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Senator Larry Craig has announced his intent to resign, effective September thirtieth. If you ask me, it’s a crazy thing to do if you did nothing wrong. Now I just wonder why he isn’t resigning effective immediately. Maybe he wants to meet up with the men in Washington he’s been involved with before, be it the oil executives who tickle his fancy on the campaign trail or the man he blows at Union Station, for one last go? “Perhaps he wants to give the Governor of Idaho sufficient time to appoint a replacement.” Anything’s possible, right?

The New York Times is running an article, today, about Condi Rice and her eventual return to Stanford University. I concur with the man who says she shouldn’t be welcomed back because the Administration has trampled over everything that higher education is about. That’s not what makes me mention the article. This is:

There was a time when, perhaps more than Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice seemed to have the best shot at becoming the first woman or the first African-American to be president. But that was before she sounded public alarms based on faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, telling CNN, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” It was before a former top Bush administration colleague, David Kay, charged with finding unconventional weapons after the Iraq invasion, referred to Ms. Rice in Bob Woodward’s “State of Denial” as “probably the worst national security adviser since the office was created.”

Who wrote that nonsense? Who genuinely believed that a woman lacking in practical, political charisma, who is a pro-choice pro-Affirmative Action black woman in a white male’s Republican Party could have a serious shot at a nomination, let alone the Presidency? These aren’t the Seventeen Nineties. You don’t win the Presidency from the Secretary of State’s Office and nobody ever has or ever will win the Presidency from the National Security Advisor’s position, whatever Dick Morris says be damned. He is not a serious political analyst.

I’ll be out tomorrow, Dear Reader. Family committment. Write you Monday.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 1st, 2007 at 8:56 am and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).