BY JOE CONASON With the Republican right persisting in baseless persecution of Susan Rice, the U.N. Ambassador who may replace departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, it has left President Obama little choice but to move ahead with her nomination. If he backs away from Rice, in the face of what he has called false accusations against her, that display of weakness would undermine his second term before it begins. The opposition to Rice is […]

In Baseless Persecution Of Rice, Republican Reputations Will Sink
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