Condi Rice: I Don’t Want to Run for President
AP reports: “For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, no means no  and no again  when it comes to whether she will run for president.”
“It’s not what I want to do with my life, it’s not what I’m going to do with my life,” Rice said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
A group pushing for a Rice candidacy has run a television ad in New Hampshire  traditional site of the first presidential primary  and plans to air it soon in Iowa, where the first party caucuses take place.
At least two Web sites are promoting Rice even though Rice herself has said for months that she is not interested in running.
Asked on NBC and on “Fox News Sunday” whether she would run for president in 2008, Rice said she is flattered but would decline.
“I’m not somebody who wants to run for office. I haven’t ever run for anything,” Rice told NBC. “I think I’m doing what I need to do, which is to try and promote American foreign policy, American interests, the president’s democracy agenda at an extraordinary time.”
Pressed by host Tim Russert, Rice said, “I don’t know how may ways to say no.”
Somebody better tell Dick Morris, who’s been hard-at-work peddling his new book.
UPDATE: Clark Baker offers some perspective.
October 17th, 2005 at 3:48 pm
Is it just me, or is Dick Morris getting a little scary? I know he really didn’t like Hillary when he had to work for her, but I’m almost to the point where I expect him to be found hiding in her bushes with a pair of binoculars. Didn’t we learn anything as a party from our first Clinton encounter? Obsession makes you LESS effective, not more.
October 17th, 2005 at 5:29 pm
I saw Condi on Fox Sunday and thought she was outstanding. I believe her when she says she won’t run. She’d be a GREAT president, though.
October 17th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
Hey now, people are allowed to dream aren’t they?
October 18th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
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