Susan Rice in 2020 Vice Presidential prospects
On Abortion:
Disagrees with son: she's pro-choice, he's pro-life
On abortion: "We agree, for example, on the importance of the United States playing a responsible, principled leadership role in the world," she said of her son. "We agree on the importance of having strong alliances. We agree we have to be cleareyed
and strong in dealing with adversaries like Russia and the threat that China may pose. We disagree on things like choice. I'm pro-choice. He's pro-life. That's the kind of difference that we ought to be able to respect."
Source: NPR news website on 2020 Veepstakes
Aug 4, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Against divisiveness; Americans sink or swim together
"One of the critical reasons why we are in such a difficult spot, whether with respect to the pandemic or economy, national cohesion, racial justice issues is because we are now burdened with leadership in the White House
that thrives on dividing us and pitting Americans against each other," she said. "We absolutely have to move past that to a point of a recognition that we are all in this boat together, we sink or swim together."
Source: NPR news website on 2020 Veepstakes
Aug 4, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Confident black women inadvertently intimidate certain men
Some of Rice's defenders say criticism of her no-nonsense manner smacks of sexism. In her book, Rice writes about the challenges of pushing her way upward in a man's world of high-level policymaking: "The combination--being a confident black woman who
is not seeking permission or affirmation from others--I suspect accounts for why I inadvertently intimidate some people, especially certain men, and perhaps also why I have long inspired motivated detractors who simply can't deal with me."
Source: Foreign Policy magazine on 2020 Veepstakes
Jul 29, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Senate blocked police reforms & new Voting Rights Act
Congress has yet again missed the moment. The House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which would institute carefully calibrated reforms, but it was blocked in the Republican-controlled Senate. After failure to
pass a pale substitute for the House bill, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, seems eager to move on. He refuses to allow Senate consideration of a new Voting Rights Act or of funding to ensure safe voting during a raging pandemic.
Source: New York Times on 2020 Veepstakes
Jul 29, 2020
On Education:
Free public college for families earning under $125,000/year
In education we should invest in the full spectrum of learning -- starting with universal prekindergarten, competitive teacher salaries and reliable broadband in both rural and urban digital deserts. To expand access to postsecondary education,
it's time to provide no-debt access to community colleges, scale up apprenticeships and Pell Grants, and make tuition free at public universities for all families earning under $125,000 annually.
Source: New York Times on 2020 Veepstakes
Jul 29, 2020
On Homeland Security:
Prepared "pandemic for dummies" playbook for successors
Former Obama national security adviser @AmbassadorRice to @TheView: "We prepared the [Trump] administration with a pandemic for dummies playbook.
So the fault here, the tragic loss of 150,000 Americans and counting [to the coronavirus pandemic as of July 2020], is on Donald Trump and his gross mishandling of this pandemic."
Source: Twitter posting @AmbassadorRice on 2020 Veepstakes
Jul 29, 2020
On War & Peace:
Withdrawal of troops from Germany is special gift to Putin
A special gift to Putin and a blow to NATO: @realDonaldTrump is not playing on America's team.
US to withdraw nearly 12,000 troops from Germany in move that will cost billions and take years - CNNPolitics
Source: Twitter posting @AmbassadorRice on 2020 Veepstakes
Jul 29, 2020
On Welfare & Poverty:
1994: Regrets no U.S. intervention in Rwandan genocide
During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Rice was the NSC director for international organizations and peacekeeping under National Security Advisor Anthony Lake in the Bill Clinton administration. Both Lake and Rice later expressed regret about failing to
advocate U.S. intervention, and Clinton himself called it one of the biggest mistakes of his presidency."Everyone who lived through that feels profoundly remorseful and bothered by it," Rice told me in an interview in
2008, though she said she was too "junior" at the time to have affected decision-making very much.
Even so, Rice later came under criticism for her relationship with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who was supplying
and financing a brutal Congolese rebel force known as the March 23 (M23) Movement. While Rice did criticize M23, she avoided linking the group to Rwanda and Kagame.
Source: Foreign Policy magazine on 2020 Veepstakes
Jul 29, 2020
On Homeland Security:
Russia may have helped stir up violent protests
Rice has blamed the violent protests that rocked major American cities on "foreign actors," and even suggested that Russia could be involved in stirring them up. "I'm not reading the intelligence today, or these days -- but based on my experience,
this is right out of the Russian playbook," Rice said. "But we cannot allow the extremists, the foreign actors, to distract from the real problems we have in this country that are longstanding, centuries old, and need to be addressed responsibly."
Source: National Review on 2020 Veepstakes
Jul 28, 2020
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