I don't believe one word out of McCain and Co. mouths. They want Rice.

[blm]

She's a longtime neo-con in the Hillary Clinton/Joe Lieberman mode and the GOP knows damn well they can depend on her to promote interventionist policies they have traditionally agreed with throughout the last few decades. And they know they have Obama cornered into naming her by their dog and pony show of opposition.

I am one citizen who does not believe the position of Secretary of State should be filled by a hawk or a neo-con.

I have no qualms with a neo-con or hawk serving as an advisor to the President, as all options and views should be discussed thoroughly by any president and his team. I just want the State Department led by someone who sees diplomatic success as the goal, not as a stepping stone to interventionism and war.

BTW...Since when do Democrats and left media believe that McCain and his chorus of GOP senators are utterly sincere in their stated attacks on Rice?

[ananda]

1. Dennis Kucinich needs a job.

..

[coalition_unwilling]

10. He's being held in reserve for when the spot of interplanetary

ambassador needs a qualified person

JK - I worked on Kucinich's 2004 campaign, after Dean flamed out.

On a serious note, wouldn't it be great if Obama proposed the creation of a Department of Peace and nominated Kucinich to run it? I'm not holding my breath.

[brush]

2. Which Rice are you talking about?

Susan or Condi?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. Agreed,

plus most of her several millions are invested in Canadian Oil companies.... Of course they want her.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. I assume her great wealth was inherited from her father, President of the Federal

Reserve as he was, because her own resume does not indicate any period of time working that could result in those tens of millions she has.

[blm]

7. I'm not against Rice as an advisor to Obama or as UN ambassador, I think she's more than competent

in those roles and in representing the WH in those roles. I just don't want a neocon heading the State Department when there are better choices. I didn't want Hillary as SoS and I don't want Rice.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

8. Perhaps.

In 2009 her net worth was estimated to be between $23.5 million and $43.5 million.

[still_one]

4. It may be, however, the SOS does the bidding of the President, not "their" agenda. Can you name a

SOS to me who wasn't a hawk or neo-con since Cyrus Vance?

[blm]

5. To a point. Sec of State gives their best advisement and their commitment to diplomacy should

be unremarkable. Neocons have always been too willing to intervene militarily before diplomatic measures have been exhausted.

[Octafish]

9. War is money.

"Money trumps peace." -- George W Bush

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0215-29.htm

[bluestate10]

11. Rice opposed the surge in Iraq. And she is a leading voice inside the Administration on behalf of

Human Rights issues. Have you stopped for once to think about whether Rice's push for intervention is driven by her human rights concerns more than a desire to shed blood? War is often needed to stop evil, in the last 100 years, countless cases of where war arrested evil and actually saved lives once the larger picture was known.

[blm]

12. Of course I consider that as I look at the entire history of the last 6 decades post WW2.

And, I wonder why more Dems do not show any considered interest in putting history and the history of neocon movement in its proper perspective.