Condoleezza Rice leads solitary life
...but surprises the
world with her slim figure and determination
No one has ever heard anything about Ms. Rice's friendship
with women although everyone knows the names of her male friends
Stories about modern Cinderellas
may have different beginnings, but they all end similarly, as a rule. She wins
the heart of a handsome man, who is ready to sacrifice his life and give the
whole world to his woman. The US
Secretary of State, the world's most powerful woman, according to Forbes
magazine, Condoleezza Rice, is not an exception from this rule. Ms. Rice has
everything that a woman needs in her life. However, she does not have a man.
This is a typical dreams-come-true story, which could happen
only in the USA.
A common girl from Alabama used
her talents, stubbornness and discipline to the utmost and made a sweeping
political career. Condoleezza could play the piano at the age of three. It is
worth mentioning that Ms. Rice's unusual name originates from the Italian
musical term 'dolcezza' which translates as 'with
tenderness.' She joined a church choir at the age of four and became a fluent
reader when she was a five-year-old girl. The girl would wake up at 4:30 a.m., do her morning exercises and then
start practicing music. Ms. Rice was leading a rather regulated life during her
childhood. She always knew what she would be doing the next day, the next month
and even the next year.
Condoleezza Rice was staying away from politics during her
early years. Condi's parents were tuning a blind eye on the issue of racial
discrimination in the USA
and simply preferred not to pay any attention to it. African Americans did not
have any voting rights back then, but Mr. Rice would persistently tell his
daughter that she would be able to become the president of the United
States if only she had a wish to work hard
for it. Little Condi was doing her best.
Condoleezza Rice's contemporary biographers say that the Rices were an unusual family not only in terms of Alabama
alone, but in terms of the whole nation. Ms. Rice's grandfather saved a certain
amount of money in 1918 and decided to spend his work savings on education.
Condoleezza Rice was sure from her early childhood that knowledge was the most
important thing that a human being could obtain in life.
She finished college at the age of 15 and became a Denver
University graduate at 19.
Condoleezza Rice originally became a student of the department of music, but
her plans drastically changed a year later. She moved to the department of politics
and decided to dedicate her studies to the most exotic state that was mentioned
on the list of options - the Soviet Union.
Ms. Rice's rivals say that she used her knowledge of Sovietology as a springboard for her future political
career. They say that she supposedly realized at the age of 16 that relations
with the USSR
were highly important for the USA.
Condi believed that if a person becomes an expert in the field of US-Soviet
relations, he or she would be able to approach the doors, to which others will
never be able to make even a step forward. Her dreams came true.
When 26, Rice upheld her dissertation on relations between
the USSR and Czechoslovakia
and even wrote a book on the base of those materials. The book did not pass
White House officials unnoticed. US
officials paid attention to another book by Condoleezza Rice, which was devoted
to the era of the first and the last Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev. There
were two things, which startled the US
officials: Condoleezza Rice, a black woman, became a member of the white
Republican Party. Secondly, Ms. Rice could speak Russian very well. Other
American Sovietologists knew only two most common
words in Russian - spasibo and pozhalusta
(thank you and please). Condoleezza Rice, however, would start her working day
reading a fresh issue of the Pravda newspaper.
When the father of the incumbent US
president introduced Ms. Rice to Mr. Gorbachev during his official visit in Washington
in 1989, George Bush honestly confessed that everything that he knew about the USSR
he learned from Condoleezza Rice.
Like the majority of US citizens and people of other
nations, Condoleezza Rice treated Mikhail Gorbachev with great respect.
However, she made the US
administration pay attention to the destroyer of communism, Boris Yeltsin. Mr.
Yeltsin was not her type of a national hero, but he became one of the world
leaders, whom Ms. Rice met in the very beginning of her political career. Since
that time Condoleezza Rice became a figure of constant presence among most
influential men on Earth.
When American journalists asked Condoleezza Rice to list all
presidents, prime ministers, kings, sheikhs and princes that she has ever met,
she fenced with a question and said that she would not like to be known for her
friendship with the powers-that-be. It is noteworthy that no one has ever heard
anything about Ms. Rice's friendship with women. However, everyone knows the
names of her male friends with George W. Bush on top of the list, of course.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said once that he was
unable to conduct negotiations about the regulation of the Middle
East conflict in Ms. Rice's presence. The elderly Israeli premier
gets confused when his eyes stop on Ms. Rice's slim legs!
Condoleezza Rice's influence on George W. Bush is still a
mystery for many Americans. It may seem at first sight that a black woman from
a family with limited means and a rich white man have nothing in common. When
Ms. Rice was spending her days at school, George Bush was boozing in bars.
Condoleezza Rice speaks five languages, whereas Mr. Bush's public statements
won him the reputation of USA's
political comic No.1.
Needless to say that the incumbent US
president met Condoleezza Rice under the guidance of his father. George
Bush believed that his son would become the world's most influential man and
then convinced Ms. Rice of the same.
Condoleezza Rice's goal was to make George Bush Jr. an expert in foreign
politics. It was a hard task to do in spite of the fact that George W. Bush
holds Yale and Harvard diplomas. They say that Rice made a list of world
leaders for Bush to read every night before going to bed. When George W. Bush
finally took office of the US
President, he proudly told the nation that Condoleezza Rice was the only
person, who could clearly explain issues of foreign politics to him.
She spends almost all her weekends with the Bush's family in
Camp David. They watch football matches, play golf, do
jogging and cook chicken. Bush never calls Ms. Rice by her full name. She in
her turn never thinks twice when she needs to call the US
president in the middle of the night to discuss issues of state importance.
Ms. Rice's status of a single woman is her biggest problem
for the time being. She has never been married, which is nonsense for the
majority of American citizens, who firmly believe that a family is one of the
basic signs of social well-being. Condoleezza Rice is 51 years old now, but it
seems that she has absolutely no private life at all. Even meticulous reporters
managed to trace only one boyfriend in Ms. Rice's biography: a very brief
affair took place in 1970. Reportedly, Condoleezza Rice fell in love with a
football player during her school years in Denver.
Condi's choice totally complied with her own dogmas: the eight-year-old girl
told her parents once that she would agree to marry only a football player.
Condoleezza Rice was a perfect candidate to enter the closed
world of men. She successfully used her chance and became a full-fledged member
of the club. No one makes any facetious remarks in her presence, but men fall
silent when she expresses her opinion on this or that issue. Condoleezza Rice
is reputed to have become one of the ideologists of the US-led war in Iraq,
tense relations with Iran,
North Korea and
Libya. A US
cartoonist once said that Condoleezza Rice needed to fall in love with somebody
to learn how to treat the world nicely. All US
media outlets refused to publish the cartoonist's work afterwards.
Condoleezza Rice is a very feminine woman in spite of the
fact that many people call her "a man in a skirt." Her assistants say
that she always wants to look immaculate. She likes expensive designer clothes
by Armani and Oscar de la Renta; there are legends
going about her impressive collection of shoes. Everyone in the USA
knows that Condoleezza Rice uses Yves Saint Laurent lipstick, likes high heels
shoes and Led Zeppelin's music.
Ms. Rice posed for Vogue magazine during George W. Bush's
latest election campaign and answered readers' questions for Glamour magazine.
White House spokespeople explained that the sessions were meant to attract the
votes of glamorous ladies, but Ms. Rice obviously had her own reasons to pose
for Vogue. Being in her fifties, Condoleezza Rice can boast of her slim figure
and almost the absolute absence of wrinkles.
A lot of observers say that Ms. Rice has a very good chance
to amaze the whole world in 2008 and become the USA's
first female president.
Posted: 1/13/06
Source: PRAVDA.Ru
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