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Rice bars embassies from aiding candidates
rawstory.com — The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a cable to US missions forbidding them from holding events for presidential candidates or arrange meetings for them.
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- HeartlandUSA, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8The RepubliCONs are shameless in using the government to hurt Democratic candidates. SHAMELESS, ZERO ETHICS!
- DCTransplant, on 07/21/2008, -1/+2Ah, but the good news is that the Republicans aren't the only game in town - Washington, DC or any other town. The Obama campaign has enough people with sufficient contacts in their own right, that this ends up being moot. It's all for show. Typical.
- mrcoderga, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4"Rice issued no such cable prior to foreign excursions by presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)."
What a shameless partisan hack you are Rice. - beebelo, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3I read that the Iraq and Afghanistan visits were 'congressional' visits, but that Obama is having personal and private discussions with Israel and Jordan at top levels. Neither of the Republicrats should have special access to world leaders. These people are not elected yet. That said, it is interesting how the State Department allows McCain to do it, and allows Kissinger--unelected and unappointed to ANYTHING--to do it, but has a problem with Obama doing it.
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