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Susan Rice will not be nominated for Secretary of State
American Thinker ^ | 11/17/2012 | Scott Varland

Posted on 11/18/2012 7:02:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind

After the 9/11/2012 murders of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama Administration was in full covereup mode. They required that someone go on five 9/16/2012 Sunday talk shows to make the case that our diplomats had died because of a YouTube video and not a terrorist attack.

The Administration did not want to pick an individual familiar with any aspect of Benghazi. He or she would have been subjected to challenging questioning (?) beginning with, "What did you know and when did you know it?"

So United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice was trotted out. Her relatively clean hands allowed her to present a false narrative and get away with it. Today, anyone with a lick of sense knows that she (however innocent) was the carrier of the YouTube lie.

President Obama will not even nominate Susan Rice for the position of Secretary of State for the simple reason that at the confirmation hearing, she would be grilled under oath about who briefed her (provided her with the YouTube lie) before her Sunday talk show appearances, the exact conditions of the briefing, and the extent to which she suspected that she had been chosen to propagate a lie. Her testimony would at the very least juice the scandal by sparking interest in the names of the officials who provided her with the lie and the names of the superiors who approved it.

She has been floated as a possible Secretary of State to give the President the opportunity to tar her critics as racists and sexists and to conceal the fact that she will not be nominated.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; secretaryofstate; susanrice
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To: youngidiot

re: “We’ll see but I think this is incorrect. The idiot in chief will nominate her.”

I agree with you. If Obama doesn’t nominate her, then that will look like there is something to this “Benghazi thing”.

Also, do we really think any questions regarding Benghazi will be allowed? Or, the real question, are there any Republican senators who have the guts to even ask her about it? I doubt it.


21 posted on 11/18/2012 8:02:08 AM PST by rusty schucklefurd
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To: SeekAndFind

I nominate her as Ambassador to Libya.


22 posted on 11/18/2012 8:09:44 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: 2010Freeper
Ironic that Ms. Rice is going to be "Benghazied" by Obama .... i.e. abandoned by him. The reason is the same ... if some action, political position/policy or person does not accrue to HIS wants/needs/political career, it/they WILL be abandoned/betrayed/destroyed. Benghazied ... new term for the urban dictionary.
23 posted on 11/18/2012 8:12:55 AM PST by MissMagnolia ("It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains" - Patrick Henry)
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To: youngidiot

Just like Obama won’t be re-elected in 2012


24 posted on 11/18/2012 8:13:44 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I hope so...but maybe they’ll still be too busy looking for the current SOS. I guess she plans to send in her resignation from some foreign clime. This whole thing is such a mess.

Frankly, I don’t see how Hillary can be allowed to cruise around indefinitely evading the committee, with absolutely no penalty and not even much criticism. But I guess that would mean that I would be expecting sanity, something that is long gone from our government.


25 posted on 11/18/2012 8:20:50 AM PST by livius
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Oh...I forgot to mention the worst speculation: prepping the lovely Michelle as the Dem candidate for 2016. But with people like Rice, Holder and the current, allegedly male Obama in charge, we probably won’t even exist as a country by 2016. Some consolation.


26 posted on 11/18/2012 8:25:37 AM PST by livius
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To: youngidiot
The idiot in chief will nominate her.

I think that is correct. And further, I don't think she'll be grilled on Benghazi. At all. Who on the Right side has any balls to do that? The other side will have their ducks in a row for any confirmation hearings...just as they did for the most recent election.

27 posted on 11/18/2012 8:52:15 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ('Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own...)
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To: livius

I think the author is right. She’d have to testify under oath in her confirmation hearings about who sent her out with the ridiculous video story, and Obama doesn’t want to risk that.


I respectfully disagree. He already told mccain to pound sand. o knows full well that if she should face a confirmation hearing, she will only be asked softball questions, i.e, “Do you think that Greece should withdraw from the EU?” Anything more probing will be deemed racist.
( To illustrate his arrogance, I personally think that he will recess appoint her.)


28 posted on 11/18/2012 8:59:21 AM PST by AFret. ("Charlie don't surf ! ")
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To: youngidiot

Seem to me, the”idiot in chIef” likes nothing better than poking a sick at normal white Christians and nominating this black racist would do exactly that.


29 posted on 11/18/2012 9:00:17 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: SeekAndFind

He’ll nominate her because:

1) She didn’t know anything about Benghazi at the time she was told to lie; and

2) Obama is too much of a megalomaniac to allow Graham and McCain to win; and

3) She’s a black woman.


30 posted on 11/18/2012 9:01:27 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I had thought about the confirmation hearings. It might even be worth the nomination (as long as she did not get the votes).


31 posted on 11/18/2012 9:02:22 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: AFret.
( To illustrate his arrogance, I personally think that he will recess appoint her.)

Reward your friends, punish your enemies. Pretty simple philosophy.

The Republican plan is equally simple. Roll over and play dead.

32 posted on 11/18/2012 9:02:53 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: UB355
She is a black women who was used by a half black president. It will be interesting to see what she does.

She will do nothing. Thinking she would implies she has pride and is honourable. She's not or Zero would have never put her in the UN, a bastion of thieves and political thugs.

Zero will make sure she is taken care of.

33 posted on 11/18/2012 9:10:20 AM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: SeekAndFind
Bronco 'Bama has always been a stalwart defender of the weaker sex.


34 posted on 11/18/2012 9:13:22 AM PST by Iron Munro (Robbing From The Hood and Boy Blunder - Our New Queen and King)
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To: Sacajaweau

Ha ha ha... a Black Mail.... ha ha ha... Oh come on... having fun.... with puns.. With O’ it seems black mails ...black fe-mails...Lies & deception..

I would accept the nomination....except for the following reasons;
I detest O’ and those liars who surround the O’ liar
NYC and the UN are cesspools
I do not fly nor do I travel more than 75 miles (max) from my home by any other mode, even donkey.
I Disagree with any City or State which removes the right to Keep & Bare arms and the right to defend one’s self and family!


35 posted on 11/18/2012 9:13:48 AM PST by Fully Awake DAV (Navy Vet when homosexuality was not tolerated)
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To: AFret.

I think it’s certainly possible that he would recess appoint her.


36 posted on 11/18/2012 9:29:28 AM PST by livius
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To: livius

Czar of State


37 posted on 11/18/2012 9:31:05 AM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: AFret.

“He already told mccain to pound sand. o knows full well that if she should face a confirmation hearing, she will only be asked softball questions, i.e,”
Question 1 Sen. MCCain “Do you think the Sunday NY times is too thick? Please answer with a “YES” or “NO””
Susan Rice “In light of current events, and based on the fact that I am an AFRICAN-Muslim-American, I find that question racist, homophobic, discriminatory against the Female gender and it violates the Muslim faith!”


38 posted on 11/18/2012 9:40:09 AM PST by Fully Awake DAV (Navy Vet when homosexuality was not tolerated)
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To: 2010Freeper
Obama made the conscience decision to discard her and her career the day he asked her to spread the lies about the YouTube video

We have a winner.

39 posted on 11/18/2012 9:44:36 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: SeekAndFind

40 posted on 11/18/2012 9:50:17 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (bahits.com)
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