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Jeff Higgins wrote
I'm relatively sure that the college was inviting a "leader", rather than a "politician". It is indeed a very sad comment on our times that those ranks are mutually exclusive, and that even our colleges are unable to distinguish the two.
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Originally posted by artplumber
Is Rice a politician? AFAIK she is an appointee (to several positions), and prior to that, was herself, a prof at Stanford. I don't believe she's been elected to anything.
As to the resigning prof-BFD, they'll find someone better.
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To address the professor's quals; since I don't know, and most of you don't know, this professor except by a couple of published items, I don't think we can say what kind of quality he brings to the class room.
Second, and more to the point, political appointees are at least as much politician as those elected officials that appoint them if not more so, they want the "glory" without the difficulty involved in campaigning for votes.
In Sec. Rice's case, she didn't lie about her driving skill or how many men she's slept with (if any), she lied about the rationale for going to war that has resulted in the deaths of almost 3000 Americans and well over 100,000 Iraqi's; that means she's lied in order to assist in the commission of mass murder. That fact, which cannot be disputed, elevates her lie to much higher plane than those pols who say they'll vote one program and against another and then don't do either.