Posted on 08/05/2006 7:09:32 PM PDT by no dems
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"If she ran the dems are going to rip her to shreds because she is unmarried and no one really knows her sexual identity."
Hah! Well, the Senatrix *is* married, but we still don't really know hers, either.
Just what we need in the White House: a pro-abortion appeasnik.
About Condoleezza Rice
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 and has been nominated [and passed]to become Secretary of State [since then].
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, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.
From interview at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/mam/episodes/2005/01/02
Your are misrepresenting the facts. Dr. Rice is not pro-choice. She states in her interviews that she
1. Agrees with the President's position
2. Does not want anyone to have to go through an abortion
3. Says we need to create a culture which respects LIFE
4. Says she is against late term abortions too
5. Says the government should not be involved wrongly, as it is now, supporting abortion
6. She explains that the government correct involvement should be that taxpayers are not forced to pay for this, since so many disagree.
7. She seems to allow for medical health-of-the-mother reasons, and so called this "mildly pro-choice."
She explained what SHE meant by that term: that she is pro-life, against abortion, supports the President's position, and that government should not be involved.
Pregant people have choice: adopt rather than abort.
You should not slander. It is a crime, as well as a sin.
"Condi Rice or any woman will not have my vote"
I assume you're just a troll, but in case not, have you ever examined the roots of your bigotry against women? It wouldn't be a pleasant thing to have to carry around.
Scripture says there are neither male nor female in Christ, we are equal. God never said a woman could not lead a country. Paul suggests that within a church, a male lead, but the Bible has examples of women which did lead countries.
You dishonor God by falsely claiming some of His creation, created in His image, should not be allowed to use gifts He has given them and skills they have honed.
Being male does not guarantee that therefore a country will be run properly. Look at all the male-run countries now which are in chaos! Being female does not guarantee anything either. Gender is NOT the issue.
Rice is liberal on social issues and a globalist (CFR) on the international front. I'm not sure where she stands on economic issues.
That's right. They belong in the kitchen, not the white house.
I don't know...
I AM sure that her candidacy would drive the nuts on this forum insane along with the Democrats...
Might be worth some popcorn :)
Her political positions are clearly outlined in your post which follows the line of the "Washington Times" story from last year.
But remember she said she is "mildly pro-choice" in that article.
To me that's like saying someone is "a little bit dead."
She clearly emphasized a belief that there should be more exceptions for abortion similar to what the Democrats in Congress insisted on for partial birth abortion legislation.
The "health of the mother" exception is the Mack truck-10 lane freeway exception that pro-abortion doctors can abuse and render any pro-life legislation meaningless.
Politicians are playing a game of trying to please both sides and Rice's comments reflect that and frankly do remind me of things Hillary Rodham herself would say. The Clintons and other slick libs always say they don't want abortions and are "personally" opposed.
Of course the Clinton's wouldn't say they agree with the President but Rice is under that obligation though her exceptions are certainly not the ones George W. Bush advocates and certainly not pro-life people like myself.
No slander here just the truth of what her comments were and honest analysis of what they mean.
Newt certainly is straight talking at this point.
The political establishment is pushing her candidacy to prevent McCain or any other candidate from winning.
This post is part of that organized campaign to create support for her.
I'm no McCain guy and I hope a new Reagan emerges from all this mess in 2008.
When will the political hacks stop trying to foist people on us with all image and no substance?
Why is it that Mitt Romney's name never comes up in these presidential discussions?
I agree that if she means it, she can't just straddle the fences like most politicians do. We need leaders to lead. Being on the moral, right side makes it easier.
"Pro-life" today is so broad it includes those sickos who blow up abortion clinics, so one can't always use the term without some boundaries, which is perhaps what she was doing by saying "mildly".
Millions have killed their children, and we have a nation of undercurrent guilt and grief, so gentle and compassionate terms perhaps could be used, such as when she speaks that none of us would want this for our children our our friends, while not downplaying the evil of the act, or the choice for adoption available.
I HOPE she is as conservative as me, and that her quotes are as conservative as I think they can be; I believe love gives people the benefit of the doubt, believes the best until shown otherwise. I could be wrong. I think she needs to define a clear position first in her head, and then the correct wording will come out. We all have had to learn and grow in this subject, and she will too.
Perhaps her wording was purposed to be somewhat inclusive and not turn some away. I don't know if she was thinking along campaigning for President when she made the statements, though.
I think commercials should be run: "Adopt rather than Abort. You HAVE a choice." Make THAT the choice, rather than some "right" women want to maintain just so they can have sex with whoever they want with no responsibilities.
I just don't like people completely misrepresenting her, so thank you for your decent discussion and non-slander! A good way to end the evening!
Why not??
I'd vote for Condi in a heartbeat.
That's damn right /sarc. Seriously though, i don't know any women my age who even cook, it seems like most guys can cook better than girls these days.
We just eviscerated a flip flopping rino from MA, why would we turn around and nominate our own?
Ditto. Voting for Newt.
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