[AGL] President Rice?

[Wayne Johnson]

What a completely nauseating idea.  Despite all the "good press", Ms. Rice 
is entirely out of her depth in the fields of security and international 
politics.  A female Uncle Tom is not what this country needs right 
now.....regardless of ethnicity.

wgJ
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Subject: [AGL] President Rice?


> HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Front 
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> Feb. 20, 2006, 3:11AM
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> Poll finds readiness for female president
>
> Support grows for run by Rice in '08, but fewer favor Clinton
>
> By STEWART M. POWELL
> Copyright 2006 Hearst News Service
>
> WASHINGTON - Growing numbers of Americans oppose a presidential bid by 
> Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in 2008 — and favor a run by 
> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — amid broad public willingness to 
> elect a woman as president, according to a nationwide poll released 
> Sunday.
>
> The Presidents Day survey conducted for Hearst Newspapers by the Siena 
> Research Institute of Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., covered 1,120 
> registered voters and was completed Feb. 10.
>
> Some 48 percent of survey participants said Rice "should run" for 
> president at the conclusion of President Bush's second term, an increase 
> of 6 percentage points over a similar survey a year ago.
>
> Clinton saw opposition to a presidential bid grow over the same period. 
> About 44 percent of respondents now say Clinton "should not run" for 
> president in 2008 — up from 37 percent who felt that way last year.
>
> The percentage of registered voters who say Clinton "should run" slipped 
> from 53 percent to 51 percent in the past year, as support for a Rice 
> candidacy increased, from 42 percent to 48 percent.
>
> The survey found that 79 percent of participants were willing to vote for 
> a woman as president, and 64 percent said the nation was "ready" for one.
>
> The survey did not test a head-to-head race between Clinton and Rice.
>
> The margin of error for the survey in both years was 2.9 percentage 
> points. That could mean that Clinton's 2 percentage point drop in the 
> "should run" category may not represent an actual change.
>
> The survey found that a majority of registered voters thought a female 
> president would handle national security-related issues as well as a male 
> president, including serving as commander-in-chief of the armed services.
>
> Douglas Lonnstrom, director of the Siena Research Institute, said the 
> findings, coupled with results from a comparable poll by his organization 
> last year, suggest the nation is on the cusp of a dramatic political 
> change.
>
> "As things stand now, I see a real possibility that a woman will be 
> elected president in 2008," said Lonnstrom, a professor of finance and 
> statistics and member of the American Association for Public Opinion 
> Research. "Disapproval of President Bush has opened voters' eyes to 
> alternatives — and women benefit from that."
>
> The latest nationwide Gallup Poll showed 56 percent of respondents 
> disapproving of Bush's job performance and 39 percent approving.
>
> Sally Friedman, a political scientist at the State University of New York 
> at Albany, cautioned that the generic support for a female president 
> reflected in the poll could decline when voters get closer to weighing the 
> strengths and weaknesses of actual candidates.
>
> "Right now the election is more than two years away and pretty 
> hypothetical," said Friedman, who studies women in politics. "That will 
> change, the closer we get."
>
> The survey detected a wide disparity of views between Democrats and 
> Republicans, with 91 percent of Democrats expressing their willingness to 
> elect a woman compared with 68 percent of Republicans.
>
> The back-to-back Siena College surveys conducted a year apart showed that 
> 28 percent of registered voters think the nation is not ready for a female 
> president in 2008. Among those, 23 percent said the country would be ready 
> by 2012, 16 percent said it would be ready by 2016 and 17 percent said the 
> U.S. would "never" be ready.
>
> "The big winner in our poll is Condoleezza Rice," Lonnstrom said. "She has 
> projected a good, strong powerful image over the past year, and she 
> benefits from the anti-Hillary vote."
>
> Rice, 51, a former provost of Stanford University and a trained Soviet 
> scholar, has been on the world stage for the past year carrying out 
> diplomatic initiatives as the nation's second black secretary of state.
>
> Clinton, 58, a career lawyer and former first lady, has been campaigning 
> for the past year to win re-election to the Senate from New York this 
> November, as well as taking public positions that often make her a 
> favorite target of conservatives.
>
> "Hillary Clinton remains a very polarizing figure across our country — 
> people either love her or hate her," Lonnstrom said.
>
> Scholars say the nation's readiness to elect a woman stems in part from 
> voters seeing so many other nations elect women, including recent 
> elections of women to lead Germany, Chile and Liberia.
>
>
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