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In reply to the discussion: Obama Accepts Rice’s Decision To Withdraw [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)36. to be honest, yet mean
If she was going to wilt in the heat of the press, she was unfit for the job, period. I may dislike Hillary, but one thing even those who do dislike her to admit is that she can take the hard left hooks and low blows. Whoever becomes SoS is going to need to be tough, because the GOP will try every dirty trick in the book to save their Military empire.
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We've watched the bullies for four years now, and nothing every happens.
politicaljunkie41910
Dec 2012
#37
Do you even know what this means? "Seeming capitulation"? You mean he should nominate her even....
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#14
I don't see it the way you do. I view it as a hiring decision. I was a Regional Controller for
plethoro
Dec 2012
#26
Your stellar career bona fides, notwithstanding, sometimes a duck is just a duck. Susan Rice has...
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#33
Here ya go. This will be part of my answer. As others have said here: Did we just have an election?
plethoro
Dec 2012
#35
That still doesn't answer the question I put to you. Should the POTUS put forward the name of.....
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#45
Okay. You've muddied your stream a little with your slight question change at the beginning of this
plethoro
Dec 2012
#47
How did he cave? She wasn't nominated and there was no indication that she would be.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#60
Not to mention, it is entirely possible that the DC media was pressuring Obama with the leaks that
karynnj
Dec 2012
#46
And that can't be an excuse to do nothing. We already know that the Corporate Media refuses
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#64
Good - she was too tainted by her past actions to be acceptable to true Democrats
dbackjon
Dec 2012
#10
Rather has been anti-Obama for years now. He felt it "in his gut" that Romney would win.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#62