Hillary Clinton’s New ‘Hard Choices’ Book:Seven Ways Obama Failed to Lead During Bin Laden Raid

With her memoir, Hard Choices set to be released in the coming weeks, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her publishing company have provided an excerpt in which she claims President Obama’s actions during the Bin Laden raid were “as crisp and courageous a display of leadership” that she had ever seen.

Here are 7 reasons that Obama’s leadership during the raid was neither crisp or courageous.

Clinton writes about one of the strongest examples of decision-making under pressure:

“Perhaps the most famous example from my four years as Secretary of State was President Obama’s order to send a team of Navy SEALs into a moonless Pakistani night to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. The President’s top advisors were divided. The intelligence was compelling, but far from definitive. The risks of failure were daunting.” The Clinton memoir tries to paint a picture of decisiveness despite “risks of failure” and “far from definitive” intelligence. President Obama made the call despite the numerous doubts. That isn’t necessarily the case, however.

According to a book released in August of 2012, titled Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him, a source “with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning,” claims that Obama squashed the kill order on bin Laden in January, February, and March of 2011. Bin Laden was successfully taken down in early May.

According to that same book, the three canceled kill missions were done so at the urging of the President’s close advisor, Valerie Jarrett.

Let's face it. There is no love lost between Hillary and Zero. Hillary made her great blunder of historic proportions in February 2008, before any mention of the primaries were even on any one minds, in effect, DECLARING VICTORY in the Democratic Primary for President, when Obama was still collecting social security cards and listening in, never tiring of Wright's NOT GOD BLESS AMERICA BUT GOD ****** America.

Bill and Hillary will never forgive Obama for having usurped the presidency from them both and for quite awhile the hatred and revulsion they harbored towards him for having the temerity to challenge her as future President really stuck in her craw. Had there been a white candidate sitting in on Wright's diatribes, he would he have been gone on that first Sunday before his car ever entered the Church parking lot.

What shocked Hillary and her hordes of lesbian groupies was the total non-movement in the poll numbers even after that clip of Wright shrieking had been showing for 72 hours straight. In retrospect, that was the moment when Obama became unofficially president. Those videos of Wright were so incredibly devastating, and to her having those clips being thrown out into the public was nothing less powerful than a 20 Megaton news clip which should have had Obama's shadow swept off the sidewalk. But the amazing thing was that nothing, nothing at all happened and Hillary ended up with more than just her tale between her legs.

Okay, Obama kind of made it up to her by getting rid of her considerable campaign debts and accepted his Machiavellian offer as Secretary of State. But still nothing would ever ,could ever make up for what was surely their total absoluteness of her being the next C**T-in-Chief.

And now some of her secondary thrills begin. As we all know, there is nothing more pathetic, more useless, more of a persona non grata than a lameduck/ex-president.

It is conventional wisdom that had Algore enlisted, embraced Bil Clinton in his election campaign against Bush, there never would have been the embarrassing world wide attention being played out over a bunch of stupid, sticky CHADS, inspired by the Florida Board of Elections to make it easy for those arthritic old folks to cast a vote. But Algore, washamed of Clinton, wanted nothing to do with him and his litany of scandals, and that was Algore's biggest, any candidate's biggest electoral blunder ever.

Because while Clinton was spawned by some itinerant nobody of a one stand who even didn't stay the night, Bill Clinton is immortalized as the greatest campaigner ever, no matter his ethics or morals.

Now, you know what they say about never to "assume" but if Hillary gets the nomination, she won't allow Obama a single moment in which to show what a sport he is, absolutely won't allow him to do a single campaign jig, the proof of it all is everything she's thrown in her new book to start the payback of her her loss for the nomination back in 2008. I wish them both no luck at all.

Hillary remembered all that? Glory be, Hillary's memory is finally coming back. The Benghazi details are filtering out. Oh happy day---thank you, Jesus. (/snix)

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LETS STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE Hillary had a nasty fall when she was about to testify WRT Benghazi. Hillary's all-girl State Dept said she was "up and about" in a week. But Bill recently said it took Hillary six whole months to recover from her fall.

Now the issue of Hillary's blood clot resulting in brain damage has been raised......but we need more details.

<><> Is she having blackouts?

<><> Did she suffer a brain aneurysm?

<><> Did she have an aneurysm removed?

<><> Did she become comatose?

<><> Did she go to any neurological centers?

<><> Was she in rehab?

Even with months of rehabilitation, victims of aneurisms can't
hold a thought for more than 20 seconds, according to experts in the field.

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I have some fascinating details about some things that went on during that event from the inside. The source is credible.

Here is the jist of it: Jarret was vehemently against it unless Pakistan approved first. She actually wanted Pakistan to participate. Obama was under intense pressure from several folks, INCLUDING Hillary (for what it is worth). Obama so parsed and delayed decisions that training started without his approval and in secret. Obama purposefully DID NOT give THE ORDER to proceed. Instead, he made it clear that if the decision was to be made, it would be a CIA/military decision and the accountability for anything that went wrong would be with them. He wanted to be able to deny knowing about the secret op if anything went wrong. And he didn’t want anyone to know it was about Bin Laden if it went wrong. In a conversation, captured by an e-mail, it was said, “He didn’t say no and he will never say yes. It’s on you if it goes bad.”

This is why Obama was on the golf course when the raid started. He wasn’t involved in the details and/or when the assault started. He wanted plausible deniability in case there was an “international” incident over it.

In reality, though it will never be known, Obama made NO decisive decisions on Bin Laden. He was actually against it. Look for Hillary to begin to take some credit for Bin Laden. Ironically, it sounds like she deserves some it (and I hate to even admit that). On the flip side, she let Obama take credit for it, so she shouldn’t plausibly even be able to point to that as a success during her tenure as SoS.

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