No improvement in how the world views us? Well, then, as in "Brownie" she's done a hell-of-a-good-job! Keep the world hating us, so we can raise the level of the fear factor and keep our country bogged in this invisible war for peace.

It was all about Karen anyway.
Another Bush pay-off for getting him into the White House in 2000. She had a nice cushy state job and now she has a nice cushy Federal retirement.

So the Bride of Frankenstein is going to go to work of that vampire Rove during Swiftboat Season Part Two?

improving the world's view of the United States is a "long-term challenge" that will outlast her.

"This will take a number of years," Hughes said in an interview Tuesday.

I'd give it more like just six months after Bush and the rest of his cast of nimcompoops leave the Oval Office.

Rice said that Hughes had made public diplomacy "strong and central" to U.S. foreign policy and had exceeded expectations in the job.

Yeah, diplomacy has always been a fundamental of Cheney's WW III strategy in the Middle East? The world really didn't ever have very high expectations for this administration after the Chinese brought down that figher jet right after Bush took office.

"Negative events never help," Hughes said...

Yeah, like getting caught lying about the WMD as an excuse to invade another country that never posed a threat to our nation and then taking the historic step of actually legalizing torture when they got caught using it at Abu Graibe?

She nearly doubled the public diplomacy budget, to nearly $900 million annually, and sent U.S. sports stars Michelle Kwan and Cal Ripken Jr. abroad as unofficial diplomats.

Now that must have really impressed Middle Eastern people who think soccer is the only sport? American audiences never took to "Skating with the Stars" either.

Polls show no improvement in the world's view of the U.S. since Hughes took over. A Pew Research Center survey earlier said the unpopular Iraq war is a persistent drag on the U.S. image and has helped push favorable opinion of the United States in Muslim Indonesia, for instance, from 75 percent in 2000 to 30 percent last year.

Another failure skillfully glossed over as an achievement by the GOP propoganda machine. Condi has never met a disaster that she hasn't been equal to.

Hughes said she advised Bush and Rice two years ago that U.S. help in ending the six-decade old fight over Israel would probably do more than anything else to improve the U.S. standing worldwide.

So this explains why Israel is now cutting off water to Palestine? What next? Baby formula?

Hughes had been splitting her time between Texas and Washington.

Since she obviously was never welcome in the Middle East, that $900,000 could have been better spent on health coverage for American children instead?

To coin a phrase from Babs Bush, "Karen has done nicely for herself."

Bye Karen.

The rats continue to desert the sinking lame duck presidency.
That's OK, they can still be subpoenaed.
IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY!!!!

Dear Karen,
It was obvious right from the get go that your sales pitch needed some tweaking. Telling other countries that "you are either with us or against us" probably didn't win any friends nor did it influence people.

At your next sales job, limit any reference to your first(or I guess the last in this instance) job. When you agreed to the job, we officially had one friend, now we have none. In laymans terms, that means you were less than effective, unless of course that was the goal.

In fact, after you announced that you were leaving, we have our old friend back.

Thank you for leaving, we like having friends and you were in the way of that occuring.

Oh big Foot Hughes is gone ... I miss her already ... not!!! I betcha that the people in the Middle East will miss her as well ... not!!!

Another thug from the Bush crime family is gone. Good riddance.

IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY!!!!

Posted by Butte on October 31, 2007 at 01:09 PM
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Yes, Impeach Chimpy and Shooter.

I read on GlobalGrind.com that a poll in 2000 showed 70% of Muslims had a positive view of the US which is down to 30% now...NICE JOB HUGHES...

Let us, let the World know, "All it will take to change the view of the USA in the hearts of the world," is for the Democrats to get in the Majority in all branches of Government for a season and use our gifts from God to use Diplomacy to solve as many problems in the World as Possible first and then handle the diffacult ones as God would have us to.

I promise never to write good things about Democrats in this Blog ever again.