NBC’s Andrea Mitchell said Thursday that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s pulling her name from consideration to become secretary of state “is not going to help the Republicans” after “a woman of color has been forced out.”
“I think this had become sort of an impossible challenge for her to be confirmed, that she realized that, the White House realized it as well,” Mitchell said on MSNBC’s “The Cycle.” “I think they know that they are on good, political solid ground, as you were just pointing out. This is not going to help Republicans at all, the fact that a woman and a woman of color has been forced out of a confirmation process even before she was nominated. She clearly was the president’s choice but I think what happened is it became untenable.”
Rice has come under harsh criticism in recent months, particularly from Republicans, over her initial comments calling the deadly terror assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya a response to an anti-Islam video posted online. It was subsequently labeled a terrorist attack.
Mitchell said critics had started looking into other aspects of Rice’s background as well, but she didn’t yet have the benefit of a solid group around her as she would if she were the nominee.
“She was on her own really and left hanging,” Mitchell said.
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thegreatcarnac
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:14pmThe GOP does not have to just go along with anyone the socialists throws at us even if they are black. Andrea Mitchel is an old liberal hag who need to retire or better yet, sent on assignment in a real bad war zone. A really bad, dangerous warzone. The GOP had the nerve to stand up. Where does it say in the constitution that race matters in anything and that all must kowtow to blacks. The libs think everyone should except themselves. The libs call conservative blacks all kinds of nasty names but no one says anything to them about it.
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rickc34
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:39pmSend Andrea to Cairo.
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OldSurfRat
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:52pmA woman of color?
Is that like a horse of a different color??
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decendentof56
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:56pmShut UP, Andrea!
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buttpatriot
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:00pmthe repugnats just digging a deeper hole for themselves. how’s that anti color, anti woman plan workin for ya, eh?
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LIBSALWAYSLIE
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:42pmAndrea is a liberal to the core, so of course its the fault of bad republicans that Rice is out. Liberals never look at their own failings, its ALWAYS somebody elses fault
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MDECKER
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:44pmPatrick Leahy, Carl Levin, Chick Schumer, they never stood in the way of G.W.’s appointments.
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GeorgieJo
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:56pmAndrea Greenspan?
GO COUNT YOUR OBLAMO BUCKS
YOUR TAXES are GOING UP.
“woman of color”
You mam are really stupid.
DOES ANYONE WATCH LSD-NBC?
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Gold Coin & Economic News
Dec. 13, 2012 at 8:16pmWait, what the hell is wrong with this woman? Are you kidding me? This whole racism thing has just gone completely insane! 3 Senators said that they we very troubled by Rice’s answers to their questions on Benghazi and THIS is what Andrea Mitchell comes up with? Where do we go from here? Liberalism is simply a mental disease:
http://www.isthatbaloney.com/susan-rice-meets-with-3-republican-senators-and-digs-the-libya-hole-even-deeper/
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oneshiner
Dec. 13, 2012 at 8:22pmWhen will YOU people understand it isn’t about black/white, it’s about the person themselves, not color.
Get it? Geeze!
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YAHSHUARULES
Dec. 13, 2012 at 8:59pmAndrea Mitchell is a disgrace – a tool of evil or just an idiot. The treasonous media in this country is part of the Agenda to drive this culture in a direction designed to destroy it, make America so corrupt it stinks…
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The darkness closes in on all sides and if America goes down, the whole free world will be finished and it will be finished for a very, very long time
This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. Watch it. Share it.
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Wolfgang the Gray
Dec. 13, 2012 at 9:11pmAndrea Mitchell – maybe you should pull your head out of your arse and remember what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said. “Judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin.”
When applying that rule to Susan Rice, she was not suitable to be Secretary of State. Republicans had nothing to do with it, but I would wager BHO did.
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Walkabout
Dec. 13, 2012 at 9:29pmyoubuttpatriot
Quiz for our the atheist Act Up wanna be
1. The governor is Louisiana is white?
2. The governor of South Carolina is white?
3. The secretary of State of Ohio (1999 – 2007) was white?
4. Senator Ayotte is white?
5. Senator Rubio is white?
We could go on.
I remember when the Democrats declared the Year of the Woman because a number of female Democrats had been elected. It didn’t matter a wit that more Republican women had been elected in a preceding election. It was just more Democrat lying.
You are no different than Governor Ma Richards calling senator Kaye Bailey Hutchinson “a man”. Same Democrat playbook. Just smear.
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Walkabout
Dec. 13, 2012 at 9:45pmNo Andrea, Out problem with Susan Rice is that she aided Obama on Benghazi to prevent or delay the Republicans form getting to the bottom of that debacle & to deflect blame from thee Obama administration. That is our problem with her
Our problem with you Andrea is that you are a poor journalist, who thinks life is so easy because you are overpaid & married influential people
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rawmilker
Dec. 13, 2012 at 10:27pmAhh, Mrs Alan Greenspan, a shiller for the FED Bank & master of propaganda for NBC and the left wing control freaks.
Rice is corrupt, a liar and criminal just like the the rest of Obama’s crew & would have been rejected even if she were purple or green…
Hey Andrea, I get rather tan during the summer, would that make me a man of color? Those dem pieces of s#i t still trying bait up that race card ain’t they?
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HappyConservative
Dec. 13, 2012 at 10:49pmI’m so sick of race being an issue but because of Obama we have yet another FOUR more years of this garbage. Rice lied and failed in her duties. Sadly she is the only one to pay the price about the Benghazi scandal. Guess they are offering Rice up as the sacrificial lamb so as the annointed beloved Godlike prez Obama not have to take the hit on this…
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DarkJello
Dec. 14, 2012 at 12:45amThe dems are good at whining and “winning”, all while America fails over and over and over. They appear to honestly believe Owebama is the Messiah. Curious that they blame us for being “out-of-touch religious nutjobs”, and then kissing His toes, sing praises to His name, and ignore the reality of their absurd policies.
Logic, truth, integrity, and courage have disappeared from both sides, but dems still think utopia is just a few months away. I would LMBO at their willfull ignorance, except that 100s of millions will suffer because of record levels of incompetence, deceit, and stupidity dressed up as nobleness.
Absurd!!
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sillyfreshness
Dec. 14, 2012 at 1:38amAndrea Mitchell=leftist “chosen person” Juden propagandist in the Marxist Media.
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CABERNETQHS
Dec. 14, 2012 at 6:47am@****-NO-PATRIOT
You, like Andrea are either offended by your own lack of color due to years of progressive programming OR you are painfully aware of your lack of character and have nothing meaningful to add to this argument. Either way, you are both as useful as sputum.
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loriann12
Dec. 14, 2012 at 7:38amAnd where was she when a man of color (Herman Cain) was forced out of the running?
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MittensKittens
Dec. 14, 2012 at 7:43amNBC’S ANDREA MITCHELL BLAMES GOP ON RICE’S WITHDRAWAL FROM SEC OF STATE NOMINATION: ‘A WOMAN OF COLOR HAS BEEN FORCED OUT’
Good!
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naughtycal
Dec. 14, 2012 at 8:41amIsn’t it funny that liberals call Republican racist and yet when the Republican remove a person who went on t/v and lied for Obama the liberals only see a colored woman be removed. whose the racist the group voting on ethics or the group vote on sex and race
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naughtycal
Dec. 14, 2012 at 8:46amrepublican don’t want Rice because she came out and lied to America to help Obama,liberals want her because she’s black and woman …WHOSE THE RACIST?
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Walkabout
Dec. 14, 2012 at 8:55amrawmilker
Alan Greenspan sealed his PHD thesis. Barron’s got hold of it anyway. In it he talked about a housing bubble 1977.
Also to be fair he talked about Irrational Exhuberance in 1996. There was the tech bubble., which broke at Y2K or slightly before.
What he meant exactly we would have to get further details. If I were to criticize him it would be about CRA, derivatives & maybe what he said or didn’t say (but should have). But we would have to have more detail.
I’ve have read where Bernanke did the right thing with the 1st Quantitative easing. But every easing since them had been a mistake. Certainly Zero Hedge.com has shown via stock market average that each QE since then has had less effect & has been shorter duration. So in the short term Bernanke did what was needful (QE1). unfortunately Congress passed TARP & Obama has unleashed the regulatory Carol Browner dogs of the world, borrowed more than 40% of every dollar spent, grew government & talked crap about everyone who works. Bernanke can’t fix that. He can’t even really paper over that.
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zorro
Dec. 14, 2012 at 9:08amMan…remember in the 80′s when Clarence Thomas was up for the Supreme Court and Democrats were trying to stop it? When it looked like he was going to step down, I’m sure NBC reported that a “black man” was being forced out, right?
Anyone?
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HKS
Dec. 14, 2012 at 9:40amA lier comes in all colors and none are acceptable. This one is a lier to the lier in chief.
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Fitzzz
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:10pmRace had nothing to do with it, look at all the support Republicans gave Condi Rice
Its not that Susan Rice is a woman of color, it is that Susan Rice is UNFIT to serve
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SUNTZU
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:21pmSusan OK by me
It’s the bassturds that ordered ,told her to lie.
That stuck it to her.
Have you had your obo today
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:28pmI’m sorry, it’s all about being an Obama drone and parrot.
If you appear on national TV’s Sunday talk shows and emphatically state an obvious lie, how should the American people react? Should we all recite, “Gee, Susan tell us another lie and will you please become our Secretary of State?”
Only in the Obama administration would they expect to be able to nominate a knucklehead and expect all “The Makers” to applaud loudly! So glad to see Hillbilly Hillary hitting the bricks. When Hillary told Ty Woods’ daddy that they were going to arrest the video producer, I went ballistic.
Obama sacrificed four good men; but, why don’t House and Senate members demand to hear the testimony of the 30 survivors. Wouldn’t that begin to clear the air?
And while the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had Petraeus, why wasn’t he asked, “General, was the CIA running guns to Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda fighters via Turkey?” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to ask the right questions. Are the Congressmen and Senators AFRAID of the answers they might get? Or, do they collectively not give a fat rat’s a$$?
“Remember Benghazi” and ALL the traitors!
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gb123
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:28pmAgree. She went in front of the people telling a lie.She knew it or was too dumb to see the truth. Either way , not fit for the job. No doubt we will get other LSMs such as Laurence O’Donnel with his Tiger Woods racisim theory. It would go something like this; Her name is Rice , In Australia they pronounce “race” “rice” therefore they are racists.
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repairsea
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:42pmExactly. She is not qualified.
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SimpleTruths
Dec. 13, 2012 at 10:36pm“The gopers Love Condi Rice for lying about 911, WMD’s and the Iraq War.
But Hate Susan Rice for using the C.I.A.’s talking points to help to USA.
Yep.. the GOP hates America alright.”
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Zipit
Dec. 14, 2012 at 9:38amNice try Simpleton change your bong water now………
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naughtycal
Dec. 14, 2012 at 11:46amYou certainly are simple but you can’t tell the truth
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nzkiwi
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:07pmI expect that the GOP is somewhat disappointed that Ms Rice has pulled out. I imagine that they were looking forward to finally getting some answers on Benghazi.
That, of course, undoubtably occurred to the White House…
The Obama administration gets an additional bonus out of this. With the assistance of certain media people, they get to call the GOP “nasty racists” again as they hustle Ms Rice out of the firing line.
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Walkabout
Dec. 13, 2012 at 8:46pmThis is how the discussion between went between Obama & Rice.
Obama “We really scre_wed the pooch on this one. We need to stall congressional investigations, deflect criticism & hopefully this blows over.
Rice “So if I walk this dog for you ..If I carry this bucket of steaming excrement for you, then you will reward me for doing this for the team.
Obama “Exactly”
Rice “A quid pro quo”
Obama “Did I stutter”
Rice ” Don’t worry sir, I’m your girl.”
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drs1969
Dec. 13, 2012 at 10:50pmDeflection and distraction! Benghazi must be an impeachable offense.
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Walkabout
Dec. 14, 2012 at 9:04amdrs1969
Deflection and distraction! Benghazi must be an impeachable offense.
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I am not sure Benghazi operation of supplying the Syrian rebels should be an impeachable offense. The Boland amendment only restricted the CIA form funding the Contras to overthrow the Nicaraguan Communists (The leaders of which all ended up with haciendas & McMansions). So the Democrat Boland Amendment would not work. Not notifying congress of using the American military (& 60 day notice) would not work because it was maybe only the CIA that was used.
What is impeachable is the fact that they hid this from the American people & congress when it blew up & became known in order to protect their electoral chances. that is impeachable.
I don’t know that not protecting an Ambassador or giving him X amount of security is impeachable. But lying about it is. And Obama Team D definitely lied about it.
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Diane TX
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:07pmWhat makes Andrea think that the Republicans were using Susan Rice’s possible nomination as a political strategy? Many have said that she’s an apologetic UN Ambassador (bowing to the Muslim World), and that her personality is less than diplomatic.
Those that are Hilary Clinton supporters, might want to know that Hilary didn’t want Rice as her replacement. Hilary wants John Kerry to replace her as Secy of ST.
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:32pmYep, as late as May 2011, both Hillbilly Hillary and John “I served in Viet Nam” Kerry, were both calling Bashar al Assad a “reformer.” At the time they both made their pronouncements, Assad’s machine guns were already slaughtering Syrians by the thousands.
Does corruption have a name? Absolutely. It’s called the Obama administration.
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BlasberryStrat
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:06pmAnd there ya go! You just KNEW the “Race Card” was going to be pulled on this. Can you believe we as white people have to put up with ANOTHER four years of “walking on glass MORE THAN USUAL” because the Left’s lightning fast hand at pulling the Race Card! How much damm tolerance do you want Andria? Every time you open your mouth you’re slamming ‘whites’ and the Right, yet by god “we” had better just step back and “allow” every “woman of color” be appointed to what ever! I’m SICK of “women of color” complaining about how bad they’re treated with EVERY THING! I’m sitting in the center of Nebraska, with a $26k yr. income – and I’m WHITE! “Oh…those bad blacks just keep me here, stuck with low income”. “Poor meeeeee”. Come on to my house Andria…I’ll force “something” IN to you! Don’t flatter yourself – I’m talking about ‘my foot up your a$$’, you ugly pig!
JJJUUUSSSTTT maybe….I’m spit ballin…..that Rice SEES what is actually going on in this world, and decided she doesn’t want any part of playing Oby’s games with other leaders. Ya ever think of that – pig! You ‘white – woman – racist – bigot – leftist – pig’. I can call out names too! PIG!
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topperj
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:51pmI can’t wait til 2043 when Whites are the minority. Then we can get all this love from the MSM when we are being assailed. Right? No, you don’t think they’ll be on our side when we’re the downtrodden, hated for our Whiteness? Please, we’ll be lucky to be allowed top live. Luckily, I’ll be dead by that ignominious time for America. Bye, bye, Miss American Pie.
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savagenatn
Dec. 14, 2012 at 1:13amthese tools are just soooo predictable. Anytime an incompetent black gets criticized, no matter the situation, it must be about race. Get this through your thick race card heads idiots. It IS possible for a black person to be unqualified, incompetent, and in over their heads and be treated as such. obozo fit the description too and it has nothing to do with his race, he’s just an idiot
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HisStoryUn
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:06pmAnother incompetent nincompoop has been forced out. Her race is irrelevant!
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FANGS
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:06pmYup, I’m now a Proud Racist and a greedy business owner that will never ever hire another colored.
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repairsea
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:44pmPsst – they are called African Americans now – unless you are Quentin Tarantino or Gweneth Paltrow.
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oleunclelar
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:06pmToo bad we can’t force out Andrea the Blamer.
How come she isn’t wearing her Obama Cheerleader Sweater?
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:06pmI really had no idea that Rice was black, until people started saying she was black. I thought she was Hispanic. If she wants to be seen as black, why the straight hair?
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chamsalang
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:18pmI thought she was lesbian.
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RJJinGadsden
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:51pmActually, her husband is Ian Cameron, a white man. Wonder what that racist Rob Parker would call her? Or really, what he would call Ian Cameron?
http://www.politico.com/gallery/2012/11/susan-rices-career/000588-008324.html
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Tri-ox
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:04pmSo what’s new? obama’s state-run media propagandists are obsessed with race, and obsessed with defending treasonous, pathological liars, such as Susan Rice (and obama), by playing the race card; it’s what they are paid to do – it’s all they’ve got, and it’s all that obama’s cultists want to hear.
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Schteveo
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:04pmNo Andrea, a woman who lied was shut out because of that lie.
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candymanal
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:04pmI wonder how racist this Adrea Mitchell really is?
Remember what she said about Herman Caine, only a few moths back and never got called on it?
Empty headed, hypocritica,l bigots, are what we have on the MSN, these days.
Is it any wonder, that they are losing ratings, as time goes on?
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Shasta
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:02pmMitchell lies, just like the progressive liberal trolls on this site. The bad news is we are talking to ourselves here, and the progressives have won the hearts and minds of the low hanging fruit of America.
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RJJinGadsden
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:02pmAnother lying Democrat has had her feet held to the fire and exposed for what she did and said. Whack!
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KangarooJack
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:00pmI’m ABSOLUTELY SICK OF this Race Card Crap!!! DONE! TOAST! ORDER UP!!! Susan Rice PROVED HERSELF to be a shill for whoever tells her to say what they want her to say…
Sec. of State IS A VERY RESPONSIBLE POSITION IT REQUIRES INDEPENDENT THINKING….
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TEXASGRANNY73
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:13pmObama threw her under the bus. That is what the Dems always do. Like sharks eating each other. The president, the Secy. of State (Hillary) and Ms. Rice, all told the same story about the video. They do not want the people to stay on this story and they want John Kerry (even McCain) as Secy. of State which disproves your point about independent thinking. Obviously Hillary lied, the president lied thus Susan Rice lied. Andrea Mitchell just using racism and female gender to deflect (my opinion). John Kerry, the liar about his heroism in Viet Nam and lying to Congress to get those medals.(see video Dick Cavett show between Kerry (the prig) and John O’Neill. Dick Cavett sided with Kerry as did the audience. John O’Neill brought out the vets for Geo. Bush, and he and the vets helped Kerry to lose, you probably remember that. He and the vets are my heroes. Why do the president, Hillary and two RINOs want Kerry? We should not forget Ben Ghazi, or Brian Terry, the murdered border agent,and keep up the pressure on congress for hearings..
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Tax Revolt
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:56pmJust another race baiting, past her prime, hag trying to score points with the brothas.
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NOTMOHAMMED
Dec. 14, 2012 at 5:03amWhat the hell would she know about cycles now? …the ghost of Tom Joad…poof
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vtxphantom
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:56pmLet her seek the office. Put her under oath and question Rice why she lied to the American people about Benghazi . Might be a good to to find out what obama was doing when the decision came to abandon and sacrifice four Americans and just who made the decision to let our people be murdered.
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OhioRifleman
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:04pmThe oath is meaningless. Even under threat of jail, she will still lie about her master’s role and the press will cover her arse.
There is no victory scenario in this matter.
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Tax Revolt
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:24pmThey were dealing arms. Apparently they were selling Libyan weapons to alqaeda back rebels in Syria.
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ResistSocialism
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:54pmhow black is that
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1776freedomofspeech
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:53pmYay!
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:52pmShe completely ignores all facts. How this imbecile got this far up the news chain, I’ll never know.
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OhioRifleman
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:00pmImhoff principle in action. The largest chunks always rise to the top.
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paperpushermj
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:04pmShe was a good reporter at one time at least that’s the rumor. Then she moved over into opinion which lead her to garner favor with the Manhattan Crowd she hangs with.
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neocon1
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:06pmalmost
pizzy
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AlansTigg
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:51pmMitchell said critics had started looking into other aspects of Rice’s background as well, but she didn’t yet have the benefit of a solid group around her as she would if she were the nominee.
what the heck does that even mean?
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revelation2012
Dec. 13, 2012 at 7:39pmit means that ‘O’ and hillary USED her ,,,
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:51pmHere we go again with the race and gender card.
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Gregb
Dec. 13, 2012 at 6:25pmThe way I see it… the Dems avoid the truth and play the race card every chance they can…so, therefore, the democrat party is the party of lying racists.
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DougHuffman
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:51pmYes, clearly she has Peter Principled out, reached her maximum level of competence, any greater elevation and she’d be just like Obama – INCOMPETENT.
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bekhiet
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:49pmRice is a women who was willing to deceive the public, she does not deserve any position. I don’t trust her at all.
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Fubared
Dec. 13, 2012 at 5:49pmShe lied Andreewa, like you on most “news” reports. And yes, it is spelled like she says it-Andreewa.
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