February 08, 2006

Barbour: "There's no way I can consider running for president"

MS GOV Haley Barbour offered a Shermanesque (but don't call it that in MS) statement in response to an '08 question last night in Jackson.

Barbour said he'd "been flattered by the people who have encouraged" him to consider a bid, but that there was no way that he could fulfill his duties as governor in post-Katrina MS and run for the WH.

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