can condolleezza rice defeat barack obama in 2008?

Question

the first african american presidential canadates

Answer 1

Oh yeah, he doesn't even come close.

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Answer 2

No.

Rice is not a candidate because she knows that her lack of administrative experience and experience in domestic politics would make it impossible for her to win.

Rice has no political base to draw upon. Many Republicans would find it impossible to vote for a woman or a black person, so she really cannot build a base. Nor does she have time to do so--the Secretary of State's office is a very busy one that leaves little time for campaigning.

Rice's views have little in common with the hopes and desires of most women in the United States, and even less with the hopes and desires of the majority of African Americans, who are overwhelmingly against the war in Iraq and most of what the Republican Party stand for.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. I don't see her involved with anything pertaining to the kinds of ideas and views that Obama has for the people. Obama has more of the views of what the people want. He talks more like a human and not like a politician. African American should have nothing to do with our decision on who the next president should be. Listen to his views and look up the issues he has and will be fighting for at the websites I list below. You will see he would be the better candidate of the two.

obama.senate.gov
BarackObama.com

Answer 4

Two Words

Absolutely Not

Condolezza Rice Seems to me to be too much of a Bush
Puppet to even begin to Spar with Barack Obama.Pardon
the mental picture...But he would literally club her like a
caveman and drag her off

Answer 5

No I dont think so. I would love to think that America is ready for an african american president or a woman president however I dont think that our first for either will be an african american woman. It sucks but I think its true.

Answer 6

Wow, now that is a thoughtful question. I have never considered it. One always assumed that if Rice were to enter she would be opposing Clinton.

I think Obama would get more of the traditional black vote but I think far more women would like Rice. But that is an interesting quandry.

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Answer 7

I think Rice would be a better candidate, but I do not believe that she will sign up for the job!

Answer 8

I doan no if she can beat 'im, but if she bites 'im, he's done for. She got dem whopper choppers an' enough teeth for two mouths and enough mouth to blow the birthday cake across the room.

Don't confuse either of 'em with African Americans.

Answer 9

Only if Dibold and Ess use there very special voting machines again

Answer 10

If she chose to run, she should do rather nicely, thank you! Why? SHE DOES NOT LIE, FOR ONE REASON::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Boyhood Friend and Teacher Say Obama Was Muslim
The issue of Sen. Barack Obama’s Muslim past has surfaced again as his campaign steps back from its flat denial that he ever belonged to the Islamic faith.
Earlier this year several media outlets reported that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Islamic school, when he lived in Indonesia. At the time, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs declared: “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.”
The report about the radical madrasa turned out to be false.
Now, in a statement to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, Gibbs amended that declaration, saying: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim,” the key word being “practicing.”
But a boyhood friend of Obama in Indonesia, Zulfin Adi, told the Times: “His mother often went to the church, but Barry [Barack’s name at the time] was Muslim. He went to the mosque.”
The Times sent a reporter to Jakarta, capital of the Muslim nation, to delve into an issue that could have a serious impact on the Democratic presidential candidate’s White House aspiration, as voters “react to a candidate with an early exposure to Islam, a religion that remains foreign to many Americans,” the Times noted.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan, and Kansas-born Ann Dunham. The couple separated when Barack was 2. They later divorced, and Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a Muslim. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama was known as Barry Soetoro, and he remained there from age 6 to 10.
Obama attended first grade at a Catholic elementary school near his home, St. Francis of Assisi Foundation School, which accepted students of any religion.
His first-grade teacher Israella Dharmawan told the Times: “At that time, Barry was also praying in a Catholic way, but Barry was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his father was Muslim.”
In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he was also registered as a Muslim.
Muslim students at the school attended weekly religion lessons about Islam, taught by a Muslim.
In his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as “a Muslim school.”
Boyhood friend Adi said Obama occasionally went to Friday prayers at a local mosque.
“We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque,” he told the Times.
Sometimes, when the call to prayer sounded, Barry and Lolo would walk to the mosque together, Adi added.
Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro, in a statement issued Wednesday by the Obama campaign, said the family attended the mosque only for “big communal events.”
New revelations about Obama’s Muslim past could provide ammunition for his critics — and political opponents.
One such critic is Chicago-based Internet journalist and broadcaster Andy Martin, a lawyer and consumer advocate who wrote earlier about Obama’s connection to Islam.
Reacting to the claim from Obama’s sister that the family went to the mosque only for “big communal events,” Martin wrote on Thursday: “Tens of millions of ‘Christians’ flock to churches for Easter and Christmas. And they would slap you down if you told them they were not Christians merely because they only appear twice a year for ‘big communal events.’”
He also wrote: “Obama no longer denies he was a Muslim. Now he says he wasn’t a ‘practicing’ Muslim.
“People in general will accept most anything from public officials as long as they don’t lie about it.”