Monday, December 10, 2012

Secretary of State Rice?

President Obama told Bloomberg TV last week that he still hasn’t made up his mind who should replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. That means the effort — conducted both in public and behind closed doors — to persuade him not to name U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice will intensify.
The public criticism is led by Republicans who say that Rice is too “political” a choice and that she may have deliberately misled the public before the November election about who was behind the Benghazi killings of U.S. personnel in September. The inside-baseball attacks on Rice are led by Democrats who view her as temperamental and opportunistic. If Susan Rice doesn’t become secretary of state, it may be less because of Benghazi than because she has angered too many liberals.

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335192/secretary-state-rice-john-fund

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