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It's the ultimate inside-the-Beltway fantasy, a political tease too titillating to surrender, because it ends with the prospect of two women running against one another for president of the United States in 2008. [snip] Scenario One: Democrats rally around Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) as their presidential candidate in 2008, after she is reelected in a roar from New York in 2006. President Bush attempts to preempt Hillary's expected star-power run with a trump card of his own, naming national security advisor Condoleezza Rice as his vice presidential running mate in 2004. Bush-Rice triumphs at the polls, making Rice the first...

A lesson from Condoleezza Rice By Derrick Z. Jackson, 11/20/2002 WASHINGTONCONDOLEEZZA RICE was reminded of her decision to become a Republican after the 1984 Democratic National Convention. She said the Democratic Party's speeches to ''women, minorities, and the poor'' really meant ''helpless people and the poor.'' In a profile in The Washington Post, Rice said, ''I decided I'd rather be ignored than patronized.'' The national security adviser to President Bush was asked if she thinks the Democratic Party still patronizes ''women, minorities, and the poor.'' Laughing, she declined to answer the specific question last week before the Trotter Group, an...

In his new controversial book BUSH AT WAR, Bob Woodward reveals interior monologues of key newsmakers, including a description of National security adviser Condoleezza Rice's thoughts -- as she watched television alone... WOODWARD CAPTURES CONDI'S THOUGHTS WHILE SHE IS ALONE WATCHING TV!

Republican columnist says he misses Bill Condoleezza Rice will defeat Hillary Clinton for the presidency in 2008, New York Times political columnist William Safire predicted during a stop in Ypsilanti Monday. Safire was the featured speaker at an annual fund-raiser of the Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County at the Ypsilanti Marriott Hotel. Asked if he, a political columnist, misses Bill Clinton in the White House, Safire answered: "Desperately." "He enlivened my life," said Safire, who awaits the day Hillary Clinton stops being a quiet, respectful freshman senator. He then predicted she will run for president in 2008, but will be...

Legendary New York talk radio host Bob Grant said Monday that the establishment press has signaled its approval of a racist attack on National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice by failing to condemn or even publicize it. "Since the target is a member of the Bush administration, apparently people in the media say, 'Well, that's all right,'" Grant told NewsMax during his WOR broadcast. The New York talker was responding to a question about the Neil Rogers Show, a Florida radio broadcast that features a song parody describing Rice as "a black-haired answer-mammy who be smart" - who also "parks the...

THE CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE"I started to think of myself as that elder son who had never doubted the existence of the Heavenly Father but wasn't really walking in faith in an active way any more." Miss Condoleezza Rice (47) is the American National Security Advisor. She has reached the highest political office for an African-American woman to have attained. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and she was trained as a girl to be a concert pianist and a competitive ice skater. During an August 4 Sunday school class at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, she explained something...

Filed at 1:28 p.m. ET In his famous, fervent speeches of the 1960s, Malcolm X described the difference between house slaves, who lived in comfortable conditions in the master's house and loved the master, and slaves laboring in the field, who hated the master. The house slaves, he implied, were mainstream civil rights groups and leaders, who he thought were too closely aligned with whites. Now it's a term being used by activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte to describe Secretary of State Colin Powell. And Belafonte, who opposes a war on Iraq, isn't apologizing. Belafonte told The Associated Press he...

Condoleezza Rice's Secret Weapon How our National Security Adviser finds the strength to defend the free world.by B. Denise Hawkins She has been called "the most powerful woman in the world" and "Bush's secret weapon." As an international studies scholar and later provost at Stanford University throughout the '80s and '90s, and now as President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice has drawn both fire and praise for her extraordinary mixture of Southern charm, intellectual tenacity, and no-nonsense leadership. Her name was inspired by the Italian musical notation con dolcezza, meaning to play "with sweetness." Today, however, it conjures many...

http://www.christianitytoday.com/cr/2002/005/1.18.html Condoleezza Rice's Secret Weapon How our National Security Adviser finds the strength to defend the free world. by B. Denise Hawkins She has been called "the most powerful woman in the world" and "Bush's secret weapon." As an international studies scholar and later provost at Stanford University throughout the '80s and '90s, and now as President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice has drawn both fire and praise for her extraordinary mixture of Southern charm, intellectual tenacity, and no-nonsense leadership. Her name was inspired by the Italian musical notation con dolcezza, meaning to play "with sweetness." Today, however, it...

Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York, New York I am honored to deliver this year's Wriston Lecture. And happy to be in New York. It is important for government officials to venture beyond Washington, to get out, talk to -- and listen to -- Americans from every corner of our vast, great country. The President said it best when talking about the National Security Strategy that he sent to Congress ten days ago. He was very clear that he wanted the document written in plain English, not academic jargon. He said, "This is the ... Security Strategy of the [entire] United...

     Trained as a girl to be a concert pianist and a competitive ice skater, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, 47, is undergirded by her Christian beliefs. During an Aug. 4 Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church, she explained what inspires her. Here are some excerpts:            I was a preacher's kid, so Sundays were church, no doubt about that. The church was the center of our lives. In segregated black Birmingham of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the church was not just a place of worship. It was the place where families gathered; it was the social...

<p>I was a preacher's kid, so Sundays were church, no doubt about that. The church was the center of our lives. In segregated black Birmingham of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the church was not just a place of worship. It was the place where families gathered; it was the social center of the community, too.</p>

A lot of people wonder why the president of the United States doesn't show up on the Lycos 50 more often. Both President Bush and his election opponent, Al Gore, were Lycos 50 staples back in the summer of 2000, and Bush reappeared on the list after September 11.But for the most part, Bush doesn't get enough searches to make our list. Last week, for example, President Bush was at a level about 80 percent below the #50 item on the Lycos 50, Anna Nicole Smith. He got the same number of searches as Snoop Dogg or hunting.What about...

Filed at 3:05 p.m. ET BEIRUT (Reuters) - The militant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Friday that it will target Israeli leaders in response to the Jewish state's tactic of killing senior Palestinian militants behind attacks on Israelis. Usama Hamdan, who heads Hamas in Lebanon, said Israel's killing in recent weeks of two senior Hamas figures -- one in an air strike that left 14 others dead -- meant Hamas's military actions should expand beyond suicide bombings in public places. ``From here on out, targeting a leader, minister, or the head of the government of the Zionist entity will...

At the tail end of Kudlow and Kramer, Larry Kudlow ripped a story off the wire services about Iraq. Kudlow reported that Condoleezza Rice had told the French that we would invade Iraq and that operations would commence prior to the November elections. I'm not sure whether he got the story off Reuters or AFP.

When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last convened in Houston 11 years ago, white Americans were retrenching and blacks were in crisis. Rodney King had been beaten by Los Angeles police that spring. Liberal stalwart Thurgood Marshall was being replaced on the Supreme Court by the conservative Clarence Thomas. Congress was debating civil rights legislation under threat of executive veto. And still unknown to members of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group, a train wreck was barreling toward them. Near-bankruptcy, sexual scandal, catastrophic mismanagement and almost wholesale abandonment by foundations and corporate backers all...

<p>JERUSALEM — Yasser Arafat criticized U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice yesterday for condemning his Palestinian Authority, saying she has no right to dictate to Palestinians how their future state should look.</p> <p>Mr. Arafat spoke shortly after a Palestinian blew himself up in Israeli territory near the West Bank, killing only himself.</p>

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice exhorts graduates to search for the truthUnder a bright blue sky, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told thousands of students Sunday that, as educated people, they have an obligation to search for the truth.Rice, a former university provost who is on leave as a political science professor, refrained from making policy statements during a speech at Stanford's 111th Commencement ceremonies. However, she made several references to last September's terrorist attacks and the increased responsibilities that graduating students face in today's world.Provost John Etchemendy, U.S. national security adviser and former provost Condoleezza Rice and...

<p>WASHINGTON  — It comes in fragments of conversations, snippets of technical data, whispers from foreign agents, and boasts of audacious schemes. Most of it means nothing. Some of it means everything.</p> <p>In the summer of 2001, the river of information flowing into Washington about possible security threats was cresting.</p>