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Condoleezza Rice spoke clearly about her intention not to run for President in 2008.

In response to questions from host Tim Russert on NBC News' "Meet the Press," Rice said she is "flattered" by groups pressing her to run, but, "I don't know how many ways to say no ... I don't know how many ways to tell people that this -- I have no interest in being a candidate for anything."

Russert pointed out that Republican supporters are already running advertisements for her candidacy in New Hampshire and Iowa. "Should they stop running that ad?"

Though Rice refused to say whether the ad should be stopped, she again said she is not running.

"I appreciate and I'm flattered that people think of me in those terms," Rice said, "but it's not what I want to do with my life. It's not what I'm going to do with my life."

She has a job she is concentrating on now, and we can not afford for her to be distracted. There are many of us who feel she needs to run and that her reluctance to run is what makes her so desirable as a presidential candidate. Greg at Rhymes with Right is unabashed about her running.

But what you must realize is that the movement we have here is a Draft Condi movement -- and we will settle for nothing less than a spot for you on the 2008 GOP ticket, preferrably at the top. And I have no doubt that, when you hear the call of your nation to high elected office, you will respond to that call and fulfill your duty to the American people.

It is a call to greatness, Dr. Rice -- and a call that I believe you must, in the end, heed for the sake of America.

There is a movement, and support for Dr. Rice is not hard to find on the net. Americans for Rice and Rice 2008. Dick Morris has a book whose whole premise is that Condi is the only candidate that can stop Hillary. She is the obvious choice for Republicans, and is too many of us Americas best hope.

posted by Liberty @ 5:05 AM