Condoleezza Rice: Mr Bush's right-hand woman
Posted on 11/23/2001 7:10:35 PM PST by jo6pac
Friday, 23 November, 2001, 15:07 GMT
Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Adviser, is the most powerful woman in the world and the first person George W Bush speaks to every morning after his wife Laura.
 Rice named Outstanding Junior Woman at University of Denver
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Ms Rice defies all stereotypes - a black woman from the Deep South who, unlike nine out of 10 African-Americans, has found a home on the political Right and has conquered the largely white, male bastion of international relations.
Condoleezza was named by her mother after the Italian musical term which means "to play with sweetness".
Ku-Klux-Klan
Ms Rice was born in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, once the most racially segregated city in the United States.
On 15 September 1963 when Condi, as everyone calls her, was nine-years-old when the Ku-Klux-Klan carried out one of the most notorious atrocities of the civil rights period.
 Condi at school aged seven
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They bombed an Alabama church and killed four 10-year-old girls, one a friend of Condi's since kindergarten.
This was a turning point. The Rice family did not take to the streets to demonstrate or riot, as many African-Americans did.
Instead Condi's father, a Presbyterian preacher, helped organise armed street patrols to protect the black community from white racists.
The state, the police and the law had failed decent black people and the Rice family pursued their constitutional right to bear arms. It was a very conservative response in radical times, a lesson which underpins her thinking today.
High-flyer
Condi went on to study international relations and became an assistant professor at Stanford University. It is hardly surprising that a young, clever black woman stood out in the clubbable male world of superpower relations.
 Rice skating at 13.
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When General Scowcroft became President Bush senior's national security adviser in 1989, Condi found herself in the White House with the toughest brief in foreign policy, handling the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the time of the collapse of communism.
She became close to the Bush family and in last year's election was the natural choice to advise George W Bush on foreign affairs. Privately, the Washington whisper is that Dubya found Condi a good teacher.
President Rice?
The Bush family also prizes loyalty and Condi is known as a team player. In Washington, that city of gargantuan egos, she pulls the strings but rarely claims the glory.
 Rice age 5 sitting on her uncle's car.
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Far-fetched? Perhaps, but no more far-fetched than the idea of a black girl from segregated Alabama now driving the foreign policy of a superpower.
If Dr. Rice uses this story in her acceptance speech at the convention in 2004, the election, as far as the Democraps were concerned, would be over that minute-- and Terry McAwful would cry like a baby. I'm so glad she's on the side of good and not evil.
Stupid Brits.
The state, the police and the law had failed decent black people and the Rice family pursued their constitutional right to bear arms.
Kewl.
Proof that the media are stupid.
ping for grammie
Oh, no? Then go HERE. Read a little bit. You'll see.
Take care...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A52767-2000Dec26
WARNING juvenile humor. Do NOT click this link if you can't stand some harmless fun poked at the president!
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