Condi for VP ??

Condi for VP ??

Condoleezza Rice earned her reputation as an analyst of Soviet and Eastern Bloc foreign and defense policies. She's the one who formulated George H. W. Bush's Russian policy.

 

She's the one who, as Provost, managed to rein in Stanford's budget from running a deficit (eating endowment) to running a surplus.

 

She's served on the board of Transamerica Corporation.

 

She's been a Trustee on the board of the RAND Corporation, America's premier think tank.

 

Finally, she served on the board at Chevron Corporation, and was personally responsible for negotiating Chevron's access to the Kazak oil fields, which resulted in Chevron naming a supertanker the SS Condoleezza Rice.

As Secretary of State, she's the lead person on Bush's foreign policy team, and her largest success is centralizing the United State's foreign aid program, to prevent waste and working at cross-purposes in the aid programs the State Department oversees.

She's proven herself as a corporate officer who is able to design and implement a budget, a seasoned negotiator with a winning record, a person knowledgeable about foreign policy goals of the United States.

And, last but not least, she's a Republican.

Were either Obama or Hillary to be compared to Condi Rice, both together could not begin to compare against her experience and her intelligence.

I don't think she's going to run (she's got a lot of other irons in the fire, including a wish to be a concert pianist), but she's the kind of person I'd want answering that 3AM phone.

Finally, with respect to her being black and a woman, the thought of Ginger Rogers comes to mind — she had to do everything Fred Astaire did, but she had to do it backwards and in high heels.

'Nuf said.