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Topic: Republicans attack Rice, not race |
Republicans attack Rice, not race
Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/21/2012 10:30:14 PM
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| Republicans shot down Democratic charges that ongoing criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice is couched in racism or sexism, and pressed President Obama for more answers on the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, as partisan battle lines hardened Wednesday over the incident and its aftermath. Some Democrats have hinted that the intense criticism of Mrs. Rice has to do with her race and her gender, but Sen. Lindsey Graham dismissed that argument. “The only color I’m worried about when it comes to Benghazi is red — blood red — the death of four Americans,”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 11/21/2012 10:40:11 PM (No. 9028628)
We need the dimocrats to declare if Rice was lying or if she was just purely incompetent -- there is no third choice. Once we establish that, then we´ll have clarity on what the recriminations are based upon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lylacat, 11/21/2012 10:57:53 PM (No. 9028652)
No one is "attacking" Rice; they are simply holding her accountable for her horrid lies she told at 0bama;s bidding. Four Brave Americans Died, and Rice and 0bama Lied.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ccyr, 11/21/2012 11:02:58 PM (No. 9028659)
I don´t even know what race Rice is, but if she went on 5 Sunday talk shows and lied, she is disqualifed and if she went on 5 Sunday talk shows and repeated others´ lies, then she is unqualified.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Barkingkangaroo, 11/21/2012 11:05:51 PM (No. 9028662)
There should be a term for that. Whoever plays the race card or the gender card when they are losing an argument is a ... oh right, I remember... LOSER!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 11/21/2012 11:29:29 PM (No. 9028688)
The charge that John McCain is a racist was issued by the Congressional Black Caucus, a group that openly excludes white and Hispanic representatives. Why are statements from the CBC taken seriously?
If non-black and non-Hispanic representatives formed the Congressional White Caucus, news services would do their best to avoid reporting on the CWC´s press comferences. Any reporting of the CWC would be heavily laced with terms like "controversial, divisive, inflammatory, hateful and/or fringe element". Yet the CBC can toss the destructive term "racist" at senators without loss of news media coverage or criticism.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
janylou, 11/22/2012 1:55:09 AM (No. 9028784)
If this was so innocent a statement that she made on 9/16 on five Sunday shows, then why did it take over two months to defend the statement and why did she have to read from talking points to defend herself? And why lie when anyone can go back and see exactly what she said in her own words? Ms. Rice, you certainly didn´t say that it was the best info we had at the time. You insisted it was the scenario that the embassy was attacked by a spontaneous mob over a video!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nimby, 11/22/2012 3:11:54 AM (No. 9028802)
This race baiting was nothing but deflection from the real issue of Benghazi
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/22/2012 3:20:51 AM (No. 9028806)
First of all it wasn´t the UN ambassador´s job to talk about this. Someone from intelligence,the military or state dept. should have.My guess is nobody from these other depts. wanted to go on national TV and tell such a blatant lie. Obama set her up for this by saying it would raise her profile for the SoS job.But she was more than willing to be a dupe for Obama.
Rice looks a lot more compatible for Obama than the first battleaxe.My guess is there´s a lot on internal jealousy floating around the WH and power struggles.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/22/2012 5:20:56 AM (No. 9028839)
This racism charge is pure projection. The Won´s administration are the ones who have introduced race into this conversation, and it is serving as a distraction from the real issue here.
However, I have to wonder if the administration would be equally nonchalant about the terrorist attack had the victims not been white males.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/22/2012 5:32:46 AM (No. 9028846)
Seems that Graham has gotten a backbone.
About time and very welcome.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/22/2012 6:14:16 AM (No. 9028874)
Endless cries of racism are directed at the plantation dwellers in the demonrat party.
Anyone with a shred of intelligence knows this is a deliberate misdirection.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 11/22/2012 7:40:41 AM (No. 9028951)
Much more is being covered up here than who changed the wording of a memo. The questions we need answers to are:
1. Who gave the order to send help?
2. Who gave the order for the planes carrying the held to land somewhere and stand down?
In my opinion, the President and the Secretary of State did not want any attention called to the fact that terrorism still exists. They believed that end was best served by allowing the attack to kill off our people quickly and then the claim could be made that nothing could have been done. We would never have known that the cause was not the video. We would never have known that they called for help, were told help was coming, and then withdrew it without warning them of what no help was coming and it would be useless to use that radar pointer.
Unfortunately, for their plan our people put up a seven hour fight.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bevan, 11/22/2012 7:46:50 AM (No. 9028961)
Like the cowardly palestinians that hide behind women and children, any democrat criticism is met with a shield of race, gender, and class cards.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Flipper3, 11/22/2012 3:31:29 PM (No. 9029650)
Rice isas a well-known incompetant. During most of her time at the UN, she has been a no-show.
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