Bush hugs it up with Annan: OK, here's the deal. Condi Rice, who unlike Powell, is very Machiavellian (in the best sense of the term) figures that if we let that crook off the hook---as all the other crooks in the UN want---Annan will have no choice but to suddenly back the elections in Iraq, put in UN people, and re-open the UN office. Make no mistake---Rice is a black Margaret Thatcher----she will change the way we approach other countries.

I don't know if she is interested in being president, but she has a real chance to build a super resume while Hillary does everything she can to sabotage both her and the U.S.