Why hasn’t Condoleezza Rice endorsed John McCain?
Why hasn’t Condoleezza Rice endorsed John McCain?
After Colin Powell endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been touting the five former secretaries of state who have endorsed him. McCain tried to use that argument today on Meet the Press, but at first he could name only four of the five (who represent Nixon, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush administrations), momentarily forgetting George Shultz. Watch it:
So why isn’t Condoleezza Rice, the current Secretary of State, on that list? Rice has said she’s “not going to get involved in this political campaign.” But perhaps her hesitation has something to do with Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). When asked in September whether Palin had enough experience for the job of vice president, Rice deliberately avoided the question, saying only, “These are decisions that Senator McCain has made. I have great confidence in him.”
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Is it because she secretly wants a black man to win? If you ask whitey, he will tell you that nonwhites only endorse candidates based on melanin. Still whitey never votes based on the lack there of. It is a weird direct versus inverse relationship sort of thing….
October 26th, 2008 at 11:49 amThere a days when McCain forgets he’s running for the presidency. As for Condi, she’s voting for George Bush again this year! She just loves him!
October 26th, 2008 at 11:50 amI think she’s voting for Obama but she’s not going to announce it. The right will accuse her of doing it because her and Obama share the same skin color.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:55 amI think she’s voting for Obama but she’s not going to announce it. The right will accuse her of doing it because her and Obama share the same skin color.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:55 amdbadass, you beat me to it.
Again.
Curse these lazy autumn Sundays.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:00 pmWhen asked for a comment, Secretary Rice said, “My momma didn’t raise no fool”.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:03 pmWow, McCain really is developing Alzheimer’s. As far as Condi goes, of course she’ll be voting for McCain/Palin. She’s a loyal crony.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:06 pmAnd what about former UN Ambassador (and I use the phrase lightly here) Bolton? We’ve not heard from that pathetic waste of human flesh for some time now. Given that McSame and Bolton are big into blowing up Iraq for no earthly reason I’m surprised that Bolton hasn’t come out for McSame yet. Or, could this possibly suggest that Bolton has a scintilla of intelligence? Probably not but itw worth asking.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:07 pmAfternoon my quadraped friend. We here are enjoying a lovely and warm autumnal Sunday. In a few I will be leading a nature hike with a some of the local children. Hope you/yours are well and having fun. With luck there might be some good stuff to goof on around here this day. Skiing has started but it is mostly all made snow.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:08 pmNat Says:I think she’s voting for Obama but she’s not going to announce it. The right will accuse her of doing it because her and Obama share the same skin color.
Ummm… having campaigned for Bush in 2004 (unethically) and having been one of his most important and visible representatives, you really think she’s going to vote for Obama? I think you are dreaming.
I agree she’d be treated the way they’ve treated Powell if she did show any support for Obama.
She might not vote at all to avoid that and also to keep her in some good standing with Republicans when she has to find another job as a lobbyist/consultant and/or an AEI or heritage ‘fellow’. Voting Obama would also impact her earning potential on the speaking circuit.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pmShe’s black and affiliated with a very racist political party. She and Colin Powell were used as pawns in a chess game to make the party look less racist or completely devoid of racism if possible.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pmSo why isn’t Condoleezza Rice, the current Secretary of State, on that list?…But perhaps her hesitation has something to do with Gov. Sarah Palin
– - Too many vague, unsubstantive questions, TP. You’re venturing into Fox News territory.
Just stop.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:16 pmShe might have been a terrible SoS, but she isn’t stupid.
If she wants to rejoin Stanford in the Spring, she can’t demonstrate dementia now.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:16 pmWhen asked in September whether Palin had enough experience for the job of vice president, Rice deliberately avoided the question, saying only, “These are decisions that Senator McCain has made. I have great confidence in him.”
Said the Epic Fail former National Security who had zero national security experience.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pmMcCain is completely gone. He’s an empty suit, who just squandered his legacy, for a losing race.
Kudos to Brokaw. He suckered him, but good.
The stage looks like someone’s den, with a antique-looking table; I’ll bet McCain thought it would be Old Home Week.
Brokaw’s done quite an effective job of stripping McCain’s points of all meaning. His clips are on point, and it seems a much different Brokaw, we’re seeing. If this is coming from the parent GE, it means that republican-leaning media corporations have decided to cut their losses, on his race.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pmUmmm… having campaigned for Bush in 2004 (unethically) and having been one of his most important and visible representatives, you really think she’s going to vote for Obama? I think you are dreaming.
-5th Estate
I remember a few months ago where she expressed enthusiasm at the prospect of having the first Black president. I think she’s going to vote for him.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:20 pmUmmm… having campaigned for Bush in 2004 (unethically) and having been one of his most important and visible representatives, you really think she’s going to vote for Obama? I think you are dreaming.
-5th Estate
I remember a few months ago where she expressed enthusiasm at the prospect of having the first Black president. I think she’s going to vote for him.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:20 pmWhy are my comments being duplicated?
October 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pmWhy are my comments being duplicated?
October 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pmNat Says:
Why are my comments being duplicated?
– - It has nothing to do with doubletalk. Really.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pmI don’t doubt that Rice will vote Republican, but as much as I dislike her I think it’s proper that she not publicly endorse a candidate.
As Secretary of State she’ll have to serve the next president, Obama or McCain, until his nominee is ratified by the Senate, so I’ll give her credit for remaining “this much” above the debate.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pmWell, Condi has avoided playing the role of Secretary of State so why should she suddenly take a stand on anything? She’s certainly not going to oppose McCain and loose a posh job at Stanford or some rightwing “think tank” by revealing that’s she’s a dumbass or a disloyal one.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pmNat… guess you are registering a double click on the submit button….
on Rice’s possible vote, yeah that’s fair enough.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pmMods: Wtf? Why are my comments being “held?”
October 26th, 2008 at 12:28 pmCondi’s black, right? I guess we know who she’ll be voting for.
**wink wink**
October 26th, 2008 at 12:32 pmCondi’s jealous.
It should have been her up there on stage with John and that $150,000 wardrobe.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:33 pmIt’s very possible the criminal RNC has hacked into Think Progress and the double posts are actually early votes for John McCain.
Sad. The American Taliban will stop at nothing to win every 4 years since 2000!
October 26th, 2008 at 12:35 pmWhy did Condi vote for the white cowboy in 2000 & 2004 then? Was she giving the finger to the other Americans? She’s very confusing!!!
October 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pmtokin librul Says:
Mods: Wtf? Why are my comments being “held?”
– - Too counterbalance Nat’s double posts. Yin/yang.
I’m here to help.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:37 pmZooey Says:
Condi’s black, right?
– - Only dermatologically.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pmYou know, neither has Dick Cheney. In fact, is the Dick-tator even still alive? Has anyone seen him recently?
October 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pmHe looks so confused in the clip. Is he getting senile?
October 26th, 2008 at 12:42 pmHanging out with Bush and the ‘have mores’ these last 8 years she forgot she was black. The term is almost up, time for reality check : she realizes she’s been hanging out with a whole bunch of racist freaks and she is black. Now a black democrat is running for president. Who will she endorse?
October 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pmyou libs just keep telling yourselves that you have won……wait for it…..the october surprise is coming. You won’t be laughin then.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:46 pmelection day is November 4th Fred
October 26th, 2008 at 12:54 pmFred Says:
wait for it…..the october surprise is coming. You won’t be laughin then.
– - The October Surprise was Palin’s $150K Extreme makeover by “So You Think You Can Be A Vice President” makeup artsists. And I laughed my butt off with that one.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pmyou know the petty name calling of you left wing loonies is non-productive. Why don’t you engage in sonne thoughtful conversations about how to keep obama from having too much power and actually destroying our country.
Good patriots are concernde about thesed things…..traitors arr not.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pmyou can’t deny that black people voting for a black man just because he is black is racism….it is. they should be considering the harm a marxist like nobama would do to our country.
Instead they think this guy nobama is a great savior who will magically make things right in their sad little world of not trying very hard.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:15 pmKayInMaine Says:
It’s very possible the criminal RNC has hacked into Think Progress and the double posts are actually early votes for John McCain.
Absolutely hilarious :)~
October 26th, 2008 at 1:22 pmNo you just wait. The surprise is coming and it will change everything. Not sure if it will be the proof that ayers and nobama actually talked an schemed about how to harm America or whether the proof that nobama is a muslim terrorist himself……but it’s coming.
If you guys actually elect theis black man, Americans are going to revolt. there will be protests and retribution, just wait and see…….you can’t actually think that a black man can govern the US in this centruy can you?
October 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pmvia C&L, blog roundup:
Faithful Progressive: Famous Socialist presidents: Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Woodrow Wilson – if you use McCain’s wacky definition*
*see why i loved that show… and take heart… inspiring!
October 26th, 2008 at 1:30 pmFredo: .you can’t actually think that a black man can govern the US in this centruy can you?
– - Sure he can, even half a black man can.
You racist twit.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:33 pmFred Says:
you can’t deny that black people voting for a black man just because he is black is racism….
Uh Fred..it could be because they Know what it feels like to be Discriminated Against, and so does he.
BTW Fred…have you been Namejacked?
October 26th, 2008 at 1:34 pmUpdate:
In a stunning reversal, the McCain campaign has announced that they are no longer endorsing John McCain for president. McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds explained, “As everyone knows, there has always been a great deal of tension between John McCain and his campaign. Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, he has been increasingly at odds with his campaign, and we feel that we can no longer in good faith support someone with such poor judgement.”
October 26th, 2008 at 1:35 pmBadger Says:
BTW Fred…have you been Namejacked?
Haven’t you heard? Fred is DDT today- Designated Daily Troll.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pmWhy is it that you left wing loonies can’t have a civil conversation without calling people childish names? Always the last resort of the left…..
If a black man votes for a black man just because he is black then that is racism……..black americans are the racists in this country…..see rev. right.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:43 pmFred:”. . . you can’t actually think that a black man can govern the US in this centruy can you?”
Do you HONESTLY believe this crap or just looking to verify your ignorance in a public forum?
Most times I dismiss you has another poorly educated unbred basement dweller with access to mom’s Internet account . . . but now I seriously believe you represent the last dying image of the Republican Fascist Christan Wacko wing . . . not gonna miss you, and when located, I will donate $2 toward a marriage license for your parents . . .
October 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pmFred Says:
If a black man votes for a black man just because he is black then that is racism……..black americans are the racists in this country…..see rev. right.
Hmmmm, seems to me that black men have been voting for white men ever since the white men finally allowed black men to vote.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:50 pmshoeless Says:
Haven’t you heard? Fred is DDT today- Designated Daily Troll.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
He’s doing a great job.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:56 pmNot sure whether a Rice endorsement would be at all valuable. She has been largely absent from the international scene, likely having joined D. Cheney and others at the secret location. If it weren’t for the economic crises, Bush himself probably would have stayed there too.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:56 pmJess Wonderin Says:
dang, I didn’t know you had to be rhodes scholar to have an opinion. Good to know how you really feel about me though Jess, I’m ok though, don’t worry.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:57 pmMr. Fred sir,
Left wing loonies IS a “Childish Name”.
You need to read Frank Rich’s pretty darn good column in today’s NY Times to SEE how your Racial Attitudes will BACKFIRE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26rich.html?hp
From “In Defense of White Americans”:
referring to Gov. George Allen’s Macaca Moment..
It wasn’t just Allen’s lame racial joke or his cluelessness about 21st-century media like YouTube that made him a harbinger of the current G.O.P. fiasco. It was most of all the national vision he set forth: There are Real Americans, and there are the Others.
The Real are the small-town white folks Allen was addressing in southwestern Virginia. The Others — and their subversive fellow travelers, the Elites — are Americans like the young man who Allen maligned: a high-achieving son of immigrant parents who was born and raised in Washington’s Northern Virginia suburbs during its technology boom. (Allen, the self-appointed keeper of real Virginia, grew up in California.)
The farcical apotheosis of this strategy arrived last weekend, again on camera and again in Virginia, when a McCain adviser, Nancy Pfotenhauer, revived Allen’s original script, literally, during an interview on MSNBC.
After dismissing the Northern Virginia suburbs, she asserted that the “real Virginia” — the part of the state “more Southern in nature” — will prove “very responsive” to the McCain message. All Pfotenhauer left out was “macaca,”
Well, there are racists in western Pennsylvania, as there are in most pockets of our country. But despite the months-long drumbeat of punditry to the contrary, there are not and have never been enough racists in 2008 to flip this election. In the latest New York Times/CBS News and Pew national polls, Obama is NOW PULLING EVEN with McCain among WHITE men, a feat accomplished by NO Democratic presidential candidate in THREE DECADES , Bill Clinton included. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds age doing more damage to McCain than race to Obama.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:57 pmWho is Condi?
October 26th, 2008 at 1:58 pmhey barfly, bottles are a flyin.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:59 pmFred . . . I’d settle for you have gotten out of Miss Bertolliti’s third grade class . . . . before you were old enough to legally buy liquor.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:01 pmWell at least when I got out I got a job and could by my own likkor. I didn’t need no food stamps to buy it with.
I’m tired of paying taxes since 4th greade to support lazy people who are able to work but just won’t get out there and get a job…..
October 26th, 2008 at 2:06 pmIf zany this is intended to be… It doesn’t come close…
October 26th, 2008 at 2:10 pmmavericks don’t have to endorse one another. they’re mavericks!
October 26th, 2008 at 2:18 pmOk, I tried and managed to piss a couple of people off.
No more playing the troll for me.
I have to get ready to go out.
My engineering senior at OSU and also my youngest child is taking me to see Stone Temple Pilots this evening so if you know where they are playing then you will know where I am.
Look for the white haired old guy with a group of younsters having a really good time.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:19 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
According to the troll that goes by ‘mule rider’, blacks are racist because 90% of them will vote for Obama: …
and the same logic demanded that i was “sexist” for NOT voting for hillary…
October 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pmZooey Says:
He’s doing a great job.
i worry he’s warming to it a little too much…
be careful, fred… it’s easier on the dark side, you know…
October 26th, 2008 at 2:28 pmWhy hasn’t Condoleezza Rice endorsed John McCain?»
October 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pmBecause she is trying to stay away from the media headlines since it was revelled she actively participated in secreet meeting in the WH with top officials, about the USA’s TORTURE program. She is a War Criminal!
Fred Says:
Ok, I tried and managed to piss a couple of people off.
No more playing the troll for me.
just in time…
October 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pmYou know when I was a freshman we had to live in the dorms the first year because of funding requirements(if you draw the grant you have to do this, this and this)
We often would argue politics for hours on end and at some point switch sides and argue the opposing view. It was in a time of much more civil discourse surrounding politics I might add. At least you could be in the same room with republicans then.
no worry Katy, I’ve always been the same person.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:37 pmFred Says:
…..black americans are the racists in this country…..see rev. right.
– - Oh, and you’re illiterate too.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:38 pmBadmoodman Says:
Please,go to this thread….around post#47……barfly was supposed to keep you guys from throwing bottles at me…
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/26/rove-loyalty-discipline/#comment-5307314
October 26th, 2008 at 2:44 pmget to your concert, fred – have a great time!
i was never REALLY worried…
October 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pmYes, I also think that Condi is voting for Obama (following Scott McClellan) but she won’t say so because it will be seen as a vote based on race.
October 26th, 2008 at 3:34 pmI’m actually surprised they just started out my chocolate people with an entire whole vote, once they had the right to vote at all…I really would have expected those people to give them “training wheels” by keeping them as 3/5 of a vote but actually letting THEM have it insead of thier owners…
I’m still convinced the north getting upset as slavery was more because the slaves were a source of represenation in government…
October 26th, 2008 at 3:50 pmLush Limbaugh says it’s because he’s NOT black!
October 26th, 2008 at 5:13 pmIf she thought he had a chance to win, she’d be all over McCain like a poodle on his pants leg.
She’s an opportunist of the shiftiest kind. She’d do anything to have a cabinet post in the next administration, to keep her hopes alive of being President someday. But when she looks at McCain, she can see the failure written all over him.
So I’m guessing she’ll try for a Senate seat somewhere down the road, or maybe just cash in all her favors now and jump on the corporate gravy train.
October 26th, 2008 at 5:20 pmI cracked up when McCain couldn’t name the 5th Sec. of State. Watching him fumble around for the name was priceless…reminded me of the two Republican state governors a few months go on CNN who couldn’t name one single policy difference between Bush and McCain.
If McCain can’t remember the names of only 5 Sec’s. of State, especially given the importance of their endorsements, what else is he going to forget should he become president? Geez…we’ve got us another Reagan.
October 26th, 2008 at 5:41 pmOh, and did anyone catch McCain stating that Palin was more experienced than Obama and Biden combined, due to her executive experience?
Does that mean that Palin is also more qualified than McCain is, since he also has not had any executive experience?
Or does that not matter, since he was a POW and she wasn’t??
October 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pmkaty Says:
Zooey Says:
shoeless Says:
Haven’t you heard? Fred is DDT today- Designated Daily Troll.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
He’s doing a great job.
i worry he’s warming to it a little too much…
be careful, fred… it’s easier on the dark side, you know…
Fred, don’t party too much at the concert tonight. You’ve surely killed off enough brain cells for one day by playing Daily Designated Troll.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:43 pmFred The Troll–
Your posts prove you are an utter moron and a racist. The WORLD (which encompasses more than what your narrow mind can take in) is done messing around with people like you and your outdated Draconian opinions. Move up the evolution chain or prove Darwin’s theory and die out, please.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:48 pmthe Lone Voice of Reason Says:
Fred The Troll–
Your posts prove you are an utter moron and a racist. The WORLD (which encompasses more than what your narrow mind can take in) is done messing around with people like you and your outdated Draconian opinions. Move up the evolution chain or prove Darwin’s theory and die out, please.
GOD….NO….
Fred is NOT a Troll….trust me on this one…….
October 26th, 2008 at 11:08 pmSecretaries of State NEVER endorse political candidates. By tradition, the State Department maintains a non-partisan disposition and never insinuates itself into poitical campaigns. I worked there in 1999-2000 and was not allowed to volunteer for Al Gore on my own time.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:22 amEVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN WHO VOTED IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION VOTED FOR A “WHITE MAN!”
October 27th, 2008 at 11:22 amSo you racist, who assume that Rice would vote for Obama just because he’s bi-racial, are just that…RACIST.
On the whole, reading comments here and elsewhere, and attempting to discuss politics with friends of many persuasions, people on the right are much more prone to name-calling and unfounded beliefs about sinister conspiracies like Obama-is-a-terrorist, Obama-is-not-an-American, etc. People on the right, in my experience, are less likely to change their opinions when the factual bases for them have been disproven. Perhaps that accounts for the level of vitriol in their discourse – it’s making up for the dearth of reason.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:39 amCondi has the right experience to know the definition of “unqualified.”
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