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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:50 PM
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Laura Bush predicts Rice won‘t run in 2008

http://www.localnewsleader.com/brocktown/stories/news-00106660.html

Laura Bush predicts Rice won‘t run in 2008

WASHINGTON - First Lady Laura Bush believes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would make a great president but predicts she will stay out of the race in 2008.

Many Republicans have been fascinated at the thought that Rice, 51, a confidant of President George W. Bush President George W. Bush, might consider a run for the presidency.

Victory would make her America‘s first woman and first black president but, while there is even speculation of a race against New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton , Rice said as recently as this week that she has no political ambitions.

"I‘m all for her. She says isn‘t going to run, of course, and I really don‘t think she will. But she‘d be terrific," Laura Bush told MSNBC in an interview on Wednesday.





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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:55 PM
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1. "fascinated?"
more like horrified - how would they reconcile her candidacy with their "southern strategy". I realize they have an almost infinite capacity for hypocrisy, but that would be a tough act to keep up.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:56 PM
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2. Bring on the dentists
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:58 PM
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5. She and Cheney should get a group rate on those choppers.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:57 PM
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3. Well DUH. She'd have to give way to the white male candidate du jour.
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:57 PM
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4. Condosleeza can be presidunce of her cell block.
I'm glad the first idiot lady took that political analyst job.
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:59 PM
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6. Ooh front page news: Black Woman Declines To Seek Republican Nomination
I'm also fascinated at the thought that Rice would consider running for president. Patently absurd, yet pushed as remotely plausible by the corporate media: fascinating.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:00 PM
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7. She has absolutely ZERO appeal ... to anyone ...
... the GOP would be stupider (sic) than I think they are to run her.
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:02 PM
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8. Sadly, Barbara Walters voted her one of the most fascinating
people of 2005?
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:06 PM
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10. I can see fascinating ... fascinating how she has completely
... turned her back on being a woman, an African American, and supposedly an academic.

What a bundle of self-loathing and contradiction she appears to be.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:07 PM
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11. I saw the previews
for that baba special with all those freakin' "fascinating" people of 2005.

Pure propoganda bullshit, I'll wager.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:57 PM
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17. Barbara Walters? Now, there a real piece of work.

Barbara & Monica
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arewenotdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 06:40 PM
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21. I'm sure Walters also thought Roy Cohn was "fascinating"
when it helped pay the bills.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:03 PM
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9. Laura knows her brother-in-law is going to run in 2008
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:08 PM
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12. Why does our media care about what Laura thinks on this?
Is there not enough real news for them to chase after, such as the war in Iraq, the deficit, natural disasters, who Paris Hilton's current boyfriend is?!

Ugh.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:44 PM
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14. Haven't you heard?
Paris and Nicole Richie are back together again. Or are they?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_en_tv/tv_the_simple_life_6
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 05:08 PM
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18. hope so - Jeb is 100% beatable. Would much rather run
Edited on Wed Nov-30-05 05:08 PM by Laura PackYourBags
against him than either Rudy or McCain or George Allen.....His friends say that he won't run - too many skeletons, too bad a temper, and wants to get back to making big bucks....
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:08 PM
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13. UIA predicts Rice will be occupying a prison cell in 2008........eom
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:56 PM
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16. DMM predicts, if Rove is not in prison, Condi will be the Rovian choice...
as Republican nominee. I'm not being argumentative -- I've just had that hunch that Rove would really like to have the first female, first black President be a right-winger of his choice. It would be a triumph for him; it would be Clarence Thomas many times over.

I've heard big-money Texans express great respect for Condi (and also Giuliani). Of course, as someone upthread notes, if Jeb wants it, all bets are off, with a BFEE candidate in the mix.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 04:49 PM
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15. Meow!
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DFWJock Donating Member (320 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 05:48 PM
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19. I wonder
if she told her husband she's not running?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 06:11 PM
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20. And thank you, Miss Cleo! n/t
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 06:46 PM
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22. Laura Bush, King Maker.
Go back to doing whatever you do, Laura. Thanks.
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twaddler01 Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 07:01 PM
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23. Yep, that's coming from Laura Bush
go figure :eyes:
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 07:05 PM
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24. She'll Be In Jail By Then...
hopefully.
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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 08:22 PM
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25. Anyone who thinks a pro-choice, single woman has any chance at the R nomin
is in fantasy-land.
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Tarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 08:31 PM
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26. "teriffic"
I've always been amazed at the right's "Run Condi RUN!" campaign. Rice is a foreign plicy wonk who has never been elected to a single public office. Ever. Would any sane person really want such an inexperienced person for president?
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 09:08 PM
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27. Enquirer New Year Exclusive: LAURA BUSH PREDICTS
Can I get my horoscope to go with pickles?
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antonialee839 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 09:23 PM
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28. That's because she'll be occupying the jail cell next to her husband's
er, I mean your husband's cell.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:42 PM
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29. Oh....Go pick on Batman, Pickles.
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:48 PM
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30. So what do we know about her?
She will chose a lie over the truth to cover her own mistakes. ("No one ever foresaw terrorists using planes as missiles." Except she had been warned about exactly that scenario before 9/11.

She will lie to lead her country into war, resulting in the deaths of thousands of young men and women. ("Mushroom cloud")

She has a tendency to be delusional. ("I was talking to my husband...", referring to bush, who is not her husband, nor is she married.)

She has a problem with priorities: Broadway shows and shoe shopping shouldn't take precedence over a national disaster of epic proportions.

No, I don't see a presidential candidate here.
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olddad56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:58 PM
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31. They do share something in common .......
Dubya's dick.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 11:00 PM
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32. Aww, that's so very insignificant!
Edited on Wed Nov-30-05 11:00 PM by robbedvoter
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 12:13 AM
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33. Ahhhhh......A little jealous spat from Laura, eh?
Condi has been hanging out with W way too long.

LOL!!!

These comments speak a thousand words.
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