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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 04:56 PM Nov 2012

McCain and the Two Rices

McCain and the Two Rices
by Michael Tomasky Nov 15, 2012 11:01 AM EST


What is going on with John McCain? Maybe he just despises Barack Obama so completely that he almost can't help himself. That's one option. Another is that he has decided for whatever reason to finish his Senate career as a full-out tea partier. A third is that he's just a nasty man, which is pretty widely known to be true in Washington.

Hard to say. But this jihad of his against Susan Rice really is about the nastiest thing we've ever seen him do. Rice had nothing to do with security at the Benghazi consulate. Nothing. That just isn't her portfolio. The only thing she had to do with Libya, in any substantive way, is that she worked like a dog to assemble the coalition that toppled Muammar Ghaddafi, and she did an outstanding job at that. Indeed, as Eleanor Clift reported for the Beast back in January, Rice did travel once to Benghazi and was given a hero's welcome there.

All Rice had to do with the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack was that she happened to be the one who was sent out on television that fateful Sunday in September to state the talking points. As the Wall Street Journal has reported, and as I've passed along to you previously, she said what she was told that morning to say, and intelligence was being revised toward a conclusion that the attack was a terrorist act at the very moment that she was on the air.

McCain knows all this. He just wants a scalp, he and Lindsey Graham, over the whole Benghazi thing. And he wants to show he's relevant. The two of them are trying to make do with Kelly Ayotte now in the old Joe Lieberman role, but they've lost their bipartisan cover, which takes their whining and wailing down one notch on the legitmacy big board, and even the new independent coming into the Senate, Angus King, said yesterday that he thought McCain was out of line in attack Rice.

more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/mccain-and-the-two-rices.html
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McCain and the Two Rices (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2012 OP
sounds healthy.... whistler162 Nov 2012 #1
Bravo! salinen Nov 2012 #5
McCain is a super-loser & traitor. Do your research. The 500 fellow POW's in the Hanoi Hotel judesedit Nov 2012 #2
More than likely, you've only heard HIS side of the story.Do your research.The true & brave are the judesedit Nov 2012 #3
Does everyone know that Susan Rice is.... ReRe Nov 2012 #4
Why should anyone know that if it's not true? Cha Nov 2012 #7
I thought all black people were related?!? Drunken Irishman Nov 2012 #10
Throw Jerry Cha Nov 2012 #11
What about Uncle Ben? Drunken Irishman Nov 2012 #12
A fine ol chap.. who wouldn't Cha Nov 2012 #13
Woah! Whoa! Whoa!...you runaway horses! ReRe Nov 2012 #14
I googled it and it all came up that they weren't related. Cha Nov 2012 #16
I swear on a stack of Bibles that I heard her say that! ReRe Nov 2012 #17
I believe you.. Cha Nov 2012 #18
OK...so I went and looked around on Youtube... ReRe Nov 2012 #23
I was going to say in my previous post that Cha Nov 2012 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author Cha Nov 2012 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author Cha Nov 2012 #20
Susan Rice is NOT related to Condi. Tx4obama Nov 2012 #21
LOL - check this out. Tx4obama Nov 2012 #22
Not only that.. "Susan Rice is a "not a Cha Nov 2012 #24
OUCH! Michael Tomasky is Spot Freaking ON.. Cha Nov 2012 #6
Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team) Dubster Nov 2012 #8
Thanks for the link, Dubster Cha Nov 2012 #9
Can't wait until Meghan pens "Daddy Dearest". n/t UtahLib Nov 2012 #15

judesedit

(4,443 posts)
2. McCain is a super-loser & traitor. Do your research. The 500 fellow POW's in the Hanoi Hotel
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 07:40 PM
Nov 2012

will totally agree. He's nothing.

judesedit

(4,443 posts)
3. More than likely, you've only heard HIS side of the story.Do your research.The true & brave are the
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 07:43 PM
Nov 2012

other 500 or so. Daddy padded his way for him first. He did the rest on his own.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
14. Woah! Whoa! Whoa!...you runaway horses!
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 11:24 PM
Nov 2012

Hold on... Whew, this place is crazy today. I didn't mean ANYTHING derogatory about Susan Rice when I made that comment. Jeesch! Did you guys think I was equating them to one another in a (God forbid) racist way????? I was just stating a fact. It's just ironic that Susan and Condy are 1st cousins, as they are so different. And if you want t know where I learned this fact, it was straight from Condy's mouth during an interview on TV.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
17. I swear on a stack of Bibles that I heard her say that!
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 04:30 AM
Nov 2012

It was like a a short bio piece of some sort, can't remember who was interviewing her... a woman I think. They showed her playing the piano, yadda, yadda, yadda.... I think the reason I don't remember allot about the clip is that I can't stand Condy. And the one thing that stuck out and did stick to me was the fact that she said Susan Rice was her cousin. I was astounded that two women from the same family could be so different. Dayam. I wish I could find that clip. Will try to find it on Youtube. Ha! Yeah, we all know she lies. Thanks for replying back to me. I'm sorry I took your post the wrong way.

Cha

(297,669 posts)
18. I believe you..
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 05:07 AM
Nov 2012

First: double check utterings of all neocons. They can't help themselves(though it is a very weird thing to lie about since it's so checkable)

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
23. OK...so I went and looked around on Youtube...
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 05:59 AM
Nov 2012

God, it's so hard to sit and listen to her go on about herself just to see if the part I am describing is in there. The one I did manage to sit through was the Caty Couric (sp?)/NBC. Does NBC carry archives that go back in time, searchable? I'm going to give up on this for now and concede they aren't related. I just can't stomach listening to her.... Peace.

Cha

(297,669 posts)
25. I was going to say in my previous post that
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 04:06 PM
Nov 2012

I wouldn't be able to even watch Any interview with her. You have a stronger stomach than I.

Please don't look on my account.

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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
21. Susan Rice is NOT related to Condi.
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 05:14 AM
Nov 2012

Susan Rice bio here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice

There are footnotes with articles that say they are not related.

Cha

(297,669 posts)
24. Not only that.. "Susan Rice is a "not a
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 04:03 PM
Nov 2012

fan of Condoleeza Rice."

Thanks for the link, Tx4obama.. I guess that settles That.

Cha

(297,669 posts)
6. OUCH! Michael Tomasky is Spot Freaking ON..
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 08:19 PM
Nov 2012

"Amazing. The man needs an intervention. Isn't there anyone who loves him who can tell him what he's doing to what remains of his reputation?"

Anybody? Cindy? Meghan?



http://theobamadiary.com/

Thank you, DonViejo~

Cha

(297,669 posts)
9. Thanks for the link, Dubster
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 08:45 PM
Nov 2012
John McCain and his partners at Fox News have made false allegations from the very start of this American tragedy. They are more interested in attacking President Obama than they are of reporting the facts of what happened that night. They have falsely claimed that extra security was denied from the Obama administration and then they lied about the President’s statements, claiming he didn’t call it a terrorist attack


Poor puny minded, John McCain.. He insists on being an ugly caricature of a demented bitter old man. And, the corporatemedia is assisting him. Or did he get any pushback from Bob Schieffer on FTN this morning on his usual round of the Sunday Gasbaggers?
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