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Topic: Why Benghazi didn´t bring down Hillary Clinton |
Why Benghazi didn´t bring down Hillary Clinton
The Week, by Harold Maass
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Posted By:Drive, 1/24/2013 8:26:09 AM
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| Several Republicans spent Wednesday grilling Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, which killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) assailed Clinton for failing to read diplomatic cables requesting more security at the consulate, claiming that it was a fireable offense. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) suggested that administration officials had deliberately misled the American people by initially claiming that the attack had started as a spontaneous riot. As Johnson repeatedly pressed her on why she hadn´t discovered
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Comments: She´s a Dem, that´s why
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
shamus, 1/24/2013 8:30:46 AM (No. 9135995)
Media boot lickers love her style of abuse.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nimby, 1/24/2013 8:35:57 AM (No. 9136008)
The congress didn´t do their job
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mamafrog, 1/24/2013 8:38:54 AM (No. 9136013)
Hillary got lots of air time where she looked competent and capable. Nothing else needs to be said. The only thing standing in the way of her being the Democratic nominee for President is Joe Biden. My money is on Hillary.
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JAN, 1/24/2013 8:42:21 AM (No. 9136019)
She looked like a smirking liar.
Rarely if ever answered a question.
If the powers that be thought she was doing so well they would not have released the meaningless statement that the Pentagon had decided to allow women in combat.
Are we so easily minipulated into believing the msm?
Seems that way. Most of the posts I have seen here on Ldot have been bashing the republicans.
One has to wonder.....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 1/24/2013 8:43:37 AM (No. 9136023)
It brought her down. Her statement about what difference does it make who killed our people will come back to haunt her. It already has in part in Algeria.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jackson, 1/24/2013 8:48:42 AM (No. 9136037)
The New York Times doesn´t even MENTION the hearings on their on-line front page today. I´m not kidding!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nimby, 1/24/2013 8:49:24 AM (No. 9136038)
She is a CLINTON, that´s why. A family of lying, cheating pols
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 1/24/2013 8:57:56 AM (No. 9136058)
I watched the stupid hearings. Imagine...alternating dhims and repubs.
R´s tried to get in their questions. If they got in just one, she strung out her answer with irrelevant nothings and ran out the clock. If they tried to say everything, she just answered a little bit and let the rest go. They were ineffectual.
Each question had to be prefaced with the obligatory "Thank you O Great One, You are Worthy of Praise for your mileage" ad nauseum. Gack.
The democrats were fawning and eating up the clock with their turns.
What a farce. I should never have watched the whole thing. The stench and the memory are still with me.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Memphis, 1/24/2013 9:00:08 AM (No. 9136063)
On page A-9 on NYTimes..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 1/24/2013 9:14:34 AM (No. 9136085)
Congress has shown itself to be as incompetent and ineffectual as Hillary and her boss. At another place in time she would have resigned in disgrace and disappeared long ago. Also, with the extent of the lies and obvious cover-up, this entire administration would have been brought down.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 1/24/2013 9:15:04 AM (No. 9136087)
Of course this didn´t bring Hitlery down. If her husband in name only (HINO) wasn´t brought down for getting a Lewinsky at work and lying about it or an incompetent jerk like Obambi can get elected, then why should this country be concerned about our ambassador getting slaughter in some Hades hole? This issue isn´t why did Hitlery get away with it, the issue is why have we as a country given up on honest effective principled and wise leaders? Al we seemed interested in is someone that can entertain with a good speech or a heck of a TelePrompTer reading.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/24/2013 9:15:34 AM (No. 9136088)
She just kept the wimpy Republicans on ice until she found out what everybody else was going to say, and then gave her rehearsed performance. By that time what she said made little difference to the large majority of the American people who have little or no knowledge of what actually happened that night in Benghazi, the liberal Democrats who run Washington, DC, or herself. Obviously they were all just trying to cover Obama´s butt until he could get re-elected, even Romney went along with that.
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Hermoine, 1/24/2013 9:17:35 AM (No. 9136095)
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy...she´s a Democrat. If this had happened under Sec. Rice, not only would Rice be gone but Bush would have been impeached AND removed from office.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rather Read, 1/24/2013 9:24:21 AM (No. 9136113)
She´s a Democrat. She´s Hillary. She´s a woman. The trifecta of all that is good and noble according to the MSM. Of course they won´t bring her down.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sewa, 1/24/2013 9:26:12 AM (No. 9136119)
If my memory serves me correctly, Hillary Clinton, when she was still Hillary Rodham, was part of the Watergate team which brought down President Nixon´s presidency. Too bad that Nixon hadn´t thought of that "cute" phrase, "What difference does it make? We have to move forward." Seems like Hillary has changed her tune.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 1/24/2013 9:55:36 AM (No. 9136178)
In this political environment, there was no way any democrat would dare suggest thet Clinton was anything but perfect in her handling of Benghazi. She will likely be the next presidential candidate, plus she and her wayward husband are essential for the successful campaigns of many of the democrat members of congress. A wounded Hillary does no democrat except for Joe Biden any good.
The media, besides being in the tank for the democrats love, love, love Bill and Hill. They can just recite the administration talking points while sitting on their lazy behinds.
The fix was in folks but cheers to the GOP members of the committee who did make their opinions known. At least some had a hint of courage!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 1/24/2013 10:00:03 AM (No. 9136187)
She was GRILLED? grilled? she was basted in oleaginous perfunctoriness and sycophantic praises from slavish toadies.
It was a disgusting display of weaklings quaveringly and unctuously approaching the tyrant´s throne, and Dem/Lefties prostituting themselves on the sacrifical altar of naked political power.
Again, the Repubs do not get it: the incurious, intellectually vapid public has been kept ignorant --by the venal and wicked, brown-nosed media in cahoots with the Dem/Left-- of the facts surrounding Benghazi.
Stupid, fawning, silly, shallow "citizens", clutching their condoms and spermicidal gel and free passes for abortatoria, still think that Benghazi is "some guy named Ben Ghazi, you know, like, over there somewhere."
utterly disgusting
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/24/2013 10:07:57 AM (No. 9136206)
The govn class always protects its own. Police protect police, firefighters protect firefighters, teachers protect teachers and democrat and republican congresspeople protect democrats.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 1/24/2013 11:05:19 AM (No. 9136364)
Until conservatives begin to influence the media dems are going to walk, skate, sail thru and get elected. The public buys what the lsm sells. Obviously we have no influence in Washington but we do with the local media, radio, tv, and newspapers. We really must start calling the local media providers and raising holy hell otherwise we watch and read what they give us
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 1/24/2013 11:44:09 AM (No. 9136478)
I think the fact that the great majority of today´s republicans are simply ringers, pretending to oppose the democrats in order to get elected, is the biggest factor...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Muguy, 1/24/2013 11:52:22 AM (No. 9136507)
Madame Broomstick´s whole demeanor about this is "screw you, I´m your leader, fall down and worship me".
You will vote for me or else.
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