[JohnnyZ]

I won't comment on your assessment of Condi's resume as "weak". That comment was silly on its face.

And the last president who'd never been elected on their own? John Patrick Ryan, and it took a bit of literary chutzpah to pull that off. Before that? WWII hero General Dwight Eisenhower. And before that? Another general. Before that? Another general.

Last I checked Condi was the National Security Advisor, a professor on leave from Stanford. Not a war hero general, and not a fictional character who had singlehandedly saved the world from disaster several times. She's never passed a law or led . . . anything.

[section9]

Not to pick a fight, but she did get the Stanford's provost job at 39 and pulled it out of a billion dollar hole. That's leadership.

Look, you can argue that because an individual has not been in command of, say, a combat unit or has not been elected to anything is an automatic disqualification to elective office. However, you would be wrong. Each individual has their own set of qualifications; Condi's are sterling, especially in the warfighting department.

There are a bunch of people on this board who believe that Alan Keyes is the be all and end all to political leadership. I happen to disagree with them, but that does not lead me to conclude that Alan Keyes could not be President. In point of fact, he probably could, but unlike Rice, he would never be elected. All that bombast.

Be Seeing You,

Chris