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The Dirtiest Player in the Game: Susan Rice Angling to be Vice President

<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice is reportedly being considered as a potential running mate for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Once described by <em>Newsweek<&sol;em> as &&num;8220&semi;Obama’s right-hand woman&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Rice worked directly with Biden for years during her tenure as UN Ambassador &lpar;2009-2013&rpar; and National Security Adviser &lpar;2013-2017&rpar;&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I know they have a good relationship &&num;8211&semi; perhaps the best relationship of anyone on the list&comma;” said a source close to the Biden campaign&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They’ve known each other for years&comma; they’ve worked alongside each other and she’s been tested in a way that a lot of folks on the list just haven’t been&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><strong><span class&equals;"s1">Biden has already promised to choose a female running mate&comma; and Rice would satisfy voters&&num;8217&semi; demands for a black Vice President&period; <&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Everyone automatically thinks of Kamala &lbrack;Harris&rsqb; when they think he needs to pick a woman of color&comma;” said another source&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But if you look at Susan’s credentials&comma; she makes perfect sense&period; She’s a rock star who has the confidence&comma; stature&comma; and gravitas to be vice president&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Other options for Biden include Sen&period; Elizabeth Warren &lpar;MA&rpar;&comma; Sen&period; Kamala Harris &lpar;CA&rpar;&comma; Rep&period; Val Demings &lpar;FL&rpar;&comma; Rep&period; Tammy Duckworth &lpar;IL&rpar;&comma; and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Before joining the UN&comma; Susan Rice served on President Bill Clinton’s national security council &lpar;1993-1997&rpar; and served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at the State Department &lpar;1997-2001&rpar;&period; She advised presidential nominees Michael Dukakis&comma; John Kerry&comma; and Barack Obama&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Rice was considered as a replacement for outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012 until her lies about Benghazi were exposed&period; <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">Like Clinton&comma; Rice claimed the attack was the result of a protest turned violent <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">rather than the terrorist attack she knew it was&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><strong><span class&equals;"s1">As we have argued in past articles&comma; the Obama Administration clearly lied about Benghazi to protect his bid for re-election in 2012&period; <&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rice was caught lying again in 2017 when the <span class&equals;"s1">Khan Shaykun chemical attack proved that Syria had not given up its chemical weapons as she had claimed&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">More recently&comma; she was exposed as one of several Obama officials who attempted to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unmask” the identities of Trump transition officials <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">named in foreign surveillance records &lpar;Biden also submitted unmasking requests&rpar;&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">On President Trump’s Inauguration Day&comma; Rice sent herself an email containing then-FBI Director James Comey’s inappropriate suggestion that Obama withhold &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sensitive information related to Russia” from Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn&period; <em>And we all know how that played out&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Later&comma; Rice would have the audacity to claim that the Trump Administration disliked her due to her &OpenCurlyQuote;race and gender&period;’ <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>Author’s Note&colon; <&sol;b>Susan Rice is one of the least honest &&num;8211&semi; or most loyal &&num;8211&semi; Obama cronies&period; She is a criminal who deserves to be in jail&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s Note&colon;<&sol;strong> Of course she was Obama&&num;8217&semi;s right hand man&period; She proved that she would blatantly lie to the American people on Obama&&num;8217&semi;s behalf&period; She was utterly loyal in the face of crisis&comma; when that crisis was that Obama&&num;8217&semi;s foreign policy was failing miserably and he was in danger of not getting re-elected&period; The ultimate Machiavelli&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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