Why in the hell does Susan Rice have to defend herself alone??

[Laura PourMeADrink]

on pandemic handoff? She's on CNN right now. She briefed Flynn. Wtf. Where's Obama? Where's Biden?

Unless they think she's bullshitting? Our party is rutterless. Sadest part of it all next to all the horror of death that surrounds us.

[elleng]

1. Asked a question, I guess, so had to respond?

Briefed flynn?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Flynn was in charge of NSA at transition time. This is huge

to me...that trump frivolously appointed a traitor ( as the judge called him) to be in charge. And pandemic preparedness fell apart from that day forward. Trump is responsible for many deaths.

[elleng]

8. Prez Obama warned him against flynn, didn't he?

flynn's been 'traitorous' for a long time, and of course trump should have known, so the 'huge' part is OLD.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Yes, but he's relevant to the specific accusation that trump

keeps making - that Obama left him unprepared. He left the security of the nation in the hands of a traitor for a couple months. Who the hell knows if Flynn transferred any knowledge to successor.

It is utterly amazing to me that Obama and Biden don't speak out on this. And I love them both and have Democratic blue blood in my veins from generations.

[elleng]

18. Hardly expect Susan Rice to have to 'defend' against lies from trump,

that President Obama left him unprepared.

The facts on 'preparedness' are in the public record, we've seen and heard them many times.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Expect Susan Rice because she's on her own, sad to say.

[greenjar_01]

2. More attacks on Obama

Will you ever stop?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Wtf? I have never attacked President Obama, never. But you hear

it over and over and over again, that he left the country unprepared for a pandemic. If you would ever speak up, ever, in defense, then when???

[greenjar_01]

13. ROFL

Truly the height of self-parody at this point.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Go back

[greenjar_01]

17. Huh?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Ah, makes total sense, welcome to DU

[demmiblue]

3. FFS, get a grip.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Wtf

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Donate

[blitzen]

4. Well, if Biden picks her as VP she'll have quite a story to tell and quite an audience. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. She doesn't need defending. She does just fine on her own

without needing a man to defend her.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. I get that! But we are taking ALL the marbles here.

[2naSalit]

12. ++++++++++++++++++++!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Wow. We are not talking about gender here! We are talking

about a unified voice from OUR party.

[karynnj]

14. She doesn't. Many Obama people have made the same points

Biden had a very well written tweet that responded to Trump lies listing the truth. Obviously, ANY Obama person who is interviewed will be asked that type of series of questions. The good news is that they are very comfortable knowing they worked hard to develop procedures and a department to deal with anything like this.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Many Obama people? Well haven't heard a single

one. And the tweets are not reaching the masses. Guess I should watch news more than 16 hrs a day.

Don't mean to sound flip, sorry

[karynnj]

24. I watch less than 16 hours, but have heard several people speak of it

The ones that seem to be on the most on MSNBC were Ben Rhodes and Ron Klain. Kathleen Sebilius, who ran HHS was on as well.

Biden himself has repeatedly spoken of what the Obama team did on Ebola and how they then established procedures to deal with future threats. This was said in various interviews and he started speaking of that even in the last debate.

As far back as January 2017, there were many articles on how the Trump team blew off most of the normal transition meetings. Trump has repeatedly been quoted that he has no need to get advice from any former President.

I think part of my reaction is that I have not seen any sign of Susan Rice being attacked on this. Trump obviously has blamed Obama because he does that any time things go wrong. Here, it is a lie AND even if Obama left him nothing, he has been president over 3 years. He is well past the time that any blaming his predecessor works.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. The key is not in obscure articles or tweets that are lost among

literally millions of others. And no one we want to reach is watching MSNBC.

The key is in mastering the media and making huge and cogent points reach the masses. Media savy. Unless we master that we are in for another 4 years of the devil incarnate.

[JI7]

21. Not everyone's lives are run by what is on 24 Hour Cable news shows

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. So what? What does that have to do with anything? I have

heard trump say a zillion times that we left him unprepared. Don't need to watch news all the time to have heard that. I have NEVER heard anyone give a cogent rebuttal to this except for Susan Rice. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[JI7]

26. that's because you only pay attention to 24 hour cable news whose main purpose is ratings instead of

reporting on the facts.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. That's bullshit. You have zero clue about what I do, what I read,

what information I am privy to.

[canetoad]

29. Should be 'rudderless' btw

What exactly do you require from Obama and Biden? Storm the studio unannounced? Call in?

It seems a pointless question to which no answer will please you. Susan Rice can take care of herself.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. Yes, explains a lot. Why we are losing the media game.