Condoleezza Rice: Traitor!
Talk about your meanings of is! From AP . . .
"I have always said that the one thing that I have not seen myself doing is running for elected office in the United States," she said at a news conference to discuss her recent trip to Africa.
My emphasis. Sometimes these things need drawing out. Condoleezza Rice says she won’t compete for elective office here in America, a country of which Cindy McCain has always been proud, but pointedly declines to rule out running for elective office elsewhere. If she won’t be an American nominee’s vice-presidential candidate, whose is she willing to be? Hugo Chavez? Khaled Meshal? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Kim Jong-Il? Who? Will our oh-so-patriotic and don’t you dare call them ‘traitors’ media even ask? They certainly didn’t this time. I suppose they might follow up this issue with the tenacity it deserves. I suppose monkeys might fly out my butt wearing American-flag lapel pins too.
Comment by George Sorwell —
February 23, 2008 @ 10:55 am
I can’t wait to read the follow-up in the New York Times.
Comment by Tom Scudder —
February 23, 2008 @ 11:42 am
The president of Lithuania (Valdas Adamkus) was apparently formerly a regional administrator for the EPA, so there’s some precedent for people to go from being USgov officials to heading foreign states.
(My informant on this issue wonders if he’s the only non-US head of state eligible for a US government pension).
Comment by Tom Scudder —
February 23, 2008 @ 11:43 am
Cripes, unclosed tag. Could one of our esteemed hosts please edit?
Comment by Jim Henley —
February 23, 2008 @ 11:56 am
Fixed!