{"id":275,"date":"2011-08-26T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T08:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2013-08-31T02:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T09:30:57","slug":"condoleezza-rices-legsplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s Legsplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is abuzz with the downfall of longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Today, rebel forces stumbled across a photo album in Gaddafi&#8217;s Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli of Condoleezza Rice. Apparently, the Libyan strongman was quite fond of the former Bush Secretary of State. In a 2007 interview with Al Jazeera, Gaddafi said of Rice, &#8220;I support my darling, black African woman. &#8230; I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. &#8230; I love her very much. I admire her, and I&#8217;m proud of her because she&#8217;s a black woman of African origin.&#8221; Yeesh! That&#8217;s creepier than <em>Don&#8217;t Be Afraid of the Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, we at the Bucket have known for a long time, Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s power over men. Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our August 11, 2006 issue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276\" title=\"ricegams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ricegams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ricegams.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ricegams-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After failing to secure peace in the Middle East, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, reveals her new diplomatic tactic in dealing with foreign leaders, especially males.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is abuzz with the downfall of longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Today, rebel forces stumbled across a photo album in Gaddafi&#8217;s Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli of Condoleezza Rice. Apparently, the Libyan strongman was quite fond of the former Bush Secretary of State. In a 2007 interview with Al Jazeera, Gaddafi said of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s Legsplomacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[94,97,95,770,769,96,93,98,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}