Reply #15: Not related to Condi in any way, shape or form...

[Ichingcarpenter]

although both share some interesting similarities:

Both have a connection to Stanford - Susan attended the university while Condi taught there.

Both just celebrated their birthdays in November. In fact, they're exactly ten years and three days apart - Condi's birthdate is November 14, 1954 and Susan's is November 17, 1964.

Both are African American women who have risen to prominent roles in the white-male-dominated field of foreign policy - Condi as Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration, and Susan as Assistant Secretary of State under Bill Clinton Both had 'firsts' associated with their tenure - Condi was the first African American female Secretary of State, while Susan worked directly under the first female Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who coincidentally happens to be an old family friend.

Both grew up in a cultured, privileged household with parents who were college-educated.

Both attended an all-female high school.

Beyond that, Susan is not a fan of Condoleezza Rice. As the New York Sun reports:

Like Mr. Obama, Ms. Rice has long been a fierce critic of the Bush administration's foreign policy, and she does not look to Secretary Rice as a role model.

"I don't select role models on the basis of race and gender," she said in a telephone interview. She praised the two previous secretaries of state, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, but she said the jury was still out on Secretary Rice's tenure.

http://womensissues.about.com/b/2008/12/01/who-is-susan-rice-and-why-did-obama-nominate-her-and-is-she-related-to-condi-rice.htm

She is gonna kick some ass unlike Condi........ Watch for a new revolutionary direction
for the UN and using it diplomatically to confront world problems.