The Rice Race

This Iran is stronger stuff is making me sick. The reason that Iran is spending all their resources rattling their sword is that if a major democracy springs up in Iraq, they loose. The Persian people, already bent low by an oppressive regime, will not stay bowed when they see their neighbor prosper under the gift America gave them, democracy. Iran is in panic.

I said all that to say this. Which Rice do you trust? Condoleezza Rice or Susan Rice.
Who’s Susan Rice? you ask. Raised in Washington DC daughter of a bureaucrat, played sports in school, Studied history in collage, got her masters and doctorate in philosophy, and achieved the high office of Assistant Secretary of State in charge of African Affairs in the Clinton administration. (Democrats have a glass ceiling for minority staffers) She is currently on leave from the Brookings institute to serve as foreign affairs advisor to the Obama campaign. (She held the same position for Dukakis and Kerry, third times a charm) Susan rice is busy telling everyone who will listen, that the Bush foreign policy is abysmal and that McCain is just like him, this unbiased opinion is being broadcast via satellite around the globe. Armadinajad is delighted, which is the kind of diplomacy Obama endorses.

Then you have Condee. She's got ten years experience over Susan. During Daddy Bush’s administration she served as the Soviet and Eastern European Affairs Advisor during the Soviet dissolution and German reunification. Taking leave from her post as Political Science professor at Stanford to become the Secretary of State, (Second African American, second woman and first African American woman to hold the office) she was National Security Advisor. She pioneered transformational diplomacy, with a focus on establishing democracies in the Middle East. (If being a foreign affairs advisor to a failed presidential run is a credential, Condoleezza held that position for Gary Hart in ‘84) She was a Democrat, but jumped ship because of the Carter administration’s foreign policy. (She was an intern at the time with the State Department)

As for her beginnings, she was raised in segregated Birmingham AL. Her father was a Presbyterian minister who worked at the High School as a guidance counselor. Her mom taught music, science and oratory at the same school. Condoleezza began her studies in French, ballet and the piano at age three. Her parents felt that the civil rights movement was full of uneducated leaders that reinforced the attitudes of those who would keep them down. They believed that working twice as hard to overcome the limitations built into the system was the path to victory. Her educational accolades are too numerous for this humble blog, and her business and political achievements dwarf her scholastic accomplishments. If you want my vote, Condoleezza blows Susan's doors off in the Rice race.

So if you hear Susan Rice posing as a pundit, or witness Barack on the stump berating Bush’s foreign policy, consider the source. Susan Rice is a minors player hoping to get the call to the big league, Condoleezza is an All Star who regularly hits it out of the park.