Posted on 01/21/2004 7:40:04 AM PST by Reader of news
Many people say Dr. Condoleezza Rice could be the best candidate to win in 2008. She could be the best option to defeat Hillary.
Biography of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995 and the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003. She resides in Washington, D.C. June 2003
She would be the first Pres from Alabama...
No questions about her foriegn policy expertise....(likely she IS the expertise of the current administration which is doing a pretty good job)
Spending??? Can she slow to growth??? Would she want to slow the growth???
"I suspect we will see Condi on the ticket as Veep in '08 as an alternative to Hillery. I don't think she'll be running for President, because I suspect that Jeb is going to run and he'll be annointed as the favorite son....
Agree--she needs "seasoning" in SOME elective office first--I can see Rice as VP on a Guiliani-Rice ticket in 2008 (and maybe 2012) and as candidate for president in 2016.
Can we get a verification on this one way or the other?
Condi really may be the actual "Smartest Woman in America" and, unlike the famous pretender to that title, has the credentials to prove it. But intellectual capacity has little to do with leadership ability and political "smarts". Also, not many brilliant people have the skin thickness needed to survive much less thrive in the stinking mud of your average political contest.
This is not to say she doesn't have what it takes, it's just that at the moment we don't know. Based on the her almost unbelievable background and obvious intellect she could make one of the greatest Secretaries of State in the Republic's history. But the top job requires a set of skills which she has not yet had a chance to demonstrate she has.
"Rice could face tough questioning. One Republican commissioner says a comment by Rice last year—that no one “could have predicted that they would try to use a…hijacked airplane as a missile”—was "an unfortunate comment . . . that was, of course, a wrong-footed statement on its face," given that there was years of intelligence about Al Qaeda's interest in airplane attacks."
And this is coming from our National Security Advisor?
But then again her boss thinks Islam is a religion of peace.
There is a difference though her stupid statement came out before any election and the other came out afterwards.
But when you see how inept the socialists (dems) have become, it may not even be a factor. - Tom
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