The two names most bandied about is
Susan Rice for Secretary of State and even John Kerry. The latter however will
have to forego his Senate Seat in Massachusettes and step down from senior
positions such as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is
also named as a possible Defense Secretary.
My pick would be Susan Rice for Sec of
State and a Republican Congressman for Defense to pacify the Republicans and
get some important bills passed in the House! After all Sen. Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA) is the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee will have to clear
up the David Patraeus affair, and putting a Republican in Defense, much in the
way Clinton did is good politics.
Rice promotion would help in Susan
Power’s elevation to UN Ambassador a Cabinet post, which she can use as the
bully pulpit for Obama causes such as HR in the world, and ideas that Power is committed
to and determined to make her mark. All these changes should be done sooner
rather than later, so that come the day of Inauguration on Jan 20th
these announcements are in place, as it may take some time for the confirmation
hearings if Congress wishes to delay that.
Ironically Condi Rice (no relation) was
also a Sec of State under GW Bush, but now she is a Stanford Professor, though
she is not an Alumni, which Susan Rice is. It is time that Rice and not Wheat
rules the world and it seems so these days, thanks to prominent African
Americans. The US has matured with a Black two term President, despite the
overt racism by some, and now Black Foreign Ministers, and female at that,
which will be hard for the rest of the world to easily criticize.
Despite the criticism of the US by many in
Government from Sri Lanka it is increasingly obvious the criticism falls on deaf
years as the people who are doing the criticizing are in a worse position from which
to tell others about right and wrong.
I believe a formidable team of Obama, Rice
and Power will be able to put a lot more pressure on Israel to come to a settlement,
and as they are about to take some bellicose actions that are bound to ricochet
on their face, it will be up to a new team at the White House to call the shots
and bring Netanyahu to book for another diplomatic and therefore blunder for the
State of Israel, that the Obama administration will be hard pressed to defend for
the umpteenth time.
3 comments:
as much as i would like to see the former black woman secretary of state dr. rice erased from history by a new black woman secretary of state dr. rice, i don't think the new rice, or the old one, is intellectually or tempermentally qualified for the position. if you watch the new dr. rice speak on issues, she is amateurish and uses bellicose words in the same way as the old dr. rice. i consider the old and new dr. rices to be social climbers akin to general petraeus mistress paula broadwell and honorary consul of korea to tampa jill kelley, while not drs. themselves both married to ones!
ironically both rices went on tv and bold faced lied to the American public about national security issues -- and then looked to get promoted!! what a disaster they are for America. thanks to affirmative action for the opportunities!!! ha!
as you have stated on your other blogs many times, red rice is the new craze!
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