RICE CAKES – AT 10:39 A.M. ET:  Where is she now?  Our UN ambassador, I mean.   At a time of international crisis, when the UN was meeting to consider action against Libya, mild as it would be, Ambassador Susan Rice was on an excellent adventure, as the New York Post points out:

The UN Security Council convened an emergency session yesterday to draft sanctions against Libyan mad- dog Moammar Khadafy.

But as the UN struggled to put out the fires in the Mideast, America's top UN rep was nowhere to be found.
In fact, US Ambassador Susan Rice was 8,000 miles away from UN headquarters, taking tea in South Africa with fellow diplonuts.

South Africa?

What the hell?

Rice flew to sunny Cape Town this week for a "global sustainability" conference to discuss carbon emissions and green economies in the Third World.

There were plenty of carbon emissions over Tripoli and Benghazi this week -- from fighter-jet and helicopter exhaust as Khadafy loyalists strafed protestors in the streets, and from exploding Molotov cocktails. Lead poisoning from stray AK-47 rounds were an issue, too.

But instead of taking the lead as the United Nations tried to force Khadafy to end his war on his own people, America's top UN official was essentially AWOL.

Rice is, as they say, "close" to Obama.  Her absence probably indicates the real importance that Obama attaches to the Libyan revolt.  After all, the chief executive was caught boogeying at a Motown party in the White House before getting around to calling British Prime Minister Cameron and French President Sarkozy.

What an administration.  Can you imagine John Bolton's response had he been US ambassador to the UN?  But Bolton couldn't even get confirmed by the U.S. Senate when George W. Bush nominated him.  A big too tough, you see.

February 26, 2011