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Topic: Susan Rice withdraws |
Susan Rice withdraws
Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By:Oblio, 12/14/2012 7:12:29 AM
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| Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, no doubt at the behest of the White House, withdrew her name for consideration as secretary of state. This suggests there is a glimmer of reality-based thinking at the White House.Susan Rice won’t be secretary of State.To be frank, she should never have been floated as a possible nominee. Her consideration for all intents and purposes was a political payback for her loyalty in the campaign and in the first term. Her reputation in the Clinton administration was poor;
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 12/14/2012 7:26:44 AM (No. 9064817)
Five bucks says the Lurch Nomination occurs about 4:45 PM EST today.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RIsailor, 12/14/2012 7:38:28 AM (No. 9064835)
Jen Rubin continues to write great blogs/columns in WAPO. Kerry will breeze through confirmation, I hope, so we Mass people can finally be rid of "Live Shot" and open up the Senate for another Scott Brown run.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/14/2012 7:41:24 AM (No. 9064839)
Evidently Lurch is not a shoe in. Angria Mitchell made a supposed funny last night.
Said his nomination might fall like John Tower´s fell.
Shocker!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
John c, 12/14/2012 7:45:57 AM (No. 9064853)
Watch for the MA legislature to push through emergency legislation to make replacing Cary a pick of the governor rather then a special election!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nonsense, 12/14/2012 8:03:52 AM (No. 9064895)
The Obama regime´s distraction causing more distraction before his 4 million dollar, 3 week vacation in Hawaii.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/14/2012 8:14:41 AM (No. 9064914)
I wish her father had.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
saraguay, 12/14/2012 8:26:30 AM (No. 9064926)
read the comments after the story. they are absolutely amazing. i truly do not understand how those people can think (perhaps think is too generous a word) the way they do. it is as if they never, never, ever, hear or read or consider another point of view. those readers typify the voters for obama, warren and frankly, any dem who is running for or who is in office. it is their way or it´s stupid, ignorant, racist, women hating and on and on. and these are the supposedly "intellectual" members of the voting public. unbelievable.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 12/14/2012 8:26:48 AM (No. 9064928)
If Time manages to continue its drivel to next December, it will surely name Kerry its Person of the Year. Not for his accomplishments, since there won´t be any, but for displaying as much arrogance as Obama. "Rarely in the history of this award has a nominee displayed such a pompous, arrogant personality as Kerry. In fact, his dismissal of foreign allies, his preening for the cameras and his total lack of interest in American history and values puts him on par with a previous recipient, Mr. Obama."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ZurichMike, 12/14/2012 8:32:23 AM (No. 9064938)
I say -- excellent! Let Kerry become SOS, and then he and Hillary and duke it out for the 2016 Dem nomination for President. That would be worth investing in popcorn.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 12/14/2012 8:47:30 AM (No. 9064958)
Poster # 7, WaPo reader comments assaulting Ms Rubin are little different than the vicious comments following a Charles Krauthammer or George Will essay. These readers will not tolerate any writer who is in any way critical of their god, Lord Barack. They all worship at Obama´s feet, and they will besmirch anyone who questions their cult´s god on earth. Would be safe bet to say that many are federal civil servants or Obama political appointees to federal no show jobs.
The same cult belief that Obama is the infallible, all knowing God of Redistribution and Retribution infects commenters to the NY Times.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 12/14/2012 8:49:48 AM (No. 9064962)
I don´t believe the Swift Boaters will let that happen so easily #2. As for MA voters, please don´t palm your elected trash on the rest of the country. If you are tired of him, don´t keep reelecting him! We don´t want it. Its bad enough to have to endure Obama.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
southernboy, 12/14/2012 9:30:41 AM (No. 9065029)
#7 "...it is their way or it´s stupid, ignorant, racist, women hating and on and on. and these are the supposedly "intellectual" members of the voting public. unbelievable…."
Yes! They pride themselves on being the ´educated´ class…..the ones with all the college diplomas. Look down their noses at us ´common folk´ clinging to our religion…(and guns!.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ebuilder, 12/14/2012 9:35:09 AM (No. 9065036)
40 years ago a brilliant leftist professor of mine told me "In the future everything will come down to politics." IOW in the future, you will see and understand according to your particular political filter. What I understand now is the devil, who is way ahead of the good guys, would be running a delusion counterfeit. You will get your truth according to your faith based reason. We have an OJ world. Everything is coming apart. Be thankful if He gave you the grace to know right from wrong, and how to prepare yourself for what is coming through the leftists and the gutless republican enablers.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 12/14/2012 9:36:17 AM (No. 9065041)
Too bad. It would have been nice to see her sweat in front of the Senate.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
surgedr, 12/14/2012 10:44:42 AM (No. 9065194)
# 9 If we can afford popcorn after eight years of Obama!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jorgecito, 12/14/2012 12:30:42 PM (No. 9065417)
Zippy must´ve been dragged, kicking and screaming, into throwing Rice under the bus.
His stupendously arrogant behavior in recent weeks made it clear:
He was determined to force Rice down our throats (yep, yucky image).
Who dragged Zippy into abandoning Rice, we don´t know ... but there must be some pretty bad Benghazi fallout a-comin,´ for the Rice dump to have happened.
What we do know is that Andrea Mitchell is now furious with her Lord and Savior, Barack, for abandoning poor little damsel-in-distress, Rice.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 12/14/2012 8:32:57 PM (No. 9066328)
Rice is a strange-looking woman. She almost looks like she could be Mulatto, but I can´t find anything in her bio about being Mulatto.
She does look like she has some white blood in her. The reason I am interested in her heritage is because Obama seems to surround himself with Mulattos. Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, both top Obama officials, are Mulatto. Colon Powell is Mulatto. Some have called them Obama´s "Mulatto Mafia".
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