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Africa North
Obama vents over attacks on his UN envoy
2012-11-16
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An outraged President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
Tuesday accused Republicans, including John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
, of besmirching UN envoy Susan Rice, re-igniting a fierce row over the slaying of the US ambassador to Libya.

Obama threw the weight of his replenished political capital behind Rice, the favorite to be his next secretary of state, as Republicans, lined her up as a top administration scalp over the attack in Benghazi on September 11.

McCain and his ally Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
 had earlier demanded "Watergate-style" hearings about what happened in Libya on September 11, and vowed to thwart any attempt to make her America's top diplomat.

"If Senator McCain and Senator Graham, and others want to go after somebody they should go after me," Obama declared, his eyes flashing real anger as he held his first presser since being re-elected last week.

"But when they go after the UN ambassador, apparently because they think she's an easy target, then they've got a problem with me," Obama said.
This is how you know Susan Rice will be a great Secretary of State -- Champ has to defend her...
"To besmirch her reputation is outrageous," Obama said, adding that if he decided that Rice was the best candidate to succeed Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ...
 at the State Department, he would go ahead and pick her.
Posted by:Fred

#17  "They should go after me" > they very well may, ala JFK, RFK, + MLK.

> No national vote on OWG.
> No national vote on NAU [2015].
> No national vote on "Globalism" + "Outsourcing" + ....
> No national vote on Marxism-Communism- Socialism as a form of permanent Govt. or Govt-Public Policy in America = Amerikka.
> Rise of [asymmetric] Nuclear Jihad-Terror.
> US-vs-Rising-China-vs-Nuclear-Islam in Asia-Pacific.

"REPRESENTATIVE GOVT-DEMOCRACY" DOTH NOT MEAN NEVER E-V-A-R! HAVING TO ASK THE PEOPLE TO VOTE ON SIGNIFICANT OR VITAL ISSUES.

"CIVIL WAR", WID "EYES WIDE OPEN".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-11-16 21:14  

#16  Pappy - Credibility Czar?
Posted by: Frank G   2012-11-16 20:17  

#15  Why thank you, TW. It's a relief to know I still appear to be rational, whilst despairingly drunk and watching in bug-eyed shock as my country crumbles a little more each day. I'm not sure why I bother, seeing as I no longer have any faith that anyone who deserves punishment will get it.
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-11-16 18:47  

#14  Squirrel....!
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2012-11-16 18:35  

#13  I've a feeling she'll end up in the White House rather than Foggy Bottom.

With her track record and foreign policy positions, there was going to be some heartburn in the Senate anyway regarding her confirmation. Now factor in her 'blame the video' tour...

Mr. Obama wants her around. The only way that'll happen, methinks, will be a position in the White House.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-11-16 16:57  

#12  RandomJD, I too can see how Rice could be the cutout, the innocent mouthpiece with no direct connection to the intelligence community. She was just reporting what she had been given......plausible deniability at it's finest. If you challenge her, your a wymin hating racist!!!
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-11-16 16:31  

#11  RandomJD, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you bringing cool, lawyerly analysis to the various issues just now. Thank you.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-11-16 16:15  

#10  So Obgabe juts out the jaw and is POd? And he acts like he supports his team. Who cares whether or not he is POd and juts out the jaw? He does not have a good history of backing the team if Benghazi is what you get.

I'd like to know the answer to one or two questions: What was the CIA doing in Benghazi? Who hit them or who had them hit?
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-11-16 15:27  

#9  I don't think Rice lied. Ogabe has repeatedly referenced that she said exactly what was in the "briefing materials she was given." Today Petraeus said "someone," not on the intelligence side, deleted the line about AQ. So Rice was an ignorant, loyal mouthpiece, which explains Ogabe's indignance. What would be interesting to know is the identity of the person who removed the references to AQ.
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-11-16 14:46  

#8  ...that's because to him, they're little people, not part of the inner circle of the Inner Party.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-11-16 12:36  

#7  didn't see that kind of emotion when America lost two good ex-SEAL's.
Posted by: Raider   2012-11-16 11:31  

#6  "If Senator McCain and Senator Graham, and others want to go after somebody they should go after me,"

Take him up on the challenge but I doubt you will get anything from him. He says he knows nothing.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-11-16 10:36  

#5  "The UN Ambassador had nothing to do with Benghazi" . . . uh, yeah, that's the point . . .
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-11-16 08:35  

#4  The interesting thing is the Obama administration's habit to put their cover stories to dual use.

Rice's confabulation was used as political ammunition to attack the 1st Amendment, just as the F&F cover story was used against the 2nd.

Maybe Nixon should have argued that the Watergate burglary was evidence of a massive crime wave that could only be countered by doing away with notions of due process or something.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2012-11-16 08:30  

#3  So where's his rage at the actual murder of someone?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2012-11-16 08:27  

#2  Thank you for confirming the origins of the Rice talking points. Rage on, oh brave Ateles.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-11-16 05:28  

#1  Susan Rice lied to America 5 times in one day right after the 9/11 Bengazi Al Qaeda murders of the Ambasador and two former Navy Seal heros which makes her the perfect phsycophant deserving a top position in Obama's anti-American regime.
Posted by: wr   2012-11-16 01:41  

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