Posted on 12/08/2002 8:22:10 AM PST by Brian Mosely
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Quiet, respectful, anonymous—but firm, just the way the president wanted it. Rice’s aides call her the “anti-Kissinger,” meaning that she does not need to show off her influence or present herself as a master global strategist like Henry Kissinger. That may be in part because Rice is not a strategic genius, but no one doubts her power. Rice’s aides also refer to her (affectionately) as the “Warrior Princess.” She is proud, elegant, fastidious about her appearance (she keeps two mirrors in her office, so she can see her back as well as her front) and utterly unflappable. Rice has Bush’s complete confidence; she speaks for the president, and everyone knows it. The harder question is how much she influences his thinking and his decisions.
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In general, it wasn't the fawning type of article we saw during the Xlinton years when they wrote about his people.....
Were most black people really not allowed to vote in 1966? That's what it says in the last paragraph. I find that hard to believe.
Aye, I found that annoying as well.
But I liked the last paragraph:
Although she is routinely rumored to be a potential U.S. Senate or vice presidential candidate, she scoffs at the idea. Her career aim, she often says, is to become NFL commissioner. That actually represents a step down from her childhood ambition. In 1965, when Rice was 11, her father took her to Washington, where she stood in front of the White House. Her father had encouraged her to believe that she could be president one day, even though at the time most blacks were not allowed to vote. “One day I’ll be in that house,” she told her father. It may have seemed a preposterous wish then, but Condi Rice made it come true.
LOL! She wants to be football commissioner.
I don't know how these media morons decide how smart people are, unless it's on some kind of scale with "socialist" at the top and "vast right-wing conspirator" at the bottom.
They all simply assumed that Bubba and Al were geniuses, although one of them got kicked out of Oxford and refused to release any of his grades, and the other had a C- average at Harvard and flunked out of law school and divinity school.
Hey, Condi Rice had a top job teaching at a first-class research university, and she didn't get that job through pull, either. The same guys who swooned over the brilliant foreign policy of Maddy Allbright, of all people, are in no position to question someone like Condi Rice.
On the other hand, I don't think that translates into running for president in a few years. She has no political experience. She would be way above her head until she gets some seasoning. And she's pro-abort, which is a huge political loser for a national Republican candidate. It would get her zero liberal votes, but it would destroy her among the Christian conservative base.
I think I do know. If, and only if, she was disloyal to the President, that would prove that she was a smart independent thinker.
On the other hand, I don't think that translates into running for president in a few years. She has no political experience. She would be way above her head until she gets some seasoning. And she's pro-abort, which is a huge political loser for a national Republican candidate. It would get her zero liberal votes, but it would destroy her among the Christian conservative base.
Maybe. But consider this:
As for seasoning, Rice running for office is most similar to Eisenhower running for office. In fact, I think President Rice would be a lot like President Eisenhower, who also had academic administration in his past. The experience Rice is getting right now is a lot more relevant to learning how to be president than would be the California governorship.
After FReepers read this article, everyone will have to come clean and agree with me.
Rice is an incompetent who as national security advisor did not properly coordinate the work of our security agencies (i.e., CIA, NSA, FBI), and Rice should be held responsible for allowing 9/11 to happen.
Maybe she was playing the piano too much, and not concentrating on her job as national security advisor?
Yes - protect America (i.e., 9/11).
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