Is John McCain qualified to judge people's qualifications?

[soulflower]

McCain: Susan Rice ‘not qualified’ to replace Clinton as Secretary of State because of 'false' Libya attack statements"

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...#ixzz2CEoJeTm3

This is amusing coming form the guy who chose Sarah Palin as his runningmate

If McCain has a problem with Rice's initial statements on Benghazi he should blame the CIA, not the messenger.

Mrs. Rice appears to be highly qualified to be Sec. of State
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice

[sushilover]

The most striking moment of President Obama’s press conference Wednesday was when he went after Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) in no uncertain terms.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-well/?hpid=z1




Barry Obama needs to lay off the angry black man schtik if he ever hopes to accomplish anything in Washington.

Then again, I suppose he could chill out with a few cold lagers -- half a dozen even -- from his own homemade brewery in the White House.

That would settle him down I am sure.

[SemiAuto]

Getting in bed with Russ Feingold to attack the 1st Amendment was one of the first things that turned me away from him.

[Wizard777]

Quick! Someone call Sarah Palin and ask her if Obama's stick has grown big enough now.

[soulflower]

Getting in bed with Russ Feingold to attack the 1st Amendment was one of the first things that turned me away from him.

So you think having billionaires buying elections is good for our democracy?

Btw, working with Feingold is one of the few good decisions McCain made during his Senate career

[Jeebus]

The question not asked at the news conference was:

Who sent Susan Rice out to claim it was all about the video?

Obama says it was the White House.

He also said he knew it was terrorism when he gave a speech in the Rose Garden.

The CIA said it was Al Qaeda on Sept 13, 3 days before Rice went on 5 different talk shows to blame the video.

She's either the fall guy (she genuinely didn't know anything other than what they told her) or she is a liar. I believe the former.

That means Obama is the liar, and the video angle was indeed a cover-up to back up his lie at the DNC when he said Al Qaeda was on the run. After all, there was an election coming up and this would obviously be an issue, therefore he lied and started the "blame the video" story.

4 men died - Obama lied.

[soulflower]

The question not asked at the news conference was:

Who sent Susan Rice out to claim it was all about the video?

Obama says it was the White House.

He also said he knew it was terrorism when he gave a speech in the Rose Garden.

The CIA said it was Al Qaeda on Sept 13, 3 days before Rice went on 5 different talk shows to blame the video.

She's either the fall guy (she genuinely didn't know anything other than what they told her) or she is a liar. I believe the former.

That means Obama is the liar, and the video angle was indeed a cover-up to back up his lie at the DNC when he said Al Qaeda was on the run. After all, there was an election coming up and this would obviously be an issue, therefore he lied and started the "blame the video" story.

4 men died - Obama lied.

The CIA initially reported that it was a protest over the video. Rice was reporting what the CIA was telling the State Department at the time

Btw

Have we found those WMDs yet? What about the thousands killed over Bush's lies?

[SemiAuto]

So you think having billionaires buying elections is good for our democracy?

Btw, working with Feingold is one of the few good decisions McCain made during his Senate career

Recent events kind of disprove the idea that billionaires can buy elections. Or so I've been told. I'm not sure I buy that. That said, the problem with big money being spent on elections is being driven by the big money the winners spend on their cronies. The latter is the far bigger problem. The solution is not to attack the 1st Amendment. The solution is for the government not to hand out so many favors. You know, that liberal notion of limited government that has gone by the wayside. McCain/Feingold was an incumbent protection racket.

As for Susan Rice, I don't know. It would be nice to see how this whole Benghazi dust up shakes out.
From the wiki write up:

At the time of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Rice reportedly said, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Rice subsequently acknowledged the mistakes made at the time and felt that a debt needed repaying.[19] The inability or failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about the genocide would inform her later views on possible military interventions.[20] She would later say of the experience: "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."[21]

Seems to me this is the sort of foreign policy where the US plays world cop. Isn't this the sort of thing that keeps getting us into trouble?

[jessup270]

Here's the thing, Rice goes on five new shows and says the attack was based on some silly video.

OK, lets say she got faulty intell from the experts.

Here's the problem:

If you are tell the world a story and the people you are telling, are making you look foolish as you make the official statements, then surely you should consider saying you will check with your intell community to make sure that you are putting out correct information.

Did you recant her bogus party line one day later, two days later, one week later?

[veritas]

The CIA initially reported that it was a protest over the video. Rice was reporting what the CIA was telling the State Department at the time

Btw

Have we found those WMDs yet? What about the thousands killed over Bush's lies?

Anybody who thinks the CIA is so incompetent that they can't tell a well coordinated nighttime attack on two locations with rpg's and mortars from a spontaneous demonstration over a video, can see me about purchasing some prime swamp land. If our CIA is that incompetent, God help us.

[soulflower]

Here's the thing, Rice goes on five new shows and says the attack was based on some silly video.

So there were a bunch of protests against the video in various Islamic countries at the time when the attack happened but it's silly to think that the Benghazi attack might have had something to do with the video?

The CIA certainly thought, initially, that the attack was related to the video.

If you are tell the world a story and the people you are telling, are making you look foolish as you make the official statements, then surely you should consider saying you will check with your intell community to make sure that you are putting out correct information.

I wish Colin Powell had your kind of wisdom your advice before lying to the UN in his pre-Iraq war speech.

[soulflower]

Anybody who thinks the CIA is so incompetent that they can't tell a well coordinated nighttime attack on two locations with rpg's and mortars from a spontaneous demonstration over a video, can see me about purchasing some prime swamp land. If our CIA is that incompetent, God help us.

I don't know if it's incompetence so much as the fog of war/combat.

Millions of people watched the 9/11/01 attacks live on TV and there are still many unanswered questions...

[veritas]

A stopped clock is still right twice a day. McCain is right. Rice is not qualified to be SOS.

[soulflower]

A stopped clock is still right twice a day. McCain is right. Rice is not qualified to be SOS.

Both you and McLame are wrong

[veritas]

I don't know if it's incompetence so much as the fog of war/combat.

Millions of people watched the 9/11/01 attacks live on TV and there are still many unanswered questions...

And yet we knew it was terrorism almost immediately. Bush said as much within an hour.

[sushilover]

What does Barry Hussein hope to accomplish with these ongoing angry, bitter and petulant tirades? Is he "acting out" to a core group of angry, bitter leftwingers that are still waiting for him to deliver "Hope & Change" ... or is he so enamored with his homemade White House brew that he just doesn't realize how stupid he looks when he flies off the handle like this?

[ms maggie]

So the other who spread that "don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" as NSA, she was ok?

What a bunch of partisan crap.

[soulflower]

Recent events kind of disprove the idea that billionaires can buy elections.

I disagree. Both sides were backed by super wealthy donors. Both raised about the same amount of cash.

I think it's disgusting that our elected officials have to spend so much time raising money. The system needs to be reformed.

As for Susan Rice, I don't know. It would be nice to see how this whole Benghazi dust up shakes out.
From the wiki write up:

Seems to me this is the sort of foreign policy where the US plays world cop. Isn't this the sort of thing that keeps getting us into trouble?

I agree that we should use military force if it can make a difference.

Ultimately, the decision to use force rests with the President.

[ms maggie]

And yet we knew it was terrorism almost immediately. Bush said as much within an hour.

What possible other explanation was there? Aliens?

[soulflower]

So the other who spread that "don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" as NSA, she was ok?

What a bunch of partisan crap.

The republican Rice also ignored the "Bin Laden is determined to attack America" memo before 9/11/01