Rice Facing Criticism for Going MIA on Key Issues at U.N.

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Another holiday, another emergency and another Obama appointee fails to give up their holiday to tend to the emergencies that often occur during the most inopportune moments.

Now that we’re on the discussion, what is up with the Obama administration and their union shop mentality?  Such passivity, inaction and job assurance are traits familiar to workers who have long established tenure in union shops.

Someone has apparently failed to inform the Obama administration that they are not union workers.  In addition, much like the labor unions who have destroyed this country, they’ll be damned if they give up their holidays, no matter how much they’re paid and how big the emergency.

Obama administration motto:  Keep your head low, except on payday and have an excuse or someone to blame at the ready.  Damn, talk about cushy jobs.

It should be noted that Fox News has referred to Susan Rice’s Memorial Day absence as “low profile.”  I can only surmise that “low profile” is the new buzz word for “missing in action” aka “mia.”

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“Critics of the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations questioned her decision to stay in Washington during Monday’s marathon emergency meeting over the Israeli raid on a Gaza aid flotilla — though a U.N. official says she was ‘managing the situation’ the entire time.

Susan Rice, who lives in the nation’s capital and works most days in New York City, where the U.N. is headquartered, was with her family on Memorial Day when the news broke that the clash between Israeli forces and pro-Palestinian activists had left at least nine dead and dozens more wounded.

In her place, Deputy U.S. Representative Alejandro Wolff successfully pressed the U.N. Security Council to tone down its rebuke of Israel. That is in keeping with other countries, like permanent Security Council members Russia and China, which sent their deputy ambassadors to attend the session on the U.S. holiday.

A U.N. official said Rice was fully engaged the entire time, ‘managing the situation and in constant communication.’ The official said Wolff attended the marathon 12-hour meeting because he was already in New York, and that Rice was the one giving the orders from Washington. She has since traveled to New York.

But one of Rice’s foremost critics slammed the U.S. ambassador, calling her absence part of a pattern of passivity.

Richard Grenell, who was appointed by George W. Bush and served as U.S. spokesman at the United Nations under four different ambassadors during Bush’s administration, called it ‘troublesome’ that Rice would remain in Washington while the crisis was unfolding.

‘It’s just unbelievable that Susan Rice didn’t go out there,’ Grenell said. ‘She had plenty of time to get to New York.’

Grenell previously has accused Rice of not spending enough time in New York and not pressing U.S. interests at the United Nations forcefully enough.

‘She clearly wants to be the popular ambassador and has demonstrated that she’s unwilling to take on the controversial issues,’ he said….”

US Delegation at UN Disconnects Phone – Update

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Just received the following email from Parentalrights.org 

“Congratulations!

The office of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has been inundated with calls! The first phone line we sent out has been completely shut down, and the voice mail system for all of their lines has been crashed.

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You no longer need to call the U.S. office at the U.N. Instead, please contact the White House comment line at 202-456-1111. It may be busy – we have kept it busy all day — but keep trying. It is only open from 9 to 5 (EDT), so time is limited. However, you can also send them a message online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/.

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Keep up the good work.  Keep the calls and the momentum going.

Suggested reading:  Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights

Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights

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Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the U.S. to ratify a United Nations measure meant to expand the rights of children, a move critics are calling a gross assault on parental rights that could rob the U.S. of sovereignty.

The California Democrat is pushing the Obama administration to review the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a nearly 20-year-old international agreement that has been foundering on American shores since it was signed by the Clinton administration in 1995 but never ratified.

Critics say the treaty, which creates “the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion” and outlaws the “arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy,” intrudes on the family and strips parents of the power to raise their children without government interference. 

The high rate of children committing crimes against one another and adults increased dramatically since the early 70’s when government first interferred with the raising of our children.  Once children realized that they had these rights, many began disrespecting their parents; and to put it mildly, all hell has been breaking loose ever since.  So who needs more government intervention? 

“Children deserve basic human rights … and the convention protects children’s rights by setting some standards here so that the most vulnerable people of society will be protected,” Boxer said.

The convention has established a Committee on the Rights of the Child, an 18-member panel in Geneva composed of “persons of high moral character” who review the rights of children in nations that are party to the convention.

But legal experts say the convention does nothing to protect human rights abroad — and that acceding to the convention would erode U.S. sovereignty.

 Who the hell is she?  With her nannies, maids, gardeners, etc., Boxer’s intentions are misguided. 

Protect the children in Darfur, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Sudan.  These children are forced to kill their parents and siblings and then become soldiers to kill some more.  Protect them! Protect the young girls who have been threatened by the Taliban and told not to go to school.  Protect them and stop trying to change our laws. 

Parental rights groups are similarly stirred; they see in the U.N. convention a threat that the government will meddle with even the simplest freedoms to raise their children as they see fit.

“Whether you ground your kids for smoking marijuana, whether you take them to church, whether you let them go to junior prom, all of those things . . . will be the government’s decision,” said Michael Farris, president of ParentalRights.org. “It will affect every parent who’s told their children to do the dishes.” 

Groves said that erosion has already begun, as the Supreme Court has referred to the wide acceptance of the child-rights law in conferring legal protections on minors in the U.S.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the majority opinion in the 2005 decision banning the death penalty for minors, noted that “every country in the world has ratified [the convention] save for the United States and Somalia.” 

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Or are they intending to globalize child rearing as they are the economy and healthcare?  Better yet, is this what Obama had in mind for his army of children? 

The perfect example of how government is screwing with us and our children.  If you have a 16 year old who is out of control and you ask the authorities for assistance, the courts will grant that out of control wayward youth a say in his or her future.  

In fact, the courts will go as far as to tie the parents’ hands in the matter and give that wayward child free reign.  HOWEVER, in spite of granting this teenager free reign if something were to happen to that child, even if it were the child’s own doing, the court system would hold the parents legally accountable because that child is under age. 

And now they want to trample upon our parental rights further?  Are you kidding me?  The worst part is that the idiots who are writing this legislation don’t take the time with their own children, so how can they tell the rest of us a damn thing? 

DO NOT THINK THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TELL ME HOW TO RAISE MY CHILDREN OR GRAND-CHILDREN!!! 

What is up with the government wanting to be in every inch of our lives?