There's a video of Dr Rice speaking in Blackburn, UK, on the BBC's website that's actually not that bad. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4865344.stm)
She could work on her looking up from her text and knowing her words better occasionally but really, Dr Rice wouldn't be a bad VP or President if she wanted it, even though she doesn't want it. I can handle listening to her which is more than I can say about her President.
It's a little long but then again it is a lecture made by a major American government official, the face of American foreign policy for now.
I really like her closing. She ties it back to the similarity of both Birmingham, Alabama, (her hometown) and Blackburn, England, (Foreign Minister Jack Straw's constituency) revitalization projects and how someday the people of Beyrouth (I can't spell it in English any more) and Baghdad and Cairo and even Tehran will look at their cities and wonder how there was ever any doubt that they'd be liberal democracies (as is the topic of the lecture).
I'm off to bed all,
G'night and sleep tight,
Me.
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Beirut
That's what I thought but I wasn't sure about the "i".
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