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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsmccain's mean-spirited attack on Susan Rice.
what a dick.
video: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83824.html?hp=r3
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on Wednesday that U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice is not qualified to become secretary of state and he called her claim that the deadly attack on the diplomatic facility in Benghazi was a spontaneous demonstration not very bright.
Shes not qualified, McCain said on CBSs This Morning. Anyone who goes on national television and in defiance of the facts, five days later Were all responsible for what we say and what we do. Im responsible to my voters. Shes responsible to the Senate of the United States. We have our responsibility for advice and consent.
Sen. John Kerry is quickly emerging as the favorite of most senators to replace Hillary Clinton at State. Beyond their closer relationship with the Massachusetts lawmaker and chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, many GOP senators remain angry about Rice claiming, in the days after the Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, that the assault grew out of a spontaneous demonstration sparked by an anti-Islam film.
CIA-supplied talking points backed up what Rice said on the Sunday shows after the attack, according to a Washington Post report. But McCain said that was irrelevant.
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liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)McCain, no one gives a flying fig what you or your other two simpering minces think. He and Graham need to find something constructive to do. Maybe throw a going away tea for Lieberman or something? Anything - just STFU.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)malaise
(269,182 posts)Fuck off Gramps!
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Give Grandpa a break, already!
Dems50State
(147 posts)on a watergate style inquire over this. We should make them offset the cost of it.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Talk about not qualified? You have very little room to speak.
Segami
(14,923 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)Cha
(297,693 posts)@marcylauren John McCain Supported Condi Rice After Massive Intelligence Failure thkpr.gs/Sp9w9B via @thinkprogress
spanone
(135,882 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)BlueinOhio
(238 posts)In the middle of this finacial mess they want to waste money on a wild goose chase. The GOP really is out to make themselves extinct.
protect our future
(1,156 posts)John Kerry out of the Senate, and the way they are going about it is to convince people that Rice is unqualified to be SOS.