Setback in politics today as Susan Rice withdraws her nomination for Secretary of State. She was doing her job as ordered when she was relaying information regarding embassy attacks in Libya. Fox 'News', et. al. tried (unsuccessfully) to make the embassy attacks and the administration response an issue before the election and their shills in the Senate continued to bang that drum when Rice was nominated.
Just as relevant was that Rice's relentlessness in her open disdain for John McCain and Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign. Apparently McCain and his aides remembered that she identified him and his VP candidate as incompetent assholes (which they were/are) and he's been gunning for her ever since.
It's a shame because Rice was an excellent candidate. If you read the accounts of what happened after the Libya attacks you'll see that she was doing her job exactly as she was supposed to, and that had she reported matters as she fully knew them she would have divulged confidential CIA information, which was out of the question. So what the senators are really bitter about is that they weren't 'informed', which is tough shit for them.
It's a huge disappointment. Obama submitted a strong candidate for a position in his cabinet and she was rejected because of petty jealousies and fabrications. Lame.
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