From: Judy Miriga
People !!
Mmmmm ! People are left wondering if it is not hate mongering conspiracy with racial discrimination toppings which motivates MCcain with team in the the GOP Republicans to fight Susan with such lethal venom. Things cannot continue to be this way……..It is their way or no way…….Surely, wont they get some reality check, so they engage on repairing their damaged image after such a humiliating defeat…..??? They lost because they did not have any reasonable substantive issues to sell to the people. It is time they be realistic and get some reality check so they join the rest of people in Nation building. I have watched Susan Rice and seen a highly qualified woman with conviction doing her work at the UN Office with dedication, passion and with Grace. She is one of our own we are very proud of. The attack on Susan is quite unfortunate because she used the talking point she was given by the CIA. This confirms that she is not the one the GOP should go after. To me, Susan Rice has outshined many men and this could be another reason she is under attack………
Divided we fall, United we are strong and together we shall transform the world to be a better place free from pain and sufferings…….
We need each other people, and we learn from our mistakes and No One is perfect……Give Susan Rice a breather and let us all move on aiming at sharing to improve matters……
I love you all people, but we cannot afford to get stuck in the mudslinging we have a lot to get engaged and concentrate to fix fixtures., so life will be of meaning again……..
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Maddow Explains Motive Behind McCain Attacks On Susan Rice
Published on Nov 29, 2012 by Tomthunkit
What is the deal with Sen. McCain? Some say it is bitterness, sour grapes after his 2008 presidential election loss against President Obama. Perhaps. One of our contributors says, “McCain has become a case study in lingering bitterness as he morphed from outspoken maverick to cranky old conservative with a hair-trigger temper.”
Rep. Kelly Calls for Ambassador Susan Rice to Defend Her Talking Points
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Rep Marcia Fudge defends UN Ambassador Susan Rice from attacks by Sen McCain
Published on Nov 16, 2012
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McCain Leads Smear Attacks Against Susan Rice as GOP Eyes Scott Brown For Senate
Published on Nov 29, 2012 by politicalarticles
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The Senators vs. The Ambassador: Sleazy Graham, John McCain Attack Amb. Susan Rice
Published on Nov 15, 2012 by politicalarticles
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CONDI RICE 43 PRESIDENT BUSH SECRETARY TOLD A BIG LIE ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ … THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS DIED … CONDI RICE WAS PROMOTED TO NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR .. NO INVESTIGATION WHATSOEVER WAS CONDUCTED ABOUT ..*THE UNJUST WAR* THAT THE REPUBLICANS SPENT TRILLIONS ON … LUNATIC LINDSEY AND JOHN McCAIN ..ARE ADAMANT TO BLOCK U.N. AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE CONFIRMATION … WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WILL THINK THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL KILL 4 AMERICANS WHOM HE APPOINTED …
Obama: ‘Couldn’t be prouder’ of Susan Rice
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News
White House Corresponden
The Ticket –
President Barack Obama praised embattled U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice as “extraordinary” on Thursday as she looked on during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
“Susan Rice is extraordinary. Couldn’t be prouder of the job that she’s done,” Obama said in response to a question from a reporter. The president and the assembled top aides then applauded.
But Obama gave no clue as to whether he was any closer to nominating her—or anyone else—to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton has said she will be leaving her post after four years as America’s top diplomat, a role in which she has won praise from Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
Rice, who is known to be close to Obama, is thought to be a top contender for the job. So is Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But she has become a lightning rod for Republican criticism of the administration’s handling of the Sept. 11 attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya. Several top Republicans, including Sen. John McCain, have vowed to block her confirmation.
That assault claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Republicans have accused the administration of misleading the public by playing down intelligence that it was a terrorist attack. They have also charged that the administration ignored requests for increased security in Benghazi and expressions of concern about extremists operating in the eastern Libyan city.
The White House flatly denies deliberately misleading the public.
Rice’s star rises as congressional opposition dims
By BRADLEY KLAPPER and MATTHEW LEE | Associated Press –
WASHINGTON (AP) — With congressional opposition softening, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice could find her name in contention as early as this week to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. It’s a step that may signal greater U.S. willingness to intervene in world crises during President Barack Obama’s second term.
As Obama nears a decision on who should be the country’s next top diplomat, Rice has emerged as the clear front-runner on a short list of candidates that many believe has been narrowed to just her and Sen. John Kerry, despite lingering questions over her comments about the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya.
According to congressional aides and administration officials, Rice will be making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week for closed door meetings with key lawmakers whose support she will need to be confirmed. Those appearances follow her first in-depth explanation of her Benghazi remarks that Republicans seized on as evidence of the administration’s mishandling of the attack that took the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
Acting CIA Director Michael Morell will join Rice in her meetings with lawmakers.
A senior Senate aide said the administration was trying to measure the strength of the Republican opposition to a Rice nomination, sounding out the more moderate members of the Foreign Relations Committee such as Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who is in line to become the panel’s top Republican next year, and Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.
Rice is scheduled to meet on Tuesday with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., her most vocal critic on Capitol Hill. She will also meet with Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. McCain and Ayotte are members of the Armed Services Committee.
During an interview on Monday, McCain said he would ask Rice “the same questions I’ve been talking about on every talk show in America.” Asked whether he thinks she’s still unfit for secretary of state and what he was hoping for, McCain interrupted and said, “I’m not hoping for anything. She asked to see me and I agreed to see her.”
Assessing the prospects for Rice before Obama makes any announcement would avoid the embarrassment of a protracted fight with the Senate early in the president’s second term.
On talk shows the weekend following the attacks, Rice relied on talking points provided by the intelligence community that described the attack as a spontaneous assault growing out of a protest of an anti-Muslim film. GOP critics say her remarks downplayed evidence of an obvious terrorist attack just weeks before the Nov. 6 election.
Republicans called her nomination doomed, leading to a vigorous defense of her by Obama in his first post-election news conference. But since then, GOP lawmakers seemed to have softened their views. McCain, who said earlier this month that would he do everything in his power to scuttle a Rice nomination, said on Sunday that he was willing to hear her out before making a decision. McCain ally Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has also eased his opposition and said he is usually deferential to presidential Cabinet picks.
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, had issued a statement highly critical of Rice on the day of Obama’s news conference. He indicated Monday that perhaps she didn’t know what had transpired in Benghazi on the day of the attack.
“I assumed she had full knowledge of everything that went on. I’m not at all convinced of that now. She very well could have been thrown under the bus,” Inhofe said in an interview. He said she hadn’t requested a meeting but he would be glad to meet with her.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that the administration appreciated McCain’s latest comments about Rice, but wouldn’t say whether the president saw them as an opening to make the nomination. “Ambassador Rice has done an excellent job at the United Nations and is highly qualified for any number of positions,” Carney said.
Several diplomats currently serving with Rice said that what she lacked in Clinton’s star power, she could make up with a blunter approach that demands attention and has marked her tenure thus far at the United Nations.
Rice, who at 48 is relatively young, has played the role of “conscience of the administration” on human rights and detainee issues and would bring “a certain edge” to the secretary of state job, according one colleague who has dealt with Rice on multiple issues over the past three years.
She “will not be going into the job as a star,” said Karl Inderfurth, a former U.S. ambassador and senior State Department official who worked closely with Rice in President Bill Clinton’s administration when she worked as a staff aide to the National Security Council and then as assistant secretary of state for African affairs. “She will be a rising star, though.”
“Hillary Clinton understood the politics of diplomacy: what the person across the table needs in order to sell something,” said Inderfurth, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington. “Susan Rice’s background is different. What she’ll bring is her experience in multilateral engagement and the limitations thereof.”
“But the most important thing she brings to the table is her relationship with the president,” Inderfurth said.
Rice, like many other foreign policy experts of her generation, was shaped by the Clinton administration’s inability to prevent the genocide of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda 1994. Years later, she told a journalist: “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.”
That doesn’t mean the U.S. will change its policy of only providing humanitarian support to Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow the regime anytime soon. But Rice’s confirmation as the next secretary of state could alter the balance in an administration that has viewed humanitarian interventions with significant skepticism, given its rejection of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq.
An early supporter of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Rice fell out with some of her Clinton administration-era NSC and State Department colleagues who urged her to support Hillary Clinton’s competing candidacy, including her own mentor, Madeleine Albright, and some of her top aides.
With the Clinton-Obama primary battle in full gear in April 2008, tension between the two camps was on public display at a ceremony and reception to unveil Albright’s official portrait in the State Department’s ornate 8th floor Benjamin Franklin room, according to several people present. At those events, Rice firmly brushed aside appeals that she switch allegiance, those present said.
Obama’s 2008 election brought with it the prospect that Rice, one of his campaign’s top foreign policy advisers, might be in line for the Cabinet job she is known to covet. Instead, however, Obama went with the surprise choice of Clinton and gave Rice the U.N. portfolio, although he attempted to deflect her disappointment by restoring the job to a Cabinet-level position.
But her sights remained set on the top job, according to people who know her.
Since arriving in New York, Rice can point to a series of diplomatic achievements — most notably the NATO-led air campaign that toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and tougher sanctions against Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs.
But Rice has also been criticized — along with other Security Council leaders — for the failure of the U.N.’s most powerful body to take action to end the 19-month civil war in Syria.
She has also been criticized, especially by human rights groups, for being too protective of U.S. allies, namely Sri Lanka where the U.N. says up to 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final months of the country’s civil war that ended in May 2009, and Rwanda, which has been accused of backing the M23 rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congo city of Goma.
As U.N. ambassador, she has gained a reputation for a sharp intellect and sharp elbows. She is not known for diplomatic finesse, rather for being aggressive — sometimes too aggressive — and using salty language on occasion. In private, she has a good sense of humor.
In a legendary exchange last December, Rice dismissed an appeal by Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who also isn’t afraid to speak out, for a Security Council investigation of civilian deaths in Libya from NATO’s bombing campaign as “a cheap stunt” to distract attention from the Syrian conflict.
“Oh, the bombast and bogus claims,” she told reporters.
Churkin responded by mocking Rice’s Stanford University degree, saying: “We hear that the Obama administration wants to establish a dialogue with the international community in the United Nations… If this is the intention, really this Stanford dictionary of expletives must be replaced by something more Victorian.”
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Associated Press Writers Donna Cassata in Washington and Edith Lederer in New York contributed to this report.
Published on Nov 29, 2012 by Tomthunkit
What is the deal with Sen. McCain? Some say it is bitterness, sour grapes after his 2008 presidential election loss against President Obama. Perhaps. One of our contributors says, “McCain has become a case study in lingering bitterness as he morphed from outspoken maverick to cranky old conservative with a hair-trigger temper.”
Some have suggested that his demands for a special Watergate-like select committee to investigate Benghazi (there are several other investigations already ongoing), stem from the fact that, in January, the Arizona senator will lose his seat as the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, due to term limits.
Thus, unless the Senate creates a brand-new select committee with extensive authority to investigate Benghazi — a committee where McCain would probably be the ranking member — the Senator could very well fade into oblivion, perhaps as the ranking member of the Indian Affairs Committee.
Some have suggested an even deeper, more “sinister” motive — albeit a little less narcissist on the part of McCain, because it is “for the Party.”
By demonizing Rice and effectively sandbagging her Senate nomination for Secretary of State — “Borking” her, oh sweet revenge! — Obama’s hand will be forced and he may nominate Sen. John Kerry for that position. Should this happen, voilà, Kerry’s Democratic Senate seat is suddenly vacant and vulnerable.
In a special election, Republican Scott Brown would have a fair chance of winning that important Senate seat. Rachel Maddow, for one, believes that this whole fight over Ambassador Rice is “all about the numbers” and an important factor in the Benghazi-Susan Rice “affair.” According to the The New York Times, “Several senators, including Mr. McCain, said they would prefer Mr. Kerry and predicted that he would sail through a confirmation hearing.”
It is an interesting theory. However, we are straying from individual motivation, John McCain’s, into the territory of group psychosis — the Republican Party’s.
Thus back to John McCain’s motives for his Benghazi witch-hunt and his Susan Rice obsession.
In all fairness to the Senator, we should not overlook that his motives and intentions may be as pure as the driven snow in Arizona.
His concerns for truth, transparency and trustworthiness on the part of any administration, whether Democratic or Republican, and for the integrity of their staffs and of their nominees for critical positions in our government are unimpeachable, as evidenced by the following actions:
When he vigorously opposed the case for going to war against Iraq, because it was based on faulty intelligence and concocted under false pretenses. A war that killed, not four, but more than four thousand of our troops.
When he aggressively challenged and demanded investigations of the fabricated intelligence information about Iraq’s military (WMD) capabilities that was provided to Colin Powell and which the general presented to the UN Security Council in February 2003.
When he uprightly blocked the confirmation of National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice — who had made a false and public case for the Iraq war based on misleading information — as Secretary of State in 2005.
When, once the scope of the shenanigans leading up to and occurring during the disaster that came to be the Iraq War became crystal clear, McCain consistently and tenaciously pushed for special select committees to investigate the reasons for such gross malfeasance and deception at the highest levels of our government.
We may never know what motivates this “Maverick,” but we can make some assumptions that will be called reasonable or outrageous, depending on the views — and sometimes the (political) motives — of those who make such judgments.
Read more at http://themoderatevoice.com/169276/what-motivates-john-mccain-on-benghazi-and…
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