[The Westerner]

Ms. Rice has a good mind, is well spoken and is accomplished. I wouldn't call it tokenism. It's her ideas that bother me. It bothered me that Madeline Albright's father was her teacher. It worries me that she is a Russian scholar but seems to have led Bush into a "friendship" with Putin. It bothers me that she seems to take Colin Powell's side of many debates. But no, I don't think of her as the token.

[Orion]

Please correct me if I am wrong, as I am not well versed on CR's resume...

Isn't her background academia? What experience does she have in the National Security field that I or anyone else does not have?