NOT A GOOD MORNING FOR HILLARY !!!!!

[Whirlaway]

A TOUGH MORNING FOR HILLARY

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her long-awaited appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning to testify on Benghazi. In her prepared remarks, Clinton said: “As I have said many times since September 11, I take responsibility.” But this is responsibility in its unique Washington sense of responsibility without consequences. Clinton remains in her cabinet position and, while four underlings have been reassigned, she herself has suffered no consequences as a result of the disaster for which she says she is responsible.

Senator Rand Paul criticized Clinton for her alleged ignorance of the security concerns that were repeatedly expressed by Ambassador Chris Stevens and other diplomats in Libya. Clinton says she never read their emails and didn’t know about the security issues they described. Paul said that if he had been president, he would have fired her:

In another widely-reported exchange, Clinton blew up at Senator Ron Johnson, who asked her about the administration’s false but oft-repeated claim that the Benghazi attack was part of a protest against an anti-Islamic YouTube video. “What difference would it make?” Hillary shouted:


This is utterly disingenuous. While Clinton says that she was not the source for the infamous talking points, she is well aware that the Obama administration tried to cover up its malfeasance with respect to security by pretending that the Benghazi murders were part of a spontaneous–and therefore, implicitly, unpredictable–uprising over a YouTube video. In fact, Clinton herself participated in this deception. Has Clinton forgotten that some days after the event–not in “real time,” the term she used this morning–she told the family of one of the Benghazi victims that “We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video?” For whatever reasons, she certainly thought at the time that it was significant to blame the massacre, falsely, on a video.

All in all, it sounds like a tough morning for Mrs. Clinton. If she is serious about running for president in 2016, she can only hope that by then, memories of her service as Secretary of State will have faded. And that Joe Biden is her most formidable opponent.

Watch some explosive exchanges here:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...or-hillary.php

[joe bloe]

I hate it when Dimo's say they take full responsibilty for some disaster and then proceed to blame everything on someone else.

Someone needs to be held accountable for the loss of American lives in Benghazi; that someone is Barack Obama.

[I B Hankering]

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[Whirlaway]

IB...............you nailed her buddy !

[i'va biggen]

Who was her buddy?

[Whirlaway]

Lol................your on a roll Iva.........................

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by i'va biggen

Who was her buddy?

[Whirlaway]

Just saying............

[TheDaliLama]

now we know who donkey punched her

[LexusLover]

Just informing ...


... a two-fer.

[timpage]

Well, I guess your silly photos and sexual insinuations pretty much answer the question of what you really care about here....same as Rand Paul....scoring political points by grandstanding.

Paul makes a 3 minute speech before he asks his first question and then starts squirming around like he's got a bug crawling up his ass when Hillary starts telling him why he's an idiot. I particularly love his line about "If I had been President....." No worries there, that will never happen.

I thought Hillary did well under the circumstances. These committee hearings are no more about finding out the truth than presidential debates are about what a candidate will really do if elected. It's all partisan bullshit and lies.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by timpage

These committee hearings are no more about finding out the truth than presidential debates are about what a candidate will really do if elected. It's all partisan bullshit and lies.

I guess you are excluding Watergate Hearings from you BROAD statement of "FACT"?

IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS
911 HEARINGS

All ... "partisan bullshit and lies" ... are they?

Is that because you "know" the "real" truth? Here is who knows the "real" Hillary:

[timpage]

Sorry, I don't get the connection that photos of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky have to do with what we're discussing. Go back, read it all again, ignore the infantile photos from the previous posters, and see if you can come up with something coherent. Good luck.

Originally Posted by LexusLover

I guess you are excluding Watergate Hearings from you BROAD statement of "FACT"?

IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS
911 HEARINGS

All ... "partisan bullshit and lies" ... are they?

Is that because you "know" the "real" truth? Here is who knows the "real" Hillary:

[Whirlaway]

The only political grandstanding came outta Hillary;

1. Her phony crying over the victims, and
2. Her outrage over being grilled about the phony video.

Hillary cries when she wants to manipulate the audience........it is in the Clinton playbook - lie, cry, and attack !

[timpage]

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

The only political grandstanding came outta Hillary;

1. Her phony crying over the victims, and
2. Her outrage over being grilled about the phony video.

Hillary cries when she wants to manipulate the audience........it is in the Clinton playbook - lie, cry, and attack !

I certainly don't deny that both sides play the game. The point is that nothing of any real value will come out of these hearings. I guess Rand Paul got to pretend that he might be President some day and would get to fire somebody.

Speaking of which, I also find it just a bit hypocritical that Rand Paul is calling for all sorts of action by the State Department to prevent these types of things from happening in the future....while also proposing that the State Department budget be cut by $20 billion. Which is pretty close to half of what they get to operate.