There’s a new book hitting the shelves soon about Condoleezza Rice’s White House career. The above article is interesting. IMO it doesn’t really get into her political stances or clear reasons as to why she has chosen to be so loyal, i.e. as a result of family history or tipping points in her career. Rather the article, suggests that her loyalties to Bush may originate from more intimate nature.
[quote]It wasn’t the first time Bush had asked Rice to do something she had decided not to do. During the 2000 campaign, she had planned to advise Bush informally; instead, Rice ended up leading his foreign policy team. “In a political sense, I think he kind of courted her,” said Carson. “He really went after her. He’s very charming.”
And Rice was drawn to Bush. “First of all, I thought he was wonderful to be around,” she recalled, sitting on the couch in her State Department office. “He was warm and funny and easy to be around. I thought he had just an incredibly inquisitive mind … You could barely finish an explanation before he was digging into it.”…
Rice’s friends insisted the attraction to Bush was platonic, but Brenda Hamberry-Green, her Palo Alto hairdresser, who had spent years commiserating with Rice over how hard it was for successful black women to find a good man, noticed a change when Rice started working for Bush. “He fills that need,” Hamberry-Green decided. “Bush is her feed.”
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