What qualified her as an expert on Africa?
yitbos
Posted on 12/14/2012 12:03:28 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
On Thursday, President Obama took the unusual step of issuing a statement saying Susan Rice, the embattled US ambassador to the UN, had withdrawn herself from consideration to be secretary of state.
This was highly odd conduct for a White House because Rice was never nominated. In instances like this, presidents usually just nominate someone else and decline to discuss discarded possibilities for appointments.
This tells us that the White House remains deeply worried about the Libya scandal.
That Rice deliberately used her position to mislead the American people is no longer disputed by serious journalists. She went on every major Sunday news show after the 9/11 murder of US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and incorrectly attributed the cause to an obscure video and supposedly spontaneous protests.
In fact, as Rice almost certainly knew from her intelligence briefings, the Libyan government, and even unclassified emails that the killing was a deliberate attack by an Islamist group.
Rice presumably did this to advance the president’s reelection campaign. A successful terrorist attack did not fit Obama’s contention that “the tide of war is receding” in part because “al Qaeda is on its heels.” Presumably other administration officials, like Secretary of State Clinton or Pentagon boss Panetta, declined to do the dirty work out of wise concern for their reputations.
That left Rice, the politico with a history of misleading the American public on national security matters for electoral reasons.
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Certainly it’s in Dear Leader’s interest that Benghazi stays out of the headlines. Who gave the order to stand down?
Because deep down 0bama is a chickenshirt.
I find it no coincidence that the liberals all began to criticize Rice at the same time. The crew at the white house realized that Benghazi would return to the front page if she was nominated. When they figured that out, the White House sent out the word to throw Rice under the bus, therefore eliminating her as a viable candidate. Obama’s protection crew at work. Benghazi will now fade into the sunset, without even a report being generated. Sad.
I find it no coincidence that the liberals all began to criticize Rice at the same time. The crew at the white house realized that Benghazi would return to the front page if she was nominated. When they figured that out, the White House sent out the word to throw Rice under the bus, therefore eliminating her as a viable candidate. Obama’s protection crew at work. Benghazi will now fade into the sunset, without even a report being generated. Sad.
What qualified her as an expert on Africa?
yitbos
This can be thought of as that vulnerable area just behind Achilles’ foot and below the calf area.
Is that a 5 o’clock mustache shadow on her face, or just the shadow of her nose?
The proper medical term is beak.
The only thing missing is the red beret.
she walks like a lumberjack
If that were true, the liar in chief would not have been re-elected. It seems most Americans these days are gullible, ignorant fools.
They threw her under a bus? Is she dead?
I was a non-nomination from the start. Perhaps she asked Obama if she could be SOS, then he just allowed it to float knowing it was never going to happen.
It’s no skin off his nose. He threw her to the wolves when he let her name get floated.
Sooner or later, this thing is going to explode. They cannot keep it under wraps for four years. obama might not care about the American lives being sacrificed for politics and the islamic caliphate, but the American people do. And there are enough of us to keep this fire burning until the cows come home and the chickens roost in his on again, off again, gray frizz where they belong.
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And well they should be. I suspect that there has got to be something really damning there that perhaps we haven't even considered yet. Obama has Bill Clinton way beat in the Teflon department, and I honestly can't think of anything they could reveal that would affect his popularity in any way.
However, some of the others that he has tried to get to take the blame - such as Hillary, who was offered up immediately and just as immediately made it clear she wasn't going to take the fall - are clearly worried and I would say not just about their reputations, but about legal repercussions. Hillary has practically gone to live in-flight ever since then, travelling all over the place to avoid testifying, and now she's developed a mysterious illness that will have outbreaks that will probably prevent her from ever testifying. So there's something really bad there.
I suppose it could just be Obama's negligence, but that's hardly news. It must have been something he actually did - but what?
Investments in Keystone Pipeline XL , alone is why
Order the stand-down and subsequently refuse aid to Americans fighting for their lives? What could be more damning?
Anyone that makes “the one” look bad must pay the price. The attack on Benghazi makes a mockery of Barack Hussein’s 2009 speech where he said
“America is not — and never will be — at war with Islam.”
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