[Temple Owl]

One does not have to like Rice's politics to appreciate how being twice as good has made her the most powerful woman in the world.

She is also bright and beautiful and probably destined to be the America's first woman president. She's got my vote.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I think Dr. Rice's point is that we are all individuals first and part of a group second. The first being much more important than the latter.

[SwinneySwitch]

Rice for President!

[Mike Darancette]

''We don't talk about it very much, but, yes ... it is a very good thing for the rest of the world that when Colin Powell and I walk in with the president of the United States, we are there as secretary of state and national security adviser, because I think it says to people that there aren't boundaries in which black Americans are not supposed to play

When African-Americans walked in with Clinton they were usually there as representatives of a constituent group getting some boon from the government ... takers not givers ... subservient clients not respected equals and contributors.

When I think of Dr. Rice I see no color, only a shining soul. I sincerely hope she continues to rise to the top.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Nice article. Enjoy :o)

[Mike K]

In a Newsweek interview last year, Rice said, ''It wasn't as if someone said, `You have to be twice as good' and `isn't that a pity' or `isn't that wrong.' It was just, `You have to be twice as good.'''

Based on my experience, I don't buy the twice as good stuff. Being intelligent, hard working and good looking gives her advantages that are absolutely not available to everyone.

[MP5]

''If you've been through home-grown terrorism,'' Rice said, ''you recognize there isn't any cause that can be served by it ... Because what it's meant to do is end the conversation.''

Very true. All the "blame America" idiots should stop trying to figure out what we did to piss off the terrorists, and recognize this fact.

[paul51]

Smart, competanet, class act. We are lucky to have her in the administration. What a contrast to the collection of losers in the previous administration....and I mean the white ones at that.

[cake_crumb]

Good article, but I take exception to the racist remark about "white conservatives" who say race doesn't matter. Condi Rice is great woman. Attractive, cerebral, witty. It's such a shame that so many authors are so obsessed with her race that they don't bother talking to the woman behind the skin coloration.

I'm white, a conservative, and can care less about race. I care about ability. If you throw your race up in my face, that is an indication that you, not I, have a problem with race.

[Lando Lincoln]

...I'd rather be ignored than patronized."

What a strong concept. While the left professes to be intellectual, this is beyond their understanding. Condi has my vote - no doubt!!

[Cable225]

I didn't think it was possible to read all the way through an article by Derrick Z. "I hate whitey" Jackson. After being 0 for 500 in previous attempts, I just assumed it was one of those things that could not be accomplished.

Just goes to show you, something amazing can happen every day.

[mhking]

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[KeyBored]

Something that hasn't been pointed out about the article thus far - the positive role that Ms. Rice's parents and extended family played in her life.

One of the many disasterous side effects from LBJ's "war on poverty" has been the disintegration of the black family. All it's proven is that you can throw billions (trillions) of dollars at a problem and, in many ways, make it worse.

Ah, but that's the definition of Liberalism, isn't it?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Condi! ping.

[TheLion]

This article is a bunch of racist tripe, probably taken totally out of context....as to her remarks.

[CaptIsaacDavis]

None of you have any idea what she stands for! She gets a pass, like Powell did, because she fits a condescending and idealized model of a candidate. She has NEVER publicly discussed her views on a host of issues. Heck, she doesn't even take a Realist approach to foreign policy like true conservatives do. Have you heard her views on foreign policy? She stated at the Nitze School that she wants (not just predicts) a global convergence towards a "common culture" -- she is a globalist at heart.

[Bill Davis FR]

the senate is no longer a good stepping stone to the whitehouse...a more likely path is the governorship...perhaps through the state of california as reagan did...

[E Rocc]

She is also bright and beautiful and probably destined to be the America's first woman president. She's got my vote.

Good taste in football teams too....at least now. >:)

She grew up a Cleveland Browns fan because their games were broadcast in Birmingham. When the Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown, someone she admired, left Cleveland and coached the Cincinnati Bengals, she switched her allegiance. Now she is a Browns fan again because of her friendship with Carmen Policy, the team's general manager, whom she met when Policy held the same post with the San Francisco 49ers.

-Eric

[RooRoobird14]

In profiles, Rice talks about being hollered at as a child by a white store clerk for touching a hat. Rice's mother told the clerk ''Don't you talk to my daughter that way!'' Her mother then said, ''Now, Condoleezza, you go and touch every hat in this store.

ROTFLOL--Yah gotta love her mom!!! No wonder Dr. Condi turned out to be such a great lady!!

I say this whenever I can:

Condoleeza Rice is the REAL Smartest Woman in the World!!!!.

(Didja hear that, Mrs. Clintbilly Rapist?)

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks very much for this "fair and balanced"article on Dr.Rice.I enjoyed reading it.