The New York Times has a boring piece about a boring event: hanging a picture of Madeleine Albright at the State Department. Sec. Rice hosted, and everyone was on good behavior because, well, because State Department types do that sort of thing. At the end, though, there was this bit of gossip:
While Ms. Rice has been busy stamping out speculation that she might consider a becoming the Republican vice presidential candidate, Ms. Albright — a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton — seemed to really miss her old job as secretary of state.
She allowed how much she envied those "still in the business of making foreign policy" and made clear that with myriad pursuits as a college professor, writer, consultant and chairman of the National Democratic Institute, she's not slowing down. "I still have miles to go and work to do," she insisted.
If Ms. Albright has any aspiration to reprise her role as secretary of state, though, she's going to have to get in line. Democrats Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Richard Holbrooke, a former United Nations Ambassador, among others, are jockeying for the position if there is a Democratic administration.
Not too interesting, I guess, except for one little comment left at the post that sums up why Democrats should not be in the White House.
Kim Jong-il misses having Albright as secretary of state, too.
