名人传记|千万USD年薪职位难换赖斯的总统梦(图)

背景常识：

Condi turns her back on dream job

ConDOLEEZZA RICE has spent months perfecting a tactic^{1 to deflect2 questions about her long-term political prospects3, saying that the post she really covets4 is that of National Football League commissioner5.}

If that job comes open, Im gone, the US Secretary of State told one recent interviewer. The tease continued last month when Dr Rice, an avid^{6 follower7 of the Cleveland Browns（克利夫兰布朗球队）, was spotted8 sitting in the commissioners box at the Super Bowl in Detroit.}

But this week Dr Rice encountered an unexpected problem in the form of Paul Tagliabue, the man who has been in charge of the league for the past 16 years: he has announced that he intends to retire in July. Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots^{9, could scarcely contain his excitement about the possibility of her succeeding, saying: I think Condoleezza Rice would be great! Id invest in any company shed be running.}

So, will she really swap^{10 her position as the most powerful woman in the world, earning just $200,000 a year, to be the most powerful woman in American football earning up to $10 million a year? No, she will not.}

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^{11 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 elses ticket as vice-presidential candidate.}

In the meantime, she is keeping her options open by softening^{12 her public image by discussing her love of sport and RB 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^{13 Washington, a former National Football League star.}