Originally Posted by Ronnocomot

In 1974, at age 19, Rice earned her B.A. in political science, Phi Betta Kappa, from the University of Denver. In 1975, she obtained her Master's Degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame.
In 1981, at the age of 26, she received her Ph. D.in Political Science from the Graduate School of International Studies at Denver. Her dissertation along with some of her earliest publications, centered on military policy and politics in Czechoslovakia.
Rice was a Democrat until 1982 when she changed her political affiliation to Republican after growing averse to former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy.
She also cited influence from her father, John Wesley, in this decision, who himself switched from Democrat to Republican after being denied voting registration by the Democratic registrar. In her words to the 2000 Republican National Convention, "My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did."
(1993–present).Rice was hired by Stanford University as an Assistant Professor in Political Science (1981–1987). She was granted tenure and promoted, first to Associate Professor (1987–1993), and then to Provost, the chief budget and academic officer of the university (1993–1999), and full Professor Rice was the first female, first minority, and youngest Provost at Stanford.
In addition to English, she speaks, with varying degrees of fluency, Russian, German, French and Spanish.

Most African Americans or any kind of Americans would be well served to raise their children in the mold of Ms. Rice.

"At the 2000 Republican National Convention, Rice talked about her family's long tradition of education and how it began with her grandfather.
"He was the son of a farmer in rural Alabama, but he recognized the importance of an education," Rice said.
"Around 1918, he decided he was going to get book-learning, and so he asked in the language of the day, where a colored man could go to college," she said. "He was told about little Stillman College, a school about 50 miles away, so granddaddy saved up his cotton for his tuition and he went off to Tuscaloosa."
A generation later, that commitment was still going strong. While other families took summer vacations, John Rice often took summer jobs on college campuses and he brought his wife and daughter with him.
"I don't know too many American families, period, who can claim that not only are their parents college-educated, but their grandparents are college-educated and all their cousins and aunts and uncles are college-educated,"

Originally Posted by rex

I expect that one day we will discover that Rice is really a robot and is actually incapable of any kind of independent thought. Somehow I don't think very many African-Americans of any political leanings could be persuaded to vote for such an "Aunt Tom".
Do you suppose she may still be a "maiden"?
rx

Originally Posted by roadkill439342

I expect that one day, Rex will find himself a character in the movie "Artificial No Intelligence"

Originally Posted by smurf-316

I'm sure she would do well simply because they would vote for some one of their race. I can't stand the woman myself.
she to well tied to Bush and his buddies for me.

Originally Posted by rex

Have I angered you in some way big fella? Or did you just have the uncontrollable urge to bark?
rx