Yes, I'd vote for Condi Rice for President. I hope she'll consider running in '08. What a great message and example she brings to young people growing up in America...or anywhere for that matter. Her story, as told in this in depth article , is one of family, faith, intellect and tenacity all coming together in dazzling achievement. What a star! (link via susanna at cut on the bias)
Here are a couple of excerpts that I found particularly telling about her view of herself and her worldview on behalf of the country she serves:
She believes in empowering people," Zelikow says. "In international affairs, that means real commitment to liberty and freedom. She sees the message of her life as a message of how to realize a person's potential. No one should ever become the prisoner of other people's expectations."..............."Power matters," Rice told National Review in 1999. "But there can be no absence of moral content in American foreign policy, and, furthermore, the American people wouldn't accept such an absence. Europeans giggle at this and say we're naïve and so on, but we're not Europeans, we're Americans—and we have different principles."