SUE OF A FLY: OBAMA'S UN AMBASSADOR - SUSAN RICE - IS EITHER GUILTY OF GROSS INCOMPETENCE OR BEING A TRAITOR

Richard Grenell - (who served as the spokesman for the last four U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations)/ NRO:

United States ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice wasn’t even at the U.N., let alone in the committee room, when U.N. members voted Iran onto the Commission on the Status of Women committee.

Not only was our ambassador not in the room for the vote, she wasn’t even in the building.

Wouldn’t you think that a female American ambassador would understand the importance of standing up against a country that has some of the world’s most hostile laws toward women?

Shouldn’t Rice want to use the opportunity to highlight the regime’s record on women’s rights?

... For Rice, this silence is becoming a pattern.

She is seldom in New York City and spends even less time at the U.N.

Rice has not conducted the hard negotiations nor done the sometimes unpopular and messy work of engaging the U.N. or speaking up when others are silent.

Rice has been routinely unavailable to reporters, absent from daily U.N. meetings, and all too often silent when the American people needed a strong voice to speak out on an important issue.

From Iran to Zimbabwe to Sudan to Cuba, Rice consistently stays silent.

It’s no wonder other countries at the U.N. think the Obama administration is so easy to work with.

And it also explains why we haven’t had one single Security Council resolution on Iran since Rice arrived.

In a roughly two-year period, the Bush administration passed a total of five Iran resolutions, three of which contained increased sanctions and were passed unanimously (one sanctions resolution passed 14 to 1, with Indonesia voting no).

The excuse that Rice is building relationships quietly or has a different type of style is lame.

We don’t need to win popularity contests, we need action and votes and leadership.

In Rice’s case, we just need her to start showing up for meetings and using her microphone.