[Orion]

Ask yourself...
If Condi Rice was not black and female, would she have been NSA? Wouldn't an ex-mil officer have more experience in the field?

It just smacks of tokenism. Based on GWB's amnesty program, we know he thinks that way.

[The Westerner]

Ms. Rice has a good mind, is well spoken and is accomplished. I wouldn't call it tokenism. It's her ideas that bother me. It bothered me that Madeline Albright's father was her teacher. It worries me that she is a Russian scholar but seems to have led Bush into a "friendship" with Putin. It bothers me that she seems to take Colin Powell's side of many debates. But no, I don't think of her as the token.