>I do not agree with you that she is "infinitely more qualified than Obama." She wasn't a very good NSA and I don't think she's been an especially good Secretary of State, either. The latter may not be her fault because the last thing this administration wants is diplomacy. Her hands are somewhat tied.

Wow. I cannot believe you wrote that? What makes Obama more qualified? Here is a short list of
some of Condi's:


She reopened nuclear negotiations with North Korea, even authorizing bilateral talks, which George W. Bush had adamantly refused to conduct all through his first term as president.

She persuaded Bush to endorse similar (if less promising) negotiations that Britain, France, and Germany had initiated with Iran, which he had also vigorously opposed.

She crafted the terms of a United Nations resolution to investigate war crimes in Sudan, a measure that first-term Bush had resisted.

She dropped the campaign—which had been launched with great verve by Vice President Dick Cheney—to replace Mohamed elBaradei as chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency and then got U.S. intelligence agencies to resume briefing IAEA officials, a practice that had also been discontinued in the first term.

As a prerequisite to all the above accomplishments, she staved off Cheney's intense efforts to appoint his protégé, John Bolton, as deputy secretary of state and implicitly acknowledged Bolton's unsuitability for a concession prize—U.N. ambassador—by assuring Democratic opponents that he would be carefully "supervised."

Granted, we are not seeing the fruit of her labors yet, but diplomacy can take a long time. If you can stand to look at anything on Fox, here is good overall listing:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158993,00.html