Posted on 11/21/2012 12:38:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republicans really need to lay off UN Ambassador Susan Rice. The image of a party of angry old white dudes going after an accomplished black woman will not give them the image makeover they need.
Not unlike their outrageous behavior over the past four years—and this election season in particular—the party is guilty of overreach. Despite the thrashing the GOP received on election day, and the lessons they should have learned when President Barack Obama cleaned Romney’s clock, old habits are hard to break.
The Grand Old Party has engaged in relentless attacks on Ambassador Rice’s intelligence and reputation, turning her into a scapegoat for the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. At issue for Republicans are Rice’s statements on the Sunday talk show circuit following the attack.
The diplomat characterized the Benghazi incident as a protest by extremists against an anti-Muslim video—an assessment based on the best intelligence the CIA had at the time. Rice had nothing to do with Benghazi, and yet, as a brilliant black woman in the upper echelons of the Obama administration, she is a convenient target for a party that has problems with women and black people...
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Oh, right...let’s trash Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice instead. Then the media scumsuckers will hail us as heroes.
Holder.
Rangel.
Jackson Jr.
Marxine Waters.
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The true issue here, and the one that even so-called conservatives have failed to explore, is — why were pleas for more security in Benghazi ignored? How many times was the request made? Who decided that unarmed contractors and local security was adequate? Are all diplomats serving in unstable countries “protected” similarly?
The obvious answer on all counts is to pander to political correctness, although we will never hear that. In the State Department, the lunatics truly are running the asylum.
Lie.
Bush.
US Ambassador Chris Stevens was 'courageous and exemplary,' Obama saysStevens had only just taken up his appointment, arriving in May after having served two previous roles in the country: Special Representative to the Libyan Transitional National Council during the Libyan revolution from March 2011 to November 2011, and Deputy Chief of Mission from 2007 to 2009.
The same friggin idiot who sends a woman to be Secretary of State to a Muslim Country, where their women have to wear Burkas. ... You tell me who advises this racist Muslim clown.
I didn't know Dubya was a Muslim but he did have a woman Sec. State.
Rice is a liar in any color
Susan Rice not black, she 1/4 black... to a white MoM and half-black dad..
She mini-mulatto.. or very white but kinda black.. -OR- anything BUT black..
She a parasite on blackness, a race pimp, an affirmative action Whore.. An effeminate call-girl...
Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton...Secretaries of State all confirmed since the last white male, Warren Christopher. So we have had, woman/ African-American/ African-American woman/ woman. Enough of this silly stuff.
So Bush made the same mistake Obama did.
No Bush wasn’t a Muslim, just a nice idiot, out of his depth.
IMO Another Bush mistake.
Mr. Love, your race card has been declined. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Well, I think she went to the beach this past weekend, before her public “it’s not my fault” address this evening, because suddenly she’s much darker than we’ve ever seen her.
White men need to get up off their knees.
Never trust a Mulatto with a tan.. their trying to pull something...
“The Dream has come to pass!”/sarc
My @$$.
This is a murder case they treid to turn into a sex scandle and then the rats tried to turn it into a racial attack on rice for now until something else comes up. Making progress in unaccountability especially if your black which turns instantly into a race issue.
“an accomplished black woman”
Very good. Excellent, in fact.
By all means, let us discuss her “accomplishments”.
The patronizing attitude that Democrats have for people of color within their ranks is beyond sickening. Attack a liberal Black or Hispanic you’re a racist, but if it’s a Herman Cain or a Marco Rubio then let the assaults on them begin. Let’s see if this clown would have written the same article if it had been Condi Rice instead.
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