Condi Rice as you've never seen her: She's really running!
Recently, we're published a few items about Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice may be running for the vice presidential nomination to be on a Republican White House ticket with Arizona Sen. John McCain. All the signs are there, as we noted here in detail on The Ticket on Tuesday.
She denies it.
Whatever.
We'll believe it when we don't see it.
Meanwhile, right now Rice is running for something else: Her own health. Shari Roan, our LATimes.com colleague over at the new Booster Shots blog, has scored an inside look at an inside look at a Condi Rice workout at the gym.
Trained as a figure skater and concert pianist, Rice is up at 4:30 a.m. daily to work out, watches the news and ESPN and sweats like a globe-trotting secretary of State working out in the early morning hours.
She' s even got a personal trainer and feels really good about herself, she says, now that the Californian has passed the big 5-0. She feels especially good running up stairs.
Or, being in top shape for a 53-year-old, maybe doing a different kind of running someday soon with a 71-year-old?
Shari's got the full report here.
--Andrew Malcolm
Photo Credit: David Y. Lee/Courtesy of Fitness Magazine
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
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Amusing.
Not happening.
Posted by: Bill Bradley | April 09, 2008 at 05:38 PM
I WISH Condoleeza was part of the ticket. She's an outstanding woman and role model for young and, hey, let's face it, those of us who are well into our middle years. You go, girl!
Posted by: ClareDeLune | April 09, 2008 at 05:58 PM
Sure, the national security director who didn't bring POTUS' attention to al Qaeda in the run-up to 9/11, yeah, she'd be great on the ticket.
Her veracity on matters involving Iraq would put her in good stead with her running mate, I guess.
Posted by: Un impressed | April 09, 2008 at 07:01 PM
She's not going to run against Obama.
Posted by: Tom J | April 09, 2008 at 08:16 PM
As a democrat I hope that Condi runs on the Republican ticket. That would guarantee a democratic victory. This idea that Condi is going to bring the woman or black vote to the republican party is a joke and shows how desperate the party truly is. Maybe Condi can help McCain find Al-Qaeda in Iran. Freaking idiots.
Posted by: rick | April 09, 2008 at 08:30 PM
Another distraction.
She's been a disaster for America. Can't wait until she gets out of gov't and cashes in at Exxon.
Posted by: Adrian near Seattle | April 09, 2008 at 11:36 PM