dismal failure after another: failed domestic policiy, failed homeland security, failed foreign policy.

I can sum up my feelings about bush and his adminiistration in two words: GOOD RIDDANCE!

P.S.
Condi would look real nice in an orange jump suit. God knows she deserves a nicely fitting one.

Thank you President Bush that your terms are done. God bless the rest of your life. Thank you God for President-Elect Obama. Please let him do a superb job as president. Amen.

It's sad but Ms. Rice retains the same blind devotion that has led us into this mess. The future will not be kind to George W. Bush and/or his cohorts.

Name one time, ever, that Ms. Rice disagreed publicly with her boss. Agreeing to disagree is part of the game but agreeing to always agree is folly.

we are sick of you and bush mrs. rice. you brought shame to our country. How can you sleep at night when you know that our people are hated all over the world because of your failed policy. believe me we wont miss you , we miss our country the peaceful and we miss how people all over the world used to look at us like heroes not killers. and i urge cnn to post my comments

I have been living in Europe all of Bush's presidency, always identified myself as a republican. Hoever Miss Rice could not of gotten wrong. When you force, manipulate, lie to get your way you never win.

The things happening to the country and the world now are attributate to the Bush's policy. I wonder if his last name was Smith, George Smith where would he be today in the world, unemployed? Asking for a bail out.

Good riddance to Bust and Rice, perphaps the worst secretary of state ever.

She is as blind to reality as the rest of the Bush people. Thank God, this horrible chapter in the American Presidency is almost over!

i say no thank you president bush, you were wrong to invade iraq, we have already lost over 4 thousand of our young men and women, not to even mention all the innocent iraqis that have been killed, you, just like the whole republican party will not admit to your wrong, but america is not dumb, WE KNOW THE TRUTH, I DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU MISS. RICE.

HaHaHaHa…..please stop it……HaHaHaHa………oh,oh,my sides are aching…….HaHaHa……no,please stop it……you're killing us…..HaHaHa
oh my….HaHaHa…..oh my goodness,I haven't laughed this hard since
that Ronald Reagan film festival……HaHaHa………stop,I beg you…….

Iraq? Did she forget about Iraq? And the fact that we never should have gone to war there in the first place? And how the war has inflated the national deficit to insane levels?

Yes…thank you Mr. Bush for killing countless people and sending this nation into a war we didn't need to be in. Thank you for running up the national debt and for sinking the economy. Thank you for being a war criminal, and thank you for being a complete idiot when it comes to knowing how to run a country.

Is that what Ms. Rice wanted?

I'll thank Mr. Bush when pigs fly and hell freezes over!

01/20/09 can't come soon enough!!!

Thank him…..thank him for what exactly??? Getting us into a trumped up war and thousands of unnecessary lives lost…..house market crash….wall street bail out…..auto workers bail out….oh yes, we sure have a lot to thank Bush for alright!!!
Those who still think Bush has been a great President must be living in another country and watching events unfold from afar as they surely can't be seeing the same as the rest of us who live here in the US!!!!!
I don't want to call Bush any names unlike some of these less than intelligent people who come on here and refer to PE Obama as the Messiah, a sure sign of sour grapes that the more popular and intelligent man won the election over McCain.

I never voted for that yahoo and he has systematically destroyed rights, protections and systems that we depend on

I just hope that the democrats who have repaired republican damage to our great country before can put the peice back together, what an enormous task

jail bush, cheney, rice, rumsfeld, powell, gonzales and ashcroft

Well lets see: anti-American sentiments if up around the globe due to Bush's war on Iraq based on lies to which Rice was a part, the worlds' economy is upside down in part due to Bush, the American economy is in the toilet on Bushes watch, American drowned in the Katrina disaster while Bush flew overhead, and Bush had no clue what to do on 911 while the World Trade Center was being brought down, Americans have been spied on left and right, America championed torture…MAY I GO ON??? And we the people will thank Bush for what he has done Condi Rice?! This would be laughable if it were not criminal what this gang has done to America and America's image. Notice how Bush, Laura, and now Condi are now out in force trying to paint a good picture of George Bush's presidency which everyone knows has been a FAILURE FROM BEGINNING TO END!

Crazy lady.

WOW Condi must have started smoking some strong stuff if she believes that statement. Now if she were to make this statement on 21 January, I would agree with her that I would thank him for what he has done. I WOULD THANK HIM FOR LEAVING OFFICE ON THE DAY BEFORE. I am very supportive of Pres. Bush. I would even help him pack.

Bush is a True Patriot and History will be kind to him
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Sure it will.

Hopefully she, he and the other criminals will be correctly thanked, with hand "bracelets" and an ankle bracelet.

And one more thing…Bush didn't beat the Dems. His brother and K. Harris STOLE it for him in 2000 (good ole FL…my home state), and Rove did the same for him in OH in 2004.

"Peace be with you"- The Messiah, 'Prince of Peace'

"Sometimes money trumps…peace"-George W. Bush

Statement = False.
System error.
Does not compute.

Thank him? Thank him? For what Ms. Rice? I used to think you were the brains in the White House…now just go along your way with the rest of them. Geez!

I can't believe Clinton is going to replace Ms. Rice. So disappointing.

people will send him to jail

I'm sure all the parents and family members of dead American sevice men and women will be the first in line to say thanks. The federal Gov't should have this idiot drug tested.

havent we had just about enough idiocy and delusion from Bush+Co??
please……………..just………………..go…………………….away…

OK, it's time to have condi drug tested. George Bush, Cheney, Rice Rumsfield and the rest of that admin. should be in federal prison. This a complete village of idiots.

Absolutely, Bush is a True Patriot and History will be kind to him. The idiot bloggers on here that call President Bush every name in the book these are the same people that have no concept of Reality and like their Messiah(Obama) are naive. THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH there are some Americans that actually get it and see you for what you are , a very GREAT American that Protected this country and his fellow citizens.

Perhaps if Ms. Rice lived for a while outside the US, and in the common world, not in the rarified air she's been breathing of late, she would find that it is very true that Americans are disliked around the world.

When I first moved ot Europe during the Clinton years, people were quite friendly and liked to talk about the US. By the time I left earlier this year, I had learned, when asked if I was American, to say I didn't agree with Bush. Not doing so could bring on a tirade against Americans and someone even spit at me and told me to take it back to Bush.

In fact, what impressed me first about Obama as a candidate was that he understood how the US has lost respect around the world and that needed to be regained.

No, Ms. Rice, it is not a popularity contest. However, a country cannot be hypocritical, arrogant and deceptive and expect other countries to continue to trust and listen to them.

In the words of Rice, this theory is 'just not true.'

Oh yes she's got the Memo. Condoleezza Rice, Stick to the talking point the Admin sent out.
You've got to be ashamed looking yourself in the mirror saying that bull***.

Condi in what world are you living in?
You have became delusional.
What a waste.

I'll thank him for finally leaving office and all the entertainment he provided with Bushisms. Thats about it.

But look what he's done TO THIS COUNTRY. People losing homes, no jobs, no money – oh, I guess we don't count. Where does the tax base come from? The big corporations ————– the taxes had better come from big corporations, because the little people are dead in the water. That's what I'll remember the Warmonger for.

No way, Condi. You, like your fellow repubs are living in a bubble unaware of what's going on around you, and patting each others back.

Yes, we will thank him for all the material he has provided for the late-night comedy shows.

evidently rice has been brain washed, maybe if bush and his cabinet would have been focusing on the U.S. instead of all these foriegn countries we wouldn't be in such a disasterous situation today, history may be kind to him but that don't change a thing, america is suffering.

You must be losing your mind, Condoleeza Rice…. I can only imagine how it is that you and your "husband", I mean boss, can look yourselves in the mirror after all the lying, cheating, and covering your stupidity over the last 8 years. You will both go down in history along with Cheney and his bozos as the biggest terrorists of this century. I think History will treat neither of your kindly… and rightly so!

Sounds as if Rice is trying to play CYA!

Thank him? THANK HIM?!?!

Get lost already you arrogant rethug lady you!!

Condi, you are such a fool. I don't thank Bush for a War, I don't thank him for unemployment, I don't thank him for deviding the nation…
If you thank him, Condi, go ahead! Not me and not 80% of the nation. End your career in the whimper that others who have worked and defended Bush have. Goodbye! 23 Days and Counting!

Apparently Condoleeza has been living elsewhere these past 8 years……………………….

No way people will be thankful to him. Shut your mouth RIce.

I didn't know Condi was planning to become a comedian.