Wild Rice

Why are we not surprised that Susan Rice would ruffle feathers before the Obama Administration even assumes power?

As Secretary of State-pick Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. envoy-choice Susan Rice separately visited the diplomatic agency’s headquarters in Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, persons familiar with the transition said that Rice wants to install her own transition team inside the department.

Such a move by an incoming U.N. ambassador is rare, if not unprecedented, because the job is based at the United Nations in New York, where Rice already has a small transition staff, the sources familiar with the incoming administration.

The push by Rice, an early Obama supporter whose position the President-elect wants to elevate to a cabinet post, is also a signal that she intends to use her influence with the new president to play a more significant role than previous U.N. envoys, they said. The transition sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Susan Rice, during campaign interviews as an Obama advisor, always came off as an angry black woman with a phony, reassuring smile. Now that the campaign is over and she can be her power-trippin’ self, we’ll see how many find ways to distance themselves from her and her poisonous personality.

Some “ambassador” she’s going to be….