Connie Rice, Condi's 2nd cousin with opposite politics

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I lived in LA for many years, where Connie Rice was well-known as the legal director of the local NAACP chapter, and civil and social rights activist. I was actually stunned years later when I found out that she was related to Condi.

Connie is now a commentator on "NOW", Bill Moyer's former show on PBS, and was a commentator on Tavis Smiley's show.

I just saw her for the first time on TV Friday night. Pretty impressive.

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/rice.html

Quite a biography.She did some great commentaries for Tavis, which are on the NPR site.

here is one.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=41...

Connie Rice: Top 10 Election Myths to Get Rid Of

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1. Here is one of Connie's top ten lists, for departing cabinet members

Connie Rice: Top 10 Gifts for Departing Cabinet Members

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4227249

The Tavis Smiley Show, December 14, 2004 · Across the country, the Christmas crush is well underway at malls and parking lots packed with folks shopping for loved ones and friends. Commentator Connie Rice, who normally skips the Christmas frenzy, was unexpectedly moved by a tremendous sense of relief to find gifts for imminently departing members of President Bush's cabinet. So just in time for the "10 Days of Christmas," The Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Departing Cabinet Members:


(10.) Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge:


Ten rolls of color-coded duct tape. What else do you remember about Tom Ridge's tenure except that silly color-coded alert system and the absurd suggestion that duct tape could protect you against chemical warfare? Color coded duct tape is perfect.


(9.) Attorney General John Ashcroft:

Nine naked statues with Velcro thongs and pasties to cover up the nudity. Who could forget the attorney general of the United States ordering staff to put curtains over the classic nudes in the lobby of the Justice Department? Did he ever take art appreciation in college? And since Ashcroft got more upset at male nudes, six of them will be model replicas of Swartzenegger in the buff.

(8.) Secretary of State Colin Powell:

Eight autographed copies of How and When To Resign With Dignity. Powell could have checked crazy Cheney and the neo-nuts running the Department of Defense, but he didn't. Instead, they cut him out and then he let them use him as a human shield. For dashed expectations, a book about what he should have done -- resign.

(7.) Secretary of Housing Mel Martinez:

Seven of the Section 8 housing vouchers that he discontinued for the poor homeless. He should have to buy his next home with these vouchers -- that should amount to a grand sum of $2,400, not even enough for the escrow fee.
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((5.) White House Counsel/Future Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:

Five golden rings, and five inscribed copies of Tomas de Torquemada notes on the Spanish Inquisition, Explorations in Torture. Hey, even with his defense of torture, Gonzales couldn't possibly be worse than Ashcroft.

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(3.) CIA Director George Tenet:

Three sets of Slam Dunce Basketball -- a game of braggadoggio and hubris. He's the one who insisted Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program was a "slam dunk" case for invasion. Slam dunk, my eye.


(1.) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:

He's not leaving, but he should be. I'm sending him a welding gun, scrap metal and an unarmored Humvee. He can spend Christmas doing what the troops have had to do -- armoring their vehicles.