Obama Says Leave Susan Alone

[mlfun]

Why?

A grown black woman can't take care of herself ?

But when Republicans attack Rice “apparently because they believe she is an easy target, then they’ve got a problem with me,” he declared. “If they want to go after somebody, they should go after me.”

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But Obama’s full-throated defense suggests he believes he could win a public relations battle over Rice, who has been on his foreign policy team since the 2008 presidential campaign.

Obama said he hasn’t made his choice for a new secretary of State. But if he decides Rice is the best candidate, “I will nominate her,” he vowed.

Obama defends U.N. ambassador, calls attacks 'outrageous' - latimes.com

[Zeitgeist]

Basic common sense appears to be in short supply over at the GOP warehouse of political values

[mlfun]

She shouldn't be SoS without any balls of her own.

LOL

[Zeitgeist]

Like I said, common sense isn't always present...

[mlfun]

As I said, social and racial values are all that matter.

[Zeitgeist]

your team lost


get over it

[mlfun]

As I said, racial and social values, and this little condescending drama is not it.

[Zeitgeist]

As usual, you're the only hater interjecting race into this non-issue.

[Check Codes]

Ms. Rice seems to exemplify The Peter Principle.

OTOH, it could simply be a case of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

[Qubes]

Looks like we're in for four more years of foaming-at-the-mouth rabid right-wing idiocy where everything that looks like game is hunted down ad nauseam, instead of addressing actual problems that can benefit from genuine collaboration and cooperation. Or maybe two years, if Haley Barbour gets the GOP to undertake that proctological exam he thinks they need.