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Rice withdrawal sparks gender concerns on Cabinet
Associated Press, by Julie Pace
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 12/14/2012 7:25:52 PM
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| WASHINGTON — The top contenders for the "big three" jobs in President Barack Obama´s second-term Cabinet are all white men, rekindling concerns among Democratic women about diversity in his inner circle. (Snip) "The boys network is alive and well," Democratic activist Donna Brazile wrote on Twitter after Rice withdrew. "The war on qualified women continues here in DC." Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a close friend of the president, dropped out of consideration for the State Department job Thursday. That followed months of withering criticism from Republicans over her initial comments about the attacks
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Comments: What does it matter? Anyone he picks will be a yes ´man´ stooge.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/14/2012 7:31:24 PM (No. 9066238)
Obviously he is half a racist and a total sexist. How is he going to explain this to Lilly Leadbetter?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/14/2012 7:35:36 PM (No. 9066245)
I don´t give a darn about gender, could we finally get someone who know what they are doing in that job? Albright, Rice, Clinton..look at the mess ! (And I am female). I just want the best person for the job. Too bad democrats are in charge, choices are slim to none.
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dr.lakerman, 12/14/2012 7:41:06 PM (No. 9066252)
What is obvious is that president zero with his boss, Val Jarrett, is a love of the muslim world, sharia, and a middle eastern caliphate, along with disdain for white Americans. So Hillary could not have been effective as secretary of state because Zero hogtied her by appointing various ´special envoys´ to undercut her at every turn. Finally, Rice was undercut by Val and Hillary, in my opinion. HIllary, because Susan Wrecked the Rice was an early supporter of the kenyan klown, and Val, because there is room for just one arrogant black woman in the white house. (Michelle aside, of course) So if Zero appoints Jon Cary, that is the final thumb in the eye for America.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JustCause, 12/14/2012 8:03:46 PM (No. 9066293)
Coy860 is Correct - my first thought was; Who Gives a Rats Patootie.
Choosing someone based on their equipment, or lack thereof, or the color of their skin, is NOT the intelligent thing to do.
How about choosing someone who is COMPETENT at the job, no matter what gender or ethnicity.
How about choosing someone based on the color of their blood? Then there would have to be other qualities to take into account. CAVEAT: everyone´s blood is red
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NObama, 12/14/2012 8:39:53 PM (No. 9066341)
When will the identity politics end? Maybe they should be called the Demographic Party since it seems like they´re always obsessing over somebody´s race and/or gender.
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dwa, 12/14/2012 8:59:06 PM (No. 9066363)
the war on qualified women--that´s a huge assumption that Rice is qualified. I think her lying about Benghazi totally disqualifies her, not to mention her contacts in the Arab world
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ColonialAmerican1623, 12/14/2012 9:17:51 PM (No. 9066391)
I thought Americans were very lenient on his job qualifications.
Just once could we have a qualified person of any gender or color based on merit ?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nimby, 12/14/2012 9:44:47 PM (No. 9066434)
This administration seems to have more gender concerns than the previous Bush administration.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 12/14/2012 9:46:11 PM (No. 9066436)
Listen Donna, Just because Susan Rice is female, doesn´t mean she is qualified! I want the best qualified candidates regardless of gender or ethnicity. The current occupier of the White House hasn´t a clue!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ScrIbelus, 12/14/2012 9:53:16 PM (No. 9066448)
Continuing national suicide by affirmative action.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/15/2012 12:12:25 AM (No. 9066600)
obama is surrounded by women. All of them are evil socialists.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
harper, 12/15/2012 2:19:18 AM (No. 9066685)
Not a problem. The RadFem movement has a history of happily throwing themselves under the bus/ taking the hit when their "values" are trashcanned by the left. How, er, feminine of them.
Female circumcision? Crickets.
Slick Willie rapes how many? Crickets.
Deference to Muslims? Crickets.
Blowing up of girl´s schools in Afghastlistan? Crickets.
The Palinization of Sarah? Crickets.
Etc. etc.
Go change your odor-eaters...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
paral04, 12/15/2012 12:00:25 PM (No. 9067445)
Rice got the job only because she is a woman. She proved to be incompetant and therefore needs to go. This is no a T-ball game where everyone gets a chance. Our country´s future is at stake and we are putting idiots in positions that will lead to the destruction of this country.
A true leader and a pertson with honor would take ownership of a situation and deal with it. I don´t see that with the government in DC. Whatever happened to "The buck stops here"
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Luke Nichter of Harker Heights, Texas, said he’s not a renter by choice. The Texas A&M University history professor’s $125,000 of student debt means he has no hope of getting a mortgage. Nichter, 35, who’s paying $1,500 a month on loans for degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, is part of the most debt-laden generation to emerge from college. Two- thirds of student loans are held by people under the age of 40, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, blocking millions of them from taking advantage of the most affordable housing market on record.
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George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin´s Family Clash on Arrest Anniversary
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ABC News, by Lauren Effron
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/11/2013 7:23:49 PM
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The parents of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin clashed with emotional statements today, the one year anniversary of the Zimmerman´s arrest for shooting the unarmed Florida teenager. Zimmerman´s mother Gladys Zimmerman posted a two page letter online saying that her son was innocent and was arrested "solely to placate the masses." Hours later, Martin´s family and lawyer issued their own letter, stating the Gladys Zimmerman´s remarks were "disingenuous and disrespectful to the very system that is currently affording him every available opportunity to defend himself." The case has drawn white hot passions
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Man tries to take photo of beaver; it kills him
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USA Today, by Evann Gastaldo
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/11/2013 4:38:07 PM
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A fisherman in Belarus was bitten to death by a beaver, and all he was doing was trying to take its picture, Sky News reports. The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends at Lake Shestakov, but as he approached to take a photograph, the beaver bit him on the thigh. The animal managed to sever an artery, and his friends couldn´t stop the blood flow. Sky News helpfully reminds us that beavers can, of course, bite through trees. Beaver attacks are rare, though, and when they do occur, rabid beavers are generally to blame
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More NC firms drop health insurance for workers as costs soar
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News & Observer [Raleigh, NC], by Ames Alexander and Renee Elder
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/11/2013 3:16:23 PM
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RALEIGH — A new study suggests rising health care costs have taken a particularly large toll in North Carolina, where the number of residents who receive health insurance through their employers has dropped sharply over the past decade. The portion of North Carolinians under age 65 with employer-sponsored insurance declined from 69 percent in 2000 to 56 percent in 2011, according to the report released Thursday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That change left 220,000 fewer residents with health insurance. Only four states had a larger percentage drop. Soaring health care costs
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Defense chief Chuck Hagel: North Korea "skating very close to a dangerous line"
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CBS News and Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 8:23:51 PM
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With countries bracing for North Korea to conduct a missile test, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that the isolated nation was "skating very close to a dangerous line." During an afternoon news conference at the Pentagon, Hagel also told reporters that the United States had "every capacity" to "deal with" any action taken by the North against the U.S. and its interests and allies. "North Korea has been, with its bellicose rhetoric, with its actions, skating very close to a dangerous line," said Hagel, with Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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Thatcher family ´proud´ of Queen funeral attendance
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Irish Times [Dublin, Ireland], by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 8:12:07 PM
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The son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher said his mother would have been “humbled” to know the Queen will attend her funeral, her son said today. In a statement outside her central London home Mark Thatcher said: “I would like to say how enormously proud and grateful we are that Her Majesty has agreed to attend the service next week in St Paul’s. “And I know my mother would be greatly honoured as well as humbled by her presence. “By any measure, my mother was blessed with a long life and a very full one. “However the inevitability
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4 annoying ways climate change will make your life a bummer
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 7:30:26 PM
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Within the next few decades, carbon emissions could cause global temperatures to rise between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit, melting ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. The price of crops like coffee and chocolate will skyrocket, and countless cuddly animals around the globe could be wiped out. And yet, a lot of people find it hard to really care about climate change. But don´t be fooled: Climate change will affect you. Here´s a brief sampling of ways that warmer temperatures will suck the fun out of your life: 1. Your flights will be more turbulent
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Survivor of ´63 Ala. church bombing seeks funds
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Associated Press, by Jay Reeves
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 7:17:06 PM
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls said Wednesday she wants millions in compensation for her injuries and won´t accept a top congressional award proposed to honor the victims. Sarah Collins Rudolph, in an interview with The Associated Press, said she feels forgotten 50 years after the blast shocked the nation. Rudolph lost an eye in the Sept. 16, 1963 bombing at Birmingham´s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and says she never got restitution. (Snip) Rudolph said she wants compensation "in the millions" for her injuries and the death of Addie Mae
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Time Magazine, by Christopher Matthews
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Obama Doubles Estimate to $4 Billion for Health Exchanges
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End this bizarre fantasy
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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Jonathan Winters, groundbreaking comic who influenced generations, dead at 87
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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WPost reporter explains her personal Gosnell blackout
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I’ve been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many others. If you haven’t read David Shaw’s “Abortion Bias Seeps Into The News,” published in the Los Angeles Times back in 1990, you should. That report also explains why we cover the topic here at GetReligion.But the thing is that I’m getting kind of sick of pointing out egregious bias only to see things not just remain bad but get worse. Just think, in the last year, we saw the media drop any pretense of objectivity and bully the Susan G. Komen Foundation
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