Rice: Running for office 'not in my genes' (Hallelujah!)

[babylonsister]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/22/rice-running-for-office-not-in-my-genes/

Rice: Running for office 'not in my genes'
Posted: 05:35 PM ET


WASHINGTON (CNN) – Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, sandwiched between two major overseas trips, made a rare appearance at the State Department’s press briefing room Friday and talked politics. She told the packed room of reporters that she has no interest in running for Vice President on the 2008 Republican ticket. Instead, she says, her next stop will be California.

“I have always said that the one thing that I have not seen myself doing is running for elected office in the United States,” Rice said. “I didn’t even run for high-school President, Rice joked, “It’s not in my genes.”

Rice added that there are “very good people running for the American people to make their choices. I will be making my choice as a voter and that's going to be fun after a campaign in 2000 in which I was extremely involved.” Rice says she is not involved at all in this campaign. It’s a demanding period for her at the State Department, dealing with North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Serbia, and Rice doesn’t have much time left to make her mark.

She insisted that she’s going to stick with her job until the very end of her term: “I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing as Secretary of State to see if we can use the last few months, as the President has put it, to sprint to the finish.”

–CNN State Department Correspondent Zain Verjee

[rzemanfl]

1. No, she has the gene for shopping for shoes. n/t

[tabasco]

2. Kissing ass and being appointed to jobs for which she is unqualified

seems to be her genetic predisposition.

[Flying Dream Blues]

3. and she wouldn't want to leave her husb...the pretzeldent, either. nt

[Solly Mack]

4. If the Bush admin. were to be held accountable for their crimes, this wouldn't even be an issue

but because the Bush admin. will never be held accountable, people have to settle for being relieved when one of the thugs declares they won't run for office.

No accountability for crimes...and the people will have to cross their fingers and hold their breath ...waiting for the thugs to come back around ...dreading their return...and hoping they don't.

I saw Rice make the comment and that it is even considered a valid consideration (Rice as VP), speaks poorly of America.

Rice is no less guilty than anyone else in the Bush admin.

[Skoods]

5. Too bad..

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE for McCain to pick her as his running mate. She is one of the most corrupt figures in the Bush administration and would align McCain further with Bushie poo.

[islandmkl]

6. evidentally condi doesn't want the old geezer hittin' on her....

it's bad when anything, in any respect, makes W look good....

[AnnieBW]

7. Thank Gods for Small Favors

That's one less person we have to worry about.

[stray cat]

8. secretary of state isn't in her genes then either

[lligrd]

9. The Bad News Is

she is moving to California. :puke: