Here are the bios of the last two Secretaries of State, prior to their appointments.

Colin Powell

BA, City College, New York; MBA, George Washington University.

Served overseas in Germany, Viet Nam, Korea

Senior Military Advisor to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger 1983-1986

National Security Advisor, President Ronald Reagan 1987-1989

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, President George H.W. Bush 1989-1993

Condolezza Rice

BA, University of Denver, Phi Beta Kappa

MA, Political Science, Notre Dame

PhD, Political Science, University of Denver
thesis on military policy and politics in Czechoslovakia

Stanford University: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor, Provost
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Studies – specialist on the Soviet Union

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Senior Director, Soviet and East European Affairs, National Security Council – President George H.W. Bush 1989-1991

National Security Advisor, President George Bush 2001-2005

No one seems to be asking what Hillary Clinton’s qualifications for being Secretary of State are. What are they?

Hillary Rodham Clinton

BA, Wellesley College; JD, Yale Law School

Impeachment Inquiry Staff, House Judiciary Committee, 1974

Failed DC Bar exam, passed Arkansas Bar exam

Partner Rose Law Firm, Little Rock Arkansas 1977-1992

Director, Legal Services Corporation 1978-1981

First Lady, Arkansas 1978-1992

First Lady, United States 1992-2000

United States Senator, New York 2000-

She has no experience in international affairs. She has never lived overseas. She speaks no foreign language. Her most remarkable accomplishments have been to turn $1,000 into $100,000 in ten months of trading in cattle futures, and trashing her husband’s approval ratings in 1993 when she headed an ill-advised attempt to nationalize US healthcare – an issue that led to the Republicans picking up 53 seats and gaining control of the House in 1994.

Why is this woman about to be selected as the next Secretary of State?

– RedHatRob