but america has met and overcome hard challenges before. on a personal note, a little girl grows up in birmingham, the segregated city of the south where her parents can't take her to a movie theater or to a restaurant, but they have her absolutely convinced that even if she can't have a hamburger at the woolworth's lunch counter she can be president of the united states if she wants to be and she becomes the secretary of state. >> john thune, that was -- that was -- >> that appealed to women. >> what a speech that was last night and condi rice delivered it without teleprompter and for you and dan senor and others that saw her in park city not long ago it may have surprised the rest of america but didn't surprise you. >> no. i mean she is -- she's got a powerful, compelling personal story and that comes clearly