Posted by
Rwe on Monday, February 25, 2008 6:43:08 AM
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, sandwiched between two major
overseas trips, made a rare appearance at the State Department’s press
briefing room Friday and talked politics. She told the packed room of
reporters that she has no interest in running for Vice President on the
2008 Republican ticket. Instead, she says, her next stop will be
California.
“I have always said that the one thing that I have not seen myself
doing is running for elected office in the United States,” Rice said.
“I didn’t even run for high-school President, Rice joked, “It’s not in
my genes.”
Rice added that there are “very good people running for the American
people to make their choices. I will be making my choice as a voter and
that's going to be fun after a campaign in 2000 in which I was
extremely involved.” Rice says she is not involved at all in this
campaign. It’s a demanding period for her at the State Department,
dealing with North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Serbia, and Rice doesn’t
have much time left to make her mark.
She insisted that she’s going to stick with her job until the very
end of her term: “I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing as Secretary
of State to see if we can use the last few months, as the President has
put it, to sprint to the finish.”