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In reply to the discussion: Not very bright? [View all]DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)13. She's also a progressive activist
From the biography link:
She turned the heads of top administrators (at Stanford) when she created a fund that withheld alumni donations until the university either stopped their investments in companies doing business in South Africa, or the country ended apartheid.
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The couple lived in Canada until 1993, when Rice took a job with the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., under President Clinton.
She began work as the director of international organizations and peacekeeping for the NSC, where she had what she calls her "most searing experience" when she visited Rwanda during what was later classified as a genocide. "I saw hundreds, if not thousands, of decomposing corpses outside and inside a church," she says.
"It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen. It makes you mad. It makes you determined. It makes you know that even if you're the last lone voice and you believe you're right, it is worth every bit of energy you can throw into it." She took the lessons learned from her peacekeeping position to a new post as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs in 1995.
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The couple lived in Canada until 1993, when Rice took a job with the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., under President Clinton.
She began work as the director of international organizations and peacekeeping for the NSC, where she had what she calls her "most searing experience" when she visited Rwanda during what was later classified as a genocide. "I saw hundreds, if not thousands, of decomposing corpses outside and inside a church," she says.
"It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen. It makes you mad. It makes you determined. It makes you know that even if you're the last lone voice and you believe you're right, it is worth every bit of energy you can throw into it." She took the lessons learned from her peacekeeping position to a new post as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs in 1995.
McCain is so wrong in his insulting remarks.
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Yes, but John McCain was smart enough to be born a white male rather than a black woman!
hedgehog
Nov 2012
#1
Words fail me in describing the monumental failure of John McCain regarding this woman.
Tennessee Gal
Nov 2012
#9
In my conspiracy mind I dont believe that McCain had a thing to do with choosing
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#16
Exact same words John Sununu tried to use against President Obama. I guess we have to
bullwinkle428
Nov 2012
#2
vice presidential candidate sarah palin. all one needs to know about who is smart nt
msongs
Nov 2012
#4
Susan Rice is brilliant, lets face it and neither McCain or Graham can come close
teddy51
Nov 2012
#5
Yep, I'm an old white guy myself and I've been unaccountably happy for the last ten days or so . . .
MrModerate
Nov 2012
#17
She used her Rhodes scholarship to explore the transition from white rule in Rhodesia
alcibiades_mystery
Nov 2012
#26
I don't see how that would make any difference. Brown is not unknown in MA, and only MA votes in a
MgtPA
Nov 2012
#39
With a resume that includes such podunk schools as Stanford and Oxford . . .
MrModerate
Nov 2012
#15
McCain and Graham are showing themselves to be sexist and racist, and incredibly
spooky3
Nov 2012
#18