Rice’s Revenge

“Earlier this year, John Kerry seemed to prevail over Susan Rice when President Obama selected him to be Secretary of State, a job they both coveted. On Wednesday, Rice regained the upper hand when she was appointed National Security Advisor, giving her a position that clearly outranks Kerry’s in the Obama power structure,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Now, in an administration where all foreign-policy decision making flows through the White House and the president makes key decisions personally, Rice and Kerry will be the two senior officials jockeying for influence over the remaining three-and-a-half years of Obama’s second term.”