Rice cheers on women in politics, rules out presidential bid

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/rice-cheers-on-women-in-politics-rules.html

Rice cheers on women in politics, rules out presidential bid

PARIS (AFP) -- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has insisted she does not plan to seek the US presidency in 2008, while hailing women's growing role in world politics, in an interview with French television.

"I'm very glad that women are running, and women are winning in many places," Rice told TF1 television late Wednesday. "I was at the inauguration of President Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and for President Bachelet in Chile."

"But I won't be one of them," she told the channel from the NATO summit in the Latvian capital Riga, adding that she was "an academic at heart."

"Hopefully I, as secretary of state, can still help the United States to achieve some very important milestones.... But when I've done that, I'll go home to California and teach students about this experience," she said.

[Deep13]

1. Superfluous gesture since the Iraq disaster pretty much ruled her out.

Dumbass.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. Sure, we'll elect the woman who helped give us Iraq.

[hippiechick]

2. Oh thank Goddess!

I can't stand the thought of that sneering bushbot as our first female President.

[saigon68]

11. She is a beautiful goddess

[acmavm]

3. Gee, I wonder if she ever thought she had a chance at being

elected first female pResident anyway?

And as for being an 'academic at heart', that's a relief. She's certainly not one 'in the brain'. Pity any future students this wretch might have.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Well, explaining THE memo and the July 10th meeting would disqualify her also.

What an incompetent.

[Mika]

5. ".. and women are winning in many places". Except Iraq and Afghanistan..

.. in those countries self-immolation is increasingly the alternative of choice.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/273783_taliban14.html

At the same time, I can't help recalling the lunatic optimism of the president's wife a few weeks into the Afghan campaign in 2001. "Because of our recent military gains in much of Afghanistan, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes," Laura Bush declared. "The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women."

Well, we've seen what nonsense that is in Iraq, where women dare not venture outdoors unless they are covered and the government is turning out to have a worse record than Saddam Hussein in some respects, repealing legislation giving inheritance rights to women. In Afghanistan, the Taliban's status as public enemy number one persuaded many foreigners that their defeat was all that was needed to free women from tyranny, an assumption that doesn't stand up to five minutes' scrutiny.

The return of the Taliban is undoubtedly bad news, but more than three decades of war have left Afghan women vulnerable to a dire combination of warlords, jihadists and patriarchal attitudes. To this day, most continue to wear the burqa, fearing reprisals from extremists whose leaders sit in President Hamid Karzai's government. It isn't just the Taliban who want to enforce sharia; in April last year, a 29-year-old woman was stoned to death for adultery following the decision of a court in the northern province of Badakhshan.

Rape, forced marriage and domestic violence are at horrific levels, leading to the almost unimaginable practice of self-immolation: 154 cases were reported in the western zone last year, according to Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, and 34 in the southern and eastern parts of the country.

[Anthony Soprano]

6. First Frist, now Condi...

...looks like the "Condoleezza Rice for President 2008 - Unofficial Site" will be moving on to greener pastures. No "unofficial announcement" there yet...but it looks like the Condi 2008 bumper stickers are still available.



:evilgrin:

[ronnykmarshall]

9. Yo TONY!

Howz Carmella?

[Anthony Soprano]

10. Ah, fuhgeddaboudit...

:evilgrin:

:toast:

[brentspeak]

8. As if her pre-9/11 negligence would have gotten her elected...

She spent more time practicing her piano and appearing for woman's magazine photo-ops prior to 9/11 than she ever did on the issue of Osama bin Laden -- a name that she didn't even recognize when Richard Clarke tried to have a discussion on him.

[zbdent]

12. Get some media person to ask her to "pledge" not to run in 08

like they made Nancy Pelosi "pledge" not to impeach * ...

Of course, the media will never force a Repuke to make a pledge like that, nor would they hold him or her to said pledge, once made ...

[BenDavid]

13. Here is the best example of

not holding someone accountable. Lie,Lie and more lies but still the media will not sunject her to any hard, fact based questions. She is accountable as bush, cheney, rumsfeld, powell, about this cluster fuck we have over in iraq.
Oh the republicans enjoy having an africian-american person, especially an africian-american woman out front and hinting at her running for president. Excuse me but the republicans tried this in Maryland with Steele and he got his ass handed to him. Yes, let Condi run if she wishes, but she will then have to answer to all her lies the other republican candidates throw her way...

[otohara]

14. What Has She Accomplished as SOS?

Worthless comes to mind.

She's an accomplished piano player however!

[jhain]

15. thank god for small favors n/t

[Supersedeas]

16. Is Dr. Rice equivalent to Dr. Elliott in Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears?