What would these students learn from Rice? The truth about the Bush administration? Hardly. What value is learning the worst in revisionistic lies? I think there are plenty of noted, noble instructors at Stanford. I seriously doubt that you would have to take a class from Rice to be considered a "serious student" at Stanford.

Students can look at Condi's actions as Nat'l Security advisor and as Secretary of State and realize that if they do the exact opposite, they will be doing the right thing about 90 per cent of the time.

Rice was the worst NS advisor in the history of the position, and she has been an abject failure at State.

She has a strong intellect, but lacks the ability to tell good policy from bad. She has also been a typical Party before Country Republican.

Hardly a shining example for students---except as a cautionary tale.

That's right... treat her as if she was an honorable SOS — and pass that lie on to a new generation of Americans so they can be as uninformed and misled as you are.

Abramoff has been part of the making of US history, too. Should he get a class?

Sometimes in college, you have to put aside common sense and seize an autograph.

Learn what? The total and complete rewriting of history so she and her Chimpmaster don't look so bad? And the fact that the United States spied on it's own citizens without legal approval? And the fact that, for the first time in the history of this country, torture was given official recognition as an acceptable means to interrogate prisoners? (I could go on, but there is a word limit.) Oh, wait. She could teach them to lie with a straight face, and brown nose someone with the I.Q. of an eggplant to advance one's own agenda. Yep, you're correct. She'd be a great teacher.

LOL, if any student wants to learn lessons from Rice, and the misadministration at large, they could do that alot easier and cheaper by watching the news. Otherwise, it would be a failure as an academic institution to have anything to do with this misadministration.

I'd like to believe the students have more "class" than that... Rice is not fit nor qualified to teach anyone anything.

You make blanket statements with no facts to back them up.
Using what passes for your thinking, one would assume that you are an amoeba---because that's as evolved as your "thinking" is.

Buchanan looks like Washington if you compare him to George W. How in the world can anyone think Bush is not the worst?? Bush has wrecked the country on nearly every level, wrecked the military and wrecked our image around the world, not to mention completely gutting the Constitution, among other things. Then giving himself a pardon just before the 2006 elections, in case anyone forgot!

She is actually Bush's second true love. His true love is Victor Ashe. They have been together since being roomates in college. When Bush went to Alabama for the National Gurad in the 70's, he and Victor hid out together. Bush repays his true love by appointing him as a ambassador. Condi is close, but no Victor

There are other places she can go. Maybe she could come down off her ivory tower and get a real job.

Did we not say the same thing about BJ Clinton, never earned a fair paycheck in his life, living off the public tit, probably like most of the looosers on this dung pile. My best guess is that the majority of fools on the pile don't have any real professions where they have to produce something either material or intellectual, but consider themselve pseudo intellectuals with all the answers participating in a giant circle jerk with other pointy heads. LMAO!!!

Which proves absolutely nothing, really.

But it does allow you to puff out your chest and feel all smug and superior.

Godwin’s Law:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Corollary to Godwin’s Law:
The probability is one that all Nazis will hide behind Godwin’s Law.

Now I understand. Having a degree from a prestigious university covers over a multitude of blunders, gaffes, trite slogans ["smoking gun as mushroom cloud" "all options are on the table"] and general incompetence. Being a competent pianist justifies hastening America's decline throughout the world by making or enabling disastrous decisions.
A degree, except insofar as it is put to good use, is meaningless to all but credentialists and sycophants.

She could have degrees out the ying/yang, but if Stanford doesn't want to hire her, that is their choice. Are you saying that they should be "forced" to hire her? What about the first amendment says that she is entitled to a job at Stanford, or ANY job, where she is not wanted?

The First Amendment gives her a right to a job? They can deny her a position for a number of reasons, including her shoddy scholarship, the contentiousness of her positions causing problems or that her pronouced positions undermine the project of a university to provide honest, reasoned OPEN inquiry. Lies, triangulation, manipulation -- these don't count highly in academia. You may applaud that judicial ruling in Florida that said Fox didn't have to tell the truth (despite their claims of being a news organization) but this doesn't mean that Stanford wants to re-elevate such devious and become associated with it.

If academic dishonesty were cited as reasons to fire Ward Churchill, then that's fine, but as an excuse to fire him because he published something unpopular is wrong. Guess you can't tell the difference.

She is arguably the biggest failure to ever come out of Stanford. There should be 1st ammendment comments sniping about her desire to return. That is the part of democracy they forget about in Washington. I will say the best statement I have ever heard attributed to her is:

The American military “is not a civilian police force.” “It is not a political referee,” she wrote. “And it is most certainly not designed to build a civilian society.”

Too bad she delivered it in Forign Affairs, a Journal and not to the Commander in Chief. Just another example of a book smart poor performer.

steamboat

Except for the little fact that she has blood in her hands....has broken the law -repeatedly! her, Cheney, Rumsfeld, of course Bush -definitely qualify as bona fide defendants in a world court for crimes against humanity. Get it?