Wow!
Maureen Dowd threw Susan Rice completely under the bus in this opinion piece and gave Obama a slap too.
[snip] Rice was given the toned-down talking points, but she has access to
classified information. Though she told Bob Schieffer on CBS’s “Face the
Nation” that the extremist elements could have included Qaeda
affiliates or Al Qaeda itself, she mostly used her appearances to
emphasize the story line of the spontaneous demonstration over an
anti-Muslim video. She disputed the contention of the president of
Libya’s General National Congress, who called the attack “preplanned”
when he talked to Schieffer just before Rice.[...]
An Africa expert, Rice should have realized that when a gang showed up
with R.P.G.’s and mortars in a place known as a hotbed of Qaeda
sympathizers and Islamic extremist training camps, it was not anger over
a movie. She should have been savvy enough to wonder why the wily
Hillary was avoiding the talk shows.
The president’s fierce defense of Rice had virile flare. But he might
have been better off leaving it to aides, so he did not end up going
mano a mano with his nemesis John McCain on an appointment he hasn’t
even made (though now Obama might feel compelled to, just to prove that
he can’t be pushed around), and so he could focus on fiscal cliff
bipartisanship.
His argument that Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” raises the question: Then why was she the point person?
The president’s protecting a diplomatic damsel in distress made Rice
look more vulnerable, when her reason for doing those shows in the first
place was to look more venerable.
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