MB Civic

McGovern ..

Rice’s eagerness to play the Washington game also landed her in the middle of the current “scandal” over her statements regarding [Benghazi] .. On Sept. 16, Rice appeared on five (count them) Sunday TV shows, adhering closely to the CIA-provided “talking points,” .. Blinded by the limelight, Rice seems to have blundered into the controversy, giving little thought to the possibility that she was being put out front by [Petraeus and Brennan], who is the usual administration spokesman regarding terrorist attacks. Brennan immediately flew off to Libya on a fact-finding trip, leaving Rice in the unaccustomed role of ‘splaining the attack in Benghazi. Rice also wasn’t overly curious as to why Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begged off on grounds she was “not going to offer any hypothetical explanations.” Was Ambassador Rice too ambitious and/or too naïve? For her it is a cruel irony that by letting her vision be blurred by the allure of five sets of klieg lights in one day, and the opportunity to embellish her persona for the top job at State, she has imperiled her own candidacy

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