Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 14th, 2012
Good morning!
Well, considering the comments on yesterday’s blog write, no doubt many of you are disappointed and perhaps your feelings go even further, over Obama’s big screw-up yesterday. I know I am. To let U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice go when she has been nothing but support to him, been there for him, a great candidate for Secretary of State…to sacrifice her for him…well it is just plain cowardice of Obama.
How could Obama do this to a woman? This is a president who was raised by women, who is now surrounded by women. It just goes to show you, that when it gets down to business…when our livelihood is on the line, women have to depend ON WOMEN. Because evidently, once you depend on men, this is what happens. But then Obama’s advisers are mostly women so what does that tell us? The obvious is not good.
Look, Obama not only needed to do the right thing, and he didn’t, but he also needed to show the repubs who’s in control – show them he has balls. The repubs pushed to get what they want, and Obama didn’t defend when he needed to; he caved. I don’t care if some of his administration pushed for him to do this as well. We already know that not all Dems are in support and loyal to him. When it came down to making a decision, He should’ve done the right thing and gone with his gut, but instead he was gutless.
In my opinion Obama needed to remember what the repubs did over health reform. As much as I am grateful that we got the Affordable Care Act, we could’ve gotten single payer health care had Obama stuck with it and fought for it. When will he learn that no matter what, the repubs are not going to support him no matter what they say. No matter how Obama gives in and compromises, the repubs aren’t going to budge – they won’t vote in favor ever. So why bother compromising? Why bother working with them? They will never do the right thing – The repubs have no morals and no scruples. And they still want him to fail more than they will ever want the country to succeed.
He should’ve said fuck ‘em over health care and he should’ve said the same thing over this incident with Rice.
But he didn’t. If he didn’t learn over this incident, will he ever?
This is not good, not now and not for the future of this administration, and our country. This should not have happened. This was the time for Obama to be BOLD, not give a shit about what the repubs say or do, especially now…and look what he has done. The last thing we want is for anyone to think that the repubs have any control or power over the president. And right now they know he cowered. And once the repubs know you’ll cower, they will take it and work it as long and as far as they can with not a thought of how it will affect the American people. They don’t give a shit.
I don’t even want to think what affect it may have over the 2014 elections should republicans get any sort of mojo back from this screw-up.
(Sigh) In case you have little idea of what I’m talking about or want to read up on the latest about Rice, here’s the write. If you want to see the video, click on the title below; I can’t seem to post it.
Susan Rice Withdrawal: How Obama’s Likely Secretary Of State Pick Fell Apart
WASHINGTON — In a phone call with the president on Thursday, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice formally withdrew her name from consideration as the next Secretary of State, putting an abrupt end to a political drama that had unfolded on the Senate floor and television airwaves for months.
Rice made her decision, administration officials told The Huffington Post, “during the last couple days,” after considering the heated battle that would have ensued had she been tapped to replace departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities,” Rice wrote in her letter to President Barack Obama. “That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country.”
“Her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first,” the president said in a statement shortly thereafter. He will meet with Rice in person on Friday.
For all the high-minded niceties offered publicly, a genuine frustration could be felt below the surface. Not just from Rice’s defenders, who had spent weeks yearning for the White House to push back more forcefully against her critics, or from Democrats, who wanted Obama to go forward with the nomination and make an example out of those pledging to block her appointment. It also came from within the administration itself, which felt that a few dogmatic lawmakers, aided by a sympathetic press, had had a damaging effect on the course and conduct of foreign policy.
“She has been overwhelmingly confirmed for two different jobs in two different administrations and any fair reading of her record was exceptional,” said Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman. “We are confident she could have been confirmed.”
The state of play on the Hill seemed to confirm that Rice’s withdrawal wasn’t related to congressional vote counts. Top Democrats have said for some time that Rice was likely to secure the support needed to win confirmation. A Senate Democratic aide told the Huffington Post Thursday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hadn’t whipped his caucus — that is, taken a tally of his members — so there was no reason to think that calculus had changed. The aide added that Reid felt confident he could have held the Democrats in line, making it so that only five Republican senators were needed to confirm her.
Rice’s nomination would certainly have been in the majority leader’s interest. He had warned the White House against nominating Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) to the Foggy Bottom post because doing so would create an open Senate seat in Massachusetts. Kerry now appears to be the frontrunner for the nomination.
In a show of defiance, Vietor notably declined to rule out a future post for Rice.
“She is going to go to the UN and down the road she could be Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, any number of things,” he said.
And yet, the White House will inevitably be painted as partially to blame for Rice’s failed bid.
For weeks, Rice was accused of having intentionally misled the American people about the cause and nature of the September attack on an American diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Two senators in particular, John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), charged that Rice’s role in conveying the administration’s early understanding of the events — that they had been inspired by an anti-Islam video and were not an act of terror — was enough to disqualify her from a cabinet position.
There was, at one point, genuine disagreement within the administration over how much the president and his staff needed to push back on the criticism. Obama forcefully defended Rice during his first post-election press conference, telling reporters that the critics were directing their barbs at the wrong person. For a short time, it appeared, the “come-at-me” approach would suffice.
But the attacks didn’t fade, and the White House struggled to come up with the right way to publicly respond.
Soon enough, Rice was angling for the opportunity to defend herself. She proposed heading to the Hill for direct talks with some of her Senate detractors. It was a gamble: she would be creating the perception that she and the administration were laying the groundwork for her nomination while lending presidential legitimacy to a line of attack that the administration didn’t want legitimized. An administration official confirmed routine talks had taken place between the White House and Rice’s staff over how best to respond. She ended up going.
The talks backfired. Graham, McCain, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) left their meeting insisting that it had raised more questions than it answered. Soon, another voice of dissent joined the chorus. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), typically a centrist Republican, dug into the past to suggest that Rice may somehow have been responsible for security failures ahead of the terrorist bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in the late 1990s.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney offered some cover during his daily briefings, but Democrats widely panned his efforts as insufficient. Left unaddressed, the controversy over Rice’s appearance on the Sunday shows had metastasized beyond control, and the perception that Rice would be a lightening rod was cemented. She apparently lost the will for the battle.
“It was her decision,” said one official close to the administration, “but my sense is no one tried to change her mind.”
By the time the withdrawal announcement was made, even Rice’s allies were caught off guard. The conventional wisdom had been that the criticism of Rice would only make Obama more eager to fight for her appointment. One friend of Rice expressed confusion over why the decision was suddenly made to not have that fight at all. But administration officials stressed that the decision was hers alone.
“I know people are going to write that [we ducked the issue] but the important thing is she made this decision … she wanted to rise above this absurd political theater,” said Vietor. “As it became clear that this could be a partisan food fight she decided it wouldn’t be true to who she is to be a distraction to the priorities of the president’s agenda.”
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Readers: The write says, “Her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first,” the president said in a statement shortly thereafter. What about the strength of Obama’s Character? National interests first? Uh huh. I think somehow his strength of character was lost somewhere in the midst of politics of the moment, while he was putting his interests first.
It was her decision? Yeah right.
Yes, I know my republican readers are just snickering at me thinking, “Ha! Your guy has screwed up”. Yes, I agree with you. But that doesn’t mean I would ever, even for one second, wish the president to be any one different than Obama. But yes, he did fuck up and we have yet to see how bad this will be.
I’m done flapping these lips. Your turn. Blog me.
Peace out.
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December 14th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Obama has spent his life as a black man in a white male dominated society. The blacks and minorities must spend their lives in compromise of the white man. His whole life is this, so to break that pattern is out of his paradigm, and cannot happen overnight. Too bad, because he is in a position to make some serious shit happen if he would step up and lose the compromise desire. White man has none of that, and would rather see him dead anyway, so he should simply get a fucking set of balls and strong arm the white fucks in Washington, like they believe any irrational black man would do anyway…It’s time that Obama live up to the demented rationalization of the stereotype that fucked up white men think of as angry black men and simply be one and get some fucking shit done. George, fuck off!
December 14th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
The common link between this shooter in the Colorado Mall the Oregon Mall and Columbine today’s shooting in Conn. and all other shooters, is that they all had radical left wing agendas and or were registered as Democrats.
Don’t believe me do the work I did and find out for yourself. This should be a wake up call to the Patriots of this nation that the Obama Administration has an all out agenda to wipe out all the 2nd Amendment Rights and disarm the American people.
The purpose of this is to support the Radical Muslim Terrorists that have been allowed to enter this nation by Obama from Palestine and the Hamas Terrorist Group.
Their goal has been and still is to wreck the Constitution and take over this nation! THIS IS AN ALL OUT EFFORT TO OVER THROW THIS NATION AND IT’S CONSTITUTION!
December 14th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
f teachers were armed, this psycho would have been dropped in his tracks. “Ban” guns? They’ll never go away. 400,000 are smuggled into this country every year.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Note that beginning with Ronald Reagan, we’ve closed down 50% of the mental hospital beds in the USA. We have homeless beggars and other unstable people who should be getting treatment.
If we don’t give them treatment, we get a good dose of this sort of stuff. I don’t know if this young killer had shown unstable symptoms, but the Va.Tech guy did, the guy who shot Congresswoman Giffords and killed others did, and so many of the rest of those who have committed these things have been clearly unstable and shouldn’t be allowed free access to things in a country where any whacko can get a gun thanks to NRA lobbying.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
We as a nation have allowed PRAYER and GOD to be taken out of our schools, government, and trickling down the chain until GOD has taken the blessings that we use to enjoy as a CHRISTAIN NATION. The Security in knowing that he has us covered!
December 14th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Adam, you tiny dick white boys who need guns to feel like big men are not the problem. The problem is the rest of the white community who won’t rein you in.
AS far as I am concerned, I hope you get even more powerful guns into the hands of your psycho brethren . As long as you are killing yourselves and starting with you little bigot 2 bes is so okay by me.
Just don’t bring that shit to my neighborhood.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
I am 73 years old. We had a lot of God in our segregated schools. I wasn’t able to befriend a black person until I left my home town of Biloxi, Miss.
As that Christian nation you are so proud to proclaim, we whites were literally vicious to our minorities. My brother bragged about all the young black girls he used to rape. He and his friends called it “splitting black oak.”
So take your hypocritical christian nation bullshit and go to hell.
Ronny
December 14th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
We spend billions with therapist and drugs trying to get this violence out of some of our soldiers after only one year in the field, but our children are exposed to it since they were 6 years old, at 6 years old they can massacre people cutting off their heads, blowing them apart, slicing them in two with a light saber.
How much money do we spend on removing this violence from our children, not one red cent, what we do is feed it to them in bigger doses. 27 people, wait till our children get their hands on a light saber? Poor troubled youg man.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
the mindset has changed.. family togetherness, church, religion, respect, love of country, has been replaced with hate, anger, revenge, violence, lack of respect, greed, etc……God has been removed and without a God to believe in, what is left?
December 14th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
As I live in CT, I am aware that our gun laws are supposed to stricter than most states — tell me how someone with a rifle got buzzed into a school?? That could have been my grandaughters school — let all the gun lovers move to one state and shoot each other is my first reaction.
When are we going to stop selling AKA rifles and assault weapon magazines. Stop gun show sales — This is horrendous. What will it take to make these weapons illegal to carry into public buildings, parks and schools!!!
December 14th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
it has nothing to do with military firepower. You could do the same thing with any weapon. A small 22 pistol, a hunting shotgun or whatever could easily kill a bunch of people in a school. This event is terribly sad.
Absolutely terrible. But the reality is, we have a Constitution to uphold and its not the gun, its the person. If a person wants to go out and kill someone, they will. Whether it is a knife, building explosives or whatever they deem necessary, it has nothing to do with gun laws. If people are so screwed up, they will find a way. Please don’t confuse that.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
I believe that there are people that should never come within 100 miles of a firearm. Dick Cheney for one. No secret that the man drinks A LOT. I believe that is how his friend got shot in the face.
Alcohol and guns is potentially lethal to innocent people. Along with gun ownership comes responsibility. People want to own guns but don’t want to own up to the limitations that comes with it.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Willie, you are an idiot. I own several guns. Fire power has EVERYTHING to do with it.
Now one could stab or bludgeon that many people in so short a time. Neither could one do it with most hand guns. It takes an assault to do that kind of damage in so short of a time.
Like the rest of you tiny dick white boys you are a liar. You like my uncle will say anything or align yourself to an politician that will parrot your idiotic drivel. So you can feel like a man because of the power of your gun.
I love guns, but no civilian needs to own an assault rifle. It is not for hunting anything but another human. I know that and You know that.
But you and your ilk need to lie or lose your manhood that comes with owning what you don’t have between your legs, fire power.
Irene
December 14th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
If every teacher was required to conceal and carry on campus many lives could have been saved today, just saying. we know the truth is 99.99% of humans wish never to be forced to turn arms on another human being.
In situations such as the school shooting today it is the duty of every good man to be ready and willing to defend his fellow man. Just my opinion. Many lives could have been saved today… waiting for the police to arrive and save the day is always a tragedy.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Will, Yes, murder can be committed with any weapon or NO weapon, when someone is intent on killing.
However, a person has a better chance of outrunning a knife, a baseball bat, rocks or just about any other weapon. A person has a better chance to SURVIVE an attack using any other weapon.
But you cannot outrun a bullet. Matt, you are an idiotic.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
instead of asking God to forgive the shooter, why not ask why He created the shooter.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
A few days ago, Republican leaders in GA held a meeting to explain how Obama used mind control and how to resist, they did this on the tax payers dime.
We have also heard Republican judges commenting on ‘civil war’..I agree it’s not guns that kill people..but the problem is that we have a group of people in this country who thinks everything is a conspiracy and cater to the lunatic fringe, and facts are these military grade weapons do not need to be on the streets period.
Our society has changed, now we simply cannot trust the judgment of people anymore. It’s time to enforce the gun laws in this country and ban military firepower assault rifles.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Its the obama economy.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Dear America..For those of you who for whatever the reason are NOT aware of what has been taking place in this country since 9/11 it must be nice under that rock.
Our once proud nation is in the final stages of the coop that started when the 2000 election was handed to stone criminal named Bush out the back door of the court house by WH Rhenquist who’s daughter was later handed an Ambassadorship.
Well We all know what happened after that But what they are in the process of doing today is disgraceful they are setting it up for you to run to them for protection from the Boogieman they supplied.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
what peopel who favor gun control dont get is that humans killed humans LONG before the gun was invensted. thats a simple truth. there are millions of gun owners who never hurt anyone, and the 2nd is NOT about hunting, its about self defense against ‘enemied foriegn and domestic’.
you guys want to talk about this to use against legal gun owners (read legal white gun owners) and fight for faccist gun control laws. but how many are killed by gang violence each yr? by drugs?
the same people here who are spouting foolishly for more gun control laws will be the first ones crying how prisions are mean and the justice system is racist. the gun didnt kill anyone, the man did. and chances are this was PLANNED so a psych eval wouldt do squat, nor will waiting periods.
libs need to understand the 2nd is about self defense, and a ‘redneck’ with a glock or .50 cAL is is still far safer than a gangbanger with a knife or musket.
unless crazy anti gun libs can garuntee that NOBODY will ever ever ever be attacked ever again for a billion yrs gun control is a mott point used by pseudo dictators for power. Ill keep my guns thank you vwery much and i will get more legal or no!
December 14th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
“The second amendment should be regarded as a privilege instead of a right.”— It doesn’t have to be altered from a “right” to a “privilege” to allow for every reasonable limit you suggested.
NONE of the “rights” embodied in the amendments are absolute, nor were they INTENDED to be. Jefferson himself wrote of the NON-ABSOLUTE nature of the 1st amendment, noting that it would, necessarily, need to be adjusted and limited to suit the mores of the day (e.g. and this is HIS example, not allowing for human or even animal sacrifice on religious grounds).
We see this in the multiple ways our right to “free speech” is limited. Our freedom of speech is NOT and never HAS been unlimited; no yelling fire in a crowded theater, no slander, no revealing of state secrets, no terroristic threats or verbal assault, no child pornography.
Likewise, it is clear that the Founding Fathers NEVER intended for our “right to keep and bear arms” should be unlimited. In their day, single shot rifles were the height of personal firearm technology, and they envisioned and provided for a “well-regulated militia” armed by citizen soldiers with the right to keep and bear their rifles in the defense of the nation.
If taken literally (as unlimited) today, the amendment allows the ownership and bearing of ANY “arms”, from rifles to tactical nuclear weapons by ANY of “the people”. That is obviously contrary to the intent and even the letter of the clause.
As for all this tripe about Obama’s cunning plan to “take all our guns away”, the NRA trotted this pony out in 2008 and then again this year. Nevermind that this President has a strong record going back to his days in the Senate on supporting the 2nd ammendment.
AND that he, for some cunning reason, DIDN’T make any attempt to take the guns away in his 1st term, as the NRA swore he would, but WAITED until he MIGHT win a 2nd term to do so… as has still to do so or even suggest it. Conspiracy nonsense from an industry lobby group.
December 14th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Perfectly and accurately said Michelle.
December 14th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
You are so fair Michelle. You called Obama on his throwing Susan Rice under the bus.
December 14th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Michelle, You always have a woman’s back.