Rice has emerged as far and away the front-runner to succeed Thomas E. Donilon as President Obama's national security adviser later this year, according to an administration official familiar with the president's thinking. The job would place her at the nexus of foreign-policy decision making and allow her to rival the influence of Secretary of State John F. Kerry in shaping the president's foreign policy. The good news? I never heard of Donilon. That bad news? That doesn't mean he was ineffective.
The appointment would mark a dramatic twist of fortune for Rice, whose prospects to become the country's top diplomat fizzled last year after a round of television appearances in which she provided what turned out to be a flawed account of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Turned out to be? Like -- it was an accident? It just happened...
That episode ignited a firestorm of criticism from Senate Republicans, who questioned her honesty and vowed to oppose her nomination and exposed misgivings from more liberal detractors who questioned whether her temperament, her family's investments and her relations with African strongmen made her unfit to lead the State Department.
Rice, 48, has largely fallen below the media's radar, but her standing within the Obama administration remains secure, according to White House officials and Democratic lawmakers. Her U.N. colleagues are betting she will ultimately serve as Obama's national security adviser, probably sometime after the United States assumes the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council in July. The really bad news? As another Czar, no Senate confirmation is required.
At the same time, her staff has sought to erect a more protective force field shield around her, moving to restrict access by mid-level foreign delegates suspected of leaking details about her more controversial positions and sometimes undiplomatic remarks in confidential deliberations at the United Nations. I suppose her title is immaterial. O will listen to whoever blows in his ear the best.
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Valerie Jarrett is the real puppeteer
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The job would place her at the nexus of foreign-policy decision making
What would make anyone think she's not there already? [Sorry Oprah, you tried to get too close]
Rice took a few well deserved sucking chest wounds for the Light Bringer over the Benghazi affair. Say it with me now, fok up/move upreward for services rendered. I'm sure Moochelle and Val provided their unqualified, Windy City endorsement. With the golf-in-chief with his head in his arss, we really must look out for ussen's "our people".
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How come no one else that knows diddly about national security is laughing.
Oh boy, if the media drum beat about gun control isn't enough to make you run out and buy a M-2, a 1911A1, an M1 and about a zillion rounds of ammo, then having Ms. Rice advising the empty suit about national security should be.
Personally, we'll be lucky if San Marino doesn't invade us give the state of our leadership.
As for my weapon selection, I don't want to have anything around that is not a one shot stopper, the freaking Baretta, the M-16 and those other popguns we use to fight our wars are not worth a damn.
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We could take San Marino, every damn time. I'm not worried. Unless they have cats of course.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, Dumbass)apparently thinks she is qualified to diagnose Military Veterans.
'At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed an amendment to her Assault Weapons Ban legislation that would allow military veterans to continue to buy the firearms that would be banned. Feinstein says a veteran may be mentally ill and should be prevented from purchasing firearms."
"The problem with expanding this is that, you know, with the advent of PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon as a product of the Iraq War, its not clear how the seller or transferrer of a firearm covered by this bill would verify that an individual was a member, or a veteran, and that there was no impairment of that individual with respect to having a weapon like this.
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Was not this the bitch we protected from the nazi idiots? Who also is armed? I would say you have PTSD. Do NOT go any further.
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Do. Not. Go. There.
That's twice in one week, James.
I don't give third warnings.
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Sometimes, when you spout BS long enough, you start to believe that crap yourself.
Oh my gosh, that should play well with all of the veterans in California.
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I expect to soon see, as a result of Sequester, an MSM (OSM?) reporting blurb braying a cutback on Psych services for Vets. Should dovetail nicely with this meme....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Rice has emerged as far and away the front-runner to succeed Thomas E. Donilon as President Obama's national security adviser later this year, according to an administration official familiar with the president's thinking. The job would place her at the nexus of foreign-policy decision making and allow her to rival the influence of Secretary of State John F. Kerry in shaping the president's foreign policy.
