If Joe Biden’s past is any indicator, Susan Rice should have been the shoo-in choice for Vice President. And that’s only because Baghdad Bob was not an option. Biden has an established history of offensive-defensive behavior that won’t change just because he’s president, demanding a Girl Friday to explain his gaffes and clean up his false claims. Rice is the right woman for the job (and she’s served with Biden already).
Biden needs a vice president without an original political thought, and Rice has never held an elected office. Her professional timeline follows: 1988 Dukakis campaign, 1990 global consultant, 1993 Clinton NSC Africa specialist, 2001 Brookings Institution, 2008 Obama campaign, 2009 Obama UN ambassador, 2013 Obama national security advisor, 2017 American University visiting fellow. She’s 55-years-old and never been held to account except to Democrat politicians.
Despite Rice having no particular skill set, she does have what Biden needs: a woman of color to placate left-wing Democrats and news outlets. This is true, because Biden is an Old White Dude that needs a Hip Black Chick in the era of identity-politics. Uncle Joe has his own girl troubles and needs Rice to hit Trump on race, just as Kamala Harris hit him in the first debate: i.e that little black girl was me.
If elected, Rice has all the personal ties to the Clinton-Obama machine a Democrat could ever want. In light of Biden’s mental acuity, this might not be a bad thing – except Rice is inclined to resuscitate every dumb Obama-Clinton idea. My hope is that Macron, Merkel, Xi, and Trudeau are so happy to be rid of Trump, they go easy on Biden-Rice. But, don’t hold your breath, because the RE-SET amateur hour is coming. Danke, Angela, may I have another?
Who am I kidding? There are two reasons Rice is the perfect fit: (1) she makes false claims with a straight face, and (2) she dissembles the truth on CNN and MSNBC to the left’s satisfaction. Of course, Rice remembers her Benghazi Scorched Earth charade in 2012, when she marched onto five Sunday morning news sets and faithfully repeated false talking points. You don’t meet Stanford grads like that every day, do you?
This includes lying to Congress and PBS about what she knew and what she did to undermine Trump. In September 2017, Rice testified to Congress that “Director Comey did not volunteer to us [at any time] that there was an active investigation of anybody in the Trump Orbit,” twice confirming her lack of involvement – to Democrats Schiff and Swalwell. In March 2017, Rice told Judy Woodruff on PBS that she had no knowledge (“I know nothing about this”) of Trump campaign surveillance.
Nice try – except the first lie was exposed by Inspector General Horowitz, who reported FBI Director Comey’s Oval Office briefing about Crossfire Hurricane (Trump surveillance) “was attended by then National Security Advisor Susan Rice.” The second lie was outed by the declassified email Rice sent to herself: “Director Comey affirmed he is proceeding ‘by the book’ [and] incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently to Russian Ambassador Kislyak [and] ‘the level of communication is unusual.’”
The Democrat nightmare since Hillary Clinton lost has been a smoking gun that proves the Obama-Clinton team tried to subvert the 2016 election – and what better insurance policy than to elect Susan Rice to cover everybody’s tracks, including her own? She is practiced in Trump-trashing and would relish weaponizing CIA, DOJ, FBI, and NSA partisans to teach a lesson to the next change candidate: LEAVE OUR ATM ALONE.