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Rice Bombs in Meeting with Senators
by Andrew C. McCarthy
November 27, 2012
As PJMs Bridget Johnson reports, President Obamas dice-rolling attempt to clear the path for Susan Rice to succeed Hillary Clinton appears to have bombed. Ms. Rice, the presidents ambassador to the UN, called for a meeting with three of her most vocal Republican critics Senators John McCain (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC) and Kelly Ayotte (NH). The senators obliged her this morning and, evidently, came away from the meeting more troubled than ever.
The problem ought to be obvious: Rice cannot possibly have a good explanation for the preposterous story she was dispatched by the president to tell the country on the Sunday shows after the Benghazi atrocity in which Islamist terrorists killed four Americans.
The administrations problem is reminiscent of the shoddy defense lawyer who is so taken in by his own spin that he cant understand why others see right through it a problem that the presidents adoring media exacerbates by not challenging him. We have our disagreements here at Ordered Liberty with Senators McCain and Graham, but neither they nor Sen. Ayotte are babes in the Washington woods, particularly on matters of national security and intelligence. Unless they were just dying to be won over by Ms. Rice (thankfully, they were not), they knew exactly what questions to ask questions for which there are no good answers.
The administrations line, parroted by everyone from Obama on down, is that Rices abysmal performance on the Sunday show came about because she, automaton-like, merely relayed what the intelligence community told her. This has always been absurd on its face and is especially unbecoming for an official who is asking to be promoted to even greater responsibilities.
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