ANN ALTHOUSE ON CONDI RICE, over at GlennReynolds.com:

Women with power easily unleash ideation about sex — and sex and power. If the woman can’t be contained by the thought that her powerfulness has removed her sexuality altogether, then the thought becomes that her sexuality has merged with her power. In the case of Condoleezza Rice, who has a high position of power and is distinctly attractive, she seems to become a strange new being — a superhero – like Neo in “The Matrix”!

Is it wrong to talk about powerful women this way? I say no. Image, fashion, and beauty are all important. And we certainly didn’t refrain from talking about how the male candidates for President looked in 2004. We obsessed over their ties, their hair and their makeup, and the bulges under their clothes. So go ahead and spout your theories about the meaning of Condoleezza Rice’s high-heeled boots.

Mine is: these boots are made for running for President.

We could do worse.