Why Folks Need to Get Off Susan Rice’s Bumper
The Republican backed fire that’s been sparked under Susan Rice’s seat has been flaming hot ever since President Barack Obama openly defended the U.N. Ambassador to replace current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Right-wing critics have attempted to back Rice into a corner, riding on her bumper about the way she addressed the September 12, 2012, Benghazi attacks in Libya.
Ninety-seven House Republicans signed a letter to the president last week, expressing their deep concerns over Rice’s potential nomination, claiming that Rice’s media comments on Libya five days after the attack—the claim the assaults were caused by protestors who were upset over an anti-Muslim YouTube instead of terrorists—“caused irreparable damage to her credibility both at home and around the world.”
Are the oppositionists to Rice right to shoot the messenger? Or are they just plain haters who are unwilling to watch a black woman rise?
Perhaps we don’t play the race card. Is there a valid argument about Rice’s ability to wear the white hat and sit at the big boy’s table in Washington?
Rice has taken responsibility for the misleading information that first hit the public in the wake of the Benghazi attacks, but says her reason for doing so was to protect the nation’s intelligence and anti-terrorist efforts.
“I relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community. I made clear that the information was preliminary and that our investigations would give us the definitive answers,” NBC reports of Rice saying to reporters at the United Nations.
Furthermore, former CIA Director David Petraeus recently testified that Rice’s talking points in those crucial days after the attacks reflected a need to help national officials get their work done. Intelligence officers did not want terrorist groups in eastern Libya to catch wind that the United States knew of their involvement in order to access appropriate information.
With these reveals, Republican oppositions have now simmered their tone against Rice—but not without backstabbing efforts to tarnish Rice’s reputation. Beyond Benghazi, her opposition has attempted to paint her as a mad woman by recalling a 2008 standoff with McCain over his “reckless” foreign policies in Iraq and an instance when she flipped her middle finger at a higher up as an assistant secretary of state.
So, sister girl got mad. Big deal. Sister girl got opinions. Don’t we all?
I hate this woman with an everlasting disdain.
She is a Rhodes scholar, what? a Cecil John Rhodes scholar.
Was Cecil John Rhodes not a white power advocate who gave money so that Oxford University can recruit students who will then take up positions to further Anglo Saxon domination in the whole world?
Cecil John Rhodes stole the diamonds and gold in Southern Africa, to give to Oxford University and to further the white course.
Now black people have become the biggest cheer leaders the world has ever seen, even though people like Susan Rice have sold their half breed souls to the white power institutions. Oxford University is so racist , it is worse than the Ku Klax Klan.
Black people, let us start to think, where are people like Susan Rice dragging us to?
Look at the carnage Susan Rice caused in Libya, where there is ethnic cleansing of Black people and how Obama and Rice turned a blind eye to France kidnapping an elected President of the Ivory Coast under NATO and the United Nations.
Obama and Rice have opened Africa up to Western domination, like no other administration has done. Africa was always going to have problems because now it is aligning itself with China and the Western powers hate that.
Susan Rice is a sell out, how could you even dispute that?
Exactly,we get emotional because she a black woman but to me she’s just like condelezza, staying quiet while africa gets destroyed.
The Cecil Rhodes bit is pointless to me. It’s a great scholarship, why not take the money? As for the Obama policy in Libya and the blow back in West Africa, especially Mali, that is a disgrace. If Obama weren’t so itent on cracking Arab heads to impress white folks who will still call him a Muslim terrorist supporter no matter what he does, none of his would have happened.
I think Obama should visit Kenya during his second term. I also think that China in Africa is something that the West really has no way to counteract short of direct military intervention that they cannot really afford.
Glad you guys covered this. if anyone is so inclined there is a petition in support of Ms. Rice:
http://www.petition2congress.com/8447/congress-let-go-partisan-politics-support-ambassador-rice/
How can Cecil Rhodes be irrelevant? This is Africa’s gold being used to all nations to the Anglo Saxon Brotherhood. Cecil John Rhodes institutions like the Council On Foreign Relations dominate Washington and Westminster.
My brother talked about scholarship, I have seen the British break African great students because they would not be initiated. The British Universities are crawling with MI6 and CIA agents. The British fail you by one mark, if you take their scholarship, you are beholden to them.
Britain uses scholarships as a weapon. Africa has been stupid.
To use the words of william copper ” all Rhodes scholars should be brought to trial for working for a foreign power”
Rice and Obama have white people sick philosophies in their heads. Obama- liberation theology.
Rice- British Israelism. Now we are cheer leading them but we wonder why they never do anything for their people.
They have sold their souls to the Committee of 300.
My point is that the endowment for the Rhodes Fellowships was established well over 100 years ago. Using your logic, there are very few older awards black people should accept.
Wonderful comment on the Rhodes joint…..one of my greatest pleasures was urinating on his sculpture while i visited Zimbabwe….i supported Rice until i was informed of her investments in the pipeline.
Just another greedy individual
Liane membris,
Please do an arrant background test on Susan Rice’s involvement in Africa , investments, and policies and then come back and write this letter. Your blog post shows how misinformed you are about Ms. Rice. It is not only the Republicans that are lobbying against Ms.Rice it is also liberals. I feel like you are coming to her defense because she is a black woman??!