Condi for President 2008

A Ray of HOPE????

2006-12-22T10:03:00.000-08:00

Perhaps, but not anything definitive......

Sec. Rice sez: THIS ABOUT THAT!

Please, please, Condi....make us really happy by announcing you'll CONSIDER the possibility of a run!

Duke

Gallop Poll Shows Condi Strength!

2006-07-20T05:55:00.000-07:00

A newly-released poll....not the usual type, but an actual rating on each individual candidate....Shows unexpected positive ratings for Condi Rice.

Capt. Ed writes well on the poll and its meaning at Captain's Quarters.

We have often stated on this blog that Condi brings much to the table, and offers not only less baggage than McCain and Giuliani, but also the twin cards which best take the wind out of the sails of Hillary....race and being a female.

An additional Condi positive that Hillary lacks is the world-traveling, global politics of Condi...a weak spot in the Bush regime until Condi arrived, and also a weak spot for Hillary. Condi's performance to date on the world stage has been one of strength, tremendous acceptance by world figures, and a visibility in the MSM not there for other figures during this administration.

Now, all that remains is to find a way to convince Condi that she is needed by her country in 2008!

Suggestions?

Duke

I am depressed!

2006-03-26T06:45:00.000-08:00

This morning I watched and listened as Condi appeared on FOX and pretty clearly announced that she was not interested in the job of President.

I saw in her face and eyes a truthfulness that makes me believe she means what she says. My only hope now is that GWB & Laura can find a way to influence her to rethink this decision.

I am really upset.....

Duke

"I Will Not Run!"

2006-03-24T03:34:00.000-08:00

....for Commissioner of the NFL, that is.......(sorry, it was just there and I had to add this...) Fox has details in their web story...

Condi had earlier eluded to the fact she was interested in the post at some point. I sort of see her interested late-in-life.

Duke

Speculation!!!!!

2006-03-14T14:00:00.000-08:00

Thus labeled, I am sure you can read that I am meandering about here in terms of my topic....so be it!

Condi is my choice for Pres candidate in 2008.....BOY is that obvious!

However, the problem we "early Condi supporters" face is, how to get her to R-U-N????

I am into the speculation part.....

Could it be that the plan is for her to surface LATER? You know, avoid the pitfalls of the Hillary, McCain, et al group of wannabees?

What if in 2007 she suddenly moves to VP vis-a-vis the departing and "living my life for now because of health problems" Cheney?

Just a supposition....but a potential anyway!

Duke

Where in The World #1

2006-03-11T09:14:00.000-08:00

This may be the beginning of a long line of achievements by Condi Rice as she performs her job, and still maintains she is not running.....

The importance for me is....She is achieving!!!! She is capable on the world stage!!!!

Read about the latest....not from the Middle-east, but S. America....on FOX!

Go you girl!!!! My gosh is she capable, or just SuperCondi????

Duke

Hillary's Worst NIghtmare?

2006-03-08T05:59:00.000-08:00

Dr. Walter E. Williams, an economics professor and writer delivers his column "A MInority View" at WorldNetDaily, and says Hillary is scared of Condi.

"If Condoleezza Rice threw her hat into the presidential race, it would be Clinton's worse nightmare. Ms. Rice's vision represents triumph rather than grievance. Steele says that by growing up in the segregated South, Ms. Rice might have claimed title to a grievance identity, but she's chosen the older black tradition where blacks neither deny injustice nor permit themselves to be defined by it.

Blacks like Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice are of no value to modern liberalism or the Democratic Party. Why? If blacks come to embrace triumph, rather than grievance, the wound to liberal Democrats would be mortal. It wouldn't take much of a desertion of the black vote to make Democrat hopes of recapturing Washington a permanent pipe dream."

You can read the entire article at: WorldNetDaily.

Interesting take by a black professor on the impact of a strong black candidate over Hillary.

Duke

"Please Don't Run" sez Tampa Tribune to Hillary

2006-02-28T07:21:00.000-08:00

Yes, a liberal newspaper in my town has endorsed Hillary NOT running in 2008!

I actually posted on this first on my other website....and you can read it and the editorial here!

Speaks volumes when a local paper of liberal leaning already sees Hillary as a liability for 2008.

Duke

Actually It Wouldn't be Much of a Contest!

2006-02-23T01:53:00.000-08:00

vs Schrillary that is!

The "We are the President" gal went completely unhinged again. This time over school vouchers, and with an arguement so full of holes I'll leave it to Michelle Malkin to!explain it well!

Condi would never have to worry about Hillary. This beast won't hunt when it comes time. Too broad a target with many circles to hit.

Duke

p.s. Come on Condi....give us a glimmer of hope

What Problem Does Condi (Along with Others)

2006-02-14T08:54:00.000-08:00

Have every morning when they look in the mirror.........

Thanks to Selena Zito for emailing the article she wrote......

NOW....you need to go read it: right here.

Think about it and get to work......

Duke

p.s. Thanks Ms. Zito for the contact!

Sour is the Color of Hillary's Presence!

2006-02-02T13:21:00.000-08:00

The fact that Condi's really serious contender in 2008 is Hillary is becoming a joke!

1st - Hillary has a recent poll rating showing that 52% of the voters WOULD vote against Hillary!

2nd - The Hildabeast presents a record of her own personal expression (which she seems completely unable to control) as a sour, vicious person.......

Check our Michelle Malkin entry on the topic!

It is delicious!

Duke

Condi is the ONLY Answer!

2006-01-12T03:49:00.000-08:00

Salena Zito steps up with a nice piece on why Condi is better than Shrillary as a candidate with a powerful statement by former Clinton confidant Dick Morris: "Condi is a woman that has made it on her own, whose accomplishments are hers." Hold that up to Hillary, whose "accomplishments are entirely derivative of her husband's,"

Zito, writing in the Tribune Review of Pittsburg, PA, tells it all....so just go and
read it here!

Now how do we get Condi to drop the "No" and issue at least a maybe?

Duke

The Condi-for-President Talk Grows!

2005-12-28T06:25:00.000-08:00

Ann Althouse has some words from an article.....they explain the fact of Condi's apparent ability to be close and yet not connected to problems... plus a lot more....

Check it out at the Althouse blog.

Duke

Vote for CONDI! - NOW!!!!

2005-11-28T07:34:00.000-08:00

Hugh Hewitt has a straw poll going for president and on others items as well. Get to his site and cast your ballot for Condi and do it N-O-W!!!

By the way, she is winning in the "fantasy" group by a wide margin!

Go troops, make it so....

Duke

UPDATE: We have to get the message loud and clear to Condi! I often wonder if she is playing it straight just to remain credible in her post, and will clear the decks for a run in 2006???? One can hope!

Middle East Progress - Condi Succeeds!

2005-11-15T06:58:00.000-08:00

In the most exciting possibility for actually advancing peace in the Middle East, Condi Rice brokered a deal yesterday that involved working through the night.....

From the AP story:

Israel and the Palestinians agreed Tuesday on a detailed arrangement for opening the borders of the Gaza Strip and allowing freer movement for Palestinians elsewhere, a significant step toward an eventual peace deal between historic enemies.
It took all-night negotiations and a strong diplomatic shove from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to get a deal whose basic elements had been in the works for weeks.
"I have to say as a football fan, sometimes the last yard is the hardest, and I think we experienced that today," Rice told a news conference where she announced the agreement.
She praised the deal at a news conference as a "big step forward" in Israeli-Palestinian relations, bruised by nearly five years of bloody fighting.
While important in and of itself, the broader significance of the deal to free up Palestinian movement while satisfying Israeli concerns about terrorism is that it makes a statement of progress that goes beyond the technical details.
Rice oversaw the marathon negotiations in a Jerusalem hotel, huddling alternately with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in her suite. She had postponed a planned departure for Asia by a day to shepherd the deal to a conclusion.

Once again the master of communication, Condi shows how its done....not with verbose media statements, but behind the doors hard-nosed negotiation. Just think what this marvelously talented lady could achieve as President!

Duke

A Reactivation!

2005-11-14T11:37:00.000-08:00

Yes, the time is right....the attention is being given the future candidates....and Ms. Rice is front-and-center in most stories.

I had actually anticipated the future for the campaign, or at least our small part in trying to bring Condi to the campaign, was still a long way in the future. I no longer believe this to be true, and will, thus be giving a lot more attention to this blog.

Still for Condi!

Duke

Condi/Hillary Battles Moves to Front Stage!

2005-06-26T11:58:00.000-07:00

Knight-Ridder stories the wonderfully-anticipated Condi-Hillary battle in 2008.

The story is fairly level in content, lacking much bias....read it here.

This is wonderful news with many pundits and lots of writers already reaching the point of annointing the two women as battling for the 1st-ever woman president title!

Duke

Go Condi Go!

2005-06-22T12:26:00.000-07:00

While things are a bit quiet here in Condiland.....she is off making waves...nice positive waves around the world.

Check her latest work at Gateway Pundit!

She gets around and if you notice in the pic of Condi and Annan in the above story, she even makes the SG look half way acceptable....

She continues to amaze me!

Duke

Condi in Strong Stand on Gaza Pullout

2005-06-19T05:12:00.000-07:00

Condi Rice spoke out today in Jerusalem on the pullout of Isrealis from Gaza. "The United States cannot make the disengagement work, only the Israelis and Palestinians can make the disengagement work," she said.

She also said the two sides seemed of a mind to accomplish the process, "Israel and the Palestinian Authority share a commitment to ensure that disengagement happens smoothly without violence," she said.

How outstanding to see Condoleeza Rice telling it like it is on the Gaza pullout, and making it quite clear that the USA expects the two sides to accomplish the feat without some form of mediation, other than her visits with those involved. Formal mediation in the past has not worked.

Duke

She is Working the Difficult Areas!

2005-06-18T08:49:00.000-07:00

Condi Rice has waded in, hip boot depth, to the Isreal withdrawl plan for Gaza.....

The Fox News story is fair....and readable!

I hope this is something the MSM here covers.....but have little actual expectation of same happening!

This woman is magic, and the next two years shall prove said and same!

Go Condi.....straight to the Presidency!

Duke of DeLand

OK, If we are serious we begin HERE!

2005-06-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

The Marvelous Dr. Condi Rice has a background to shake the grates of most corporate folk in the USA, as well as the opponents who fear her more than anyone else in the GOP for 2008!

From the government web site on folks....here is her description:

Biography of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor
Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.

OK! Let us begin......my god, I know lots of really successful folk! If I combined all of them into a single individual, they would simply PALE beside the good doctor's accomplishments!

You will hear more!

Duke

Our exposure was positive!

2005-06-16T15:03:00.000-07:00

We have gained readers from the exposure on ABC News-Online!

We, (son-of-Duke) and I are going to be much more active in this blog.....we had, frankly, felt that late 2005 or early 2006 was the time for this to be active....

OBVIOUSLY, we were wrong.....many people care NOW!

& Thus we shall treat the site with special care, and pursue our dream of Condi as the standard-bearer for 2008!

Here's hoping!

Duke & son-of-Duke

ABC Interview now available....

2005-06-15T04:43:00.000-07:00

A 20 minute interview by ABCNews,com of yours truly, is up today here.

I love the story, but to see a 20 minute, in-depth interview reduced to one lone comment....and that not even among the best I felt I offered....is a bit disappointing.

Well, at least more on Condi's strengths and the possible future....

Duke

"The Unflappable Condi Rice"

2005-06-11T07:30:00.000-07:00

From 2003 comes a description for Condi Rice that pegs just why we "Dukes" find her attractive as a Presidential candidate in 2008......

Check it out:
Here!

The story is going to grow as this lady is making Giant waves in Europe and across the globe as THE representative of the USA whom other countries find impressive!

Go Condi 2008!

Duke & Lil Duke

ABC News (Online) Interviews...

2005-06-10T05:18:00.000-07:00

Received an email while on vacation from Rose Palazzolo, apparently a producer for ABC News online (ABCNEWS.com).

Wanted to do an interview re: why we had a blog for Condi to be President.

She called yesterday (Thur) to do the interview. We covered the gamut of items from why did we start the blog to why Condi would make a good candidate to her strengths.

Of course the tone seemed more one of trying to drive to at the Hillary vs Condi situation.

I'll be interested in what actually comes of this online....if anything.

The story is supposedly to appear from today thru Sunday sometime.

I'll report back when (if) it does.

Duke