Condi Rice Blasts Obama on Weakness, Leadership

weeklystandard.com ^ | 3/27/14 | STEPHEN F. HAYES

[ColdOne]

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Barack Obama of dramatically weakening the United States' position in the world, drawing a straight line between Obama’s ever-yielding foreign policy and the increasing troubles around the world. Rice

“Right now, there’s a vacuum,” she told a crowd of more than two thousand attending the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual dinner last night in Washington, D.C. “There’s a vacuum because we’ve decided to lower our voice. We’ve decided to step back. We’ve decided that if we step back and lower our voice, others will lead, other things will fill that vacuum.” Citing Bashar al Assad’s slaughter in Syria, Vladimir Putin’s

[Ax]

I was too young to vote in 1960 by about a year. My family, to a man, voted for JFK and I would’ve too had I been old enough.

[SoFloFreeper]

Condi can stick to foreign policy I guess. Her love of abortion, sodomite marriage and the like make me a former fan of hers.

[JoeProBono]

[Chgogal]

1) Condi DID NOT endorse Obama;

2) Her speech was right on; and

3) Freepers get over yourselves. Condi is NOT the enemy, Obama and the Dems are.

[Hoodat]

Condi is just saying that because he is black. Oh wait . . .

[Paul R.]

Election. Singular. Condi supported Romney after he was nominated in 2012.

That doesn’t mean she’s right on “everything”, far from it, but she did at least correct her “Obama” mistake.

She’s right about the “vacuum” too. Example in progress:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/saudi-arabia-moves-confront-regional-rivals_785831.html

What the article leaves unsaid: If the Iranians get nukes (probable) and are not so crazy as to use them right away (probable), the Saudis will too, others will follow. Israel will bolster its defenses, but... No way this ends well.

This is just one such region where the vacuum is being created.

[kiryandil]

Stupid is as President MomJeans does...

[sheik yerbouty]

After voting for him twice on the basis of melanometrics..