President 2008 Watch: Laura Bush – Condi WON’T Run in 2008

First lady Laura Bush stands in between paintings used for this year’s Christmas card, left, and Holiday program ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’, right, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. With table centerpieces of fresh tangerines and lemon leaves, and Christmas trees decorated with real roses and lilacs, the White House is taking a fresh and natural approach to the 2005 holiday season.

Reuters has Laura Bush predicts Rice won’t run in 2008

First Lady Laura Bush believes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would make a great president but predicts she will stay out of the race in 2008.

Many Republicans have been fascinated at the thought that Rice, 51, a confidant of
President George W. Bush, might consider a run for the presidency.

Victory would make her America’s first woman and first black president but, while there is even speculation of a race against New York Democratic Sen.
Hillary Clinton, Rice said as recently as this week that she has no political ambitions.

“I’m all for her. She says isn’t going to run, of course, and I really don’t think she will. But she’d be terrific,” Laura Bush told MSNBC in an interview on Wednesday.

No, it is too soon for Condi.

She will return to Stanford and look for California political opportunities – Governor in 2010 or Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat.

There will be opportunities for her to hone her executive skills in the political arena in California.

She will then be ready to seek the Presiency – if that is what she desires.

Rice said in an interview published in USA Today newspaper on Tuesday that she was looking forward to going back to Stanford University, where she was provost before joining Bush’s team, when the president leaves office.

“When I go back to Stanford in 3-1/2 years I can guarantee you I will probably oversee dissertations that look at” what went wrong and right in
Iraq, she told the paper.

Laura Bush discussed Rice’s future as part of a round of media interviews to show off this year’s holiday decorations for the White House.

Of course, there is always th rumour that should Vice President Dick Cheney decide to resign due to health problems………. hummmmmmmmm

Stay tuned…..

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the State Department in Washington Tuesday Nov. 29, 2005.