Leid Stories - Hillary’s Take-Out: Fried Rice - 12/14/12

Hillary Clinton, the feminist, winds up her brand-enhancing tenure as secretary of state with a death blow to the ascendancy of Susan Rice. There'll be no climbing on her shoulders. By deftly playing her cards, Clinton landed a choice slot in the Obama administration and now leaves on a high note, nicely poised for a slew of lucrative options, including a 2016 presidential run. Rice, on the other hand, is left to pick up the pieces of a career shattered by being the face of Clinton's failure in Benghazi. This, plus "Cliff Notes" (a different take on the so-called fiscal cliff) and listeners' views on what mattered most this week.