Intro: "The Republicans have thrown down the gauntlet over the possibility that Susan Rice will replace Hillary Clinton. But the winner is already clear."
Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. (photo: AP)
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McCain hates Obama. He has never gotten over his defeat and will do anything he can to hurt Obama.
Barb, the McCain/Graham hatred is so pronounced you can cut thru it with a knife. These men should definitely not be in Congress. They can't be gone soon enough. When it comes to knowledge and job qualifications, Sarah Palin - selected by McCain to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency if he had won - is no match for Susan Rice. Now that's the Senate, where Susan Rice will go for confirmation if nominated. Even though the GOP is in the minority in the Senate, the filibuster gives them the power to control the agenda. I just wish Senator Reid would make them take the floor and speak to carry out their filibuster. That would put faces on the people who are preventing legislation from happening.
My real concern is with the House, where a simple majority - and they are "simple" - can pass inflammatory legislation and deny the President's agenda. As a result of the 2010 Census, districts have been redrawn in GOP-controlled states such that they'll be guaranteed to hold those districts. A survey shows that Dems would have gained control of the House if the 2008 districts had been retained. President Obama and the Dems have an uphill climb in 2014 and beyond.
It certainly is a "STATE OF WAR", and will remain so as long as we have a Tea Party House.
For these 2 punks to try to discredit a woman who has served her country honorably for decades is a terrible injustice. Are these 2 freaks that insecure?
Yes it is indeed interesting to hear Lindsey Graham and McCain call her unqualified, and not very intelligent.
That is rich PARTICULARLY coming from McCain.
He graduated from the Naval Academy 5th FROM THE BOTTOM!!. And ONLY because his dad was an Admiral and it would have been too embarrassing, if he had NOT graduated.
As a Pilot, he was too cocky and crashed two expensive jets on landing, because of incompetence. And when he was shot down over Vietnam, it was because he had not been following orders.
I have never understood why he is deferred to as competent to express his opinion on military--and foreign affairs.......H e was sitting in a plane at 3000 feet and dropping bombs.
That does NOT make you a military or foreign affairs expert, so he should be quiet and go away.
Here's a 39-minute YouTube program that is the best video I've seen yet showing who did 9/11 and why it was done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsDtvu2uTuA&feature=youtu.be
To wit:
In its analysis of terrorism, the Pentagon's Defense Science Board of the U.S. Defense Department concluded that "Muslims do not hate our freedom,...they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority [object] to what they see as one-sided support in favour of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for...tyrannies , most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNr_TrBw6E
This is the moral bottom of so-called civilization. It has right-wing lunatics trying to tell me that women like Susan Rice represent feminism, as if the just call to gender equality means women should prove just as arrogant in the use of deadly force as men trained to do so under a crippled conception of masculinity that's lasted for centuries.
Whether Rice gets in or otherwise is just window dressing. The real issue is working towards the coalition of Just Forces, those prepared to counter the sickening habit of state violence with the Rule of Law.
Anyone with the guts to pay honest attention to foreign policy, whether led by the R "team" or the D "team" can find the interest in creating cause to do battle the mutually reinforced theme.
To me, the "real" 9/11 happened 28 years earlier and almost 40 years ago. It happened when American officials (CIA and otherwise) colluded with American corporations (not least Pepsico) and a proto-fascist domestic military to overthrow the democratically elected president of Chile, torture and murder at least 20,000 Chileans, and drive that country into a dictatorial darkness under Augusto Pinochet (ably assisted by "economists" at the University of Chicago) that remained in place for 17 years.
Evil was perpetrated against the United States of America in 2001, to be sure (and I regret that the US hasn't learned the proper lessons from the experience even yet); but worse has befallen others.
Thinking deeply about what the United States has done abroad can only help it face the crimes it has committed, and thus begin to heal at home. Only when and if that happens, will the US be able legitimately to assume a position of moral leadership in the world.
I think what you are doing is trying to change the subject.
"War abroad entails tyranny at home." (Hannah Arendt) That's a historically proven recipe.
Re: Building 7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_kSq663m0G8#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IwdD6ERutEI
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4085
Re: The Twin Towers.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4054
"1. Because every piece of available evidence suggests Obama wants her in the job."
Is precisely why they will fight tooth and nail until they defeat the nomination.
The more Obama wants something, the more the GOP wants it not to happen.
They draw battle lines they are drawing are Norquist-like in their absolute intransigence and this is turning into one of those brinkmanship moments.
The GOP hates the President- what he wants, they are automatically against.
Then, there are certain aspects to her candidacy, unspoken and vociferously denied, that make her approval, unlikely.
I agree, hwatt, that GOP hatred for Barack Obama has caused total intransigence - to the point of stupidity - on the part of the GOP to the extent that it has hampered any attempts by the President to rescue the American economy. It's an inside struggle that - no matter what's good for America - ignores the wishes of the American electorate, even though the President was easily elected to a 2nd term. It's almost as if the GOP were placing IED's in position to disrupt any forward economic progress.
And regarding the "certain aspects" to Susan Rice's candidacy, I'll tell you why they shouldn't remain "unspoken". Susan Rice, in case you hadn't noticed, is an AFRICAN-AMERICA N FEMALE! Certainly the GOP, in the persons of John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have gone out of their way, not only to oppose Ms. Rice, but to disparage her qualifications and her reputation. Familiar ground coming from a group of dunces who are immediately inflamed by the presence of women and minorities in responsible positions. Just look at what they've said and done to the President and Attorney General Eric Holder. Case closed.
I certainly hope the President DOES NOT back down from the Susan Rice nomination!
With your easy acceptance of "The Repugs made it impossible for Obama to ----- " (fill in the blank), you're obviously the target "viewer" of these made for television foreign and domestic policy story-lines.
Graham has sown his lips to the Buttocks of McCain over the last few years and I hope these two racist's do burn in hell. McCain sure hasn't done a damn thing for his country or for the state of Arizona.He was a lousy military man and a very inept senator.
I think that is the first time I have seen anybody say, that McCain was a lousy military man!! most defer to him very respectfully. They know that he was a prisoner for years in North Vietnam.
That must have been horrible, but from what I have read some time ago... He was in an area, where he was ordered NOT to be. He didn't follow orders too well.
It also disgusts me, that although his wife tried to move heaven and earth to free him,.... sadly to no avail... He ran around with anything in skirts, when he finally was released.
After going on some trips with congress people he decided to run for congress.
He knew that requires money, so when he met young, attractive and ....very rich Cindy, he pursued her vigorously.
...although he had not yet bothered to divorce his first wife....a real prince.
He was riding high on his prisoner of war fame. ....He still is. He is a publicity hound. I believe NOBODY has been on TV as much as he has
But didn't she have a NAMESAKE who was part of a hubristic and nepotistic gang, masquerading as an administration that sent the US into two wars on a lie who was arrogant AND incompetent, including ignoring warnings from her own security apparatus and allies, including Israel, that attacks on American targets by Al-Queda were imminent prior to 9/11?
Now the latter-day spawn of the same crowd are howling for the blood of somebody much more qualified and alert, using Benghazi as a last-gasp, mean-spirited gesture of a bunch of downward-headed sore reactionary losers!
Rice not very bright? This from John McCain? Make him EAT it.
I think Hagel would be great too.
I think I remember some of your posts on Bradley Manning about posting things that were labelled "Top Secret". If Ms. Rice had said something that was redacted, would she not be doing the same? Of course, not liking her because you don't like Obama might skew your Point of View a little.
Her I.Q. is probably 50 points higher than Sarah's. If they had a similar scale for integrity, I'm sure she'd do equally well.
RICE: 'Well, Jake, first of all, it's important to know that there's an FBI investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. That will tell us with certainty what transpired.
But our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous -- not a premeditated -- response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated.
We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to -- or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons, weapons that as you know in -- in the wake of the revolution in Libya are -- are quite common and accessible. And it then evolved from there.
We'll wait to see exactly what the investigation finally confirms, but that's the best information we have at present.' cont.
I still believe that democracy cannot function when people are fed misinformation. If officials don't want to answer because of security reasons, they should say so. I believe I'm getting lots of thumbs down from people so suckered into the divide and conquer republican against democrat "State of war" that they can't be bothered to find out what's really going on. I guess many people just don't want to know.
If I sound cynical, I have apt cause to be as is true of anyone paying attention and able to pull back the curtain that the duopoly "Oz" has used to bamboozle the public about the degree to which its interests (economic, social, moral and ecological) have been sold out to the highest corporate bidder. In the USA, today Democracy = bah, humbug!
Transcript is the best way to hear the WHOLE answer, not cherry-pick.
Should Chris Stevens have been called back to Tripoli for 9/11? In my opinion, yes. Did Rice have ANYTHING to do with any of this? NO.
As far back as I can remember, if anyone begins to succeed in the peace process in the Middle East, they are eliminated.
McCain has demonstrated amply that he lacks any capacity to choose any candidate for any office and is not even in my opinion qualified to hold the one he occupies.
NSA staff for Clinton during 1st term
Ass't Sec'y of State for African Affairs during Clinton's second term, Phi Beta Kappa Rhodes Scholar for which she wrote the dissertation: "Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980: Implications for International Peacekeeping"
This is the resume , or only part of the much longer resume we are talking about when we are asking the Senate to confirm Ms. Rice. These yahoos from the Carolinas like Graham and the idiot like McCain who barely made it out of the Naval Academy should be proud to shine her academic boots and yet they have the gall to call her stupid!
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