Is She Embarrassed By Her Embarrassment?

Our Condi is squirming in public again:

Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress vow to fix it.

Rice is fully aware of this, but doesn’t have a way to fix it? All she can do is call it embarrassing? How embarrassing is that?

Or maybe things that embarrass mere mortals no longer embarrass Condi? For example, she has this to live down, as well:

In 2007, Barbara Masekela, South Africa’s ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2006, was denied a visa to visit her ailing cousin and didn’t get a waiver until after the cousin had died

Comments

  1. effay says:

    I’ve always wondered about the system they use to flag people on terrorist watch lists. It seems like there is a story every couple of weeks about some 80-year-old woman who is somehow on the watch list, or someone with a name like Joe Smith can’t board because another Joe Smith somewhere is on the watch list. It sounds to me like they must use some really stupid computer algorithm.