Thursday, July 24, 2008

Condoleezza Rice

Hints of a Colin Powell or Condi Rice Endorsement for Obama

Colin Powell and Condi Rice might endorse Obama's presidential bid. more >>

Britain's Brown Reaffirms Opposition to Iranian Nuclear Bomb

Secretary of State Rice cites Iranian runaround in weekend talks. more >>

Czechs Sign On for a Controversial Missile-Defense System

It's a partial win for President Bush, but Czech public opposition still might derail the deal. more >>

Washington Whispers: McCain-Rice Ticket

Groups pushing Rice for president have shifted to making her vice president. more >>

Ads Call for Condoleezza Rice's Resignation for Her Role in "Torture" Discussions

Three progressive grass-roots organizations today said they will air a television ad around the time of tonight's Democratic debate calling for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to step down. more >>

McCain's Poll Numbers Are Breaking the Idea of Traditional Red and Blue States

Polls show a McCain-Rice ticket beating a Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton ticket in New York. more >>

10 Things You Didn't Know About Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of state is considered a possible running mate for McCain. more >>

Condi for Veep?

Economic conservatives are already wary of a McCain-Rice ticket. more >>

Write-In Veep Bid for Condi Rice

Sen. John McCain's campaign will soon see a wave of postcards coming in from around the nation, urging him to pick Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as his running mate. more >>

Condi, Condi, Condi!

John McCain's rise in the polls has got Washington buzzing over whom he'd pick as his vice presidential nominee. more >>

Condoleezza Rice Hits Back at Critics of Her North Korea Nuclear Strategy

Signs of discord within the Bush administration more >>

European Envoy: U.S. Democratic Effort in Iran Will Backfire

The Bush administration's $75 million effort to promote democracy in Iran over the long run is likely to backfire, stiffening the resolve of the Islamic regime to hold on to power and landing democratic-minded activists in jail, a senior European diplomat tells U.S. News. more >>

Morning Buzz: Dec. 18, 2007

About 300 Turkish soldiers crossed the border into Iraq last night and remain there hunting for Kurdish rebels. At the same time, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Kirkuk, also in the Kurdish portion of northern Iraq. more >>

Morning Buzz: Nov. 2, 2007

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Turkey today and assured Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan that the Kurdish rebels threatening the shared border between Turkey and Iraq are a "common threat." She said the United States, Turkey, and Iraq will counter any strikes the Kurdish rebels make in Turkey. more >>

The Real Perils of Summitry

A promised peace conference looks distinctly unpromising more >>

Hitting Iran Where It Hurts

Tough new U.S. economic sanctions raise tensions with Iran--and talk of war. more >>

More Oversight of Security Contractors

The State Department is tightening its oversight of private security contractors operating in Iraq after an official panel found significant shortcomings in the department's operations of the security program. The panel, led by Patrick Kennedy, a senior State Department official, made 19 recommendations to improve the operations and monitoring of security convoys in the wake of the deadly incident last month in which guards working for Blackwater USA under a State Department contract were involved in a deadly shooting in downtown Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqi civilians. more >>

'I'm One Humble Sister,' Says Donna Brazile

They say politics makes strange bedfellows. Well, try a dire sickness. That's what Democratic strategist, CNN analyst, and Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign boss Donna Brazile found during a series of medical emergencies that sidelined her. more >>

Out Loud: September 23, 2007

Andrew Meyer, a grandstanding University of Florida student, allegedly resisting arrest after police tried to stop him while he was asking Sen. John Kerry several questions. more >>

A Major Push for More U.N. Sanctions on Iran

But frustrated by Russia and China, the White House may need a different approach. more >>

Condi's Ready to Play—Golf, That Is

Condoleezza Rice, the popular secretary of state oft-touted as White House timber, has taken up the sport of presidents-golf. "She's got the bug," says a close aide. more >>

Secretary's Serenade

A long-planned get-together between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel finally came off last week, with the two huddling in Rice's private little office in Foggy Bottom. We hear Rice schmoozed the New Yorker, talking up his big issues of trade, education, diversity at State, and the differences between South Korea today and when he was in the Army during the Korean War. more >>

An American Idol Fan for Prez

First Fred, now Condi? That's the hope of the movement to draft Secretary of State Condi Rice into the 2008 GOP presidential campaign. Organizers of thinkcondi. more >>

Hooked on Idol and Star Gwen Stefani

Turns out that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is just like a lot of us. She's a sucker for product placement. more >>

The Secret Behind Putting Bush in White Tie

First lady Laura Bush and her team of cooks and social aides tell reporters that before the state dinner for Queen Elizabeth II, she had to double-team President Bush to persuade him to hold a super-formal white-tie dinner. Mrs. more >>

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