Obama Defends U.N. Envoy Amid Republican Attack
Excerpt:Enlarge Mario Tama/Getty Images U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is considered a leading candidate to become the next secretary of state. Leading Senate Republicans say they would seek to block her if she's nominated. That prompted President Obama to offered a pointed defense of Rice on Wednesday. Mario Tama/Getty Images U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is considered a leading candidate to become the next secretary of state. Leading Senate Republicans say they would seek to block her if she's nominated. That prompted President Obama to offered a pointed defense of Rice on Wednesday. President Obama sounds like he's in for a fight over the woman who could be the next secretary of state. Republicans have been blasting U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for the way she characterized the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11.
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Ambassador Rice
Overall Sentiment: -0.0856403
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| 0.190283 | "I love my job here at the United Nations. I always have. I always will," she said. ... |
| 0.265339 | "I love my job here at the United Nations. I always have. I always will," she said. "And I look forward to continuing to serve for as long as President Obama would like me to." |
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President Obama
Overall Sentiment: 0.110244
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| 0.221449 | "If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham and others want to go after somebody they should go after me. And I'm happy to have that discussion with them," Obama said. ... |
| 0.0121416 | "If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham and others want to go after somebody they should go after me. And I'm happy to have that discussion with them," Obama said. "But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous." |
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Sen. John McCain
Overall Sentiment: -0.142666
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| 0.0263076 | "And if Ambassador Rice was relying on intelligence assessments as she insists, why were those assessments so dramatically at odds with the earliest reports of our people on the ground?" he said. ... |
| 0 | McCain says he will do "whatever is necessary" ... |
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Sen. Lindsay Graham
Overall Sentiment: -0.170723
Relevance: 0.207054
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| -0.181348 | "And the reason I don't trust her is because I think she knew better, and if she didn't know better, she shouldn't be the voice of America," Graham said. ... |
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Leading Republican senators are vowing to block U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice from becoming secretary of state if President Obama nominates her. They are hammering her for the way she characterized the attack on the U.N. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Obama says the criticisms are "outrageous."
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Obama Defends U.N. Envoy Amid Republican Attack
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