Susan Rice ‘Not Qualified’ Says The Man Who Picked Sarah Palin For VP

[Rinata]

John McCain has his friggin' nerve. He is just a bitter, sore loser.

In the height of irony or, perhaps more accurate, hubris, Senator John McCain, the man who rushed the insufficiently vetted and profoundly unqualified Sarah Palin to the status of VP candidate (aka, “a heartbeat away from the presidency”), took to the podium today to denigrate and denounce the highly respected U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice for being “not qualified.”

For the man who inflicted the “not very bright” Ms. Palin upon the electorate, there appears to be an extreme disconnect at play here. One doesn’t necessarily want to drag the 2008 campaign into the discussion, certainly not when much of it was an embarrassing display of political ineptitude and arrogance embodied by a vice-presidential candidate who was in so far over her head, it’s possible she’s still not breathing air, but McCain’s personal slams on Rice reeks of tunnel vision. Or, as one pundit suggested, old wounds with Obama over that 2008 campaign.

Susan Rice

 

[beretta304]

Why Democrats mask Susan Rice incompetence with white racism charge





Nearly 2 months ago, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on 5 national news Sunday talk shows selling a lie which covered up the truth of the murders of four Americans at the Benghazi consulate in Libya. The administration lies have taken on their own life, and on Thursday, November 15th the republican senators demanded answers.

Yes, it does matter that Ambassador Rice covered up the lie about a You Tube video being the reason for the attack on the Benghazi Consulate. The administration it knew to be a lie. It was a fiction that President Obama knew was a lie, and avoided telling the truth about. It was a lie that Obama's former CIA Director David Petraeus knew as a lie 24 hours after the deadly 9/11 attack. Yet, Susan Rice never offered even a scintilla of evidence about an Al Qaeda attack being the reason for the assassination of Americans.

So why go back to the same card game with Americans. Why the double racial standard?

Why do congresswomen like Cleveland, Ohio congresswoman Marcia Fudge, incoming chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus feel it is necessary to state, " It's a shame that whenever anything goes wrong they pick on women and minorities!"

The answer is clear.

The politics of racism practiced by liberals, by the president, and by white guilt ridden apologists is that they need America to continue to be divided. They are now the true racists in an America that has moved on. This nation now has a president who is black. Americans believe that job security, an approaching fiscal cliff and crushing debt is more important than finding imagined racist boogiemen hiding in America's dark corners.

Susan Rice does not need to be defended on the basis of her race or on her gender. Susan Rice as any other administration official that plays footloose with the facts concerning the deaths of Americans must be held accountable. There is no two-tier level of responsibility. American does not have nor need a racial Affirmative Action type of imagined protection for minorities or for women.

If Congresswoman Fudge is so concerned about protecting women who are being subjected to discrimination, not gaze into Obama's mirror? After all, it is not senators McCain, Graham, or Ayotte, who are discriminating against women. It is the hope and change President Obama, openly discriminates against women and embraces the "do as I say and not as I do" rule. Women are paid up to 17 percent than their male counterparts in the White House!

So liberals and Congressional Black Caucus women, stop this nonsense about racism when the only problem of racism that seems to exist in this nation is a continued embrace of the race card. How about working toward the day when a Congressional Black Caucus is not necessary. What about demanding that public officials that lie to America and engage in indefensible incompetent behavior answer to it.

The truth, not fiction, is essential and must be investigated and the results placed before the American public. It's simple, race and gender is no defense against the truth. It is about the truth, and nothing but the truth.

This is the 12st century. In the final analysis, America needs to know that when its sends its sons and daughters to fight a war or to place their lives in danger for this nation, their president will not cover up, will not deceive and will not ignore their sacrifice.

So, Susan Rice come forward and be a woman, and not hide from your conduct or let a president beat his chest like a prehistoric cave man protecting his women from the big bad imaginary republican dinosaurs. After all, hopefully Obama did not nominate you as a black woman for a job. Hopefully he nominated you as a woman capable of doing your job and defending your conduct on your own.

Reject the race card being played in your name, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, so that America can move onto matters which impact all Americans, colorblind and one nation under God.

Why Democrats mask Susan Rice incompetence with white racism charge

 

[Stephanie]

Susan Rice ‘Not Qualified’ Says The Man Who Picked Sarah Palin For VP

Let us know when Rice becomes a mayor and governor..Instead of some appointed position in this clown administration
Rice doesn't even seem qualified for the position she has

 

[Rinata]

You are both so full of it. By now you should have figured out what an idiot Sara Palin is. The fact that you haven't is not surprising. What do you do instead?? Give the criticism Palin deserves to a woman that is her exact opposite. That friggin' figures.

 

[Mustang]

Remember those English classes where you were instructed to "compare and contrast"?

Well, let's do so.

Here's Rice's early resumé, prior to her appointment as UN Ambassador, a post she's held for almost 4 years.

Rice attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship, and graduated with a B.A. in history in 1986. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[6][7]


Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Rice attended New College, Oxford, where she earned a M.Phil. in 1988 and D.Phil. in 1990. The Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation entitled, "Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980: Implication for International Peacekeeping" as the UK's most distinguished in international relations.[1][8]


Rice's classmates and professors at Oxford included advocates of the role of the United Nations and international law (Sir Adam Roberts, Benedict Kingsbury),[9] of global economic governance and international economic cooperation (Ngaire Woods, Donald Markwell),[10] and of a firm stance against Russian authoritarianism (Michael McFaul).[11]

Clinton administration roles

Rice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities: at the National Security Council from 1993 to 1997; as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995; and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs from 1995 to 1997.


At the time of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Rice reportedly said, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Rice subsequently acknowledged the mistakes made at the time and felt that a debt needed repaying.[19] The inability or failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about the genocide would inform her later views on possible military interventions.[20] She would later say of the experience: "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."[21]
Rice supported the multinational force that invaded Zaire from Rwanda in 1996 and overthrew dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, saying privately that "Anything's better than Mobutu." Others[who?] criticized the U.S. complicity in the violation of the Congo's borders as destabilizing and dangerous.[22]
In a 2002 op-ed piece in the Washington Post, former Ambassador to Sudan Timothy M. Carney and news contributor Mansoor Ijaz implicated Rice and counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke in missing an opportunity to neutralize Osama bin Laden while he was still in Sudan in 1996. They write that Sudan and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright were ready to cooperate on intelligence potentially leading to Bin Laden, but that Rice and Clarke persuaded National Security Advisor Sandy Berger to overrule Albright.[23] Similar allegations were made by Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose[24] and Richard Miniter, author of Losing Bin Laden, in a November 2003 interview with World.[25]


While the writings of Carney, Ijaz, Rose and Miniter each claim that Sudan offered to turn Bin Laden over to the US and that Rice was central in the decision not to accept the offer, The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (the 9-11 Commission) concluded in part "Sudan's minister of defense, Fatih Erwa, has claimed that Sudan offered to hand Bin Laden over to the United States. The Commission has found no credible evidence that this was so. Ambassador Carney had instructions only to push the Sudanese to expel Bin Laden. Ambassador Carney had no legal basis to ask for more from the Sudanese since, at the time, there was no indictment outstanding."[26]


Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has been a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice. Albright urged Clinton to appoint Rice as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in 1997.[1] Rice was not the first choice of Congressional Black Caucus leaders, who considered Rice a member of "Washington's assimilationist black elite".[1] At a confirmation hearing chaired by Senator Jesse Helms, Rice, who attended the hearing along with her infant son, whom she was then nursing, made a great impression on Senators from both parties and "sailed through the confirmation process".[1]


On July 7, 1998, while serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Rice was a member of an American delegation to visit detained Nigerian President-Elect Basorun M.K.O. Abiola. During this meeting, Abiola suffered a fatal heart attack.[27]


According to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, at one point Rice gave the "Rockefeller Gesture" to Richard Holbrooke during a meeting with senior staff.[28]


Rice continued to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until the end of Clinton's term in January 2001.
Business and think-tank activities

Rice was managing director and principal at Intellibridge from 2001 to 2002.[29][30] In 2002, she joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program. At Brookings, she focused on U.S. foreign policy, weak and failing states, the implications of global poverty, and transnational threats to security.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry.


Rice went on leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as a senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign. Rice took a disparaging view of Obama's Republican opponent in the campaign, John McCain, calling his policies "reckless" and dismissing the Arizona Senator's trip to Iraq as "strolling around the market in a flak jacket."[28]


On November 5, 2008, Rice was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.[31]

Now, please take note of the orange highlighted part near the bottom. It would appear that McCain may be trying to settle a personal score with Rice.

 

[beretta304]

You are both so full of it. By now you should have figured out what an idiot Sara Palin is. The fact that you haven't is not surprising. What do you do instead?? Give the criticism Palin deserves to a woman that is her exact opposite. That friggin' figures.

Awwwww STFU!

 

[Stephanie]

that's right, everything done to this administration is some personal vendetta..

good grief, you people would put anyone in any position qualified OR NOT

I didn't think Hillary was qualified for Sec. of State, but there she is anyway

 

[beretta304]

Remember those English classes where you were instructed to "compare and contrast"?

Well, let's do so.

Here's Rice's early resumé, prior to her appointment as UN Ambassador, a post she's held for almost 4 years.

Rice attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship, and graduated with a B.A. in history in 1986. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[6][7]


Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Rice attended New College, Oxford, where she earned a M.Phil. in 1988 and D.Phil. in 1990. The Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation entitled, "Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980: Implication for International Peacekeeping" as the UK's most distinguished in international relations.[1][8]


Rice's classmates and professors at Oxford included advocates of the role of the United Nations and international law (Sir Adam Roberts, Benedict Kingsbury),[9] of global economic governance and international economic cooperation (Ngaire Woods, Donald Markwell),[10] and of a firm stance against Russian authoritarianism (Michael McFaul).[11]

Clinton administration roles

Rice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities: at the National Security Council from 1993 to 1997; as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995; and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs from 1995 to 1997.


At the time of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Rice reportedly said, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Rice subsequently acknowledged the mistakes made at the time and felt that a debt needed repaying.[19] The inability or failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about the genocide would inform her later views on possible military interventions.[20] She would later say of the experience: "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."[21]
Rice supported the multinational force that invaded Zaire from Rwanda in 1996 and overthrew dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, saying privately that "Anything's better than Mobutu." Others[who?] criticized the U.S. complicity in the violation of the Congo's borders as destabilizing and dangerous.[22]
In a 2002 op-ed piece in the Washington Post, former Ambassador to Sudan Timothy M. Carney and news contributor Mansoor Ijaz implicated Rice and counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke in missing an opportunity to neutralize Osama bin Laden while he was still in Sudan in 1996. They write that Sudan and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright were ready to cooperate on intelligence potentially leading to Bin Laden, but that Rice and Clarke persuaded National Security Advisor Sandy Berger to overrule Albright.[23] Similar allegations were made by Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose[24] and Richard Miniter, author of Losing Bin Laden, in a November 2003 interview with World.[25]


While the writings of Carney, Ijaz, Rose and Miniter each claim that Sudan offered to turn Bin Laden over to the US and that Rice was central in the decision not to accept the offer, The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (the 9-11 Commission) concluded in part "Sudan's minister of defense, Fatih Erwa, has claimed that Sudan offered to hand Bin Laden over to the United States. The Commission has found no credible evidence that this was so. Ambassador Carney had instructions only to push the Sudanese to expel Bin Laden. Ambassador Carney had no legal basis to ask for more from the Sudanese since, at the time, there was no indictment outstanding."[26]


Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has been a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice. Albright urged Clinton to appoint Rice as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in 1997.[1] Rice was not the first choice of Congressional Black Caucus leaders, who considered Rice a member of "Washington's assimilationist black elite".[1] At a confirmation hearing chaired by Senator Jesse Helms, Rice, who attended the hearing along with her infant son, whom she was then nursing, made a great impression on Senators from both parties and "sailed through the confirmation process".[1]


On July 7, 1998, while serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Rice was a member of an American delegation to visit detained Nigerian President-Elect Basorun M.K.O. Abiola. During this meeting, Abiola suffered a fatal heart attack.[27]


According to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, at one point Rice gave the "Rockefeller Gesture" to Richard Holbrooke during a meeting with senior staff.[28]


Rice continued to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until the end of Clinton's term in January 2001.
Business and think-tank activities

Rice was managing director and principal at Intellibridge from 2001 to 2002.[29][30] In 2002, she joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program. At Brookings, she focused on U.S. foreign policy, weak and failing states, the implications of global poverty, and transnational threats to security.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry.


Rice went on leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as a senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign. Rice took a disparaging view of Obama's Republican opponent in the campaign, John McCain, calling his policies "reckless" and dismissing the Arizona Senator's trip to Iraq as "strolling around the market in a flak jacket."[28]


On November 5, 2008, Rice was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.[31]

Now, please take note of the orange highlighted part near the bottom. It would appear that McCain may be trying to settle a personal score with Rice.

Yes I'm sure he sat there all these years just waiting for this moment.

 

[Stephanie]

You are both so full of it. By now you should have figured out what an idiot Sara Palin is. The fact that you haven't is not surprising. What do you do instead?? Give the criticism Palin deserves to a woman that is her exact opposite. That friggin' figures.

sorry I don't hate Palin like you do..I don't dislike Rice but she has shown she isn't cut out for the position she has let alone a higher position as Sec. of state..

now go stew in your Palin hate..it becomes you

 

[Mustang]

Susan Rice ‘Not Qualified’ Says The Man Who Picked Sarah Palin For VP

Let us know when Rice becomes a mayor and governor..Instead of some appointed position in this clown administration
Rice doesn't even seem qualified for the position she has

Politicians stir the pot. Diplomats calm the waters. Consequently, as a general rule, you're not going to find former politicians serving as members of the diplomatic corps.

 

[beretta304]

Susan Rice ‘Not Qualified’ Says The Man Who Picked Sarah Palin For VP

Let us know when Rice becomes a mayor and governor..Instead of some appointed position in this clown administration
Rice doesn't even seem qualified for the position she has

Politicians stir the pot. Diplomats calm the waters. Consequently, as a general rule, you're not going to find former politicians serving as members of the diplomatic corps.

Huntsman...former Governor


Clinton...former Senator


Mondale...former V.P.


Richardson...former Governor

 

[NYcarbineer]

Susan Rice ‘Not Qualified’ Says The Man Who Picked Sarah Palin For VP

Let us know when Rice becomes a mayor and governor..Instead of some appointed position in this clown administration
Rice doesn't even seem qualified for the position she has

You're right. Condoleezza Rice was never a mayor or a governor.

 

[Mustang]

Let us know when Rice becomes a mayor and governor..Instead of some appointed position in this clown administration
Rice doesn't even seem qualified for the position she has

Politicians stir the pot. Diplomats calm the waters. Consequently, as a general rule, you're not going to find former politicians serving as members of the diplomatic corps.

Huntsman...former Governor


Clinton...former Senator


Mondale...former V.P.

I said as a general rule.

Huntsman was a special case because he actually spoke Chinese which, you'll have to admit, is pretty damn rare, especially for a former American politician. And if anything is true about Huntsman's nature, his generally calm demeanor and lack of willingness to engage in partisan rhetoric probably doomed his 2012 presidential bid before it ever got off the ground.

Strictly speaking, Clinton isn't an ambassador. However, you might note that certain cabinet officials (like US Secretaries of State and Attorneys General) do NOT engage in partisan politics while serving.

And by the time Mondale served as ambassador, his political career had effectively come to an end.

 

[beretta304]

Politicians stir the pot. Diplomats calm the waters. Consequently, as a general rule, you're not going to find former politicians serving as members of the diplomatic corps.

Huntsman...former Governor


Clinton...former Senator


Mondale...former V.P.

I said as a general rule.

Huntsman was a special case because he actually spoke Chinese which, you'll have to admit, is pretty damn rare, especially for a former American politician. And if anything is true about Huntsman's nature, his generally calm demeanor and lack of willingness to engage in partisan rhetoric probably doomed his 2012 presidential bid before it ever got off the ground.

Strictly speaking, Clinton isn't an ambassador. However, you might note that certain cabinet officials (like US Secretaries of State and Attorneys General) do NOT engage in partisan politics while serving.

And by the time Mondale served as ambassador, his political career had effectively come to an end.

I see. None of them fit your narrative so....

 

[Mustang]

Huntsman...former Governor


Clinton...former Senator


Mondale...former V.P.

I said as a general rule.

Huntsman was a special case because he actually spoke Chinese which, you'll have to admit, is pretty damn rare, especially for a former American politician. And if anything is true about Huntsman's nature, his generally calm demeanor and lack of willingness to engage in partisan rhetoric probably doomed his 2012 presidential bid before it ever got off the ground.

Strictly speaking, Clinton isn't an ambassador. However, you might note that certain cabinet officials (like US Secretaries of State and Attorneys General) do NOT engage in partisan politics while serving.

And by the time Mondale served as ambassador, his political career had effectively come to an end.

I see. None of them fit your narrative so....

It's also about temperament. If there's ANYONE who recently served as a diplomat and was ill-suited to the role based on personality and temperament, it was John Bolton.

Rice obviously has both the temperament AND the educational background, AND the professional work history to serve both as UN ambassador AND US Secretary of State.

Palin has none of that. In fact, she routinely takes public comments personally to such an extent that she lashes out...even at comedians. That makes her a poor fit to work with other people from other countries and cultures who have their own agendas which must be understood in an effort to find common ground.

 

[beretta304]

I said as a general rule.

Huntsman was a special case because he actually spoke Chinese which, you'll have to admit, is pretty damn rare, especially for a former American politician. And if anything is true about Huntsman's nature, his generally calm demeanor and lack of willingness to engage in partisan rhetoric probably doomed his 2012 presidential bid before it ever got off the ground.

Strictly speaking, Clinton isn't an ambassador. However, you might note that certain cabinet officials (like US Secretaries of State and Attorneys General) do NOT engage in partisan politics while serving.

And by the time Mondale served as ambassador, his political career had effectively come to an end.

I see. None of them fit your narrative so....

It's also about temperament. If there's ANYONE who recently served as a diplomat and was ill-suited to the role based on personality and temperament, it was John Bolton.

Rice obviously has both the temperament AND the educational background, AND the professional work history to serve both as UN ambassador AND US Secretary of State.

Palin has none of that. In fact, she routinely takes public comments personally to such an extent that she lashes out...even at comedians. That makes her a poor fit to work with other people from other countries and cultures who have their own agendas which must be understood in an effort to find common ground.

Why the obsession with Palin? No one is talking about her. She played a very diminished role after the primaries and you have a boner for her all morning.

Here's some BREAKING NEWS...many Republicans/Conservatives don't give a shit about her. She's old news that.... you can't seem to let go of.

 

[HUGGY]

You are both so full of it. By now you should have figured out what an idiot Sara Palin is. The fact that you haven't is not surprising. What do you do instead?? Give the criticism Palin deserves to a woman that is her exact opposite. That friggin' figures.

sorry I don't hate Palin like you do..I don't dislike Rice but she has shown she isn't cut out for the position she has let alone a higher position as Sec. of state..

now go stew in your Palin hate..it becomes you

Grow up Stefunny. No one "hates" Palin. They laugh at her. Claiming she was a mayor is silly. Do you know how small Wassila is? The mayor of that tiney spec in the wilderness has no more clout or required experience than a girl scout den mother.

 

[beretta304]

You are both so full of it. By now you should have figured out what an idiot Sara Palin is. The fact that you haven't is not surprising. What do you do instead?? Give the criticism Palin deserves to a woman that is her exact opposite. That friggin' figures.

sorry I don't hate Palin like you do..I don't dislike Rice but she has shown she isn't cut out for the position she has let alone a higher position as Sec. of state..

now go stew in your Palin hate..it becomes you

Grow up Stefunny. No one "hates" Palin. They laugh at her. Claiming she was a mayor is silly. Do you know how small Wassila is? The mayor of that tiney spec in the wilderness has no more clout or required experience than a girl scout den mother.

That still tops you on your best day.

 

[HUGGY]

sorry I don't hate Palin like you do..I don't dislike Rice but she has shown she isn't cut out for the position she has let alone a higher position as Sec. of state..

now go stew in your Palin hate..it becomes you

Grow up Stefunny. No one "hates" Palin. They laugh at her. Claiming she was a mayor is silly. Do you know how small Wassila is? The mayor of that tiney spec in the wilderness has no more clout or required experience than a girl scout den mother.

That still tops you on your best day.

Actually it does not. I coached a little league baseball team one season.

 

[beretta304]

Grow up Stefunny. No one "hates" Palin. They laugh at her. Claiming she was a mayor is silly. Do you know how small Wassila is? The mayor of that tiney spec in the wilderness has no more clout or required experience than a girl scout den mother.

That still tops you on your best day.

Actually it does not. I coached a little league baseball team one season.

XXXXXX-Meister