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Report: Obama Considering Susan Rice for National Security Adviser
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Posted on 03/09/2013 5:19:32 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Report: Obama Considering Susan Rice for National Security Adviser Daniel Halper March 9, 2013 7:24 PM

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador the United Nations, is being considered to be the next national security adviser to the president of the United States, according to media reports.

"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," reports the Washington Post.

"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.

"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."

The Post maintains that Rice remains close to Obama. "Rice 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 some time after the United States assumes the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council in July."


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So much for credibility with this bunch..............
1 posted on 03/09/2013 5:19:32 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

"...she still walks like John Wayne"

2 posted on 03/09/2013 5:22:01 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

I wouldn’t ask Susan Rice’s advice on how to catch a cab in Manhattan.


3 posted on 03/09/2013 5:22:35 PM PST by utahagen
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To: Sub-Driver
and America takes another one in the........

4 posted on 03/09/2013 5:22:55 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Sub-Driver

I have never seen a person so adept at picking losers.

There is no way it can be accidental.


5 posted on 03/09/2013 5:24:13 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Sub-Driver

How about Big Bird? Or Chelsea Clinton? Either (or even both) would be better choices.


6 posted on 03/09/2013 5:24:32 PM PST by DanMiller (Dan Miller)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama would have picked Chelsea Clinton, but she’s white and he’s a racist.


7 posted on 03/09/2013 5:26:50 PM PST by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Like a Matador waving a Red Cape in front of a Bull.
Obama taunts Republicans.
8 posted on 03/09/2013 5:30:07 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: Venturer

Little people surround themselves with losers to make themselves look big.

Smoke and mirrors on the national scale.


9 posted on 03/09/2013 5:32:01 PM PST by lightman (If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
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To: Sub-Driver

For these who don’t understand why Obama picks these losers.....

He values loyalty over competency....

I am almost surprised BO the dog isn’t offered a position


10 posted on 03/09/2013 5:32:53 PM PST by Popman
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To: Sub-Driver
This must NOT be allowed to happen. How many times have I said THAT since 2008? I've lost count!

0bama is an arrogant POS. I guess when he told her that he'd give her a promotion in exchange for her lying for him on national television 5 times about Benghazi, he wasn't kidding. He's relentless about making good on that promise.

11 posted on 03/09/2013 5:33:44 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Sub-Driver

Distraction from the gun control issue?


12 posted on 03/09/2013 5:34:43 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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To: Sub-Driver
She has presented herself as a MORE THAN WILLING mouth-piece for Obama's version of what's happening ....what's he got to lose?

I'm sorry....I never thought something like this could ever happen in this country....I'm in my 70's thinking that some of us have dropped the ball.

13 posted on 03/09/2013 5:35:01 PM PST by capt. norm (Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ve noticed she’s been trotted out before the cameras the past few days. Contrived like clockwork.


14 posted on 03/09/2013 5:36:04 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Susan Rice would be part of the WH staff that doesn’t require advice and consent.


15 posted on 03/09/2013 5:37:00 PM PST by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
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To: Nachum; MestaMachine

Ping


16 posted on 03/09/2013 5:38:15 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

In the words and wisdom of the great Mrs. Bill Clinton...Really, What difference does it make? Did anyone expect Obama to appoint a rational competent person or even someone who might give him a different perspective? Of course not. The Obama clown parade rolls on.


17 posted on 03/09/2013 5:39:06 PM PST by allendale
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To: Venturer
I have never seen a person so adept at picking losers.

There is no way it can be accidental.

Hmmm! I suspect it may have something to do with hating America.

18 posted on 03/09/2013 5:42:21 PM PST by Standing Wolf
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To: Sub-Driver

It seems like Obama goes out of his way to pick the worst possible person for any job, and then the GOP goes out of its way to support said person, led by John McJudas and his sock puppet, Goober.


19 posted on 03/09/2013 5:42:57 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

Make it Gomer. Goob was pretty cool.


20 posted on 03/09/2013 5:45:16 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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