# Condoleeza Rice **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 5, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condoleeza-rice/307023 "2005-06-05T18:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condoleeza-rice/307023/101 "2005-06-15T01:15:31Z")
A [profile](http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?040412fr_archive02), by The New Yorker’s Nicholas Lemann. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condoleeza-rice/307023/102 "2005-06-15T11:54:42Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > I was wrong, No questions at all about her future political ambitions. None. I thought you had the safest bet in the world. It must be that they knew what the answer was going to be, so why bother? For all the speculation, she is an altogether unproven commodity. If I’m not mistaken, you have to go back to Eisenhower to find someone that ran for president with no prior electoral experiences. Can she pull the votes? How should we know? That uncertainty is going to keep her off the ballot. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condoleeza-rice/307023/103 "2005-06-15T14:11:12Z")
I wonder if she made that condition of the interview: No questions about her future political carreer. That’s the only way I can imagine that Chris would NOT ask her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condoleeza-rice/307023.md?page=5)