Susan Rice defends Benghazi interviews

[karynnj]

14. This is pretty much a puff piece interview on Susan Rice with a few VERY general questions

Do you consider Susan Rice to be the "quarter back" of the administration's foreign policy? Poor as I am in understanding sports, I assume that would be OBAMA. This is one in a long line of articles etc that have inflated her extremely important role.

Both in the lead in to the Benghazi question, the reporter states as FACT that she would have been the one nominated to be Secretary of State. In fact, Obama went out of his way to say that he had not decided even as he defended her.

That can be considered a covert knock at John Kerry, but that does not hurt him - he will be judged on the job he does and so far he is impressive.

However, there is a bigger accusation in her question that Hillary Clinton was not up to doing the 5 talk shows after a hard week or that she saw it could be harmful politically. Taking the latter point first - going on the talk shows or not, the Republicans were going to hit her on this and she could not avoid them. Her choice was to do what she did - testify for a total of more than 4 hours answering variations of the same questions over and over. The former questions her endurance -- when she is applying for the hardest job in the country. Here, note that it was Susan Rice who offered that reason.