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Monday, July 03, 2006

Can't these people see that this woman is incompetent?
Posted by Jill | 6:30 PM
Maybe they just want another one:

Their names are varied: Team Condi. Rice for America. The Draft Rice movement. Condistas.

But this disparate group of Internet gurus, politics junkies and Hillary haters shares a common goal: Elect Republican Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice president in 2008.

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Similar Web sites from Seattle to West Sand Lake, N.Y., from Magna, Utah, to Cedarville, Ohio, have cropped up, touting Rice's credentials, marketing T-shirts, bobblehead dolls and "I Like Rice" buttons, and soliciting donations.

The Miami-based Americans for Dr. Rice political action committee has gone further, establishing state-level chapters in key political battleground states, including Ohio and Florida, and putting state chairs in place around the country. A second PAC, Rice for America, emerged in Greensboro, N.C., in July - though neither has yet reported any income or spending to the Federal Election Commission.

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"Nothing happens by chance in politics. Absolutely zero," said Bruce Newman, a DePaul University professor and expert in political marketing. "Everything is driven by marketing, by polling, by market research, and by very careful analysis of voters' preferences."

Newman, author of "The Marketing of the President: Political Marketing as Campaign Strategy," said the emergence of a grass-roots movement surrounding Rice will allow voters to feel they played a role in her candidacy - though he believes she is clearly being groomed as the political successor to Bush in light of Vice President Dick Cheney's health problems and unpopularity.

"The people running the Bush administration, and pushing for the geopolitical repositioning we're seeing take place around the world, would be happy to see that kind of person keep political power down the road," he said.

Backers like Rice for her intelligence, poise, self-reliance (she would also be America's first single president), values, and ability to carry on Bush's international agenda.


Oh, swell. Someone else to carry Bush's agenda of endless war with no plan, no strategy, and no effect other than alienating the entire world. Who on earth do they think will vote for this:


Steve, I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking. (Condoleeza Rice, press briefing, May 16, 2002)


And on the impending Iraq war:
We're going to seek a peaceful solution to this. We think that one is possible [CBS, 10/20/02].

We all want very much to see this resolved in a peaceful way. [Briefing, 11/21/02].

We are still in a diplomatic phase here. [ABC, 3/9/03]


Richard Haas, Directory of Policy Planning at the State Department:

“We're going to seek a peaceful solution to this. We think that one is possible” [CBS, 10/20/02]. Then in November of 2002, she said, “We all want very much to see this resolved in a peaceful way” [Briefing, 11/21/02]. In March of 2003, she claimed “we are still in a diplomatic phase here” [ABC, 3/9/03]


The woman is a flat out, bald-faced liar. Just because we currently have a president who simply cannot tell the truth doesn't mean we want another one. And I don't care if she's a woman, and I don't care that she's black. A liar is a liar is a liar, and an idiot is an idiot. And Condoleeza Rice is both -- and profoundly UNQUALIFIED to be president.
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