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September 25, 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn't lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks. Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in a contentious weekend interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel, for his claims that the Bush administration "did not try" to kill Osama bin Laden in the eight months they controlled the White House before the Sept. 11 attacks. "The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice keeps trying, but she can't put those questions about presidential ambitions to rest. Rice didn't appear to leave much wiggle room during interviews Tuesday with local newspapers and broadcasters in Salt Lake City. "Will you run for president?" an interviewer from KUT asked Rice at the end of a brief interview on Iraq and other subjects. "No," she replied. "That's an easy one." The Salt Lake Tribune asked Rice what she makes of polls that place her among the top three potential Republican candidates for 2008. "It's flattering but that's not for me," Rice said....

The idea of a woman president is not so abstract now that the 2008 election nears, Lynne Cheney, wife of vice president Dick Cheney said Wednesday. "If you're thinking of Condi Rice, I think she has good credentials," Cheney said. During an appearance sponsored by the Aspen Institute, Cheney talked mostly about education and history but did venture into current politics, including the possibility of women running for president. She did not mention New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, widely thought to be considering a presidential run in 2008. "(National security) is the driving issue," Cheney said. "The stereotype exists that...

- Adults in the United States place three Republican politicians as their top choices for the next presidential nomination, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and Press. 26 per cent of respondents would vote like Arizona senator John McCain to be the next presidential candidate.Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is a close second with 24 per cent, followed by current state secretary Condoleezza Rice with 18 per cent. Support is lower for former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich, Virginia senator George Allen, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Tennessee senator Bill Frist, and...

ASPEN, Colo. -- The idea of a woman president is not so abstract now that the 2008 election nears, Lynne Cheney, wife of vice president Dick Cheney said Wednesday. "If you're thinking of Condi Rice, I think she has good credentials," Cheney said. During an appearance sponsored by the Aspen Institute, Cheney talked mostly about education and history but did venture into current politics, including the possibility of women running for president. She did not mention New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, widely thought to be considering a presidential run in 2008. "(National security) is the driving issue," Cheney said. "The...

Up in time for Secretary Rice's visit to Crawford, Texas, is the first Condi 2008 billboard of many to come. The billboard is located on Highway 84 in McGregor, TX on the way to the "ranch" in Crawford. The Billboard, paid for by volunteers working with the 527 Political Organization, "Americans for Dr. Rice", went up Thursday about five hours before the President, and his entourage, landed in Waco for the trip to Crawford for his 10 day vacation. And, one day after CNN reported a 62% national approval rating for the Secretary of State and only a 27% disapproval...

Two weeks ago, we told you that a number of grassroots Republican clubs wanted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to make a presidential run in 2008. We asked you, "If Rice runs for president in 2008, would you vote for her?" Here's how you voted. * About 27 percent of you said, "Yes. I would definitely vote for her." * About 54 percent of you said, "No. I definitely would not vote for her." * About 19 percent of you said, "I would consider voting for her."

'Condistas' Push Rice for President in '08 By JULIE CARR SMYTH ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The names are varied - Team Condi, Rice for America, Condistas - yet the goal is the same: Elect Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice president in 2008. A disparate group of Internet gurus, political junkies and foes of Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is pushing a Rice candidacy even though President Bush's top diplomat has said repeatedly that she has no desire to be president. But the Republican also has declined invitations to rule out a bid in 2008, spoken about the likelihood...

'Condistas' want Rice for president in 2008 By JULIE CARR SMYTH, AP Statehouse Correspondent 16 minutes ago 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. Mick Wright, a professional webmaster in Memphis, Tenn., was one of more than a dozen people to register a draft-Rice Web site in the year after President Bush was re-elected. He said he was driven by the "post-election blues." "Once that was all...

State GOP Pick Gingrich In Presidential Straw Poll (AP) Minneapolis Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who engineered the Republican takeover of Congress a dozen years ago, got a boost Friday from Minnesota conservatives who want him to run for president in 2008. Gingrich was the top vote-getter in a straw poll of GOP activists at the state party convention. But the vote is at best a limited reflection of Republican sentiment in the state -- the ranks of the 1,275 delegates had thinned down considerably by the time the poll was taken, and 540 valid votes were cast. That was...

Just in: Condolezza Rice will not candidate for presidency 2008.

Preferably a Republican one, first lady says Laura Bush, wife of President Bush, said Tuesday the United States is ready to have a woman president -- preferably a Republican. She offered her opinion while touring an exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts with Marta Sahagun de Fox, wife of Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Eliane Karp de Toledo, wife of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo. The exhibit features archaeological finds from Mexico and Peru that show that, long before Europeans arrived, women served as warriors, governors, artists, poets and priestesses. "They really show what a heritage we...

Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as Professor Shelby Steele explains, "whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance." In response to a question from the audience: "I need you to tell us what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans right now," Sen. Clinton answered, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about . . . " Though the audience was largely black, I doubt whether any of the...

A poll released on Monday shows that the presidential prospects of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continue to improve, while Hillary's Clinton's numbers are on the skids. Forty-eight percent of those surveyed told a Siena College/Hearst survey that they'd back Dr. Rice if she decides to seek the White House in 2008. That's up from 42 percent last year. But Mrs. Clinton's poll numbers seem stuck in reverse. Forty-four percent of voters nationwide now say they wouldn't back Mrs. Clinton - up from 37 percent last year. In a recent Gallup survey, 51 percent said they were opposed to making...

WASHINGTON -- Growing numbers of Americans oppose a presidential bid by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in 2008 -- and favor a run by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- amid broad public willingness to elect a woman president, according to a nationwide poll released Sunday. Advertisement The President's Day survey conducted for Hearst Newspapers by the Siena Research Institute of Siena College in Loudonville, covered 1,120 registered voters and was completed Feb. 10. Some 48 percent of survey participants said Rice "should run" for president at the conclusion of President Bush's two terms -- an increase of 6 percentage...

The "Condi for President" movement is gathering steam. The recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) featured an "Americans for Dr. Rice" booth, and 47 percent of the public in a new Fox News poll says Rice would make a good president. Even more important, the Wall Street Journal has run an article about the new "neorealists" guiding foreign policy in the Bush Administration, focusing on the arrival of Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. The article was obviously intended to be a flattering portrait of Rice. But that is not the way it may come out in the end. The...

In reaction to the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, Condoleeza Rice's response was: "She's [Condi] asked her staff to look into that. Why is it that we didn't see this coming?" I am sorry all you Condi supporters, but this is extremely disconcerting. It is completely indicative of someone living in the policy wonk world of the State Department, getting 99.99% of their news and "analysis" from that world and clueless as to what is actually going on. 9/11 was the result of 40 years of that kind of myopic foreign policy thinking. "Didn't see it coming?? Let's...

Hillary Clinton: U.S. 'Impatient' for Woman Prez Americans are growing 'impatient" as they wait for a woman to be elected president, 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Saturday night. "People are saying,' Well, at least we're ready,'" Clinton told interviewer Jane Pauley, as the two held a public chat for charity in San Francisco. "There's a feeling that it's time," she added. Then, in quotes picked up the New York Sun, the former first lady said she detected "a certain impatience" to see a female president following the election of women to similar roles in other countries. Despite Mrs. Clinton's...

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds the two women who are most frequently mentioned as potential presidential candidates of their respective parties are each opposed by about half the electorate. Among registered voters, 48% would consider voting for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president in 2008, including 16% who say they would "definitely" vote for her. Fifty-one percent say they would "definitely" not vote for Clinton.

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The voters have spoken. Primary voters in Florida -- who have correctly chosen nine of the last 10 presidents -- have weighed in on their choices for the 2008 presidential nominees. In a survey conducted January 20-23 by The Kitchens Group, likely Republican primary voters and likely Democratic primary voters were asked who they would vote for if the primary election were held today: Democrats (253 Surveyed)Br> Hillary Clinton 42 % John Edwards 16 % John Kerry 12 % Joseph Biden 6 % Russ Feingold 3 % Republicans (256 surveyed) Condoleezza Rice 26 %...