Rice Tweets

Remember in the movie, The Wizard of Oz, when the wizard gave a diploma to the scarecrow and the scarecrow miraculously acquired a brain, proven by the scarecrow instantly rattling off some obscure mathematical theorem.

In real life everyone knows, excluding scarecrows and progressives, it is self-evident that giving a scarecrow a diploma does not give the scarecrow a brain.  Just as giving a Rhodes scholarship to Susan Rice didn't give her a brain.  The jury is still out as to whether giving a Rhodes scholarship to a man gives him a wandering penis.

In response to something she read on the internet, Susan Rice tweeted:

A giant of African lit., he brought the Continent–and Nigeria, in particular–2 the world. His works left lasting impression on me & my gen.   Despite the promise of the future, today is a somber day in Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe was laid to rest in his native village.

 

The giant of African literature that Susan Rice referred to has been dead since 2013.  He was not buried on Monday March 23rd, 2015.  Susan Rice had fallen for an internet hoax.

No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes, but should Susan Rice have made this particular mistake?  She was the Africa advisor in the State Department during the second term of Bill Clinton.   In the Obama administration, she has been the US ambassador to the United Nations and is now the national security advisor.  Shouldn't Rice have known that "a giant of African literature that brought the continent of Africa to the world" had been dead for quite some time prior to mid-March 2015?

For members of the Obama administration this is par for the course, and in life and death struggles you don't get mulligans.  There won't be any do-overs if Tel Aviv ceases to exist.

When CIA director John Brennan says the CIA knows where every Iranian nuclear site is located, should we believe that?  When Barack Obama and John Kerry say that a deal with Iran will prevent Iran from getting a nuke, should we believe that?

Barack Obama wants a deal with Iran so bad he'll say any lie and he'll obfuscate and dissemble just as much as he did to get Obamacare.  He must get that piece of paper that says he successfully negotiated with Iran.  I just wonder if he would settle for us giving him a diploma.  Who knows, maybe he would miraculously acquire a brain.  If that were to work, we could then give him a Rhodes scholarship and see if he grows a penis.