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Her spokesman, Sean McCormack, has sadly had to bring the game to an end. “She thinks football is the greatest sport on earth but even if she were approached for the job — which she has not been — she would have to decline. She still has many things she wants to accomplish as Secretary of State,” a job which she was enjoying “at the moment”.
The qualifier tagged on to his statement will be familiar to those who have heard a similar formulation of words used to describe her lack of interest in running for president in 2008.Although she has never been elected to any office, she is enormously popular among voters and there is a growing “draft Condi” movement, which believes Ms Rice may be needed to stop Hillary Clinton taking over the White House. George Bush, the 43rd President, is even said to have nicknamed her “44”. But Dr Rice would have to overcome two taboos to become the first female — an unmarried one at that — and the first black president. It is more likely she will be asked to join someone else’s ticket as vice-presidential candidate.In the meantime, she is keeping her options open by softening her public image by discussing her love of sport and R&B music, rather than the policy papers and concert piano with which she has more usually been associated.She has also made an appearances in a fitness video and turned up at football games, sometimes escorted by Gene Washington, a former National Football League star.