From The New Civil Rights Movement: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/where-are-the-women-president-obama/news/2013/01/12/58069
by Tanya Domi
on January 12, 2013
Things are shakin’ inside the Beltway and on many social media platforms as Democratic women are furious with the latest round of Obama cabinet appointments seemingly to be all white males.
Whatever happened to the old adage to “dance with the ones who brung you?” Indeed, a two-digit gender gap among the voters is what delivered Barack Obama a victory in his historic re-election bid, but the President and his vetters appear to have forgotten those women voters, many, if not most, happened to be Democratic voters.
The optics are pretty bad: in November just after the election, the White House allowed Ambassador Susan Rice to hang out in the wind, exposing her to a torrential downpour of Republican calculated attacks on her conduct and character for her appearance on the Sunday talk shows in defending the Administration’s explanation of the tragic events that took place in September in Benghazi, Libya. Rice used talking points prepared by the CIA, which Republicans charged was a word smithing cover-up and Rice should have known better than to use them (approved by at least three different agencies and the White House). Ultimately, those attacks effectively tanked her anticipated nomination to become the next Secretary of State.
President Obama defended her on two different occasions, but as one foreign policy reporter explained to me, the White House handling of the Rice situation was “tepid” at best.
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