I'm going to miss Condi, too

Once again, I find myself watching Fox News Sunday on Sunday morning. And once again, I am sad to see the departure of the Bush administration.

I’m a fan of a couple of sports, tennis being one of them. My friends and I would watch a tournament on TV and then we would get that itch to play. So we would set a date for the weekend and keep watching the tourney on TV.

There I sat, on the couch, watching Leyton Hewitt or Andre Agassi wail on these balls, sending the shots from corner to corner at over 100 mph with enough topspin to actually re-arrange the ball’s molecular structure. After a while, I get to thinking, “that looks easy, I could do that.”

The weekend comes, we take to the court, and very, very quickly, reality sets in. I sure could smack a serve or two in that was cooking, but when it came to volleying, it was embarrassing. Those pros sure make what they do look easy.

Enter Condoleeza Rice. She is just a skosh this side of super hero. She makes everything look easy. The lady speaks several languages, plays classical piano, is a PhD. in Political Science, and is an expert on the Soviet Union. Yeah, we all that that last one was a waste of time until old Putty-put came back on the scene, huh?

Condolezza Rice is the best example of the best this country can produce. She is tops at everything she sets her sights on. Sure, she made some mistakes along the way, but when you have the weight of the world on your shoulders, making life and death decisions on a routine basis, briefing the President on incredibly complex problems and solutions, and doing it with very little sleep on flights across the planet in the middle of the night, some stuff might just fall through the cracks.

Then, she has the grace to go on TV and allow herself to be questioned and lead around by people who aren’t 1/5th the intellect she is. She allowed herself and her name to be drug through the mud, insulted, and demeaned through several trips up to Capital Hill, again at the hands of people who by all measure aren’t fit to be her driver. And why does she do it? For riches? For fame? For Glory? Nope, she did it for her country.

Condoleeze Rice is a hero, a patriot, and a role model. Our country owes her. Big.

I, for one, will miss this classy lady and pray that she gets some much needed rest in the next 4 years. Unfortunately, we will probably need her again.