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Rice Not Interested in VP Job

White House / Eric Draper

There has been much speculation over the possibility of Condoleezza Rice as John McCain’s vice president. On Monday, the secretary of state gave her answer: “I don’t want to be, don’t intend to be, won’t be on the ticket.” Instead, she plans to return to academia. Because she’s an idea person.

(h/t: Political Wire)

New York Times:

While praising Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona, Ms. Rice said in an interview, “I don’t want to be, don’t intend to be, won’t be on the ticket.”

She said she would return to academic pursuits at Stanford University at the end of the Bush administration.

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By PatrickHenry, April 16 at 11:23 am #
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Americans not interested in Rice

A win-win situation.

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By tyler, April 16 at 10:14 am #
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turn that trick the eff out!

then again, if pimp-daddy bush was able to turn that trick condasleeza out as easily as he did, maybe mcCain could bring her into his stable like he did vicki iseman.

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By tyler, April 16 at 10:08 am #
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of course she doesn’t want to be on the ticket, she’s going to cut-and-run just like everyone in the whitehouse!

they are on the verge of pulling off the biggest scam, heist, looting, whatever you wanna call it, in the history of man!

they are criminals, all of them, and deserve to be treated as such.

but they won’t, because as long as america has their SUV’s and reality TV, and sub-prime mortgages that are about to be forclosed coz they allready took out their equity to buy all the new toys without thinking, nobody will do anything.

enjoy the next few decades of shit USA, and make sure you thank your elected officials now, coz in a few years they’re going to have create ‘green zones’ within your own country for them and their big corporate f*#! buddies to hide in while the rest of the country deteriorates into poverty which will inevitably (hopefully) lead to massive unrest.

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By JohannG, April 16 at 9:12 am #
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Orgy of Incompetence.

Yes, with her long list of accomplishments as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Ms. Rice would be the ideal VP. She has shown the world that a black woman can be every bit as vapid, deceitful and cruel as any white male. You go girl!

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By purplewolf, April 16 at 10:05 am #
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Re: Orgy of Incompetence.

During the state of the union address that Bush gave last Jan., he kept pushing that “Condi Rice would make an excellent choice for a V.P.” while he totally ignored all of the democrats that attended the “address”. It is only the second time I watched one of these B.S. speeches and actions speak louder as they say. None of the candidates running for the Repub. side at that time stepped up to Bush’s suggestion.

Looking at the scowl on Cheney’s face and the look that I often see on Condi’s face, I must assume that V.P. stands for “very pissed off person” as they always have that attitude about them. Very poor choice to represent the U.S. for another 4+ years of errors.

It’s time for Condi to ride off into the sunset along with her husband George. Maybe she will have better luck obtaining employment(though she should have stock piled enough money to last her 20 lifetimes by now) as Alberto Gonzales is having a hard time finding a job. Perhaps he should go back to being a gardner, after all he knows how to work with BUSHES!

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By TDoff, April 16 at 4:46 am #
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Even in the present administration, the only one so far out of touch with reality (excluding The Dummy) as to start a rumor that Rice is being considered for the Vice-Presidency is Leeza the Whacko, herownself.
And here she is, denying interest.
So what’s her pet delusion? Is she so lonely, and so much of an insomniac, that she craves 3AM telecons?
Do her new shoes hurt her feet so much that the only way she gets relief is to jam her feet into her mouth and suck them? Is she testing the limits of how much shucking and jiving of whitey she can get away with?
Well, speculation is useless. Anything is possible.
Let’s just hope she doesn’t pee into her egg flower soup during the next Chinese negotiation.

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By jackpine savage, April 15 at 7:35 pm #
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...nor qualified.

Rumor has it that her specialty is the Soviet Union, which is kind of a moot point. Rumor also has it that she can’t speak Russian well enough to work without a translator. (They are always there, even when not “needed”, but to need one in the language of her specialty is pretty bad.)

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By cyrena, April 16 at 5:35 am #
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The old Cold War stuff IS a moot point Jackpine, and that’s all she knows. And..as you’ve said..she doesn’t even know THAT very well.

She can’t speak Russian, and she only lies in English. (with or without a translator).

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By samosamo, April 15 at 5:32 pm #
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I have been to Birmingham and talked to people who claimed to know her when the family lived there. She was in the elite class then and a loner much aloof from what they said. And, they said then that she was a liar at that time, so I guess old habits die hard.
Considering her still being single I would at least agree to the loner part and god a mighty the only people who don’t think she is a liar would have to be the 27% who approve of w and his administration; I have not seen poll numbers on her so maybe she is approved at the level of congress and that, last I heard, was 11% or so.
Maybe she can cut an album of her sterling talent on the piano or is that reserved just for foreign diplomats? Now appearing at Carnegie Hall, for one night only, Kindaloosly Rice performing her piano concerto ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire’, ‘Book of Fibs’ and ‘May Ligthning Strike Me’.

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By Mark Mandell, April 15 at 8:24 pm #
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Re: Condosleeza Rag

Yeah, her piano rendition of the “Condosleeza Rag” should make it as a hit song.

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By DennisD, April 15 at 1:52 pm #
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Too bad, so sad

Rice Not Interested in VP Job -

Wow, this is a surprise. Did she come up with her response before or after she wasn’t asked about it.

In a perfect world she’d be doing hard time with the rest of the Bu$h Inc. cabal but I guess that wouldn’t disqualify her from future government employment.

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By msgmi, April 15 at 1:02 pm #
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Condi will no doubt join her neoCON colleague Doug Feith in academia smowblowing the eager students with cabal-like finesse on how to make the BIG LIE a political tool for gaining popular support.

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By One, April 15 at 12:19 pm #
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She and the rest of the Bush-Crime-Family should be brought up on charges of treason and war crimes!

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By TDoff, April 15 at 11:24 am #
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What a great idea, Leeza teaching fellow inmates at the Stanford Federal Prison how to bob and weave, and act stupid when questioned. And they’ll probably teach her a thing or two, also.
Like how to lie convincingly.

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By samosamo, April 15 at 9:50 am #
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Just what will she do in academia? Expouse her brilliant record as national security advisor and tremendous performance as secretary of state and how great is was to have w as a husband.
Oh, stanford, I do detect blemish on your name.
BTW, where did ms. rice receive her doctorate? Somebody? I don’t think it was from stanford.
On the subject of empires, try reading ‘Late Victorian Holocausts’ by Mike Davis

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By jbart, April 15 at 12:48 pm #
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Re:

U of Denver B.A.
Notre Dame M.A
U of Denver Phd.
switched from Democrat to Republican in 1982

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By cyrena, April 15 at 12:45 pm #
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BA poli. sci. was from the University of Denver. The MA – same field, Notre Dame, and the doctorate, (still poli sci) from the Graduate School of International Studies – also Denver.

But, ya know what gave me a horrible jolt, (maybe I’m just tired) because I’d never paid any attention to where she went to high school…I just read it…a private, all-girls, Catholic school by the name of St. Mary’s Academy. I about shit when I read that. I attended an all-girls Catholic high school by the name of St. Mary’s academy! (graduated the year after she did).

Well, her’s was in Colorado, and mine was in Southern California. STILL. I never knew about this ‘other’ St. Mary’s Academy, and so it really did sort of knock me for a loop.

The other very interesting thing is that she moved with her family to Colorado in 1967, which means that when she talks about growing up in segregated Birmingham, AL, that wasn’t entirely true. They basically got the hell out of there not all that long after the bombings that killed 4 of her best friends. She would have normally been with them, since they all sang in the choir. That day, she was apparently (maybe) at her father’s church down the block or around the corner.

Many remarked on the oddity of that much later…

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 16 at 6:53 am #
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Re: Re:hallmarks

You haven’t met a REAL ManChu, Patrick......

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By PatrickHenry, April 15 at 1:12 pm #
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Pat Robertson U

Condi has all the hallmarks of a Regent University grad, the administration is choc-bloc full of them.

A diploma mill for manchurian candidate types.

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By C Quil, April 15 at 9:27 am #
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She's just going to walk away?

This is the woman who’s been in on the whole Iraq debacle from the beginning - the lies, the torture, the disaster of the policies in the Middle East - and she’s just going to clear out her desk next January and trot back to academic life?

Jesus H. Christ - just exactly WHAT do you have to do to get arrested in this day and age?

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By cyrena, April 15 at 12:51 pm #
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Re: She's just going to walk away?

“...Jesus H. Christ - just exactly WHAT do you have to do to get arrested in this day and age?..

C Quil…

All you have to do is attend a demonstration/protest rally...for instance on Guantanamo or torture, or any of those things that brave Americans have been demonstrating against.

And, bingo...you’ll be arrested. It’s just that easy.

Condi..she’ll just walk away, and trot back to California in her Farigamo’s (that she was in Italy shopping for while New Orleans and other parts of the US gulf coast were drowing, and guys at Gitmo were being tortured).

Now, the closest prison to where she’ll be headed is Pelican Bay. That’s where I’d like her to finish her trot back.

It’s a dozy, and right where she belongs.

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By ONE, April 15 at 9:09 am #
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She'll be running for the hills

Of course she wants to leave politics when it’s over. After being an accomplice to the largest organized crime group in all of world history, she should run for the hills. I imagine that some day all of the major players in the Bush-Crime-Family will be up on some pretty serious charges such as war crimes, treason, etc. I can’t wait!

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By jatihoon, April 15 at 7:49 am #
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Not For Me

Why should she take a “Weepy job,” or Vee-Pea job. She is no weeping or piss on you politicians, she is a smart “COOKY.”

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 15 at 9:22 am #
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Re: Not For Me

It meant “yes, but you have to beg me”..... she’s already had a Condi for Prez website for ages, uhh!

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By purplewolf, April 15 at 7:48 am #
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BUT CAN WE BELIEVE HER ?

Has there been any member of Bushco Inc. who has yet to tell the truth? Can we really believe her when she says she is not interested in this, or is it another lie from the group who would not recognize the truth if their very lives depended on it ?

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