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Condi Rice, on Target in Mobile
Would that others could rise above politics the way she does so naturally.
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I lost track of her transition here, but she began to wrap up thusly: “Someone will lead. It should be the United States of America. [Because no nation better understands that] every life is precious. Every individual is worthy.”
*****
There: That gives at least some sense, unadorned, of Ms. Rice’s speech and message. Of course it doesn’t do the speech justice. It doesn’t show just how well she tied her themes together, nor can it capture both the warmth and the soft-spoken, but very notable, charisma with which she delivered it.
Agree with all of her policy judgments or not, one must absolutely recognize that this is a woman of formidable intellect, bedrock values, sincere faith, and fundamental decency. It cannot be mere self-delusion to insist that these United States produces more such people, or at least more who approach such a combination of virtues, than any nation on Earth.
Now back at Stanford University, Condoleezza Rice is exactly where she belongs: A university setting is where the brightest of our young people, those who aspire to be tomorrow’s leaders, are most in need of the example of uncommon sensibility and essential values that Secretary Rice embodies, projects, and teaches. But all of us, not just students, would do well to heed her lessons.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Lee Ghume| 11.14.11 @ 8:12AM
Do you wonder how many more people of Ms. Rice's character would be contributing to the USA today if Ms. Sanger's followers had not terminated 40,000,000 pregnancies? Perhaps we would even have gotten a good president from that wasted pool.
sirbourbon| 11.14.11 @ 11:57PM
Condi used her postion as National Security director and SOS not to save lives but to help destroy them.
Sanger was a eugenics advocate as well as a voice for killing unborn children long before the Supreme court ruled in the Roe V. Wade murder decision. I never saw a picture of Rice marching for Life or praying in front of a Sanger abortuary did you ?
Rice and Bush and Cheney and the rest of those war mongers weren't in favor of saving children since they bombed them for 8 years while they controlled the White House.
vb| 11.14.11 @ 8:31AM
Thank you for sharing this with us. We (I) need to be reminded what a real class act is.
sirbourbon| 11.14.11 @ 11:59PM
You don't have a clue what "class" is. If you think that Rice is other than the liberal she truly is, you are badly mistaken.
Grzmlyk| 11.15.11 @ 2:07PM
Sadly, I agree - Condi is a liberal, and all that encompasses. And she wasn't particularly competent, either.
Anthony| 11.14.11 @ 9:51AM
While I have tremendous respect for Ms. Rice, she unfortunately, practiced a form of Mr. Bush's "new tone" that allowed Democrats to say the most vile things about her without her reponse.
Particularly, that nasty pit bull bitch, Barbara Boxer, who at a hearing some years ago, deliberately set up Ms. Rice for a vile cheap shot, about our troops in Iraq and Afghanstan, when Ms. Rice had no children in the military.
Ms.Rice handled this low rent cruelty like the class act that she is.
Problem is, folks like Bush and Rice refuse to acknowledge that we are dealing with vile, unprincipled scum, who will say and do the most dispicable things for their political agenda.
Folks like Boxer, Reid, Pelosi and the rest of the D vermin nest, need to be slapped down, not giving the other cheek to hit.
Her recent advice to Mr. Cain about not playing the "race card", as the leftist MSM did their vile hit job on him, was Neville Chamberlainish at its worst. Mr. Cain would be toast today if he listened to Rice. Fortunately, Mr. Cain knows what he is dealing with, and doesn't play the surrender game.
Mr. Cheney did not have good things to say about Ms. Rice's Pollyannish attitude towards counties who have our destruction as their goal. Apparently, the academic preference for "process" rather than reality, is big with Ms. Rice.
Ms. Rice is a good person, but she needs to stay behind the cozy walls of academia, and take a lesson from Herman Cain, who kicked the MSM's ass, and won!!.
Seek| 11.14.11 @ 11:55AM
Cain "won?" The man's political career is on life support. He's about as viable as Sarah Palin.
Anthony| 11.14.11 @ 1:05PM
So says Seek and the morons in the MSM.
Seek, you are as clueless as Pelley at CBS news, who got his ass kicked by Newt, because the sniviling twit thought he was actually capable of going toe to toe with Newt.
Well, Newt's toe ended up Pelley's ass.
Seek| 11.14.11 @ 1:12PM
I just love how redneck threats pass for "ideas" among a number of posters at this site -- like you. But I digress.
Herman Cain is not going to be elected president of this country. Nor will he get the nomination. That's not a "liberal" point of view; it's an all but foregone conclusion. Even most conservatives privately admit as much. And I know a lot of conservatives. Cain's true-believer followers may send some extra checks, but it's pretty much game over. Wish fulfillment is not reality.
Anthony| 11.14.11 @ 1:41PM
I have more degrees than you have brain cells, and my neck is a beautiful Mediterranean brown.
Your irrational hatred for both Cain and Palin is evidence of the pathology of the mind of the left.
Both Cain and Palin are infinitely superior to the empty suit known as Obozo, only fools like you can't or won't face reality.
You are a pathetic deluded lefty, soon to get a real dose of reality.
rd| 11.14.11 @ 1:43PM
Seek, please, let's stay on topic in this thread. Shall we? (I know it is a strain, but, with a smidgen of inner fortitude, you can do it)
Kent Lyon| 11.14.11 @ 9:58AM
Wonderful article, Mr. Hillyer. Sadly, the America of Ms. Rice is but a distant memory. America has now opted for dependency, corruption, and glaring incompetence, and has chosen decline, enslavement, and insolvency (see the results of the Ohio referendum on Gov Kasich's necessary reforms to public employee unions and bargaining--or the decision by the DC circuit court that an individual mandate is Constitutionally fine and dandy) over freedom and prosperity. America is done. America no longer exists. The Constition is honored exclusively in the breach (note that Article III Sec. 2 requries that the Supreme Court hear suits as the "court of primary jurisdiction" when a State is involved in the suit--and our SC has declined expeditied review of cases to which over half the states are parties--and is still discussing whether to even hear the cases!). The American character has become utterly debased, Dr. Rice's marvelous perspective notwithstanding. We have become a nation of immoral character, as or more perverse than the corrupt Greek nation--which is less corrupt than ours, starting at the top. We have a quasi, or not-so-quasi, fascist/socialist regime controlling and suppressing freedom and prosperity, whose model is not a "shining city on a hill" but a disease and crime ridden squatter's camp in Zucotti Park (and I used to think that the model was Grove Parc Plaza--how wrong I was, and how much worse the anointed's vision is I failed to recognize). And the entirety of the corporate, professional, academic, and media world is aiding and abetting this anti-American tide, including the AMA (I am a physician), the supposed "professional" association that is supposed to represent me (not).
It woulg be nice to be optimistic, but never in our history have we had a president so dedicated to the destruction of the country, such debt, such perfidy and pusillanimity in our elite institutions (Penn State is a grotesque symptom of a much larger national character decline--our elites universally have not feet of clay, but feet of dung) and such a culture of dependency and entitlement--a truly "unprecedented" circumstance for America for which there appears to be no turning back.
Jabber3| 11.14.11 @ 10:10AM
Condi is a true leader and a precious national resource who serves as an example for future US leaders.
RCV| 11.14.11 @ 11:33AM
Thanks, Quinn. Condi Rice is a national treasure, a person of character and integrity to whom all Americans can look to with pride.
Occam's Tool| 11.14.11 @ 3:12PM
Yup. Fine lady. I don't always agree with her, but fine lady.
C Smith| 11.14.11 @ 11:38AM
"Forget the controversies over how well (or not well) Condoleezza Rice performed as President George W. Bush's national security advisor... " (Quin Hillyer).
How can we or should we forget the blight on America and Israel and all that is just and righteous?
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Archbishop Stepinac
Today’s incursion on an already evacuated American embassy by a few hundred Serbs out of almost 200,000 taking part in an otherwise peaceful protest was provoked by the declaration of the Independent state of Kosovo. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a prepared statement earlier this week affirmed: "The United States has today formally recognized Kosovo as a sovereign and independent state.” Few comprehend the sickening sensation of déjà vu Serbs are experiencing. Almost 70 years ago, another independent state was declared: the Independent State of Croatia.
In May 1941, the Independent State of Croatia was established by a Nazi puppet regime, the Ustaša. Archbishop of Zagreb Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac immediately blessed the regime and offered prayers for Ante Pavelic its leader. Stepinac even arranged for Pavelic to be personally received by Pope Pius XII in Rome. As “Father Confessor” to the Ustashi, Stepinac declared, "God, who directs the destiny of nations and controls the hearts of Kings, has given us Ante Pavelic and moved the leader of a friendly and allied people, Adolf Hitler, to use his victorious troops to disperse our oppressors... Glory be to God, our gratitude to Adolf Hitler and loyalty to our Poglavnik, Ante Pavelic." And with Stepinac’s blessing the Independent State of Croatia immediately instigated a pogrom, a pogrom to exterminate Serbian Christians!
Dai Alanye | 11.14.11 @ 1:13PM
There are few innocents in the Balkans, and be sure the Serbs aren't among them. Nor the Croats, by the way.
The ancestors of the Albanians and Kosovars (no innocents, either) were there long before the Serbs, Slovenes and Croats - the Slavs, in other words - invaded. And in all probability the Albanians used force to take their enclaves from some earlier peoples. In the Balkans as in many other areas, the right to rule is based ultimately on the sword, with propaganda justifying the result. None of these peoples have a legitimate right to complain much about the others.
As far as cooperation with Hitler, the same thing occurred in Ukraine and other areas of the USSR, the desire being to exchange a worse tyrant (Stalin) for a lesser one. In the case of the Croatia, getting out from under the Serbian thumb (and hoping to put the Serbs under a Croatian thumb) was probably the major motive in cooperating with the Germans.
We should, of course, try to encourage them not to slaughter each other, but we mainly ought to look out for our own interests while avoiding their quarrels.
cicero| 11.14.11 @ 11:43AM
ill Caught Rice's interview on C-SPAN with Donna Shalala, at the Univ. of Miami. Great stuff. What is encouraging is that she is heading up a major university. Maybe we will get a change in the philosophical makeup in the faculty.
Sheila| 11.14.11 @ 11:54AM
You mean the Condi Rice who called slavery America's "birth defect?" The Rice who has complained about racism in America despite her position as Secretary of State? The Condi Rice who feels free to criticize Cheney's positions but finds no fault in her own, ever? Oh yes, a "great American" . . . to movement conservatives, perhaps. For an alt-righter like me . . not so much.
RCV| 11.14.11 @ 2:52PM
The white nationalist wing of TAS (party of one) speaks up against any nice thing said about a person of color. Slavery WAS our birth defect, and even Jefferson and the other Founders knew it.
WJ| 11.14.11 @ 6:08PM
So now, just as any criticism of Israel is anti-semitic, or any criticism of Obama is racist, then any criticism of any African American is racist also.
Condi Rice, despite her credentials is a weak intellect. She helped sell the pile of garbage also known as the Iraq war and person informed knew it was based on lies and half truths.
Serving in the Bush Administration disqualifies her from being hailed as brilliant. That has nothing to do with the color of her skin.
RCV| 11.14.11 @ 11:17PM
No. Sheila is a self-described white nationalist.
Occam's Tool| 11.14.11 @ 3:15PM
Sheila---the Israelis are working on the final stages on a vaccine against relapses of Cancer. Please be consistent in your beliefs and DON'T take it when available. Thank you.
David Duke, whom you cloisely resemble, is not "alt-right." He is racist scum.
Sheila| 11.14.11 @ 7:16PM
Once more, movement "conservatives" display their reverence for freedom of thought and freedom of speech. Except for speech they don't agree with, of course. Except for speech that is racist or intolerant, of course. No tolerance for the intolerant, of course. That's the way the right has always been, of course. Except when they're left.
Martin Treptow| 11.15.11 @ 2:46PM
"alt-right"? I've never heard that one before. Sounds like code for something. If you are a white nationalist, call yourself a White Nationalist (see? you can capitalize the words and everything!)
I thought folks like you were so proud of who you are and what you represent.
By the way, "movement" conservatives (whatever they are) are not stifling your free speech rights. Reminds me of Thomas Jefferson's line about silly opinions: "Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it"
Cheers!
Mark MacInnis| 11.14.11 @ 1:02PM
Condi is at Stanford, where she can be monitored and displayed as a genetic and dangerous freak of nature: Conservative, intelligent, black and female....surprised they let her out to make the speech....but of course very few covered it.
RCV| 11.14.11 @ 2:53PM
Condi is treasured at Stanford, as she should be. Stanford is also the proud home of the Hoover Institute and so no stranger to conservative intellectuals.
sirbourbon| 11.14.11 @ 11:49PM
"Conservative..." ? Oh , really by what measure is she conservative? Not by the Constitution she isn't and the NS director is suppposed to prevent terror strikes not open the door.
"Condi" is also very stupid not to listen to those smarter than her on terror organizations.
An expert panel commissioned by the Pentagon in 1993 postulates that an airplane could be used as a missile to bomb national landmarks. Marvin Cetron, president of Forecasting International, a company which conducts studies for many companies and governments, writes the panel’s report. He will later recall telling the panel, “Coming down the Potomac, you could make a left turn at the Washington Monument and take out the White House, or you could make a right turn and take out the Pentagon.”
http://www.historycommons.org/.....1_timeline
Havoc| 11.14.11 @ 1:40PM
Ms Rice would have made a good wife and great mother. However, she was as unqualified to serve as Director of National Security as she is to serve as director of security at a local Kmart.
I have had a bellyful of incompetent, Ivy League, dilettantes in high office.
CW Relic| 11.14.11 @ 2:00PM
According to this commentary, Ms. Rice stated the following:
One of the reasons that you and I could sleep tonight [is that] we are defended by men and women in uniform who volunteer -- they volunteer -- to defend us."
I have some "issues" with this.
First, for the last quarter century, the primary thing that has kept the peace is ICBMs, land based and submarine launchable. Troops help surely. But it is the plain reality that, if we ever had a real hardass Commander in Chief, an enemy's capital city would only have about another 55 to 95 minutes of existence. May never come to pass. But it COULD. And that is both the glory and infamy of MAD. Don't think for a second that ICBMs don't ever weight sometimes on the minds of the perverts in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tehran, and in North Korea. Even Moscow and Peking.
That is what allows you to sleep quietly in that bed of yours tonight.
Second, please stop with the incessant pandering and fawning over troops. Do they volunteer? Well, yes, in the sense that we scuttled the draft three decades ago.
The stats that you'll never see: The overriding concern of most "volunteer" troops at the recruting stations is that they need a job. Sorry, I know that this shakes the hearts of those who want to believe that Johnny's and Susies are doing it because they have been reading WWII books since they were 5 years old.
No, sorry. They need work. They need a paycheck. And more so now than at any time in my lifetime.
Doing it for "country" is what we would like to hear (yes, it is part of their thinking), but these kids 1) have no clue as to what they want to do in life, 2) haven't prepared in any special way for anything in life, 3) need to desperately escape the jobs/economic situations where they live, 4) need to escape a bad home situation, 5) already have wife/spouse maybe child or are an unmarried mother (Yes, indeed) and need MONEY.
Occam's Tool| 11.14.11 @ 3:19PM
CW---and they risk their asses to make it, in a fine American tradition.
Or, sometimes they are patriotic, etc., like my childhood freind Eric Chibnik, graduate of West Point. Or my wife's college roommate, who is a field grade officer in Air Force intelligence.
Most jobs in WalMart (which is always hiring) don't have the possibility of multiple amputations as part of the job description.
Sorry, I trained at a VA hospital.
Occam's Tool| 11.14.11 @ 3:20PM
Sorry, "boyhood friend."
CW Relic| 11.15.11 @ 1:33AM
Occam, you're a thinking guy. As are most readers and commenters that come visit the American Spectator online site.
Please examine statistics within our military. Most can easily serve 4, 5, 10, and even 15 years never having had to face an incoming round. Also never having had to shoot (anything from a rifle to a mortar to anything really big) 'in anger' towards an enemy.
The military is huge. Please tell me the last time we've had a shot fired at one of our US Naval vessels? At a USAF Base? Even in the Army it is known as the "tip of the spear." You have 10 - 12 soldiers -- in uniform -- and DOD civilians doing layers of support work for the infantryman who is "at the tip of the spear."
The more senior recruiters know this. Some fathers know this (certainly those who've served) when they help advise their child on choices. Many troops know this because they can tell you, "I never saw combat." They are in the majority. And there is no shame in this. There are many roles that need fulfilling.
Let's not Hollywood it, shall we? No melodrama. There are those who take incredible risks in the military, e.g. those on the bomb detonation teams, and most who are in the huge ranks of transportation, logistical support, maintenance, supply, food services, strategic communications, munitions, procurement, and even UAV "pilots" who are 6,500 miles away from the 'zone.' They go home and sleep every night in their own bed.
One cannot know or plan exactly in a military stint or career, but MOST thankfully never face the real possibility of "multiple amputations."
Get over yourself. There is so much that you do not know. Listen to others -- sometimes. That is the mark of a more intelligent man.
WJ| 11.14.11 @ 6:11PM
If we don't pander incessantly to the troops how are we going to get more suckers to serve in pointless conflicts abroad.
It's all lip service.
USMC MOS 0341
albert constantine jr| 11.14.11 @ 10:26PM
Nothing like humping the base plate to wear a man out...
Rearview mirror honesty| 11.14.11 @ 2:33PM
I am still ambivalent to Ms. Rice. No fault of hers alone. I am the same with so many who have held these vaulted international affairs offices within our government.
If Iraq was so right to do, then how have bright minds like hers gotten so much in Iraq wrong since 2004?
The three week smackdown of the Iraqi military resistance in April 2003 sent the proper and needed shockwaves throughout the Middle East. (Remember this military decisiveness was accomplished WITHOUT the planned big ground assistance coming from Turkey -- due to Turkey's usual deception and "friendship?" as a NATO ally -- ha, ha)
Remember how M. Qaddafi was making amends with us and Britain within days after seeing Saddam's statue felled. They were quaking in their little fancy slippers from Tripoli to Cairo to Damascus to the Saudi Kingdom.
ALL THE MORE SO WHEN THEY SAW THOSE PURPLE FINGERS AT THE VOTING STATIONS in Iraq the first time, second time, third time....
So how did agile (exceptional?) minds like Condi Rice's exploit this? [Did the Middle East become more stabil or less so or the same during her eight years?]
We are pulling out in less than 6 weeks, pulling out from Iraq.
If Condi is a Christian, where's her landmark speech on how more Christians have 1) died, and 2) fled the Middle East in fear for their lives, forever to depart their homelands during her tenure in positions of huge international influence? Did she ever stand with the Coptic Christians in Egypt and say, "I am one of you." In Lebanon? In Syria?
Iran was not solved on Condi's 8-year watch. (It's bad now...but this is only 30 months since she stepped out of office. Iran was up to all its dastardly deeds all during Condi's years) Iraq's gains will be all nullified within the next 2 years. Pakistan is worse. She had to know that the Kabul leadership was playing us for fools to the tune of $millions$ of US taxpayer dollars (in suitcases, hidden bank accounts, bribes)
Heck, did Condi ever even take on the cash crop of Afghanistan that provides so much of the world's supply of heroin?
So -- I'm still trying to figure out what Condi actually did in 8 years (outside her public scuffle with Rumsfeld) She talks nice, speaks nice, displays -- at least publicly with cameras present - decorum, sounds reasonable....all fine, I suppose. But what did she do?
Lead question on that: Did she fundamentally change the liberal useless bureaucracy called the US State Department? Remember that title she had: US Secretary of State. So? Did she turn that government agency of career turds into something SMALLER, more pragmatic, and actually America-loving? (Didn't State Department budgets increase during Condi's tenure?)
cicero| 11.14.11 @ 3:23PM
Maybe we are asking too much of our individuals whom we put forth in leadership positions. They are not all knowing, and they do have their personal biases - just like everybody else. They are human, after all.
Anyone who thinks that a Western administration is going to solve the problems of the tribal oriented countries, is asking way too much. Perhaps we can topple a despot once in a while, as in a military intervention (war), to let the next one on the throne know not to that again. But only the people invovled can affect real change.
As far as slavery being America's genetic flaw, one must know that slavery was the general state of affairs for at least the preceeding 6000 years of recorded history. That was only challenged by the anti-slavery movement that began in England and the American colonies in the 1750s. The Declaration of Independence was the shot heard round the world, and spawned slave/serf rebellions around the world. When you realize that within that 6000 years, America basically abolished the institution of slavery within an 80 year period, a different light is cast on the whole affair.
This is not the forum to give a detailed history of slavery and its abolition (except in the Muslim world), but if it were taught in proper context, our students and citizens would not be vilifying the Americans over the issue, but praising them for what they achieved in so short a time.
shipley130| 11.14.11 @ 3:48PM
Ask her if she has made any money off Man Made Global Warming yet.
loulou| 11.14.11 @ 7:48PM
How low can the bar be set?
Because Condi spoke nicely, had good manners and played the piano does not mean that she was good for our country. Condi was a totally ineffectual Sec of State. Almost as bad as Hillary.
sirbourbon| 11.14.11 @ 11:39PM
"Ineffectual" from the point of view that a national security director needed to have the intelligence to close the door on al-Qaeda. On that she failed miserably as did her goofy boss.
Her stupid gappy smile tells me she thinks that being stupid is a plus for a NS director
sirbourbon| 11.14.11 @ 7:58PM
Incompetent Condoleeza Rice left us vulnerable to terrorism.
Al-Qaeda who, Mr. Clarke? Is that a Lacrosse team or what?
Condi on TV: "who would have thought they'd use planes as weapons?"
How about novelist Tom Clancey? And our own government was preparing for precisely such an eventuality!
Conuter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke spoke of numerous training exercises held around the US, based on the scenario of terrorist attacks that involve aircraft hijackings.
From 1998 until October 2001, Clarke testified that, before 9/11: “In many, many cities and probably most metropolitan areas, the FBI had worked with the state and local authorities to plan responses to certain kinds of terrorist attacks. We then held a series of exercises around the country. For example, on weapons of mass destruction attacks, we had had a whole series of exercises about hijackings of aircraft.
According to a 1999 report by the General Accounting Office, between June 1995 and June 1998 the FBI leads 24 training exercises in which “some state and local organizations” also participate. These exercises include various scenarios including, among others, “aircraft hijackings” and “terrorist attacks.” [United States General Accounting Office, 6/25/1999, pp.
Frank Natoli| 11.14.11 @ 8:20PM
Quin: did you read Rumsfeld's autobio?
bluecollarbytes| 11.14.11 @ 10:34PM
Rice would be a valuable addition to any presidency.
sirbourbon| 11.14.11 @ 11:35PM
As what, a know nothing? She looked at Richard Clarke with a blank look on her face when he mentioned al-Qaeda/
She needs to hire a doctor about closing that big gap in her brain.
"Huh, who wood a thunk them there al Caidees would use planes as missles? Gawlee, and I was Dubya's national security xpert."
We set the bar so low| 11.15.11 @ 1:09AM
I couldn't figure out the times that Ms. Rice went on late night television talk shows. She did this several times while in office and then (as far as I know) at least once with Leno since.
Does a truly committed Christian go on Jay Leno? Why? And that last time she was trying to look so bouncy cool.
We'll probably see her on other like-type dubious shows. All in the name of hawking her book.
Why are all these national stage characters so, so very similar?
Strange world we live in, Mr. Quinn, when we just praise base mediocrity.
Anybody can give a speech. (just about) She had years to hone that skill at your taxpayer expense (with a well paid team of writers to back her up). Yeah, think about it: She got lots of OJT speechgiving on your nickel.
I want to know what she actually did. Or was it all to just line her up as a Stanford don and bon vivant on the talk shows, commentary circuit, and international scene. Scowcroft. Brezenski, Powell....just add her name to the list of foreign policy "experts" that will never go away. Just wait: In another year or two she'll start being a regular at Davos.
Jeremy Buxton| 11.15.11 @ 3:01AM
Thanks for an inspiring article about a wise, strong, gracious lady. What a shame that she is not the first black and female President. She remains deeply appreciated by Australian conservatives as a good friend to our nation and to freedom-loving people.
Mazzuchelli| 11.15.11 @ 4:52PM
Condi is an inspirational individual. Not too many women make me wonder if I should do more. Condi does. God bless her.