Rice: Oh The US Will Be Fine

Why can't big powerful grownup people just say what they really mean? Why does Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have to be such a Bush loyalist that she can't say Obama will be a fine president. Instead she says this:

AFP: In an interview with Politico and Yahoo News released Thursday, Rice was asked if she would feel secure with a president Obama.
"Oh, the United States will be fine," she responded. "I think that we are having an important debate about how we keep the country safe," she said, pointing to the Middle East and Iraq.
"Those are important judgments for the American people to make."