WHAT SHE’S REALLY UP TO: something you miss if you buy the stupid “falling on the sword"..

Hillary Clinton is not a woman who falls on a sword for anyone...but she is someone who knows how to take center stage in the middle of a storm and loudly define herself as the only adult in the room...while all the men around her are emasculated and diminished by her presence. ]

I love words and consider them tiny magical spells if strung together properly into well-crafted sentences. I’m a wordsmith and am fascinated by turns of phrase, especially ones that other conservative writers choose to use that I think are inappropriate in certain situations. Today, Ben Shapiro over at Breitbart.com has an article up where he insists Hillary Clinton “fell on her sword” for Barack Obama; I’ve long thought Ben was the weakest writer they had over there and this cemented that in my mind because while “falling on a sword” is a phrase he’s probably been using since high school (which was not all that long ago for him) it doesn’t really apply to what’s happening regarding Hillary and the Benghazi situation in Libya. Things are far more interesting than that, and “falling on a sword” is not what Hillary did.

I don't know about this Ben Shapiro, but Kevin DuJan is not somebody who should be throwing stones at anyone else's stylistic glass house.

I guess "fall on your sword" implies finality, and you can't assume that Hillary's career is over. What Shapiro should have said is something like "took one for the team," but one metaphor doesn't seem like a big deal.

Admitting incompetence is not enough. There must be a consequence for it.

You are right, sir.

Now, I agree with the author that Hillary has taken the upper hand in this political debacle. She has made Obama look like a little man. In fact, he was smart enough to realize that and finally took some of the blame on himself this afternoon.

But when I heard that she'd shouldered the blame, I was instantly reminded of Janet Reno's taking responsibility for the killing of some 80 American citizens in Waco because they had unorthodox religious beliefs.

What does it matter if someone takes responsibility for something if there are no consequences? The dead ambassador is forgotten. This mess is nothing but a political play now.

I believe the author is correct about the timing of that declaration - it serves partially to deflect the criticism due the affair in tonight's debate. To attack 0bama over it is to attack Hillary goes this train of thought. And Hillary isn't there to defend herself, but the moderator is. Cute - Crowley defends Hillary against Romney and 0bama sails above the fray.

. . . but then there was the Beruit Marine Barracks truck bombing back during the Reagan Administration. Reagan was sake who was responsible for failing to anticipate and prevent that attack. Reagan said that he accepted that responsibility and was not going to blame the people on the ground in Lebanon for it.
Sam Donaldson then asked Reagan if he was going to resign. Of course Reagan’s meaning was that people could consider that in any decision to vote for against him. Romney could legitimately ask Obama why that same logic did not apply to Obama and Bengazi. Now that should be a no-brainer for Obama to agree to, since in reality anyone can vote for or against any candidate for any reason. But of course, when you are a messiah, that doesn’t fit your idea of the way the world is supposed to work.
And of course, there is the issue of the cock-and-bull story about the video which Obama’s administration took to the UN and to Pakistan and Egypt . . . to say nothing of the "Osama is dead and GM is alive” meme.

He is, of course, directly responsible for the outcome of the decisions of his hand-picked cabinet members including and specifically the Secretary of State. But it becomes easy to avoid the topic by saying that yes, mistakes were made and we're investigating them and now can't we just move on to Bain Capital?

I think Mitt might be hard to budge off of that issue without leaving that challenge to Obama’s foreign policy hanging in the air.

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