McCain’s ugly campaign against Susan Rice pays off
I wonder if John McCain feels even the slightest twinge of shame over his McCarthyesque campaign to torpedo Susan Rice. Probably not. The McCain who might once have been capable of such decency hasn’t been seen in Washington in many a moon.
It’s important to make it clear that Rice wasn’t targeted because she’s a woman or because she’s black; those defenders who make such claims do her a disservice. Instead, she was targeted because she could be. McCain and his merry little band haven’t been able to lay a glove on Barack Obama, the man who denied McCain the presidency four years ago, and their increasing irrelevance has made them frustrated. But Rice? Rice was somebody they could handle.
That’s because, as U.S. senators, they had something that Rice wanted. She needed their permission to become the next secretary of state, should Obama decide to nominate her to that post, and that made her vulnerable. Through deception and ginned-up righteousness, McCain and his pals at Fox proceeded to turn Rice into the face of a Benghazi tragedy in which she had played only the most peripheral of roles. Like a husband who is angry at his wife but kicks the dog instead, they smeared her as a proxy for Obama.
Yesterday, with Rice’s withdrawal from consideration, they got the scalp they wanted. They “counted coup” on Obama, even if indirectly, and I guess they proved to themselves that they still mattered. But to a lot of other people, they proved something less flattering about themselves.
– Jay Bookman
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Sasha
December 14th, 2012
10:12 am
Susan Rice for SOS? Give me a break
JamVet
December 14th, 2012
10:12 am
They got all over her, like white on Rice…
frog, too easy but still kinda funny…
barking frog
December 14th, 2012
10:13 am
Not sure that the Rice withdrawal is a ‘payoff’ for McCain and
may hurt Kerry’s SOS chances more than help them. Hilary may
be ‘persuaded’ to stay on a bit longer.
Morality?
December 14th, 2012
10:15 am
The radical Susan Rice has political skeletons in her closet – she withdrew to avoid embarrassment – some call that getting “BORKED”.
Just same old same old
December 14th, 2012
10:16 am
A seldom visitor here, it seems to me that all the AJC has is a liberal view. How short-sghted this publication is. To its detriment I might add,
barking frog
December 14th, 2012
10:17 am
JamVet
the difficulty is in the depth and convolution…
Get Realican
December 14th, 2012
10:19 am
Sorry Jay, no fabrications or distortions…she intentionally mislead the American people right before the election. We still do not know who told her to go out and do that and we still do not know why the pleas for help went unanswered…..doesn’t that bother you at all or are you so in love with anything Obama says or does that you do not care?
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
10:19 am
With his business background, I think he’d be better suited for Commerce
no no no and no.
We need to run Defense “like a business.” It should turn a profit. Remember?
Stevie Ray
December 14th, 2012
10:19 am
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
10:07 am
How do you suppose Krugman differs strategically? Both are big government guys..
alex
December 14th, 2012
10:20 am
Knoop, interesting point and from what I read about her policies she WAS more aggressive than Kerry will be, therefore,again, she may have done this country a disservice when she backed away from the senate hearings…..She well may have neen very good.. Agree with those who relate that Mcains choice of Palin was innane , this was classic death by primaries and bending to the whims of the far right. This recent election is the result of this ( and many otherZ) actions of the repubs to satisfy the TEA partiers, hopefully the repubs will advocate a more moderate collection of policies…
Ken perhaps Mcain simply thought her incompetent….Because SHE withdrew WE will never know…
barking frog
December 14th, 2012
10:20 am
Just same old same old 10:16
have you visited the Wingfield blog ? Never mind that was a
stupid question or else that was a stupid comment.
TiredOfIt
December 14th, 2012
10:20 am
Why are there so many angry, rich, old republican white guys?
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
10:20 am
The radical Susan Rice
ha ha ha.
that’s a good’un.
JamVet
December 14th, 2012
10:21 am
The radical Susan Rice has political skeletons in her closet…
Riiiiight. Which explains why you listed them all.
And according to you empirically challenged Republicans, the planet is cooling.
Credibility much, cons?
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
10:21 am
How do you suppose Krugman differs strategically? Both are big government guys..
Stevie, please concern troll someone else. I know you’re not anywhere near as ignorant about this as you’re letting on.
Corbin Sharpe. Baby Boomer...and got the scars to priove it!
December 14th, 2012
10:22 am
You have to forgive McClain. After all he is the first white guy to be beaten by a black guy for President. That left a scar…
———————–
But, having joked about that, I am disappointed in President Obama for not insisting that Susan Rice stand for the job. The President keeps showing a lack of backbone that I find disturbing, especially in light of the “Fiscal Cliff” BS and the upcoming fight with the debt limit. I thought he had grown a couple, but now I’m not so sure. He can redeem himself some if he does not nominate Kerry and make it possible for the Republican’s to gain a seat in the Senate.
Steve Spafford
December 14th, 2012
10:22 am
The stink would have been avoided had Rice no Lied.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
December 14th, 2012
10:22 am
But the Benghazi thing doesn’t sit right with me. It wasn’t handled well.
By whom? Why is the preponderance of blame put on Rice’s shoulders? Why not lay it at the feet of the people in charge of the State Department AND the Intelligence Community? What ever happened to common sense?
Good job. I’m boycotting GM too as long as O’bozo runs it
StinkyBeeyoootch: Since you are FOR the Mustang, I’m going to suggest a Corvette for Jonathan. Anything that YOU like is obviously bad for an up and coming young man.
Quick someone find a copy of his book ” Character is Destiny” and send it to him. He obviously really needs it now.
Too funny!
How these people can look themselves in the eye in the mirror in the morning is had to figure out.
They look at their checkbooks and see all that brand new “bought and paid for by the Koch’s” money and feel so much better. Hey, THEY won’t be around in 50 years, what do they care?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 14th, 2012
10:22 am
relax liberals……………. she is just LEADING FROM BEHIND NOW
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
December 14th, 2012
10:23 am
“some call that getting “BORKED”.”
bollocks.
this was a whisper campaign – unlike Robert Bork, she had no writings that pointed to how unsuitable she was for the position.
they couldn’t say anything concrete – all they could do was say they had “concerns” about her.
this was nothing more than a smear campaign – and McCain should burn for it.
Typically Uneducated GA Voter
December 14th, 2012
10:24 am
This was never about Rice’s qualifications.
Very few people have a resume that supports a nomination to the position of SoS.
Susan Rice is certainly one of them.
Nothing is new under the sun in D.C., and this is 100% political.
In an attempt to seize momentum in a power vacuum within the GOP (since the death of Reagan, ha ha), McCain has struck out against a superlative diplomat.
The real reason: the Republicans want Sen. Kerry to give up his seat in MA so that the biggest loser himself Scott Brown can run for it in a special election against whomever Gov. Patrick appoints.
The sad truth for Brown is that there is a well-qualified Kennedy waiting in the wings.
Mr Right
December 14th, 2012
10:25 am
Chuck Field
December 14th, 2012
10:01 am
As for me, I will never vote for the treasonous party of hate again. From their decietful agreement not to raise taxes on the 1% to their disrespect for a standing president, the party of hate’s days are numbered. Thank goodness. Its been a long hateful ride.
Did you forget the Bush years? The left didn’t appear to have a whole lot of love then, guess they love everyone but those that disagree with them, in other words , they hate the so called haters then pat themselves on the back for hating on those that “hate”.
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
10:26 am
dB
My bad… I got my business departments confused.
GT
December 14th, 2012
10:26 am
The Republicans load up with these insufferable types. I listened to Giuliani last night talk about how dumb Rice was on CNN. Now that is rich coming from the right, it is like these guys have a pass on telling the truth. They just got through running a liar take all presidential primary, and then Romney cleans his liarboard and makes up new lies to match whatever he is wearing that day, then you got Newt. How may lies does Newt tell his wives and family everyday? Herman Cain was such a liar he had to withdraw from a primary designed for the biggest liar winning. And now they find room in their busy day of lying to tell us how dumb Rice is.
mr common sense
December 14th, 2012
10:26 am
she gave out bad information about bengazi and the republicans say she now isn’t qualified tor sos. What about all the bad information the republicans gave out about iraq? if she isn’t qualified, they aren’t qualified.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
December 14th, 2012
10:27 am
“The sad truth for Brown is that there is a well-qualified Kennedy waiting in the wings.”
and the fact is, Scott Brown will pay the price for the political wrangling that’s going on. If people don’t think that the Dems will make hay over the fact that Scott Brown is ONLY a candidate because they career-assassinated Rice, then they’re hopelessly naive.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 14th, 2012
10:27 am
RICE ISNT DUMB
she’s just cowardly
Bobby
December 14th, 2012
10:29 am
McCain hides behind his POW status. What he doesn’t mention is he violated U.S. laws while a POW. Yet he wants to condemn others who have short comings. Senator McCain was a disgrace in service to his country in the military and and is such as a member of Congress.
I guess we just need to be thankful the American electorate saw through this shallow excuse of a man and did not elect him President.
skipper
December 14th, 2012
10:29 am
As far as Kerry goes…..(and I find it hard to believe I am saying this) but: “Stay, Hillary!!”
Old Goober
December 14th, 2012
10:29 am
The torpedo job on Susan Rice is equal parts spite and plotting. The GOP wants Scott Brown back in the Senate—he sounds moderate but always votes Tea Party. They think he’ll win if there’s a vacancy. But the Democrats plan to run Markey, who’s pretty popular in that state.
This is mostly vengeance on the part of McCain et al. They’ve been beaten soundly, and part of their retribution is taking out one of Obama’s favorite appointees. And they still haven’t given up on whacking Social Security and Medicare—see Real Clear Politics.com for a good rundown on this issue. There’s nothing like holding a pair of deuces and playing as if you’ve drawn a royal flush.
Let’s go over the cliff. It’s better than allowing the Republicans to beat up seniors. People will adjust to the higher taxes, and a good cliff-dive will restore some humility to the arrogant Republicans.
stevehammer
December 14th, 2012
10:30 am
I’m not sure whats so “shameful” about McCain having an opinion and standing firmly behind it. The article did get one thing right: it’s his right as a US senator to play a role in the selection of the next SoS. The nation needs to be behind the next SoS not just the White House. [registered democrat]
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December 14th, 2012
10:30 am
Get Realican @ 10:19
THANK YOU !
Not so much
December 14th, 2012
10:31 am
Her incompetence is just a refelction of the rest of the current gang in power. Like her boss, she’s in way over her head.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
December 14th, 2012
10:31 am
Bobby:
………….. and Kerry hides behind his medals he threw over the White House fence.
Dispicable !!!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
December 14th, 2012
10:32 am
Not so much @ 10:31
THANK YOU !
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
10:32 am
The radical Susan Rice has political skeletons in her closet
You know too??? McCain sent me this photo he found of Rice and a few of her friends from back in the day….
http://radfag.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/women-free-huey-rally-oakland-1968-photo-bypirkle-jones_jpg.jpg
Mr Right
December 14th, 2012
10:33 am
GT
December 14th, 2012
10:26 am
(yawn) And the left NEVER lies! (Romney caused a woman to die from cancer)
The Ghost of Edward R. Murrow
December 14th, 2012
10:33 am
Gosh, JayBama…I don’t recall you firing off feverish howls of disgust when REPUBLICAN Presidents had their would-be nominees for cabinet posts highjacked by DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSES….
What’s next from the Obama Press Office templates…..a piece on the sexism and racism of Senate members who inconveniently fall into the categories of politically incorrect genders (Male) and ethnicity (non-minority) or viewpoint (non-liberal)?
Dan
December 14th, 2012
10:33 am
Stop watching FOX. It makes you stupid.
Class of '98
December 14th, 2012
10:34 am
Obama directed Rice to say the attacks were because of an anti-Muslim video, which, despite what the administration says, they knew to be untrue.
He did this to increase his chances of being re-elected. It worked, but now that it is clear the Rice willingly deceived the American public, Obama dropped her like a bad habit.
That’s what happened. Deal with it.
Corbin Sharpe. Baby Boomer...and got the scars to priove it!
December 14th, 2012
10:34 am
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
10:32 am
John Konop
December 14th, 2012
10:34 am
Both sides are in a debate about Susan Rice and most of you have no clue about her via policy. Some of you should do your homework before spewing talking points from your side…………..
……….. Rice was in the vanguard of the Libya operation, and is credited with pressuring a reluctant President to get involved in an adventure he was sure to regret. As the idiotic left-neocon John Avlon enthused in Newsweek/The Daily Beast:……..
“The Libyan airstrikes mark the first time in U.S. history that a female-dominated diplomatic team has urged military action……………
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/11/20/susan-rice-is-bad-news/
The Real Problem With Susan Rice
…………. To understand what’s at stake in Rice’s potential nomination, it’s more useful to listen to a different set of interviews, conducted roughly a decade ago. Between the fall of 2002 and the spring of 2003, NPR’s Tavis Smiley interviewed Rice four times about the Bush administration’s looming war with Iraq. I’ve spent the better part of an afternoon listening to those interviews and I still can’t tell whether Susan Rice supported the war or opposed it…………
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/10/the-real-problem-with-susan-rice.html
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 14th, 2012
10:34 am
rice is a disgrace and embarrasment to us women of color
to walk away from a fight in congress sets us back decades
she should be ashamed of herself
Fed Up with LIES!
December 14th, 2012
10:34 am
MAYBE… she “pulled out” because she was “ASKED TO”. I REALLY believe the WHOLE BUNCH of “UPPER CLASS GOV’T” is TRYING to “COVER UP” everything about this Benghazi attack!! They SURE thought we would BELIEVE all this about “the Video” even the President told this!!
We are NOT stupid!!
Jerry Eads
December 14th, 2012
10:39 am
The one thing McCain has ever been good at is being ugly. The sad part is he manages to suck enough trolls and idiots into his scat to change things for the worse.
John Konop
December 14th, 2012
10:40 am
Uncle Samantha,
………..rice is a disgrace and embarrasment to us women of color
to walk away from a fight in congress sets us back decades
she should be ashamed of herself………
You like Susan Rice via her McCain aggressive NECON views in the Middle East?
Daedalus
December 14th, 2012
10:40 am
As McCain has once again demonstrated, hatred, vitriol and charachter assasination works.
Susan Collins is simply afraid to go against her party’s hardliners. Always going along with your party in lockstep, whether democratic or republican isn’t courageous, its cowardly.
PATRICIA
December 14th, 2012
10:41 am
McCAIN IS A OLD MAN HE WAS CAPTURE SO WAS OTHERS THEY DID NOT BECOME SENATOR WHEN WE SEE HIS NAME IN HISTORY THIS IS HOW WE WILL TELL OUR CHILDREN ABOUT HIM NOT THAT HE WAS IN THE WAR BUT HIS SICKNESS MADE HIM NOT FIT TO BE SENATOR HE SHELL FROM THIS DAY BE CALLED McCAIN
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
10:41 am
Jay shouldn’t be mad at McCain. He should be mad at the administration and Obama. It was they who sent Rice out on 5 different Sunday talk talk shows to propogandize a L I E about the embassy killings and the “spontaneous demonstration” being about a stupid video. They set that woman up to go out and make a damn fool of herself. And somehow this is McCain’s fault? Puh-leeze!
Welcome to the Occupation
December 14th, 2012
10:41 am
To be denied a shot at the top job in your profession because of fabrications ..
Ah but you see that’s the rub.
One man’s fabrications are another man’s valid objections.
DBCOOPER
December 14th, 2012
10:42 am
She was lying. We all know it. And expect it out of Washington these days. Who really cares anymore?
The Bookman’s of the world won the election. It’s there’s. Let them have it. Just when they come after what’s mine. Then things will probably start chnging.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 14th, 2012
10:43 am
i dont like susan rice anymore…………. she is letting a bunch of grumpy old white men push her out the door……………. us women of color fought hard to over come both race and gender discrimination……….. and now she is walking away because it wont be EASY
guy
December 14th, 2012
10:43 am
Read what Steve Spafford wrote. She lied for Liebama!
Thulsa Doom
December 14th, 2012
10:44 am
………….. and Kerry hides behind his medals he threw over the White House fence.
Scout,
Now we really don’t know that for sure. After all there were 3 different video clips of Kerry on 3 different television programs giving 3 different versions of what he did with his medals and ribbons. Hard to say which of his many versions is the true one.
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
10:44 am
At the risk of projecting a bit…
I thought he had grown a couple, but now I’m not so sure.
Can we who are rational please dispense with this ongoing “does Obama have stones” drama? Obviously the man who said “please proceed, Governor” has courage and a willingness to pick and fight some tough battles. This must not have been one he especially wanted.
I’ve called Obama an “a$$hole” exactly once—it was when he announced verrrry quietly, I think over a weekend that he was ending his membership in Trinity United Church of Christ, back in ‘08. I was furious at him. If ever there was a hill he should have been willing to die on, it was over his own freedom to worship where he chose, and I was certain that he was being a coward. Did I mention I was furious?
It generally sinks in sometime later that the “god damn America-gate” thingie, or the “butthurt over Benghazi” business, it isn’t about me, or you, or what we dirty effing hippies want.
It’s about the course Obama and (now that he’s President) his Administration are trying to chart. We have little beyond the first clue of what their actual must-haves / nice-to-haves / ok-we-can-fall-back-here lists look like. I don’t mean that as a knock, it’s just what it is, in any Administration.
John Konop
December 14th, 2012
10:45 am
Get Realican,
………… Sorry Jay, no fabrications or distortions…she intentionally mislead the American people right before the election. We still do not know who told her to go out and do that and we still do not know why the pleas for help went unanswered…..doesn’t that bother you at all or are you so in love with anything Obama says or does that you do not care?………..
Since you are against Susan Rice that must mean you are against the GOP foreign policy since she was on their side?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 14th, 2012
10:45 am
She was lying. We all know it.
Absolute bull and at this point if you dont know that, you must be stupid because you can’t be ignorant of the facts.
Secretaries of State and Potential nominees for Secretary of States: Being held accountable for talk show appearances and talking points prepared by the CIA since 2012.
Rockerbabe
December 14th, 2012
10:46 am
Two ancient grumpy white boys well past their prime and in need of being put out to pasture.
Nero
December 14th, 2012
10:47 am
The butt hurt here is staggering. Even Bookman is sad. It’s Awesome!!
kady
December 14th, 2012
10:47 am
I hate to be this way….she got deeped six for “reading” talking points on a TV SHOW. She is a well spoken woman of color being blased by white bitter old men. I’m losing respect for John McCain. Now, having said that, I have no idea if the Pres. was even going to nominate her or if she would be the best person for the job. Republications will never learn..
John Konop
December 14th, 2012
10:48 am
Uncle Samantha,
…… i dont like susan rice anymore…………. she is letting a bunch of grumpy old white men push her out the door……………. us women of color fought hard to over come both race and gender discrimination……….. and now she is walking away because it wont be EASY……
What you are saying is even though you disagree with her NECON views you want her anyways because she is a woman of color? Did you have the same view about justice Thomas?
Road Scholar
December 14th, 2012
10:50 am
This is bigger than her qualifications….By Rice being denied, Kerry is the next allegedly in line. That would open a Senate seat… and McCain is a friend of Scott Brown, who recently lost his seat. Brown wasn’t bad… but a Dem beat him. The question is, if Kerry is selected and approved (Not swift boated) then who do the Dems have to run against Brown? Maybe as a moderate he’d join the Dems?
Sen McCain is a great American, but he is way past his prime…he is losing his mental edge.
Jim Turner
December 14th, 2012
10:50 am
This is a woman who had the primary role in misleading the media and the public over the true events in order to further a political campaign. We were attacked on American soil and lost American lives. That would hardly qualify as a peripheral event.
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
10:50 am
Being held accountable for talk show appearances and talking points prepared by the CIA since 2012
I think you’ve just answered the question on everyone’s minds: “What will we tell the children?”
Moon Mullins
December 14th, 2012
10:51 am
@oops — John McCain and his Three Amigos have morphed into The Three Stooges.
And, he is no more a moderate than he is a conservative than he is a wing-nut. He’s whatever he feels he must be to maintain a semblance of ebbing relevance. He’s a panderer who tries to play both ends against the middle.
And, my guess is the good folks of Arizona are growing weary of this ol’ man and will bring him home next election to sit by the pool sippin’ a few of his wife’s cold Buds.
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
10:52 am
Brown wasn’t bad…
for a guy who couldn’t keep his trap shut about a disastrously wrongheaded “we can’t elect the Commie cuz she mighta lied about being 1/32nd Native American” talking point.
Call it what it is
December 14th, 2012
10:53 am
Not qualified, she is actuall more qualified than the last two S.O.S. Funny that the G.O.P. didn’t grill Condoleeza Rice when she went before the nation and stating Iraq had WMD’s. knowing the C.I.A. had never verified it. She briefed what was given to her and nothing else. This was simply a witch hunt from a defeated party that over the next decade will be insignificant.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 14th, 2012
10:53 am
I should apologize for my 10:45. I said someone must know the facts by now. I forgot that Fox News views are misguided, ill-informed, ignorant and misled by the manipulation of the Fox Idiot channel.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
December 14th, 2012
10:55 am
“rice is a disgrace and embarrasment to us women of color
to walk away from a fight”
yes, I’m sure your concern-trolling is heartfelt and genuine
Welcome to the Occupation
December 14th, 2012
10:55 am
Jim Turner: “We were attacked on American soil and lost American lives”
Uh, not so much.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
December 14th, 2012
10:55 am
RB, this is not a Klan blog. Perhaps you can locate one…
Good luck with that one…………………
Rice’s chicken letter, she’s clearly being kept from the hearings for reasons political.
Which are?
Rice intentionally lied to America, do we understand that, she intentionally lied, she is just as corrupt as Obama!
Well, now we know whats on Right Wing Radio this morning……………thanks for the update.
Bro: The last thing DoS people in Iraq/Afghanistan need is to be demotivated because of the bullsh*t in DC. It’s not like they don’t already have enough to worry about simply trying to stay alive.
Word. They only have to worry about the republicans “outing” their safe houses and/or operatives for political gain now………………….same as usual…………..
Why don’t you spend your time more wisely and perhaps send an email to ESPN demanding the indvidual who made the racist statements be terminated?
How do you know he DIDn’t do that? Your crystal balls not working today?
Common: sorry about picking on your cooking abilities. I know you are learning.
No worries. EVERYONE picks at my cooking! When I was in college I was supposed to bring the Mac & Cheese for a “potluck” dinner for the holidays – So I brought in some Macaroni Salad, put some cheese no top and put it in the oven. To this DAY I’ve never lived that one down!
Common: Try a standing rib roast or crown roast in the oven this year.
Oh come on!! Are you nuts!?! I can’t even make beans and you want me to do a RIB ROAST?!?
Blind liberals can’t understand why people did not like the fact that Obama’s administration chose someone without a clue about Benghazi to go on all the news shows and “slant the facts” during the last weeks of the presidential campaign.
Its so sad to see people going through the first stages of Dumbazz. I will light a candle for you and your family that you try and pull yourself up out of blind ignorance as soon as you can……
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Jam: RB, along with pogo, your racist demons are legendary here. You absolutely are obsessed with black people. I should say their failures, because I have never once seen you write one single, solitary positive thing about them. Not one.
Bro: Melanin envy does that to some people.
The President keeps showing a lack of backbone that I find disturbing, especially in light of the “Fiscal Cliff” BS and the upcoming fight with the debt limit. I thought he had grown a couple, but now I’m not so sure. He can redeem himself some if he does not nominate Kerry and make it possible for the Republican’s to gain a seat in the Senate.
Word.
Call it what it is
December 14th, 2012
10:55 am
Grand O’l party is the perfect name… Old men, Old ideas, and since the election last month Old news.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
December 14th, 2012
10:56 am
Thulsa:
I saw and heard what Kerry said about my service in Vietnam.
He was dispicable !
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
December 14th, 2012
10:57 am
” I’m losing respect for John McCain. ”
you’re only just now losing respect for McCain ???
I lost any final shred of respect I had for him in the early 1990s for the shameful way he treated the Clintons
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
December 14th, 2012
10:57 am
Stop watching CNN. You’ll get dumb.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 14th, 2012
10:57 am
at least Thomas had the courage to face the firing squad
he didn’t let a bunch of grumpy old white men chase him away like a coward
you may not like someones views
you may like what the KKK says……..but you have to defend their right to say it
i may not agree with all of her views but to be pushed out because you are a black woman is disgraceful………… she should have stayed and fought
Ronald Reagan
December 14th, 2012
10:58 am
That maneuver is straight out of the Liberal play book! Attack first & never explain! Good job guys!
getalife
December 14th, 2012
10:59 am
I am sure women and minorities will flock to the gop now thanks to the sore losers mcain and graham.
White flour!
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
December 14th, 2012
11:00 am
“i may not agree with all of her views but to be pushed out because you are a black woman is disgraceful………… she should have stayed and fought”
concern trolling, Warp Drive
JustMe
December 14th, 2012
11:00 am
Obama and Rice “campaign” killed 4 White Americans.
So, they have that going for them…
Call it what it is
December 14th, 2012
11:00 am
you good ol boys still crying the liberal line… didn’t you get the election results???? Your party is not the face of America anymore, You tried jerry mandering, shortening election days, voter ID, and you still LOST BIG…. Now you’re blaming the closest thing to an electable candidate you had.. Gingrich, Santorum, or Caine would have lost by a bigger margine…. So you Good Ol Boys go ahead and bask in this Susan Rice victory, Come mid terms you will be sorry for it.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
December 14th, 2012
11:01 am
getalife … 10:59 – exactly – keep up the winning strategy, GOP!!
alittlecommonsense
December 14th, 2012
11:01 am
Rice either willfully lied to the American public for political gain, or she was duped into it by Obama. If she willfully lied, then she shouldn’t be promoted. If Obama duped her into it, then the blame lies with him.
That Black Guy
December 14th, 2012
11:02 am
Brosephus™
. “Moderate Republican” is the oxymoron of all oxymorons. There’s one, so you can drop the plural stuff. McCain is no moderate. Graham is no moderate. Collins is the only GOP moderate in the Senate
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Sorry Bro, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe makes it plural.
DaTruth
December 14th, 2012
11:02 am
Im thinking if the Ambassador and those Seals were Black, Obama would have pulled out all the stops to rescue them.
Its obvious.
Mr Right
December 14th, 2012
11:02 am
I lost any final shred of respect I had for him in the early 1990s for the shameful way he treated the Clintons
Oh boo hoo!
getalife
December 14th, 2012
11:03 am
“getalife … 10:59 – exactly – keep up the winning strategy, GOP!!”
The gop will stay the course because they are not capable of change.
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
11:03 am
<i.Obama and Rice “campaign” killed 4 White Americans.
Damn, I guess they have a DeLorean or some other time machine, huh? What a way to put your critical thinking skills on display for the world to see. We can use the world’s most powerful electron microscope to see them in their full glory…
You do realize that the so-called coverup came AFTER the attack, right? Geez….. Somebody must be passing out the stoooopids today.
Nero
December 14th, 2012
11:04 am
http://youtu.be/KK74G7wDfk4
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
11:04 am
TBG
Snowe’s on her way out. I’ll give you lame duck plurality.
Brosephus™
December 14th, 2012
11:06 am
Rice either willfully lied to the American public for political gain, or she was duped into it by Obama. If she willfully lied, then she shouldn’t be promoted. If Obama duped her into it, then the blame lies with him.
So what should happen if she read talking points from a memo prepared by intelligence analysts from the CIA? You know, the place where the actual intel came from? The CIA is not the White House, and Obama is not the director of the CIA, contrary to popular misguided conservative thinking.
Call it what it is
December 14th, 2012
11:06 am
John McCain is evrything thats wrong with the GOP, he was once an honorable moderate, He ran for the presidency on a conservative platform and got flattened just like Romney… Yet the party still don’t get it… this country is not a right leaning country..Stay out of our bedrooms, and religious beliefs.
Maggie Silver
December 14th, 2012
11:07 am
McCain does something good for once and you want to call it McCarthyite? Susan Rice is a lying witch who facilitated genocide in Africa in the 1990s and now LIED to the nation about who killed our Ambassador and four other brave souls in Benghazi, and she should be Secretary of State?!
Obama is in bed with Al Qaeda in Syria and Libya-that’s who’s running Libya since Obama’s illegal war in that country, and his illegal murder of Qaddafi-in collaboration with Al Qaeda!
And if you want to accuse someone of “McCarthyism”, why don’t you go after Obama for the NDAA,? You think it’s okay for the President to insist on a law that would allow American Citizens to be indefinitely detained in a military prison without a trial??? And don’t forget his love of sending drones into Pakistan to kill “terrorists” and hundreds of innocent bystanders!
Please-don’t pretend this is about party or right vs. left-Obama makes Dick Cheney look like a Liberal!
OSG
December 14th, 2012
11:08 am
I think it was a deliberate plan. The Republicans were smarting from the election smackdown. The Dems wanted to show the American public, just how bad the Republicans can be…so that when 2014 comes around, the Dems will be able to show the American public (along with the budget cliff discussions) on how incompetent the party of “no” can be. Kerry was the candidate all along, and Rice took the fall, to embarass the Republicans. Rice will re-appear…in a better position somewhere in the Obama Cabinet, AND the Clinton Cabinet. Remember, she took the bullet for Mrs. Clinton as well.
JohnnyReb
December 14th, 2012
11:08 am
Do you Moonbats really think that if the Benghazi mess was as clean as you would like to believe that Obama would have backed away from Rice?
Rice withdrew at Obama’s request in hopes the situation will fade to black. Her confirmation hearing would have made public things Obama prefers not.
You can demonize McCain and whoever you want. That does not change the fact that Rice knowinlgy and intentionally participated in a coverup just before the election to protect Obama. BTW, there are more Congressmen than McCain, Graham and Ayotte who think she did and would not support her as SoS.
As you who will be the SoS nominee, Kerry will likely be Obama’s ridiculous choice. Little Barry continues to disappoint.
Call it what it is
December 14th, 2012
11:08 am
Hillary 2016
getalife
December 14th, 2012
11:10 am
Sheets.
stands for decibels
December 14th, 2012
11:11 am
Thulsa:
I saw and heard what Kerry said about my service in Vietnam.
He was dispicable !
Nonsense. And if you’d actually read the transcript of his testimony–which is what your whining here is surely based on–before the Senate in ‘71, in its entirety, and not in carefully edited dribs and drabs, you wouldn’t be embarrassing yourself with such foolishness now.
heading upstairs.
JohnnyReb
December 14th, 2012
11:12 am
BTW, this is the third strike for Rice. She was involved with the bad decisions on the Rwanda/Congo genocide and Bozo’s decision not to take OBL when offered up on a platter. Yet the Left thinks she would be a good SoS. I wish I was surprised.
Nero
December 14th, 2012
11:12 am
pillow cases.