Posted on 09/28/2012 10:29:56 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
It remains unclear whether President Barack Obama's lies about attacks on U.S. embassies will cost him re-election. One thing is certain, however: whatever ambitions Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once held to run for president in 2016 have been damaged beyond repair. Obama was literally asleep when the proverbial "3 a.m. call" came, but Clinton--who bears responsibility for embassy security--was asleep on the job for weeks.
Clinton's response--"How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?--bears the same naïveté for which she once mocked her Democratic rival in debates and campaign commercials. Both Obama and Clinton suffer the same self-delusion: that the world loves Democrats and hates Republicans, that it loves flower children and hates cowboys. Benghazi is a wake-up call they should not have needed--not after the first 9/11, not after Bill Clinton's "law enforcement" approach to terror failed.
In that sense, Hillary Clinton has failed her first test as a potential commander-in-chief--just as Obama has failed before. The success of the Osama bin Laden raid will be the enduring legacy of his administration--but the Ft. Hood shootings, the underwear bomber (and its associated intelligence failures), and now the 9/11/12 attacks are symptoms of an administration ideologically consumed with avoiding the reality of radical Islam.
Hillary Clinton has not only carried out the worst of Obama's foreign and national security policies--she has done so enthusiastically, shouting at Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for 45 minutes in 2010, for instance. Clinton's deputy, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, has set new lows in both dishonesty and absenteeism.
Voters care about national security and foreign policy--increasingly so, even though the economy predominates. If she follows through on what many anticipate (despite denials) are her 2016 ambitions, Hillary Clinton will have a tough time convincing
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Hate to say it but we’d have been better off with her than the usurper these last four years.
If 0bama were to dump Hillary what might BJ Clinton say about the guy that was carrying his bags a few years ago?
” ‘A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags’”
“And if I’m goin’ down, I’m taking you down with me Barry”
I understand that there are Americans who are dismayed at the thought of Hillary Clinton being dismissed as Secretary of State. They had dreams that she could run again for President. What of the dreams of the six dead Americans? What of the dreams of their families? These dreams have been killed and are now buried. Hillary Clinton is alive. Dismissal is a serious correction, but those new graves are the serious result of her incompetence.
And something worth considering is the animus of the Clintons—or at least Hillary—to our troopers.
She and Wilie were lefty student Meatheads. She treated them like waiters at the White House while she was `co-president. ‘The Marines rejected her.
I will venture that she considers them a “necessary evil” and that kind of thinking led to sloppy security.
Time for her to retire, to enjoy her girl-toys, to write books that only dhims will buy and soak the taxpayers until she’s screwed into the ground.
At least she won’t be able to hurt anyone under her authority, because she won’t have any.
If (as Robert MacGregor is purported to have said) “Honor is the gift that a man (or woman) gives himself,” then Billary will both die with less than that with which they began.
I want to scream, CUT THAT DAMNED hair off, and take 10 years off your looks.
Don't be so sure. The 'Beast has barely been mentioned in this debacle, despite the fact that as Sec of State she is primarily responsible for the total lack of preparedness. The deaths of the ambassador and the brave Seals will be all but forgotten. Other than here, when have you heard Vince Foster mentioned? The Clinton's have a way of rising from the ashes and the public has a very short memory. Even the Fox News commentator this morning couldn't say enough good things about her - "she's the hardest working member of the administration" and on and on - made me sick. Remember 2016 is a long way off.
HereInTheHeartland:
“ “NEVER DOUBT THE STUPIDITY OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN VOTER.”
For a free phone; many would vote for a squirrel. That’s assuming they can read; which is a big assumption to make.”
Don’t forget that the average voter watches at least 4 hours of TV each day.
The media dumbs down TV programming and advertizeing to the level of a fifth grader , and you don’t have to be litterate .
As long as the media remain as liberal as they are now , she still stands a chance to run for the Presidency .
Ask the typical voter just one question : “ Who is Vince Foster , and what is his relation to the Hilldabeast ?”
I doubt that you would get more than 3% voters with the correct answer ,.. and they would all be Republicans.
Exactly, because we have 47% that don’t pay federal income taxes AND are stupid to boot!
I’m tired of our republic being destroyed by stupid people and I no longer hold my tongue (like I really ever did).
I find stupid people and I verbally beat the crap out of them.
I hate it when I do that!!!
On the September 19 and 20 broadcasts (1993) of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh resurrected his scurrilous suggestion that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) had then-deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster murdered while she was first lady. Media Matters for America has documented previous instances of Rush insinuating that the Clintons were involved in the death of Foster, who supposedly committed suicide in Northern Virginia's Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993.
On the September 19 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh claimed that after anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan criticized Sen. Clinton for her support of the Iraq war, "Somebody has gotten to [Sheehan] and said, 'Do the words 'Fort Marcy Park' mean anything to you?' I will guarantee you, my friends, that by the time all is said and done -- if she calls [Clinton] out one more time -- that's it for Cindy Sheehan."
The following day, Limbaugh reiterated this claim, stating that Sheehan "will not mention [Clinton] again, ladies and gentlemen, unless she wants to end up in Fort Marcy Park. Mark my words on it."
It’s predictable that the Administration has not sought to make Hillary the fall guy for this example
of gross incompetence: Obama has effectively neutralized it by referring to it heartlessly as “a bump in the road”. They’ve laid off her,maybe out of residual guilt for how she was made to take a fall for Obama in the ‘08 campaign.They also managed to sidestep any real blame for any of them, from Obama on down, at the same time. They’re working as a team, desperate to hold together their “coalition”, so no one gets tagged with responsibility or blame as long as they can present a united front and promulgate their current narrative of who knew or didn’t know what or when.....and how all their decisions were based on what information they had to work with. This is not the thing, however, that will do Hillary in for 2016-—the Dems rolled all their dice on Obama, and America is sick and tired of all this cognitive dissonance echoing over the top
of the new bottom we’re all in-—the ditch we were left in is infinitely deeper,domestically and globally, than the one they inherited.
The Clintons are tired, both of them, and this is their Last Hurrah: Bill making a speech on Obama’s behalf is both to get his ego stroked, to remind people of his “legacy”,and subliminally promote his Global Initiative, but only theoretically to pave the way for Hillary in 2016.
If a majority of the electorate is tired of the Bushes, it’s even more tired of Clintons.
It’s predictable that the Administration has not sought to make Hillary the fall guy for this example
of gross incompetence: Obama has effectively neutralized it by referring to it heartlessly as “a bump in the road”. They’ve laid off her,maybe out of residual guilt for how she was made to take a fall for Obama in the ‘08 campaign.They also managed to sidestep any real blame for any of them, from Obama on down, at the same time. They’re working as a team, desperate to hold together their “coalition”, so no one gets tagged with responsibility or blame as long as they can present a united front and promulgate their current narrative of who knew or didn’t know what or when.....and how all their decisions were based on the possibly faulty information they had to work with. This is not the thing, however, that will do Hillary in for 2016-—the Dems rolled all their dice on Obama, and America is sick and tired of all this cognitive dissonance echoing over the top
of the new bottom we’re all in-—the ditch we were left in is infinitely deeper,domestically and globally, than the one they inherited.
The Clintons are tired, both of them, and this is their Last Hurrah: Bill making a speech on Obama’s behalf is both to get his ego stroked, to remind people of his “legacy”,and subliminally promote his Global Initiative, but only theoretically to pave the way for Hillary in 2016.
If a majority of the electorate is tired of the Bushes, it’s even more tired of Clintons.
And when I say tired, even though they’re in their mid-60s, it reminds me that they are not Ronald Reagan who was older
by years than both of them when he was finally elected President in 1980. But Reagan tapped a passion that still burned within him, and knew he was right, and had no trouble proving it. The Clintons are not made of the same stuff.
The question is not “Will there be a 2016 election?”.
The question is “Will there be more than one candidate on the ballot in 2016?”.
Bingo. Failure is a criteria for a democrat moving on up.
been in the professional field all my life, daughter followed me, and we both just gag when Hillary swings her golden locks around...
WHO ADVISE HER??? personal appearance is important...she should have begun botox 25 years ago...too late now...have never approved of her politics and now she does nothing for her appearance...lately the clothes are WILD LOOKING..
(oh... oh... hate to be so critical but it is what it is!!!!)
This assumes there will still be elections in 2016.....
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