I lost interest in Condi during her speech in 2004(?) at the Repub Convention, in which she described how her grandfather switched religions in order to get a scholarship to college—and that’s why her family have been “devout whatevers ever since.” What kind of cynicism is that?
She’s Presbyterian.
From her remarks at Southern Baptist Convention.
Now, I am a Presbyterian. (Laughter.) But I want to tell you why I’m a Presbyterian. I trace the roots of my faith back to my granddaddy. Granddaddy Rice was a poor sharecropper’s son in Eutaw, Alabama. That’s E-u-t-a-w, Alabama. (Laughter.) And one day he decided he was going to get book learning, so he asked where a colored man could go to college. And they told him that there was this little school called Stillman College. It was about 60 miles away from where he lived and he could go to Stillman College and get an education. So Granddaddy Rice saved up his tuition, saved up his cotton, and he went off to school and he finished his first year, and they said, “Well, that’s very good. Now how are you going to pay for your second year?” And he said, “Well, I’m fresh out of cotton.” And they said, “Well, you’ll have to leave.”
And he said, “Well, how are those boys going to college?” And they said, “Well, they have what’s called a scholarship. And if you wanted to be a Presbyterian minister, then you could have a scholarship, too.” (Laughter.) Well, my granddaddy said, “You know, that’s exactly what I had in mind.” (Laughter.) And my family has been college educated and Presbyterian ever since. (Laughter and applause.)
Really? I hadn’t heard that one. Very strange, indeed.