In a tight race, the liar of the week 

In a tight race, the liar of the week

Just got home from vacation and found this week's Newsweek in the mailbox, with an inset picture of Condi Rice, labeled "The Future" (Governor?). Hmmm...It seems to me that the most frequently heard complaint about Gray Davis is that he lied last summer and fall about the size of the state's budget deficit. Considering Ms. Rice's own recently revealed apparently tenuous connection with the truth, I'm not sure she would be such a acceptable alternative. The media have always been infatuated with her because she is black, attractive, and, until recently, widely regarded as brilliant. If she is in fact as brilliant as she has been portrayed to be, all the sadder that, having been give a seat at the table of power, she will have squandered that brilliance, and whatever credibility it has up until now earned her, by lying for her boss (and possibly to cover up her own apparent ineptitude) to keep that seat.