All eyes on Susan Rice now that she’s presumptive front-runner to become secretary of state

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All eyes on Susan Rice now that she’s presumptive front-runner to become secretary of state

By Manuel Roig-Franzia at WP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/susan-rice-not-your-typical-diplomat/2012/11/29/c83ac58c-3a6e-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_story.html

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They circulated among the city’s elite. Rice attended fancy schools — Beauvoir and the National Cathedral School. Rice, who played point guard on the basketball team, was such a jock that her family called her “Spo,” short for sport, a nickname that some family members still use. (Rice says she has not played hoops with Obama. “I know I can’t hang with him,” she says in an interview.)

Her parents’ friends were people such as Madeleine Albright, the future secretary of state, who served on school boards with Rice’s mother, and whose former husband played tennis with Rice’s father.

Albright became a mentor, helping to elevate Rice to assistant secretary of state for African Affairs when Rice was 32. They have been so close that people assumed Rice was her godchild, Albright said in an interview. She isn’t. But Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a wealthy D.C. art patron, was a kind of surrogate godmother. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton took Rice to lunch when she was deciding whether to attend law school.

When asked, Rice estimates that only 10 percent of her high school graduating class was African American. But race was something that her parents didn’t want her to dwell on. “They taught me never to use race as an excuse or a crutch,” she said Thursday.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. I love Susan Rice and cannot wait to see her serve as SOS.

I don't see a down side to her becoming SOS.

[patrice]

2. I wonder if you could speak to how the XL pipeline issue might be perceived as an F* You to

a certain group, a significant proportion of which is comprised of younger voters, whom we really should be encouraging in their activism on this and other issues that their cohort identifies with.

I don't really think any group should necessarily be allowed to hold the rest hostage, but that also doesn't mean that they should just be written off either.

Honest question here . . .

[bluestate10]

3. Susan Rice will be a great SOS.

BTW. She came from a rich family, that is probably why she is so rich now. But her feelings about human rights are sound, some criticized Rice for wanting certain military action, but if one throws off the shades and look at why, one would see that her concern about one side overwhelming a defenseless side drove her push for military intervention.

[trublu992]

4. Not a Fan

Susan Rice has a lot of accomplishments but the reason she has had so much support is because she falls in line and does what she is told and what's expected of her. She not going to challenge anything or anybody she is a go along to get along type of woman which is how her husband describes her. Her response to any kind of issue especially racism is to acquire another academic award. She the kind of person who is smart and intelligent but in the lens of history is just another picture hanging on the wall of all the other smart intelligent people.