gulliver (8,295 posts)
Collins gave away the Republicans' real problem with Rice
Last edited Wed Nov 28, 2012, 08:50 PM USA/ET - Edit history (3)
Thank you, Sen. Susan Collins(R) for finally letting the cat out of the bag on the Republican beef with Ambassador Susan Rice.
Collins said that after a 75-minute session with Rice she still had many unanswered questions and remains “troubled†that on the Benghazi issue Rice played “a political role at the height of a contentious presidential election campaign.â€
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-corker-collins-susan-rice-benghazi-20121128,0,7774610.story
So that's it. It's really about the Republicans being sore losers in the election.
Republicans are angry at Rice for being effective, not for being ineffective. She went on all those Sunday shows and presented a cool-headed, solidly backed up, by-the-book read out of the facts as we knew them. Unfortunately for Rice, her poise and mastery of the situation were so good she put a damper on the poor Republicans' election chances.
Rice did her job well and with supreme competence. That's why Republicans are angry. Mitt Romney lost, so someone has to pay.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021898002Of course she played a political role. She went out and spewed the talking points that 0bama wanted her to spew.
I am convinced they choose her for 3 reasons,
1 She wasn't involved in what happened so she could play dumb and spew what 0bama wanted to said.
2 She is a woman so when questioned the femi nazis will circle the wagons around her.
3 She is a black democrat so the race baiters on the left will also circle the wagons.
Of everything that went wrong Susan Rice is the least troublesome part of it as far as I'm concerned. She is nothing but a diversion.
The reality is someone in the 0bama administration ****ed up big time, then they went out and lied their asses off about it.
yardwork (35,446 posts)
4. That suggests that the Republicans were counting on Benghazi to change the election.
I still can't get over the fact that Mitt Romney held a press release about the events in Benghazi before anybody even knew that people had been killed. And he had a smirk on his face the entire time as he burbled his prepared talking points about how the Obama administration was "apologizing" for the video.
Now, nothing else the Romney campaign did was effective or timely. It was the most inefficient, ineffective campaign I've seen in my lifetime and I'm old as dirt. How in the world did the Romney campaign put together those talking points for Romney before anybody else even knew what had happened in Benghazi - before the Romney campaign itself even knew that Americans had been killed? I think it is because the Romney campaign knew that there was going to be unrest in Benghazi and may even be connected to people who caused the unrest.
The whole point of causing problems in Benghazi was to create a "September 11 surprise" designed to make Obama look weak on terrorism. The talking points that he was "apologizing" for the U.S. were already prepared and in fact had been said by Mitt many times before.
Things did not go according to plan. Americans ended up dead. Things turned out to be more confusing than Romney and Rove expected. The role of the CIA is very murky in all this (and I wonder if Petraeus's later resignation is a result of what happened in Benghazi). And Obama and his administration didn't take the bait. They didn't apologize for terrorism. In fact, they made some very nimble adjustments to a rapidly unfolding, confusing tragedy.
All the Republicans have left of the debacle is Susan Rice. They're furious that their plan blew up in their faces.
Seriously DUmmy, you are arguing that Romney had to have been in on it to realize that it was terrorism?
I must have had a role in it too because I knew it was terrorism from the first second they reported it.
The DUmmies are such fools, their preezy was incompetent and they blame Romney for being part of a MIHOP operation.
