The Daily Background

AP has a story “Analysis: Rice Sees Political Star on Rise,” choice quotes:

Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice has become the most popular member of the Bush administration and a potential candidate to succeed her boss in the White House, even as Americans lose confidence in the president she serves and patience with the
Iraq war she helped launch.

[…]
A Pew Research survey in October found that 60 percent of respondents held either a very favorable or mostly favorable view of Rice, while 25 percent had a very or mostly unfavorable view — numbers others in the Bush administration can only envy.

[…]
Rice, 51, grew up in the segregated South. She tries to soften the brash image the United States often projects abroad by telling audiences the discrimination she faced is proof that America isn’t perfect.

[…]
“I’m a historian,” Rice said in the interview. “I tend to see things in the big sweep of history and hope that at some point somebody is going to look back and say, oh, something that she did then mattered.”

Really? What gall she has. Let’s recall to a 2002 interview, shall we?

Rice said the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four girls, including friend Denise McNair, shaped her views on the war on terrorism.

“For me, not accepting racial barriers would mean going on to little things like being on the first integrated child championship bowling team at a particular alley in Milwaukee, then bigger things like sportswriting when there were few African-Americans covering pro teams for major newspapers.”

Okay, now that we’ve got that hideocy out of the way, it’s time to debunk all of this with two sentances. From the AP back in September:

Most people who were alive at the time would tell you they had a lot of feelings during the civil rights era. But not Condoleezza Rice.

The secretary of state said she was too young and too busy to feel much of an effect from the massive social changes during the 1960s. Rice said she was only 12 or 13 and that all she did “was play the piano and ice skate.”

Thanks, AP.

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