Susan Rice drops out of running for secretary of state; Saddened by partisan politics

reply to post by SeekerofTruth101

Instead, the GOP and supporters are happy to crucify Susan, just because she was a choice of President Obama, and perhaps could it be that she was black too?

Please don't forget that the liberals began piling on her with great ferocity. The GOP stuck to her knowledge of Benghazi while the liberals started to attack her personally including a liberal reporter with the New York Times.

As Seth Mandel notes over at Commentary, the controversy over Rice’s potential nomination wasn’t strictly partisan, and wasn’t all about Benghazi:

Republicans on the Hill had basically limited their critique of Rice to her misleading statements following the Benghazi attack. Liberals, on the other hand, made it personal. Dana Milbank suggested Rice had an attitude problem. Maureen Dowd said Rice was too ambitious and unprincipled for her own good–or the country’s. Yesterday at the Daily Beast, Lloyd Grove launched a bizarre attack on Rice that accused her of having a personality disorder. The left has also been driving the less personal attacks as well. Howard French said Rice’s Africa legacy is the further empowerment of dictators. Human Rights Watch’s Tom Malinowski knocked Rice for essentially enabling atrocities in Congo.

Meanwhile, it should not go unnoticed that Hillary Clinton made her opposition to Rice clear to officials in Washington, which may explain the avalanche of leaks and criticism and personal sniping that came from the left as soon as the battle commenced.

spectator.org...

The left does not like this

But the Libya debacle aside, Rice was under increasing scrutiny over her record of militarism, including her support for the invasion of Iraq, her backing of authoritarian African leaders and her description of her post as ambassador to the UN as being intended to provide "unwavering support for Israel".

Rice served in Bill Clinton's administration as a national security adviser and an assistant secretary of state for Africa. She was out of office by the time of 9/11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. But she backed the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, the false pretext for the invasion.

Rice has also come under strong criticism over her positions on Africa, most recently for trying to suppress a UN report that was strongly critical of the Rwandan government's arming and other support for rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

As a national security official in the Clinton White House, Rice played a part in the US's failure to act against the 1994 genocide of Rwanda's Tutsis. She has said that was a searing experience and has vowed to push intervention to prevent similar atrocities in the future. But in practice that translated into unswerving support for authoritarian leaders she saw as a bulwark against genocide, even if they too had blood on their hands.

Rice has been an unrelenting supporter of the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, who as a Tutsi rebel leader put a stop to the genocide. But that support has continued in the face of a growing body of evidence that his forces are bound up with years of war crimes in Congo that have contributed to millions of deaths.

www.guardian.co.uk...

Once the left began to roll over on her, she was cooked. End of story. Hillary does not care for her either....

Can't blame the GOP for everything...Sometimes you have to look to the left when they decide to eat their young...

reply to post by jibeho


Liberals are not congresspersons. They have a right to say whatever they wish.

But what truly matter is what elected representatives are saying, for they do have the power to legislate laws or voice national concerns which are taken highly with impact to all americans.

What one or two congresspersons say doesn't matter, as it is the COLLECTIVE that matters the most. USA is a democracy after all, where ONLY after debate and discussions are honestly shared, decisions are then made.

Had the GOP, as a majority collective in the House of Representative, been objective? NONE.

They had deliberately attack innocent Susan over just one issue alone, a political vendetta, publically acclaimed by them alone as verifiable by their own public statements in press and media.

At least if Mrs Hillary Clinton had voiced her doubts objectively, if true, is only reflecting on the abilities of Susan based upon her seemingly militant stances in the world arena, but still only a lone voice in a democratic Congress. Had the GOP equally done so? Nope.

Is this how the republican majority Congress, whom legislate laws and even influence foreign policies which are in the purview of the President who is the LEADER of the FREE world, behaves, as small minded, petty, vindictive over issues, more one as critical as the post of the Secretary of State?

We humans are all flawed and will make mistakes. None is perfect. Critical is that we acknowledge our errors, correct them to progress and evolve. But will today's petty minded republicans wake up?

It is my fervant hope that they do, as NO nation should ever become a one party state. It only breeds corruption, as the majority led republican House of Representives had proven with their continual belligerance to save american economic lives over the 4 year old issue of fiscal cliff

reply to post by SeekerofTruth101

Liberals are not congresspersons. They have a right to say whatever they wish.

Could you please clarify this statement....?

Please do not underestimate the power of the liberal left media. They helped to get Obama elected twice now and they take their marching orders from a higher liberal authority.

No free passes for the left please....

Note also that the Republican opposition was based specifically on Rice's misleading statements in the wake of Benghazi. It was her critics on the left, in contrast, who highlighted gauzier, more personal issues, characterizing Rice as someone afflicted with a supposed "personality disorder" (Grove), who is "ill-equipped to be the nation's top diplomat" because of her "shoot-first tendency" and "pugilism" (Milbank), with a "bull-in-the-china-shop reputation" (Dowd).

The effort to pin the race/gender card on the GOP had already begun, with Ben Smith writing about why the Repubilican "war"on Susan Rice held political risk, and after her withdrawal, the predictable Andrea Mitchell (below) pulling out the stops:

townhall.com...

Call it what it is..

Kerry is Left Hegelian member of Skull and Bones.

Merry Christmas everyone