{"id":604,"date":"2004-11-15T23:37:25","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:53","slug":"im_making_popco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"I’m Making Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rumors are that Condoleeza Rice will be the new Secretary of State. I’ve always been impressed by her (although I did think her testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee was so-so), and note that this makes her a likely contender for the Republican nomination, if she’s interested in it.<\/p>\n

Which in turn brings to mind two interesting thoughts.First, how amazingly cool it is to see a black woman in a position of such authority. And how interesting it will be to listen in on some of the more Paleozoic Republicans as they get their heads wrapped around the notion that she<\/b> might bear their standard.<\/p>\n

Fifty years ago, she would have been stuck bearing their illegitimate children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next, it makes the Hillary run for office even more intriguing. I’ve felt for a long time that she was overly heavy-handed; Hillary is certainly not someone who would shy from using the power of office or the state to meet the goals she felt were worth meeting. But I can’t help but think she’d make a better-than average President, given the inevitable minefields of policy that she’d have to navigate to get that far.<\/p>\n

But she’s also probably the single most divisive political figure in America today – more than Bush, I’d say – and I think she’d get killed in the general election.<\/p>\n

But, damn. A Clinton vs. Rice campaign would be a knock-down hum-dinger bell-ringer of a campaign. We’d have a helluva interesting time, and it might well be that the country would be better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Election 2008 – Hillary vs. Condoleeza.<\/p>\n

Bring it on! (I’ll make the popcorn)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}