I eat rice for breakfast

Suzanne · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 6:13 pm Post subject: I eat rice for breakfast

Susan Rice (of the Benghazi scandal) is now appointed our National Security Advisor. Well she took the fall so this is her reward (or to keep her from talking). She did so well at her last job.......right?

Samantha Power is replacing Rice as US Ambasador to the UN. She was senior advisor to the big O until she resigned in March 2008 after she called then Obama's opponent Hillary Clinton a "monster". (Way too Republican of her to say that). Some history;

The woman whose career skyrocketed by lecturing President Bush on his inaction in Sudan was now in charge of the U.S. government’s response to future crises.
However, it didn’t take long before Power’s decades of big talk was put to the test.
In a position of power and proximity to the president of the United States, from which she could meaningfully act against any unfolding injustice, Power was largely silent and completely ineffective.
The NGO community was left wondering which Samantha Power was getting to speak inside the Oval Office.
She espoused little to no support of Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution when Iranian students and others took to the streets to protest the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

She sat silent during the crucial moments when the Syrian crisis first started and has remained absent for two years as 80,000 plus Syrians have been killed.

And despite years of fierce rhetoric against Bush for inaction in Darfur, she has become mute as genocide continues to ravage the region.

An academic with zero real-world diplomatic experience, her biting words ring hollow from inside the White House.

Elizabeth Blackney, an NGO activist on human trafficking said, “For Samantha Power to be promoted is disturbing. She shed her record as an anti-genocide, human rights advocate for political power and affiliation. She became the bystander, the "person sitting in an office" implementing a bad policy that ensured greater suffering."

Sending Power to the United Nations sends the message that President Obama doesn’t care as much about actually helping the world’s vulnerable as he does about loyalty and academic prestige.

Sadly, the U.S. may be represented at the U.N. by someone who has no multilateral diplomatic experience outside of one-hour classroom exercises.

Power’s record at the NSC proves academic success means little in the real world, but all-too-much to the president of the United States.

slimjim · Last edited by slimjim on Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:23 am; edited 1 time in total

It just keeps getting better doesn't it. Sickening. There has not been a worse president and administration in my life time.

Tremblay · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 12:17 am Post subject: Re: I eat rice for breakfast

You got i right Slimjim

Bushmaster · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:48 am Post subject: Re: I eat rice for breakfast

I always that it hard to beat Carter...Oh Well...I've been wrong before, but not often...

dust54 · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: I eat rice for breakfast

I agree slimjim!! As Rev Wright says. "The chickens are coming home to roost!!"