As Her Star Wanes, Rice Tries to Reshape Legacy

There was a time when, perhaps more than Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice seemed to have the best shot at becoming the first woman or the first African-American to be president. But that was before she sounded public alarms based on faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, telling CNN, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." It was before a former top Bush administration colleague, David Kay, charged with finding ... Full Story »

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Veronica Barlee
3.2
by Veronica Barlee - Oct. 1, 2008

a rather light piece from the NY Times about Condolezza Rice's role in the Bush administration and her efforts to safeguard her reputationl. Fails to grapple with any of the substantive issues of: leadership, integrity and personal responsibility.

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