Improve diplomatic relations by taking visitor to a football game between two hated rivals!

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Link (May have to use BugMeNot.com) - Maybe P&N but I think this is funny more than political. Kind of reminds me of the original Naked Gun movie where the British Queen goes to a Dodgers/Angels game.

I think it's great that Rice is going to take a foreign official out of DC to see more of America but if she was going to take him to a football game don't take him to the Alabama-Tennessee game!!! Those two schools absolutely hate each other right now. Take him to a baseball playoff game or a college football game like USC-Notre Dame or any other Alabama football game other than the UT game! LOL

TUSCALOOSA | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may be coming to the University of Alabama for a speaking engagement Friday, but she seems just as eager to get a big dose of Crimson Tide football.

The New York Times reported Sunday that Rice will be joined by British foreign secretary Jack Straw for what an aide deemed an ?an important diplomatic weekend," which will include performing the UA-Tennessee pregame coin flip and then staying to watch the game.

Rice senior adviser Jim Wilkinson said that she and Straw will also visit Brunetta C. Hill Elementary School in Birmingham, which Rice attended.

Rice and Straw are friends, but she explained that the unusual trip signaled a new policy to invite foreign ministers to see parts of America besides Washington and New York. Secretaries of state seldom take official trips within the United States, but Rice said guiding foreign officials on such visits would help give them a greater appreciation and understanding of the nation.

Rice and Straw will speak at UA on Friday, and they are to visit volunteers working on Hurricane Katrina relief.

Rice said she invited Straw to Alabama because he had shown a keen interest in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ?60s. Wilkinson said the two would help dedicate a new statue in Birmingham to honor the four young girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963.

On Sunday morning, they are to attend services at Westminster Presbyterian Church, which, aides said, was founded by Rice?s grandfather and which her family attended. Joining them on this trip will be David Manning, the British ambassador to the United States, other British and American officials, and a large press corps.

Rice?s father, John Rice, was dean of students at Stillman College beginning in 1966, and the then 11-year-old Rice attended Central High School.

 

[Feldenak]

I don't know that the AU-UA game would be a good one either. Especially if the SEC West comes down to a two horse race between the two. 🙂

Edit: Take him to a Vandy game, the only thing they get riled up about at Vandy is test scores. 😉

 

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Originally posted by: Feldenak
I don't know that the AU-UA game would be a good one either. Especially if the SEC West comes down to a two horse race between the two. 🙂

Probably wouldn't be a good one either. 😉 But still would be better than the Bama-UT game. 😀