Susan Rice appeared on the CBS morning show

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https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_this_morning/video/KhRvGRpZC0ksvqvkar1PNxN6KmiJ_Pyt/susan-rice-on-what-she-could-bring-to-a-biden-2020-ticket/

And I was very impressed. Poised and knowledgeable. Yes, the Rs will go after her so what? They will go after anyone.

And, yes, she has never run for office, so? (channeling Cheney??) The current occupant has never run for office. And she certainly is a better fit.

I prefer her over Harris ten times over.

(Not that my opinion will sway anyone..)



Wanted to add: like Biden she has an upbeat approach. This is America, there is nothing we cannot do. Instead of the doom and gloom that others use.

[earthside]

1. Leaning Rice now.

Harris and Bass may have too many problems.

Rice may indeed be the best pick -- a Biden-Rice would certainly be the 'adult' and competence ticket.

Cheney was elected several times to the U.S. House, by the way.

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3. Oh, sorry. I mentioned Cheney becasue when he was once asked a serous question he said: So?

No, I referred to the current occupant.

[CrispyQ]

2. Agreed!

She could hit the ground running and that's what we need.

[H2O Man]

4. Recommended.

I like all of Biden's options. Each one has strengths. And I have great respect for Susan Rice.

[still_one]

5. I agree

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Veep or not, we need Rice somewhere in the Biden administration...

And, with Joe's age when he takes office, we need a Veep who can take over.

(Rice has fewer known enemies, so she might have an easier transition.)

Anyway, it's Biden's decision, and no doubt he has thought of more things than we have.

[KPN]

7. Susan Rice would make an excellent VP.

I think Karen Bass or Kamala Harris would as well, but I do lean toward Rice at this point as far as being the best overall.

[Demsrule86]

8. We need someone who can help us win the Senate...I do not see Rice doing this...not

with the GOP salivating about Benghazi which we all know is bull shit...but it could work and cost us the Senate...Tammy Duckworth is the best choice she can help expand the map.

[GeorgeGist]

10. Rice would chew them up and spit out the pieces ...

of the Benghazi buffoons.

[marybourg]

9. Did she say that her son is "pro life"?

I believe I heard her say that on NPR. I’m not holding her son’s depraved beliefs against her. Only her characterization of them.

[stillcool]

11. of course you are. Why else would you..

bring up her 'son's depraved beliefs'?

[marybourg]

13. Because I don't believe progressive women should be using

the right wing term “pro-life”. I was shocked and disappointed to hear her use it. And attacking me personally was unnecessary. Let’s not start that again this year.

[stillcool]

17. Since when is asking you why..

you would bring up her son, a "Personal Attack"?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/23/susan-rice-interview-trump-family-son
America’s strident political divisions have become the greatest threat to its own survival, Susan Rice, former national security adviser has warned in a new book, in which she also reveals the degree to which those divisions have threatened to fracture her own family.

Rice, the most senior African American woman in the Obama administration, became a hate figure for the American hard right – sometimes on issues for which she had little responsibility. In her new memoir, Tough Love, she describes her anxiety as her son Jake drifted to the other end of the political spectrum, becoming the leader of a Trumpist Republican student organisation at Stanford University.
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Rice admits that a happy ending, in her family and in the nation at large, is not a foregone conclusion. In Tough Love, the personal and the political intertwine constantly, but never more painfully than after she left office in January 2017 and her relationship with Jake begins to mirror the increasingly extreme polarisation in US politics.

She describes “explosive, sometimes profane, arguments” with her son, expressing her fear that “there could come a day when Jake and I determine that our disagreements have become so profound that we are irreconcilable”.

[marybourg]

18. "Asking you why"?

Re-read your post, which starts off: “Of course you are”

[Awsi Dooger]

14. If Kamala Harris had that caliber of Morning Show appearance

There would be well over 100 gushing replies

I am amazed at the reluctance around here

[tinrobot]

15. Cheney was in Congress for 10 years.

Just correcting the record.

I do like Rice, however.

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16. As posted above: When Cheney did not like a comment he said: so?

[TuxedoKat]

19. Wish I'd seen it

I think she is great. She's in my top three choices, along with Warren and Duckworth.

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20. You still can, see the link above. About 8 min

[BusyBeingBest]

21. If it came down to her or Harris, I'd take Rice.

She just has more to offer, and knows how shit works at the very top.

[lamp_shade]

22. She's my choice... way above the rest.