Geena Davis Vs. Condi Rice

There is just something so wrong when this woman:

Gets a reward:

UNITED NATIONS

To the strains of “Hail to the Chief,” actress Geena Davis accepted an award night for her television portrayal of the first woman president of the United States from an organization which is seeking to turn fiction into reality.

When the star of the ABC television show “Commander in Chief” got to the podium Tuesday, she was given a red, white and blue sash to put on over her gown, similar to one worn by Chile’s first woman president, Michelle Bachelet. “This is the coolest thing I ever got! Wow I love it!,” she said.

“So many countries have had a female head of state before us,” she told the 500 guests at a dinner in the U.N. Delegates Dining Room. “So it is certainly time.”

The award was presented by The White House Project, a non-profit organization which works to promote women’s voting, political participation and leadership, with a goal of putting a woman in the White House.

“Every interviewer eventually says, `Do you think we will see a female president in our lifetime?’, Davis said.

While this woman:

Gets protests:

BOSTON Some faculty members at Boston College are objecting to the school’s decision to award an honorary degree to the Secretary of State.

A letter entitled “Condoleezza Rice Does Not Deserve a Boston College Honorary Degree” has been signed by nearly 100 faculty members. The letter was written by two prominent theology professors.

The Reverend Kenneth Himes and the Reverend David Hollenbach write that Secretary Rice’s approach to international affairs is in “fundamental conflict” with the college’s commitment to “Catholic and Jesuit traditions.”

So let’s compare the two. First Dr. Rice:

Education
At 15, Rice enrolled and began attending classes at the University of Denver with the goal of becoming a concert pianist. Her plans changed when she attended a course on international politics taught by Josef Korbel that sparked her interest in the Soviet Union and international relations, leading her to call Korbel “one of the most central figures in my life”.

At 19, Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974. In 1975, she obtained her master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, and in 1981 she received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. In addition to English, she speaks Russian, French, and Spanish.

Academic career
At Stanford University, Rice is a tenured Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. From 1993 to 1999 she served as the Stanford Provost. Rice held the position of provost before stepping down on July 1, 1999.

Dr. Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004.

Political career
From 1989 through March 1991 (the period of the fall of Berlin wall and the final days of the Soviet Union), she served in the George H. W. Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In this function, Condoleezza Rice acquired greatest merits by co-formulating the strategy of President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker in favor of German reunification. She so impressed President Bush that he introduced her to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as the one who “tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union.”

In 1996, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender ? Integrated Training in the Military.

Rice was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation (which named an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, later renamed Altair Voyager due to controversy and headed its committee on public policy until she resigned in January 15, 2001 to become National Security Advisor.

During George W. Bush’s election campaign in 2000, Rice took a one-year leave of absence from the university to work as George W. Bush’s foreign policy advisor. On December 17, 2000, Rice was picked to serve as National Security Advisor and stepped down from her position at Stanford.

Business career
She has served on the board of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

And Geena Davis:

After graduating, Davis signed with New York’s Zoli modelling agency and served as a window mannequin for Ann Taylor. With a height of six feet and a shoe size of 9(US)/40(EUR), Davis was a striking model cast from a different mould. She was working as a model when director Sydney Pollack spotted her, and cast her in Tootsie (1982) as a soap opera actress. She followed this up with roles in the short-lived television series Buffalo Bill (1983-1984) and Sara (1985). Davis made a breakthrough with The Fly and Beetlejuice. She received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Accidental Tourist (1988) and a Best Actress nomination for her role in Thelma and Louise (1991). Davis replaced Debra Winger for the lead in A League of Their Own but her first vehicle Hero was a box office flop. Following this Davis teamed up with then husband Renny Harlin for the box office disasters Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Davis starred in the short-lived sitcom The Geena Davis Show (2000-2001). In early 2004, she guest-starred as Grace Adler’s sister Janet on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. She is currently starring in the ABC television series, Commander-in-Chief as the President of the United States, who ascends to the office after the sitting president dies. This role garnered her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2006, and she also was nominated for a SAG Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series. However, almost from its premiere, the show was managed poorly by ABC. This lead to two extended breaks and a substantial loss of viewers, which resulted in an unfortunate cancellation of the series during the May 2006 “sweeps” period. The remaining three, completed episodes of the series are due to air during summer 2006.

So there you have it. A former mannequin and now a person who reads lines in front of a camera gets a reward from a womans group while a highly educated and accomplished woman who has risen to a height of power never thought possible 20 years ago is protested against getting a reward.

Ok then.

So there you have it. A former mannequin and now a person who reads lines in front of a camera gets a reward from a womans group while a highly educated and accomplished woman who has risen to a height of power never thought possible 20 years ago is protested against getting a reward.