What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.
Posted on 05/06/2006 6:34:39 AM PDT by Michael81Dus
Just in: Condolezza Rice will not candidate for presidency 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
THIS JUST IN:
GEORGE W. BUSH will not candidate for President 2008!!
Rice: Minority as president? It'll happen, but won't be me
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she expects to see a U.S. president from an ethnic minority during her lifetime, but it will not be her.
Rice's audience of young Latinos laughed and applauded when she said it Friday, and she responded with an embarrassed grin.
Rice, who is black, has been asked repeatedly whether she plans to run for the open Republican candidacy in 2008, when her boss, President George W. Bush, completes his second term.
On Friday, a young man from Texas attending an annual Washington conference of Latino and Latin-American students asked the secretary whether she thought it possible that "a Latino or Latina person or an African-American person or a person from any other minority" might become president.
"Yes," she said, prompting first the knowing laughter, then applause. "I think it will happen, and I think it will happen in my lifetime" - more laughter - "but it won't be me."
She said she bases her opinion on a course she used to teach at Stanford University: "The Politics of Elites."
The title means, she said, that candidates advance to the presidency by serving in other capacities, such as a state governor or a senator.
"So watch what is happening with the Congress and with the Senate and with our governors, and ... how the diversification of American politics at lower levels is becoming greater and greater, because those people then become the pool from which we will one day select a president," she said.
Do you mean "be a candidate," or has candidate suddenly become a verb?
Breaking news! MizSterious has just confirmed that she will not be running for president in 2008, either!
Since when is "candidate" a verb?
Is that old news??? I found it pretty new - at least to me, and I didn´t leave in a pit throughout the last days!
Rice does not want to become US president
Many expected the duel of two women for the US choice 2008: Hillary Clinton vs. Condoleezza Rice. Now the Foreign Minister excluded a candidacy around the highest public office. Its boss George W. Bush stolpert meanwhile from inquiry low to inquiry low.
Washington - Condoleezza Rice counts on the fact that soon a Latino, Afroamerikaner or a member of another minority will dress the highest office in the USA. "I think, that will happen", said her on a meeting of Latin American students on Friday in Washington. "it will happen still at my lifetimes - however I will be it not".
And Franscisco Franco is still dead!
Can this actually be true?
Just in: Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead!
Aw, we're just funnin' ya.
Rice, who is black.....
This is a flat out lie!
She is more of a creamy mocha....
Oh f*** it. I should have written "live". Just d....
I wonder that you aren´t surprised. I thought she´d run. Rice vs. McCain in the pre-elections would have been interesting.
Leni
A candidate can "kandidieren" in German. So I actually thought it´s also a verb in English. But once again, I have to learn that the English language doesn´t have the same variety of words we have. Or how would you call a Reichstagskuppelinstandsetzungsschutzgeländer?
Michael - Sorry, I just couldn't resist! Yes, it's old news over here; she's said many times that she won't run. But you know American politics far better than I know German. Thanks for posting!
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