<p>This is a tough one. She is an excellent role model but her integrity, much like Colin Powell’s, has taken a hit due to thier having to carry the water for GWB and Cheney’s controversial war. Bush has taken the reputation of two of the brightest lights in the African American community and sullied them by first asking them to perpetuate a falsehood (WMD) and second to become the lightning rods he was incapable of being. At least they, unlike thier boss, can form a coherent sentence. Unfortunately thier unwillingness to stand on principal, especially Powell, who KNEW the quagmire we were headed into, has hurt them enormously. Rice has been on the ropes during interviews for the last six months. She was a child prodigy, by all accounts she is brilliant. She could have been the first female, Afro-American, President if she hadn’t gotten involved with Cheney (2 DUI arrests, flunked out of Yale twice), and Bush (3 arrests, “C” student, U of Texas grad school reject.) Collectively she is brighter than both. She should have steered clear of Bush and Cheney and run for office instead.</p>