We'll see how this plays out for Oblamer, the shirker in chief.
Posted on 10/16/2012 7:40:41 AM PDT by RummyChick
Last night from the relative safety of Lima, Peru Hillary Clinton announced that when it comes to the Benghazi disaster the buck stops with her (sort of).
Many have taken this as a sign Hilary is taking the fall for Obama and letting him off the hook. I have a a different theory....David Axlerod tried to throw her under the bus and she tossed it right back on him and Obama.
What Hillary has done is basically say, "the damn phone is ringing and President Creased Trousers isn't answering it so give it to me. She comes off as the grown up who said, look I'm in charge here and for good or ill that makes me responsible".
People tend to admire others who stand up and take the hits. Hillary looks like A-the loyal soldier and B-the only one who is going to stand up and say, "something awful happened on my watch and I'm going to look in the mirror to see who is in charge and not like some other people I could name, look around for scapegoats".
Hillary isn't taking the blame, she's taking the credit.
Now a lot of this is hypocritical because Hillary already tried casting the blame elsewhere but when all else fails, it's sometimes better to own it in the end.
How does this hurt Obama? Well tonight he will be standing next to Mitt Romney. Romney you might recall has made a rather big stink about Obama's failure to lead and his own stellar leadership record.
Here's how he might play this when Benghazi comes up (or he brings it up himself)..."It's all well and good that Secretary Clinton is taking responsibility but my leadership experience has taught me that only the person at the top of the organization is truly responsible. President Obama is at the top of the Executive Branch and he's ducking responsibility. I'd like to know if the President agrees with the Secretary and if he does, why hasn't he asked for her resignation? If he doesn't agree, why doesn't he say who is responsible? Most importantly, why hasn't he taken responsibility from Day 1. Harry Truman didn't say the buck stopped at the Department of State, it stopped at his desk in the Oval Office."
And then it will get ugly for Obama when Romney ads, "And who does the President blame for the failure of his policies to get this economy going? The Secretary of the Treasury? Maybe he blames you the voters for not paying enough in taxes. This country needs a President who accepts the responsibility that comes with the job and doesn't blame his subordinates."
Obama will have no answer to any of that. He also can't fire Hillary because that would cause problems with Team PUMA and his administration would be in disarray 3 weeks before the election
He can't suddenly say, "Oh no, it's me not Hillary who is responsible" because A-he doesn't believe that and B-It's too late. She beat him to the punch, he'll look like he's scrambling to catch up (which he would be).
Mitt's been running a campaign based on his leadership and Obama's unwillingness and inability to lead. The second most popular (maybe the most popular) Democrat in the country, who happens to be Obama's own Secretary of State, just co-signed that charge by stepping into the vacuum Obama's cowardice created.
What Hillary has done is hand Mitt a baseball bat, turned him in the direction of the giant Obama pinata on stage tonight and said, "Have at buddy. Maybe I'll see you in four years".
And what's the downside to Hillary? None. No one is really going to hold her responsible. The DMM (Democratic Machine Media) won't. The GOP certainly won't (update: as predicted) and Obama can't. She'll be hailed as "presidential", "the one official willing to stand up and take responsibility" and ironically enough, a "good soldier".
Don't forget, Hillary has seen a variation on this play work before. Remember Janet Reno taking the blame for Waco? Clinton looked weak and Reno owned him for the rest of his presidency.
Sure it's kabuki theater and there are still plenty of outstanding questions (who said "hey, let's blame a protest about some tape" among them) but the story will be the debate and if Romney can use it to put Obama back on his heels. By the time Hillary gets back in the country the story and the campaign will have moved on and the damage to Obama will be done.
Maybe Hillary didn't do all of this on purpose (but why wait until now to do this?) but intentionally or not, she's teed this up for Mitt. Will he hit it?
As in Ron Brown?
We'll see how this plays out for Oblamer, the shirker in chief.
This is a very interesting turn of events. Listen closely to EXACTLY the words (it depends on what the definition of is, is) that Hillary CLINTON uttered during the interview last night in Peru. She mentioned “in the fog of war”... What the heck was THAT suppose to mean, except to cloud the issue. IMHO she didn't admit to squat! This is another ruse by the Clintons. But yes, this is very Clintonian. Clintons hate the Obamas and vice versa. Grab the popcorn.
One question. The Pentagon also released some statement last night - what was that? Anyone know? Could the entire bunch be turning on The Won? Wouldn't THAT be sweeeet?
Yeah, that’s the one.
Maybe what goes around comes around.
It will come as not revelation that we are dealing with some truly sick and twisted people in this administration. Neither the head nor the tail are what most would call normal. The whole gang is as dysfunctional as the Dunham clan that spawned obastard.
LOVE that metaphor!
Then maybe he will wait until Obama and Hillary sink their boat a little more, wait to see what Congressional Hearings may discover, etc.etc.etc........then in the last DEBATE Romney will tackle this head on with FACTS.
Issa, Chaffetz, and Gowdy et al., are not through with this and will not let it slide into oblivion.
The entire administration has been slowly twisting in the wind through this whole coverup issue, every day another cut in their credibility. But Hillary ended her own torment with this announcement. Now she took responsibility for a portion of it, not the coverup of course. She’s inoculated herself against every new disclosure. She took her hit, now her name will be removed from all future coverage of this and Obama and the rest will continue to twist over the coverup part. Good move on her part.
Hillary is the latest “bump in the road” for Barry’s Hope and Change Express bus.
If Romney handles any Bengazi question as described by this blogger, it will be the closest thing to a checkmate we’ve seen. Here’s hoping.
Oh boy!
I can't wait until she testifies before their committee.
Wasn’t there some sort of force nearby that could’ve been called upon to intervene in the fighting if not to save the ambassador, then to at least to secure the embassy and its contents so that secret information wasn’t obtained by the terrorist. What was the closest armed American contingent and why were they not dispatched to the scene? Did O sit on his hands to avoid the same fate that Carter suffered with his failed ‘rescue’ mission to Iran?
The attack occurred over several hours…. Hillary: “This was a many-hour ordeal that we were all involved in, and I was deeply concerned as you would obviously assume, to hear about an attack,"
She was concerned... Was Obama? And why did he not order some component of the military or CIA to secure the area?
bttt
” She mentioned “in the fog of war”... What the heck was THAT suppose to mean, except to cloud the issue. IMHO she didn’t admit to squat! “
LOL....Obama caught in the fog.
I believe that would be a reference to the current UN Ambassador, Susan Rice; who, as I am sure you recall, was the Obama administrations “point man” made the rounds of all the various weekend political talk shows proclaiming the Benghazi incident to have been caused by the “insulting” Internet movie and that the incident was not related to terrorism.
Obama made the U.S. ambassador to the UN a CABINET LEVEL position AFTER Hillary accepted and was confirmed as SECSTATE. Prior to that the UN ambassador worked directly for SECSTATE; thus, Susan Rice now has a direct conduit to Obama. Rice has been rumored to be a prime candidate to replace Hillary as SECSTATE should Obama win re-election.
Regards, -Geoff
She was trying to be clever but the media misquoted her.
She actually said "the FAG of war" referring, of course, to Obama and his queer policy regarding packers in the military.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does going to Peru force the White House to answer the questions? (I'm seriously asking, by the way. I see others agree with you, so I don't doubt what you're saying.)
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Interesting new development. Clinton didn’t just decide to say this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2945628/posts
Great another visual Idid not need after lunch.
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