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Jack Straw Joins Condoleezza Rice's 2008 Presidential Election Campaign
Posted by: ringverse on Oct 18, 2005 - 11:54 PM
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It looks like Jack Straw is doing his bit, to support his local NeoCon[lite]...
Schedule For Condoleezza Rice's Visit To Alabama
Friday, Oct. 21- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Secretary Condoleezza Rice will fly together to Tuscaloosa, Ala. in the morning. They'll have a formal arrival ceremony there. They will then drive over to the Bryant Conference Center on the University of Alabama campus, where they will both give major speeches at the Blackburn Institute. Dr. Blackburn was Rice's father's mentor.
Rice will then have lunch with the Blackburn Fellows, some British students and the Marshall Fellows. On all of the events Jack Straw will be with her.
They will then drive to Birmingham and they will tour the Brunetta C. Hill Elementary School. That was Rice's elementary school when she was a girl.
After they visit the school, they'll travel to the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center, where they will do an event and be briefed on some of the modern technology advances at UAB. One of the strategic objectives for the trip is to highlight some of the facets of the new Birmingham and the new Alabama.
Secretary Rice and Foreign Secretary Straw Friday night will host a thank you reception for all the volunteers who worked on the Hurricane Katrina relief. It will include the Alabama National Guard and local citizens. One of the things you'll see during the visit is a heavy emphasis on the Katrina relief since the United Kingdom provided a lot of relief there.
After the reception, Straw and Rice will have a press dinner with members of the American Press and the British press at a downtown restaurant yet to be determined.
Not that Condi admits to any desire to move into the Whitehouse of course... having repeatedly dodged the question:
RUSSERT: ... Would you accept a position on the Republican ticket in 2008?
RICE: Tim, I'm flattered that people think of me in that way, but I think it was on your show that I said I don't know how many ways to say no. I really am – I'm not somebody who wants to run for office, haven't ever run for anything. I don't think I ever ran for high school president. And I think I'm doing what I need to do, which is to try and promote American foreign policy and American interests, the president's democracy agenda at an extraordinary time. And to the degree that I can do that across the world, that's what I'd better keep doing.
At least now we understand, what the Bliar means when he talks about his 'influence' on US politics.
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