<p>Powell will be missed, he was the coolest and the most sane one.</p>
<p>COndi is plenty qualified.</p>
<p>Too bad Powells going, he was the best one of them all</p>
<p>Damn.</p>
<p>I've seen Condi Rice talk. I don't trust her. She's very meek and doesn't seem sure of anything.</p>
<p>Powell didn't belong in this hawkish group, and Bush and Co. screwed him over by having him present a bogus case to the United Nations.</p>
<p>Rice is week? I remember that when she spoke in front of the 9/11 comission, she laid the smack down!</p>
<p>lol BS from what i remember, condi got bitchslapped around by the moderator guy at the 9/11 commision, she kept trying to dodge the question and the guy wouldnt let her, silly politicians and their question dodging.</p>
<p>Laid the smackdown? She nearly burst into tears.</p>
<p>That is what I remember.</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously, it clearly was NOT her who was doing the smackdowneries (for lack of a better...made up word.) Eh, she tends to side with those hard right nutjobs in the Bush administration while Powell was a sort of voice of reason, even if he was still kinda conservative, he was at least a moderate in a sea of radicals. I fear for what will happen in the next four years, I really do. It seems like there's nothing to hold Bush back anymore, with the house and senate held by the republicans and all.</p>
<p>Well, in whatever way Bush screws up, it will be our fault. We voted for him.</p>
<p>Nah, Condi is more than capable.</p>
<p>Powell was not a good fit with the Bushies. Anyway, he's said for a while that he probably wouldn't stay past one term.</p>
<p>Just to respond to the above, Condi was DESTROYED by the commission. Her answers made her sound like a twit. Smart lady, not too many harvard grads with PhDs (at like 27) who are concert pianists, but nonetheless she comes across as psychotic to me. Every1 knows ever since she was dubya's foreign policy tutor, shes been his favorite and that powell was there to make a far right administration seem more centrist. He obviously had no say (other than the rest of the world could care less about Bush they wanna hear Collin). Bush favors Rumsfeld and Condi so there wasn't much of a question. On a side note, we got rid of Ashcroft (the evangelist) and replaced him with another ultra conservative but no one realizes because his last name is Gonzalez. Tisk!</p>
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Just to respond to the above, Condi was DESTROYED by the commission. Her answers made her sound like a twit. Smart lady, not too many harvard grads with PhDs (at like 27) who are concert pianists, but nonetheless she comes across as psychotic to me.
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<p>Not a Harvard grad that I can see:</p>
<p>Dr. Condoleeza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. She entered the University of Denver at age 15 and graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in political science. Rice then went on to earn a master's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and a doctorate Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. Dr. Rice has also received honorary doctorates from Morehouse College, the University of Alabama, and the University of Notre Dame.</p>
<pre><code> Not a Harvard degree. I wouldn't rush to judgment--she could be a hard liner and make things worse; or, because of her special relationship with the president, she may be more effective in getting him to listen to moderating tendencies, if she has any or gets any from her colleagues in the State Dept.
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<p>Yeah, I was wondering why Harvard was mentioned
'tis the individual, not the school that makes one successful
im done</p>
<p>Well, I certainly didn't see it that way and neither did my economics or political science professors...</p>
<p>where do you go to school? texas A&M?</p>
<p>*sorry about the harvard comment, twas hyperbole</p>
<p>She was the provost of Stanford for a few years.</p>
<p>In retrospect, was this a good decision?</p>
<p>As Ms. Rice might say, res ipsa loquitur.</p>