It’s common knowledge that the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi had an obsessive, almost unhealthy affection for former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. But now, Ms. Rice has revealed how that “affection” went beyond perhaps what anyone could have possibly imagined!
In an interview last week, Ms. Rice told of a bizarre meeting she once had with Colonel Gadhafi that took her completely by surprise. “When I got there I thought ‘just get through your business, just do diplomacy, just get out of here’,” she said. “Everything was going fine and then all of sudden he said: ‘I have this video for you.’ And I thought: ‘Uh oh, what is this?’.”
As it turned out, Gadhafi had compiled a photo montage of Ms. Rice with various world leaders and dignitaries, including Chinese president Hu Jintao and former Russian president Vladimir Putin. But Gadhafi set the entire showing to a little musical ditty he personally composed for her, called ‘Black Flower in the White House.’ HUH???
In Gadhafi’s mind, he had hit a home run in his attempt to woo America’s top foreign policy diplomat. But to Ms. Rice and perhaps the rest of the sane world, it was a huge strike-out in poor taste.
Ms. Rice recalled that Gadhafi beamed proudly at his musical creation, then asked her to serenade him with a few lines. But Ms. Rice politely declined and, in an attempt to help him save face, said the ballad was “kind of hard to sing.”
