[Tuco-bad]

At 48, Miss Rice has reached a peak in a career which, paradoxically, has just begun. She is already being talked about as a presidential candidate in 2008 against Hillary Clinton, 55. I can hardly wait.

Rice couldn't "connect the dots" prior to 9/11.

She's useless!

[TommyDale]

Is anyone else noticing the barrage of public relations releases about Condi Rice? Geez, one would think she is considering running for public office. Oh -- she is!

[Lael]

The national security adviser is so superb a pianist

She cuts a wicked Double Axel in the ice skating rink.

[nevergore]

Last I checked the Black Community "Leaders"(i.e. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton et al) said that Condi and Colin weren't really Black enough...... more white then black....."Uncle Tom's"

NeverGore

[mhking]

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[GraniteStateConservative]

Condi! ping.

[PhilDragoo]

Arnold Beichman is always a joy to read.

Condoleeza Rice is precisely the intelligent, educated, principled professional we need.

Of course she is Martin Luther King's dream walking--and thus is hated by the chancres of the left.

Democrat Senators from Church to Toricelli crippled the CIA's abilities, particularly in human intelligence, humint.

The greatest culpability in failing to stop Osama's 9/11 attack is that of traitorrapist42--who was offered the terrorist ringleader by Sudan, and declined.

Whatever Condoleeza Rice turns her hand to, we are the beneficiaries of the best and the brightest--and the most disciplined and principled.

The previous occupier of that position was the chief lobbyist for the PRC--a traitor-berger with cheese.

It should be remembered that Democrats didn't take Osama from Sudan when offered;

Democrats delayed the new administration's assumption of the executive branch;

Tenet is the hand-picked replacement of John Deutch who compromised 17,000 secret files on his unsecure home computer logged onto Russian sites;

Nora Slatkin as DO did for CIA what Hazel O'Leary did to Energy--strip its counterintelligence capabilities;

Democrats delayed for months the creation of Homeland Security which would enhance intelligence sharing.

The fault is not with the rice, but with the cheese-eating fifth column.

Of course, the Nobel Peanut Prize winner says Unilateral Disarmament is the Right Thing To Do.

After Al Gore confers with Ted Koczynski he'll have a statement, too.

I'm delighted with the job being done by the adults in power, particularly Condoleeza Rice.

[Southern Federalist]

If certain people weren't playing games they might get the point that the manager/coordinator role of the National Security Advisor is at the policy-making level, not the threat-assessment or operational level.

The NSA's primary arena of operations is the National Security Council, whose central members, besides the President, are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affair. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CIA Director are not even members of the NSC, but advisors to it. The description of the NSC on the White House page doesn't even mention the FBI.

These are the personages among whom the National Security Advisor coordinates policy; I don't really think that comparing raw data from the CIA and the FBI is part of Dr. Rice's job description.