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TAMPA, Fla -- Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said her successor, Hillary Clinton, has done a "fine" job.
It's the overall strategy of the Obama administration, Rice said, that has led the U.S. astray.
"I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," Rice told members of Ohio's delegation to the Republican National Convention.
"The problem is that we've chosen to speak with a muted voice about America's role in the world. We've chosen to try to lead from behind. That's an oxymoron in my mind."
Clinton had long been a lightning rod for conservatives, but has won plaudits for her work as the nation's top diplomat.
But Rice, who some Republicans had hoped would be Mitt Romney's running mate, was more unsparing toward President Barack Obama, a likely target during her speech tonight before the convention.
Rice told delegates here that America has been "leading from behind" during the Obama administration. She said that, like many in the U.S., countries abroad are unsure if America can regain its place as the world's dominant economic and military power.
In a PRESS Pass interview with David Gregory from March 2012, Condoleezza Rice answers the question of whether or not she would serve as the Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican ticket in 2012.
"We are united by a belief that you can come from humble circumstances and you can do great things. And today people wonder: Is that still true? Are America's best days behind us?" Rice said.
"And I want to tell you, as a former secretary of state, it's not just something that Americans wonder, it's something that people around the world wonder too. Because when the United States is not feeling strong and confident at home, it shows abroad.And when the united states is not willing to speak with a robust voice for free peoples and free markets, the world is a pretty chaotic place.
The former top adviser to President George W. Bush maintained that she is not concerned by the lack of foreign policy experience at the top of the Republican ticket, saying that success abroad takes the same leadership qualities Romney exhibited in the private sector.
"The details about what you do about Iran on any given day or what you do about china on any given day. Any smart person can figure that out. But if you don't have the basic principles in place...then you can't be a great foreign policy president," she said.
The Stanford professor continued to say she has no plans to return politics, but her high-profile seat during Tuesday night's floor speeches along with her speech tonight will cause plenty of speculation about a possible future spot in the Romney administration.
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Rice did a good job!!!
What did she do?
Persuading other countries to go to war with US. And what happened?
LISTEN TO THIS AMERICA !!!!
THE MAJOR Economic collapse not only in America, but MOSTLY IN THOSE COUNTRIES WHO WENT TO WAR WITH AMERICA. GOOD JOB RICE...you did a good job, what a good job.
Darn right she has done a stellar job. Unfortunately Condy Rice was not allowed to be a true diplomat because of the policies of the President she served.
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Your name is perfect, just read your own convenient lies!!
On a side note, 4ward in the fog, isn't really that bad of a theme, since the future holds many things we can't calculate for. Not very inspirational, but it would be honest.
OBAMA, did not deserve election in 2008. his whole ideology is skewed towards fundamental change of our way of life. Even though he is a natural born American it is obvious that he is not one of us...
Hillary would have been a far greater choice for the democrat party but more importantly The Country's well being.
the really sad part the amount of suffering, ie people out of work people loosing every thing. The physiological effects of non prosperity has on the willingness to pull ones self up by the boot straps not to mention the amount of debt, and simply poor GDP level
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I'm interested in expansion but I refuse to make any real substantive changes in my business model until BHO is gone be it January 20th 2012 or 2016
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Carpet bomb from Iran to Syria, save time, money and American lives. Let remnants learn to live together and let the Turks make a civil nation of them all.
Ms. Clinton (senior) is much too arrogant for a diplomatic post.
Somewhere, Valerie Plame is watching all of this, and throwing up.
Yeah, I see Rice's point. We haven't started any wars yet. Apparently the Obama administration is not competent enough to lie about weapons of mass destruction yet. Condi had no trouble with it in Bush's State of the Union address when they claimed yellow cake and aluminum tubes proved Hussein was pursuing nukes. The CIA had already told them both claims were untrue - the tubes were of no use for other than conventional weaponry and the yellow cake thing was a fraud. She admitted that they knew it was untrue, had in fact been removed from another speech, but it "slipped through the cracks" in the State of the Union. Right.
Her opinion is incredibly irrelevant to me. Bush, Cheney, and her should be making their statements from a federal prison. This went beyond impeachable to a felony according to a Republican member of Congress.
Condi - please take up knitting and baking cookies! We need a role model that is closer to what the GOP expects from women....