(Apologies to Yogi Berra)
Who wants to make the first "Rice up his butt" joke?
http://www.thehill.com/under_dome/080404.aspx
Either way, it’s a Rice from Stanford
No matter who wins the presidential election in November, the next White House national security adviser probably will be a telegenic African-American woman with ties to Stanford University whose last name is Rice.
That’s because Sen. John Kerry’s new senior adviser on national security is Susan Rice, a member of the National Security Council and assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the Clinton administration who is on leave from the Brookings Institution, where she is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies.
Rice, a 1986 Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar with a doctorate from Oxford University, was front and center at the Democratic convention in Boston.
Rice, 39, is the daughter of Lois Dickson Rice, a retired business executive, and Emmet Rice, a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
Susan Rice made it clear in an interview with the Stanford alumni magazine in 2000 that she doesn’t suffer fools gladly. “I guess you can say I’m plain-spoken,” she said. “I can be diplomatic when I have to be. But I don’t have a lot of patience for B.S.” Or for “horses---!” which is how she reacted to criticism of the African policy she promoted in the Clinton administration.
Of course, if President Bush wins reelection, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice — who’s not related to Susan — will still be running the National Security Council, providing she doesn’t become commissioner of the National Football League.