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Why Obama blinked on Susan Rice nomination
FoxNews.com ^ | December 13, 2012 | christian whiton

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Obama took the unusual step of issuing a statement saying Susan Rice, the embattled US ambassador to the UN, had withdrawn herself from consideration to be secretary of state.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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1 posted on 12/14/2012 12:03:38 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Certainly it’s in Dear Leader’s interest that Benghazi stays out of the headlines. Who gave the order to stand down?


2 posted on 12/14/2012 12:13:18 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Because deep down 0bama is a chickenshirt.


3 posted on 12/14/2012 12:14:41 AM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


4 posted on 12/14/2012 12:18:39 AM PST by 2010Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


5 posted on 12/14/2012 12:19:00 AM PST by 2010Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The Ricecake has a horrible diplomatic record that was starting to become disseminated.

What qualified her as an expert on Africa?

yitbos

6 posted on 12/14/2012 12:24:56 AM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: 2010Freeper

This can be thought of as that vulnerable area just behind Achilles’ foot and below the calf area.


7 posted on 12/14/2012 12:26:59 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: bruinbirdman

Is that a 5 o’clock mustache shadow on her face, or just the shadow of her nose?


8 posted on 12/14/2012 12:31:11 AM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: FrankR

The proper medical term is beak.


9 posted on 12/14/2012 12:39:13 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The only thing missing is the red beret.


10 posted on 12/14/2012 12:44:49 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: TigersEye


11 posted on 12/14/2012 12:45:55 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: FrankR

she walks like a lumberjack


12 posted on 12/14/2012 12:58:43 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Berlin_Freeper
....but a pyrrhic one given the ability of most Americans to sniff out a liar.

If that were true, the liar in chief would not have been re-elected. It seems most Americans these days are gullible, ignorant fools.

13 posted on 12/14/2012 12:59:19 AM PST by Bullish (The stench from this amateur regime stinks all the way to Kenya.)
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To: 2010Freeper
...the White House sent out the word to throw Rice under the bus...

They threw her under a bus? Is she dead?

14 posted on 12/14/2012 1:18:43 AM PST by Isabel C.
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


15 posted on 12/14/2012 1:21:04 AM PST by Usagi_yo
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To: Berlin_Freeper; annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; ...
"This tells us that the White House remains deeply worried about the Libya scandal."

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.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


Benghazi Index

16 posted on 12/14/2012 1:24:01 AM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
This tells us that the White House remains deeply worried about the Libya scandal.

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?

17 posted on 12/14/2012 3:02:07 AM PST by livius
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To: livius

Investments in Keystone Pipeline XL , alone is why


18 posted on 12/14/2012 3:27:17 AM PST by scooby321 (AMS)
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To: livius
It must have been something he actually did - but what?

Order the stand-down and subsequently refuse aid to Americans fighting for their lives? What could be more damning?

19 posted on 12/14/2012 3:33:23 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.”


20 posted on 12/14/2012 3:38:41 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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