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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...

THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT: HILLARY OR CONDI? Fri Oct 25,10:02 PM ET By Richard Reeves PARIS -- Hillary Clinton turns 55 years old on Saturday. Condoleezza Rice turns 48 next month. So they will be 61 and 53, respectively, when they run against each other for president in 2008. If they run for president. I think they will. Three things are necessary to make a run: celebrity, which used to be called "name recognition"; money; and narrative, by which I mean a story to tell. There are other things that help, of course, desire and iron discipline among them. But...

<p>Who would have predicted in 1954, the year of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, that in less than half a century two distinguished black Americans (and one of them a woman at that) would be sharing foreign policy decision-making with the president of the United States? Perhaps Martin Luther King might have included such a prophecy in his "I Have a Dream" oration.</p>

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!

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 defeated by Rice, who is now...

NEWMARKET's "Condi: The Condoleeza Rice Story" bio says: Her obsession is shoes. Buys eight pair of Ferragamos in one shot. Past lovers include a Denver Bronco, San Francisco 49er wide receiver, university coach, Fortune 500 professional. The youngest of the "Four Little Girls" killed in Sept. 15, 1963's Birmingham church bombing was her friend from kindergarten. A Democrat in 1976, she changed party affiliation over Jimmy Carter's handling of the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. She was only 21 at the time. Amazon.com review: The first biography on the most important woman in U.S. government today, National Security Advisor to...

Black Republicans becoming a force to be reckoned with in Florida The Saturday before Tuesday's election, a revealing event took place. A trolley filled with black Republicans rolled through the streets of Newtown. You read that right. Black Republicans in Newtown. It was a portent of the sleeper story of last week's surprise election results: The rise of the black Republican voter. The mayor of Sarasota, Carolyn Mason, is a black Republican. The black-owned Tempo News in Sarasota endorsed Republican Jeb Bush for governor. So did the black Broward Times of Fort Lauderdale and The Weekly Challenger of St. Petersburg....

The tawdry campaign against African-Americans in the Bush White House is set to turn uglier in the coming weeks with the release of a new music CD featuring a cover photograph of President Bush greeting National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice with a social kiss - and a track inside titled, "Kiss a N-----r Good Morning." "Kiss a N----r Good Morning" is performed by "Boca Brian," a South Florida singer whose parodies are regular features on The Neil Rogers Radio Show, heard weekdays on stations in Miami Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and Ft. Myers. Mr. Rogers, who is white, has a Web...

On "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, our National Security Advisor Condi Rice was giving an excellent interview, explaining why it was North Korea who complicated the situation concerning nuclear weapons, not the U.S. (all of the pieces fell into place BEFORE Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech). At the end of the interview, Wolf asked her about Harry Bellafonte's comments on Powell and herself, and played the clip from Larry King Live. Her resonse: "I don't need Harry Belafonte telling me what it means to be black."

An unrepentant Harry Belafonte continued his attack Tuesday night on blacks in the Bush administration, telling CNN's "Larry King Live" that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was a bigger sellout than Secretary of State Colin Powell. Asked if he thought Rice deserved the same criticism as Powell, whom Belafonte compared to a "slave" last week who lived "in the house," the washed-up calypso singer bellyached, "Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Even more so." "Because I've never heard from Condoleezza Rice even the suggestion towards some of the more lenient thoughts or some of the more appropriate thoughts that Colin Powell has expressed,"...

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...

<p>Adapted from the 2002 Wriston Lecture, which National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice delivered to a Manhattan Institute audience at the Waldorf Astoria on Tuesday night.</p> <p>FOREIGN policy is ultimately about security - about defending our people, our society and our values, such as freedom, tolerance, openness and diversity. No place evokes these values better than our cities.</p>

<p> RICE ON IRAQ, WAR AND POLITICS September 25, 2002 "Condoleezza Rice" National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice talks with Margaret Warner about Iraq, the United Nations, the United States' new pre-emptive strike doctrine and recent criticism from Democratic leaders.   Online Special:Intervention in Iraq?Sept. 24, 2002:Intelligence experts discuss the dossier outlining Iraq's weapons program, released by the British government.Sept. 24, 2002:Update: Blair Warns Iraq's Weapons Program Is Growing Sept. 23, 2002: A discussion of U.S.-German tensions over policies with Iraq. Sept. 20, 2002:The Russian defense minister discusses his country's stance on Iraq.Sept. 17, 2002: Two experts assess Iraq's latest...

Please help me find a the resume for Condalizza Rice.Let me explain why. One of my college instructors (an art instructor) got a tad carried away during a lecture, fell off topic and wound up talking about politics. She managed to get on the topic of Iraq and how bad America is for wanting to attack and defeat Sadam. This made me angry but what really sent me over the edge was when she called Ms. Rice, Bush's "lackey". I was very angry, got up and walked out of class, informing my instructor on the way out that I would...

WASHINGTON — President Bush's national security adviser has alleged a connection between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terror master Usama bin Laden that many had thought impossible to back up. And Condoleezza Rice also insisted she could back up her assertion with proof. Rice on Wednesday accused Saddam's regime of sheltering members of the Al Qaeda terrorist network in Baghdad and helping bin Laden's operatives in developing chemical weapons. Rice's comments -- by far the strongest statements yet from the U.S. government alleging Al Qaeda contacts with the Iraqi government -- were aired Wednesday on PBS' The NewsHour with Jim...

<p>LONDON — National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice told Britons yesterday that Saddam Hussein is "an evil man" who will use weapons of mass destruction if he gets a chance, and said Western nations "do not have the luxury" of leaving him in power.</p>

<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>

     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...

President Bush can declare war on Iraq any time he wants and he won't need the permission of Congress to do so. That's what Dubya's lawyers are telling him. Other administration officials, however, say it would be political suicide to launch an attack with Iraq withot at least seeking Congressional approval. Without it, they argue, Bush could lose public support in his war against terrorism. "This isn't so much a question of what's legal," says one White House source. "It's more a question of what's politically right." Bush's legal authority to attack Iraq exists because of the 1991 resolution that...

President’s Bush’s approval rating among African Americans: 2001: 19% approve, 45% disapprove, 36% no opinion 2002: 41% approve, 41% disapprove, 15% no opinion. African American opinion of President Bush based on his actions taken since September 11th 46% have a more favorable opinion of President Bush 36% have a less favorable impression of the President, 9% haven’t changed 10% don’t know/refused to answer. Secretary of State Colin Powell: 2001: 73% favorable 2002: 80% Favorable. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice: 2001: 17% favorable 2002: 41% favorable …….Education Secretary Rodney Paige, Alan Keyes, JC Watts, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas experienced similar...