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Subscribe to RSSU.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, the woman who could be President Obama's pick to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, heads to Capitol Hill today for closed-door meetings with Republican senators in an attempt to explain her comments about the Benghazi terrorist attacks.
UPDATED 9:06 AM ET, Nov. 27: Amb. Susan Rice will be on Capitol Hill the next two days to meet privately with select senators, including Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), regarding the attacks in Benghazi last September, Capitol Hill and State Department sources tell NBC News.
Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, requested two meetings with senators this week. On Tuesday, she'll meet with McCain, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
On Wednesday, Rice will meet with with Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the top Republican on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
Another hint of Rice's clout and the White House's intention to armor her, Acting CIA Director Mike Morrell will accompany her on all her Senate meetings. It was the CIA that wrote the unclassified talking points - that went through Director of National Intelligence Gen. James Clapper - that she says she relied "solely and squarely on" when doing those Sunday talk shows on Benghazi.
These are significant because McCain, Graham and Ayotte are prominent GOP national-security voices and have been among Rice's harshest critics for her handling of the situation in Benghazi.
Asked about McCain's criticism last week, Rice said, "I do believe some of the statements he has made about me are unfounded, and I look forward at the appropriate time to have a chance to respond."
Most notably, Republicans have seized on her appearance on Meet the Press days after the attack, in which she said the administration believed an inflammatory video had been at least partially responsible for the violence in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, including an ambassador. It was later revealed to be a terrorist plot.
On Sunday, McCain was noticeably less critical of her, saying: "I'd give everyone the benefit of explaining their position and the actions that they took. I'd be glad to have the opportunity to discuss these issues with her."
Rice is thought to be among the final two -- Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee being the other -- to be considered by President Obama to replace outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Rice has not been nominated yet, but all signs are pointing toward her being the president's first choice. If she were nominated, the Senate would have to confirm her.
Kerry, ironically, would chair her confirmation hearings. If Rice is nominated to succeed Clinton, it is possible Kerry would be nominated to be Secretary of Defense.
McCain said Rice called him to request the meeting with him as well as Ayotte and Graham. Ayotte said the meeting is crucial to her ability to decide whether Rice is fit to be Secretary of State.
"If President Obama nominates her for Secretary of State, I would hold the nomination until sufficient answers regarding the Benghazi attack were given, then judge based on those answers," Ayotte said. She added that it "would be helpful to see some documents."
Those documents will likely come with Morell.
McCain said he has a number of questions for Rice, and hopes this meeting will clear up concerns he's had with Rice's characterization of the attack.
"My concerns are obviously that she told the American people things that were patently false, that were not true," McCain said, "and that, as I said at the time, people don't go to demonstrations with mortars and rocket propelled grenades. But most of this goes back to the the president and his responsibility, and his failure to tell the American people the truth in the second debate that he had with Mitt Romney when he said he had called it a terrorist attack in the Rose Garden when, in fact, he hadn't. The president is the one who's responsible."
The president did, in fact, use the phrase "acts of terror" in his White House address from the Rose Garden that McCain references. "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for," Obama said.
But the president did not make clear that he believed the attacks were a terrorist plot - not the result of a the anti-Islamic video. Obama, in fact, alluded to the video when he said that the U.S. is "a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None."
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FWIW Senator Ayotte's presence is merely to add validity to McCain and Graham's attacks.
They pull her out as the token female very much in the same way that Beohner pulls Cathy McMorris-Rogers out to validate their anti-woman stances. They really don't go to Kay Baylie Hutchinson anymore. She's "too old" and left to circuiting the Sunday shows on occasion to mumble support.
I'm sure there's a benefit to be used in this manner, but I sure as hell don't see it, and it just makes them look weak, and as uniformed as their male counterparts.
Typical politics as usual.
So why did Obama choose Rice to go on the Sunday talk shows?
UN ambassador!
AKA....Lemming.....
All Ms. Rice has to do is tell specifically "who" (name), gave her the information she told the american people on those news programs. And "when" (exact date/time) that person gave her the information. From what I've read she has not done so as of yet. Always referring to the intelligence community, etc. without any specifics.
Exactly......Who came up with this fairy tale???? Who decided to go with this story days after the truth was known? It has been said that the reference to terrorist activities was in the initial talking point but were later deleted...That had to be done be someone in this administration......Answer that and you'll find the truth.....
Are the both of u two little children or something. I mean do ya'll have cable TV. It has already been said on all the cable news shows that the Intellegence Department Head person gave the talking points to Susan Rice. The head of that department publicly said he was the one who change the talking points prior, I repeat Prior to giving it to Susan Rice. Hell you can even go to Google and find this information.
Are ya'll that stupid to know this, I mean c'mon now. If 1 of you ask again who gave her the talking points, who change the talking points one more time. Your stupidity will be proven to everybody on FR.
Wb52 an William,
The person who gave and changed the talking points is "The Director of National Intellegence".
His name is James Clapper.
Does any of this information make any sense to ya'll now. Or are the both of you to stupid to realize the FACTS when its right there in your face.
William, you said you are tired of her referring to the intel community. Hello dummy, what else is she suppose to refer to if thats where she received her information from. Let me guess she should refer to Santa Claus, right.
Santa Claus or Fox News - same difference.
blearyeyed, you got that right. Wb and William are Fox news sheep. Just listening to some of the BS these two idiots say is laughable. WB repeats the same thing over and over again, "Empty Suit". WB = Empty Brain.
Jason797, Took your advice and googled it. James Clapper "took responsibility" for the changes "his office" made to Ms. Rice's talking points. But nowhere can I find anything where he admits to "personally" making the changes, and has not named the person who actually made them. Taking responsibility for something that happened on your watch, is not the same thing. "Taking responsibility" is an old method meant to diffuse a situation without having to face any immediate consequences. Both houses, and both parties are responsible for our current fiscal mess. Tell us what consequences anyone in office has personally suffered? Or, what personal consequences Hillary Clinton has suffered for taking responsibility for the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans? Even a dummy can figure out that game!
When American lives are lost America as a whole has united in its grief and efforts to bring to justice those at fault. Now what we see from Republicans is any chance to pounce on an opportunity to undermine the Obama Administration comes before Patriotism. Maybe the Republican Party should take a long hard look at itself and start to understand what they are put into office for. Not their own selfish agendas.
No Johnny....I need to know if Empty Suit is a liar.....Or if he backs those who would lie for him......It's truly that simple.....
That empty suit is the President of the United States. Great Job Title. Now what..
What are you, a simple minded blogger.
We need to know what drives wb52 to be the pitbull he is. Why won't he listen to reasoned answers? Why is he tone deaf about facts as they are presented to him? It's as if he doesn't hear us. Or he simply ignores us. I'll bet his wife has stopped talking to him because he ignores her all the time anyway. Maybe we should do the same. We are wasting our breath because he doesn't want to hear answers that don't match his preconceived notions about the guy who beat his guy in the last election.
John McCain, the man that gave us Sara Palin and Lindsey Graham the closet homosexual from South Carolina. LOL!!! Two disgusting human beings. They are the perfect Republicans. Barf!!
John Mccain aka "the songbird" is actually a disgusting degenerate gambler himself. And here he is the new voice of the Republican conspiracy machine. Wow
Rice should (but won't) tell these soon to be extinct dinosaurs to stick it where the "sun don't shine".
I have voted libertarian for the last 3 elections (for all the good it did) but it really is time for a new GOP party to come together with fiscal sense, common sense and just as importantly patriotism that ISN'T just war, war and more war.
your a Perot idiot too, i bet.
It's "you're" and "I'll" you complete imbecile.
Mcloser is afraid of Obama! so much for coming after Obama! what a wuss. He does not want to be called a racist. Even if she is incompetent, dishonest, and Obama is an obfuscating liar you must go along because she is black and a lesbian.
This is why the Republican Party is no longer taken seriously by the world.
@buffalo
Ms. Rice has been married for 20 years and has two children. Where does your REPUBLICAN-GOEBBELS-LIKE lie that she is a lesbian come from? AND even if she was a lesbian, how does that lessen her acumen for working at top positions in our government?
Putzes like you, Buffalo, are the current low point in America.
Hey Johnny3621820,
Can't really take the Democrats too seriously either. I mean look at what they've brought to this country. America, as a nation, doesn't even have an idea of who Barack Obama is. He's the one American President that so many people know so little about. What we were sold was the the pre-packaged, reality show, image of a president. The man is a proven pathological liar. The man can't even get his own birthday straight (nevermind where he was born). He has put the needs of the rest of the world before the needs of Americans. That's no way to lead a nation.
His deeds, and not his sound bites are what should have won him the election. Four more years of this train wreck of a president and I'm afraid there won't be much of an America left to rebuild. But hey, this is the guy that 51% of those that voted wanted. One thing is certain.... to criticize a world leader for his INEPTITUDE is NOT a racist statement (despite what every living Democrat will tell you.).
Come on, Jimmy, read the charts. You can dislike president Obama, but the economic charts would prove you uninformed. And you act like nothing is known about our president. He has faced the most corrosive scrutiny from the far right with nothing other than bogus claims about being a foreign born person being put forth. Now, just how do you feel about Mitt Romney skating on a religious deferment in France for 30 months. Put your focus on the real duds in politics.
If you like to examine train wrecks, just look at one of the engineers who tried to dedicate the Republican party to making Obama a one-term president, Mitch McConnell. He helped wreck his party and the nation with that obscene focus. And you don't think McCain hasn't been sucking on sour grapes since he went down in 2008? Get a grip, boy, and read some real news and investigate the facts. Your tirade has more holes in it than Osama bin Laden.
buffalo,
Let me guess: your a high school drop out that watches Fox "News".
I bet your an out of work, public educated progressive who can type, drink , and jerk off at the same time!
Buffalo can do those things one at a time only if he really concentrates!
Your = possessive form of you.
You're = the contraction of you are.
I was for Rice, until she decided to meet with the likes of that Bitter old man McCain. She should tell all of those Republiturd naysayers to stuff it. McCain is so bitter, that he will cut his nose off to spite his face. The Republiturd Senators and Congress has picked another losing battle, and yes the Republiturds have lost the war. If Republiturds would work for the betterment of the United States, the United States would be better off. The real reason that Republiturds do not want Rice for SS, is that, pssst,quietly now, SHE IS BLACK, and a woman, OH MY GOD.
Irrelevant people making noise so they feel better!
McCain WAS a war hero and was once even a fair minded senator but now he is just a grouchy old man who thinks the answer to everything is ATTACK! He should have quit before he ran for president but definitely afterwards.
He cannot stand liars. Guess you lefties can because it's all you ever do to make a point. The new progressives - lie if that is what it takes and to all those who oppose you call them a racist.
Aholes
If that were true he'd never go on FAUX "news".
Let's see if Rice has the guts to tell the truth instead of lying. The apple don't fall far from tree Obama.
Hey, was watcking Good Morning Lefties on ABC and the Muppets were in closing number but Elmo was missing. Then my kid noticed Big Bird was missing because Big Bird found little bird being molested by Elmo!
These socilaist cartoon characters are not funny!
The optics of this situation are awful.
Susan Rice has every academic credential anyone else would envy...and she's being called "Not too bright....lazy....unqualified...", by the man who bragged about graduating second from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy (John McCain).
John McCain wants to remind every person with a brown face that they have to pass his individual inspection before being accepted for a job. It's a modern day plantation in Washington.
Sonya take McCains' comments out of context all you like - a liar is still a liar and Rice is a liar.
You should go to work as an AP reporter.
Preface your McCain remarks with "If Rice didn't know Benghazi was a terrorist attack then........"
@rebel...
So, we have a video with McCain saying she was not bright. I just reviewed it. Just what do you think the context there happened to be? The words that lead up to that statement don't mitigate or significantly qualify the statement of not being bright.
P.S. Just what is your cause - Republican apologist?
Calling someone a liar over and over with no proof doesn't make it true except in the small minds of the meat puppets who can't think for themselves.
If McCain didn't know that Palin was an idiot then...
post a link in full of the interview Sir Dufus. My cause is ridding our country of leftie minions who not only are stupid but follow their leaders blindly with nary a moment when they question authority.
Obama is the biggest liar we have had in the Oval Office since Nixon - and the minions, like you, remain silent. Twirps.
My cause is the Congress give Obama everything he wants. He'll destroy this economy and lefties in elections for decades to come.
rebelwcause. Iraq has nukes, oh my god, lets attack and see if Haliburton can take over the oil fields. MY goodness Iraq has Nukes. Iraq has Nukes. Iraq has Nukes. Okay rebel who lied about that, and started a war for profit. Who did that Rebel?
Well, Reb, judging from the words you use and the tone of your rhetoric, we are done here. Arguing with dogmatic vein-poppers such as yourself is pointless.
don't you just love how Republicans have decided to put politics ahead of America's best interests... I can't wait for 2014 - I'm going to push the button for straight Democratic ticket again...
Bobby gee you are a moron. We want Obama to have all he wants, everything, money, print print print, programs buy votes buy votes uby votes, and whatever else he wants.
He'll destroy this economy, all will share equally in low living standards, and lefties will not be elected again for decades.
Gee thanks rebel,
I noticed how you didn't have any complaints when Bush was in the WH and getting everything that he wanted, remember all his loyal bushies... But I guess that depends on your definition of moron, right???
p.s. the economy was already destroyed when he got into office...
you forget Bobby Bush spent a lot keeping his leftie dems in Congress happy in return for war support. ever consider that dum-dum? No? Pres. Drug Benefit but one example.
Read more, comment less, get educated in the meantime, then get back to us.
P.S. Bush's economic policies had nothing to do with the banking/mortgage collapse in Sept. '08 moron. Keep using O's talking points that Bush's 8 years of economic policy created the collapse of banks in late 2008.
Keep infering we lost 700K jobs per month for most of the Bush presidency instead of the three months it occurred after the collapse. Disreagrd TARP and the fct that Bush stabilized the economy with it and not Obama as he claims he did in April 2009.
Ignore that almost all of the $800B in TARPloans have been repaid with interest. How much of Obama's $880B stimulus has been repaid? A few teacher, cops and GM jobs? Where's the dough Bobby?
keep spinning the tales there rebel,
TARP money doesn't flow immediately - but nice try... Bush policies of limiting regulation are the direct cause of the banking collapse - but nice try... I didn't infer that Bush was losing 700K jobs for his entire presidency - but nice try...
Fox News - Limbaugh talking points don't win any arguments here on the 'Vine, so far you are all bluster, and not much substance...
Now back to the topic at hand - McCain and his fellow Republicans eating crow after their fiasco with Amb. Rice... nice try at deflection...
Bobby - the root and core of the banking collapse was Dem policy for decades of making a mortgage available to anyone with a pulse.
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd of House and Senate Banking Committees were reminded on at least 4 occasions by Bush's number 2 at Treasury from 2001-2007 that Fannie and Frddie were holding too many bogus loans in their portfolios that could cause a major collapse in the banking industry.
First, gutless Republicans in charge of those committess didn't listen because panderers like Dodd and Frank would label them the enemies of the working poor.
Then, when Frank and Dodd were Chairmen from 2006 on to collapse they totally ignored the message. If they had listened Fannie and Freddie would not have collapsed causing the derivatives being held by invstors to become worthless.
Forget the MSLSD TV talking points you dullard and learn.
still deflecting there rebel,
remember... McCain - Amb. Rice - Republicans...
p.s. making mortgages affordable - doesn't mean not using common sense... Aren't these business guys smarter than everybody else??? Aren't they the "job creators"??? Why were those smart guys so stupid???
Obviously you are completely ignorant of the mortgage rules that were in place during the early 2000's. If you denied a loan...you ran afoul of Dodd/Frank and would loose your ability to process loans onto the secondary market.
Get a clue....
thanks wb,
but I already have a clue... and nothing in Dodd/Frank forced banks to lend to people totally incapable of paying back the loans - deregulation allowed mortgage lenders to create all sorts of new "funding" like interest only, floating interest, etc. many persons that could qualify for a traditional 30 year mortgage were instead given these new types of loans just so that mortgage companies could make a higher profit.
You and rebel need to get back on topic, instead of trying to deflect and regurgitate old Republican BS talking points...
Our senator, John McCain, like many other Republican senators, has a difficult time dealing with things that aren't purely black and white. Nuance is not part of their vocabulary. Nor is waiting to see just exactly what happened. They must have taken the same lessons that Mitt Romney did; ready, fire, aim. Time for the old dog to retire.
PLEASE type "Faux" news a bit more...so witty, original, and funny! I can't get enough!!!
rosie these lefties are a real bright bunch
don't you just love how Republicans have decided to put politics ahead of America's best interests... I can't wait for 2014 - I'm going to push the button for straight Democratic ticket again...
sorry - this posted twice for some reason...
because you are a moron Bobby
So, by stating you'd blindly vote a straight den ticket, you'd be fine with voting for a guy like Jesse Jackson Jr...because he puts America first.
Classic stuff right here.
Why can't we all just get along and be friends. Better yet, not be republicans or democrats, but all American first thinking of the country and not the party. Nah, then who would we vote for. TIC
The controversy over where Rice's Benghazi talking points continue as the radical Islamics involved in the attack still go unpunished. Where is the retaliatory stike promised by Obama?
Tad:
The Libyans themselves drove the extremists from Benghazi. Didn't you see that on the news?
09/22/2012 Libyan protesters ousted a jihadist militia from its headquarters and seized a raft of other paramilitary bases in second city Benghazi early Saturday in heavy clashes that left four people dead.
The seizure of the headquarters of Ansar al-Sharia — which has been accused of, but denied, involvement in the murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans last week — came after tens of thousands took to the streets on Friday to protest against the power of the militias.
The group’s members took flight as hundreds of protesters stormed and then torched its compound, and also evicted it from the city’s Al-Jalaa hospital, where they were replaced by military police, an AFP correspondent reported.
The trigger for the assault on the paramilitaries was a “Save Benghazi” protest after the main weekly Muslim prayers on Friday that was joined by some 30,000 peaceful demonstrators.
It drowned out a smaller rally attended by just a few hundred people called by the jihadists and hardline Islamists angry over a US-made film that mocks Islam and cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by a French magazine.
Demonstrators paid tribute to Ambassador Stevens and the other Americans killed in the September 11 assault on the US consulate in the city that Washington now says was a “terrorist” attack.
“Libya lost a friend,” read one banner. “We want justice for Stevens,” said another.
Jihadist militants of Ansar al-Sharia fired in the air as they retreated from their headquarters in the face of the overwhelmingly superior numbers of the protesters.
Libya specialist Jason Pack said that the scale of the anti-militia protest in Benghazi showed the “depth and breadth of support for the United States that prevails in Libya in the wake of the attack on Ambassador Chris Stevens.”
“Now with the people calling for a hardline anti-militia policy, Libyan leaders may find themselves steeled with the requisite courage to purge these groups from the Libyan body politic,” Pack said.
I absolutely DESPISE the fact the Susan Rice, a Rhode scholar, even finds it necessary to humble herself before these elitist-assed, white pigs!!! She did nothing wrong whatsoever; no more than Ollie North did! She was very careful about her wording of the situation as she left room for further developments with regard to the latest news coming out of Benghazi and now these pieces of sh!t feel like they have the right to crucify this woman for no other reason than the fact that she is black and aligns herself to Barack Obama? BS!!!
I have had my fill, my complete fill, of white people thinking that blacks are less than themselves or feeling that we owe them some sort of APOLOGY for even living in THEIR America! Enough is enough and I have had enough!!! She wasn't in Benghazi at the time so how in the fu.ck would she have first hand knowledge of exactly what transpired? Those that were actually THERE were confused initially regarding some details.
TO HELL with flat-headed, John McCain and his self-appointed lynch-mob! Investigation my black ass!
Right on...
JC - Obama and his crew are the Harvard elitists you dullard.
Why, because a black man shouldn't have graduated Harvard, you turd? Why isn't Mitt Romney an elitist in your mind? Be honest for a fu.cking change! Why isn't Romney an elitist; both men graduated from the same university but the black man is an elitist while the white man is not; at least in your warped mind, he is not! Double standards, ALWAYS; DOUBLE STANDARDS!!! One set of rules for white people and a whole nuther set of rules for minorities; I AM SICK SO OF THE BS THAT GUIDES THE THINKING OF THIS NATION and so glad that some whites are coming to their senses. It is time out for backward thinking; that a person is somehow wrong or guilty of something simply BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK OR A SO-CALLED MINORITY!
If blacks are of a ghetto mentality; WHITE FOLKS WHINE! If blacks fight through poverty and make something of themselves and their lives; WHITE FOLKS WHINE! If blacks make it from poor to the middle-class, WHITE FOLKS WHINE! The bottom line is this: Now that blacks are no longer the free servants of white ppl...whites don't want us in this country at all. If we are not willing to scrub floors for pennies or baby-sit little, rotten, spoiled-ass, white kids and clean up after YOUR LAZY ASSES; then we are not welcome here; in this America!!! Some white ppl are coming around and seeing the truth, its the other ones that I have a problem with!!!
Right on...
I wouldn't buy AVON from this stupid COW. She's proven to the White House & to the American people that she will do & say whatever she's told, regardless of how ridiculous it is; regardless of the facts. The clout she has in that Morrell flunkie is that he's just the mouthpiece of the CIA, put into place, just as soon as Gen. Petreaus was conveniently disposed of.
Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State is, at best, ineffective. Susan Rice at that post is going to be an absolute disaster. Bear in mind.... none of what is happeninig is by sheer coincidence or reaction to sudden developements. This is all calculated, deliberate, strategic chess moves.
This comes at a time where The Middle East is on the verge of exploding and Israel has never been more vulnerable. I think Obama's setting it up to just let it happen and, like Nero, just watching it burn. As long as he puts the needs of the whole world before the needs of Americans he will go down in history as the WORST American Persident that had ever lived.
WHAT??? And Kandi Rice didn't LIE for Dubya and Chinface Cheney? Are you really that stupid or just that blind that you can't see beyond your political affiliation? That COW as you call her happens to be a Rhode scholar and that offends your white, superiority sensibilities, doesn't it? Sure! She hasn't done anything wrong but she is black so she is a COW; but you are an obvious COW-WARD! So you are the one with the real problem. You are all the way over here in America but you are frightened by what is happening in the middle-east as though Susan Rice is to blame for whatever happens all across this globe! If you are afraid to die; THEN YOU ARE A CERTIFIED FOOL because EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER; SOONER OR LATER! We ALL die you puke!
Barack Obama is the worst president ever but he got bin-Laden! And who/m did Dubya kill? Ummm; I think it was a guy that never did ANYTHING TO AMERICA!!! Yeah, that's the one Dubya got , you ignorant COW-WARD!
Right on...
It's really sad to see the GOP leadership sucked into the Fox bubble.
No one's looking at the BIG PICTURE in all of this. Gen. Petreaus sent messages in the clear to the White House, as Benghazi was being hit, that it was a TERRORIST attack (not a demonstration gone awry). Somehow... the White House got the wrong message and went PUBLIC with it (via Barack Obama & Susan Rice).
Even after it was confirmed that Petreaus' initial intelligence was indeed correct, they stuck to their story, right up until it could no longer hold water with the American media. Peteraus is then hit with media coverage of a scandalous affair & forced to resign. rather convenient, don't you think? The bimbos served their respective purposes and are no longer relevant in the news. I bet if a team of financial forensics experts were called in to do an audit, they'd find a money trail leading from these women right upto the front door of Pennsylvania Avenue.
So... here we are, not even at the beginning of Obama's 2nd term and this adminstration is already the LAUGHING STOCK of the intelligence community. His foreign policy is in the toilet. Members of his cabinet are being replaced or bailing like rats on a sinking ship and yet the media treats him like he's completely untouchable. (Being Jamie Foxx's personal savior HARDLY counts).
Why is it reporters are afraid to challenge, (or even fact check for that matter) the behaviour of a president the nation seems to know so little about?
You effin moron. You're no better than wb52. We have told you again and again that they used the info given to them by the intel community. It is irresponsible for any member of the admin or congress to use anything else. They weren't listening to Fox or CNN or any other network to get their news, and they shouldn't.
You're nothing but a disgruntled discredited birther who's pissed at the world.
...because Mitt Romney lost! So Susan Rice is now the target of frustration for pigs like you and McCain and Graham-CRACKER and that stuck-up Ayotte tramp! Your guy lost and now you want your ounce of flesh from that COW, as you call her, so you come here now to peddle your extremist wares!!! Go straight back to hell; that's where you came from!!!
Right on...
Ambassador Rice did what she was asked to do; relay the administration's talking points to the American people. The shame is that the administration has tarnished Ambassador Rice's credibility, and if she were to become SOS, the credibility of the U.S..
At the end of the day it will be revealed that this is all about the CIA covering its big hairy a$$ because they failed to discover this plot as they should have. They f--ked up so they tried to call it a spontaneous demonstration initially---then when that failed, they had to let the truth out. The Administration got caught up in the CIA's lies, which was almost as stupid as McCain endless harping on this event.
Wow. Not bad. CIA does CYA.
Still doesn't make Obama or Rice a liar.
Yep, and I don't believe either Obama or Rice lied about anything.
THEY were not there! So any information they forwarded had to be second hand and from the intelligence community at best. So what are the nay-sayers crying about at all?
You know; I kinda hate to mention it BUT; it is so obvious because not one single black person has spoken ill of Susan Rice, her honesty, her credibility, or her credentials; not a single one! What does that say; that the only ones protesting are these Three Stooges? Tells me a lot about how far this nation has to go before it can even begin the healing process with regard to racism. This effort by McCain's Raiders reveals so much about the state of this America in the year 2012! We still have a long ways to go!!!
Right on...
It seems obvious that Rice just retold information that was given her and it is also just as obvious that Graham, McCain and the Republicans are once again playing the Republican game of stubbornly blocking and arrogantly faulting whatever they can, soley for their political purposes, without ever having any real concern for the people's interests. How can we ever expect them to get down to working with bipartisanship to resolve problems with compromise and cooperation instead of obnoxiously and belligerently always being totally irresponsible in wasting time pursuing only their own political interests, being totally without conscientious concern for doing their job for the people. It use to be that as common courtesy and for the good of the country the opposite party to the President would try to give the President his choices for appointments, thus giving him/her the opportunity to have a good working administration - today the Republican Party has become totally obnoxious and completely self-serving while attempting to aggressively fight, fault and block every step, thus constantly forcing government into a total non-productive gridlock. Can't get more disgusting and irresponsible than that.
I LIKE this...
Right on...
Timeline....
Benghazi attack....................Sept. 11
Rose Garden speech in which Obama claims to have called this a terrorist attack - see 2nd presidential debate..."pull the transcript Candy"....although he went on for about 3 weeks calling it a reaction to a video..................................Sept. 12 the day after the attack.
Rice's appearance on 5 Sunday news shows stating that this was a reaction to a video, Sept. 16, four days after Obama says he called it a terrorist attack.
It appears that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, or someone is lying. Too many people are falling on their swords for this to be belivable.
"ON WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE".....................