Rice plays key role, but with few lines

The Boston Globe ^ | 3/30/2004 | Peter S. Canellos

[Kaslin]

WASHINGTON -- Consider "Condi." National security adviser Condoleezza Rice is the Bush administration's star witness, sent forth to slay the Sunday-morning dragons with her combination of academic high-mindedness and the bulletproof poise of a talk-show host.

Yet she is also an officer of the executive branch, not bound to Congress, and thus President Bush has asked her not to testify in public before the 9/11 commission set up by Congress.

[Kaslin]

I am not sure if I have the topics correct or not

[GraniteStateConservative]

So the answer to the mystery of Condi Rice may be: She's the administration's best defense, but the president's worst vulnerability.

Condi is no one's vulnerability. She's a total asset.

[VRWCmember]

The author's last statement shows him to be a little bit ignorant. Condi is by no means a vulnerability to Bush.

[Kaslin]

I agree 150%

BTW do you think I should ask the modeator to add the barf or ignorance alert?

[SpinyNorman]

But even some Republicans in Congress have puzzled over how Rice can be willing to appear on television interview shows and agree to answer copious questions from the 9/11 commission behind closed doors, yet not be willing to face the grilling in public.

I guess the Globe will find out now, since she is going to do it.

I suspect the "grilling" will be in the other direction though.

I hope she puts Clarkes fantasy novel on the remainder shelves.....