Rice: Still Not Running for VP

[IDemo]

Condoleezza Rice wants it known: She is still not interested in being vice president.

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post

Sean McCormack, her spokesman, today tried to dampen speculation that erupted Sunday after Dan Senor, a GOP political operative, claimed on ABC's "This Week" that Rice was "actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning" for the job. Peppered with questions at the regular State Department briefing, McCormack reiterated that Rice wants to return to Stanford University, where she is a tenured professor.

"I think what she is considering is focusing on her work as Secretary of State because -- you may have missed it -- but there's actually quite a bit to do," McCormack said. "There's quite a bit left to do here as secretary of State."

Rice, in a recent interview with The Washington Times, claimed no interest in being vice president after nearly eight years in Washington and a year as a campaign adviser to then Governor George W. Bush. She said it was time for "new blood."

Speculation has centered on Rice because as a prominent African American woman, she would help balance out a GOP ticket that otherwise might appear too bland next to the excitement generated by either the first major-party black or female candidate.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/07/rice_still_not_running_for_vp.html?hpid=topnews

[Olney Blue]

1. It's the only truth I have heard from her: we need "new blood" in the WH.

That picture is creepy.

[Bucky]

5. Sure, now that Cheney has licked all the old blood up off the carpet.

The obvious translation for that statement is that she wants to cash in with corporate America. She knows the Republicans aren't going to nominate an unmarried woman for Vice President.

[Olney Blue]

6. She can rationalize the cabal to a new generation of Stanford students....

while she brings in the bucks on the conservative lecture circuit.


I don't see her doing charity work......

[Bucky]

8. Not doing charity work? What do you think the last 8 years were?

I keed, I keed!

[yellowcanine]

2. too bad. She would be a drag on the ticket imo. Closely tied to Bush and his failed policies.

Also I believe she would be a crappy campaigner. It seems the more people hear her talk the less they like her. She has had almost no success overseas selling Bush policies. Yes that is partly because of the policies but she also has the charisma of a wilted carrot.

[YDogg]

3. why the hell would stanford want her back?

[goclark]

4. I heard on Air America

That he big "position" at Stanford was something like assigning classes to the professors.

Did anyone else hear that discussed.

[YDogg]

7. She was provost, I believe, having previously served as a prof.

Not sure about Stanford, but generally that would be the academic dean or equivalent, and at Stanford I cannot imagine that is the same as "assigning classes to the professors." More like shaping the academic program. I'm not certain about her success in that position.

[goclark]

9. I was shocked when I heard it on Air America

Is his name Sam?

Maybe I read it here too ~ :crazy: