Mrs. Bill Rodham Clinton
was deeply involved in
both Watergate and Benghazi.
How many people died in or as a result of Watergate?
George Will is basically right. There’s only three pieces of this story. First, the CIA was buying and distributing weapons from Libya to Syria...on an active basis...using some Jihad characters that weren’t trustworthy. Two, the dead ambassador was part of the weapons program. Three, the President was fixated on his debate, and really didn’t need something screwing up the outcome. That’s it. Maybe a bunch of lies, but the lies all lead back to these three issues. Once you admit the three, it’s the end of the talk. Sadly, neither the President or his staff want to admit those three bits of info. So it lives on.
Nobody died in Watergate.
This administration is illegitimate. Between the Benghazi cover up and using many government agencies to target the opposing candidate’s support groups the election was stolen.
Of course it didn’t help that the opposing candidate ran a pathetic and feckless campaign but he still would have won if not for the stunning level of corrupt interference with the election process by the incumbent.
The email itself may be insignificant when compared with the full reality of Watergate, but that’s only because it is the first and only actual smoking gun that has been uncovered.
On a scandal to scandal basis, Benghazi has the potential to far outstrip Watergate because common sense indicates that there is far more still hidden than has yet been revealed.
When the lid is finally pried completely off this festering horror, this email will be seen as the start — but only the start. So in that sense he’s right.
Watergate was an extremely minor event if taken out of the political context. It was just an excuse to go after Nixon, who didn’t even know about the actual crime at the time it happened.
What George Will mised was than Benghazi was much worse than suborning perjury and raising hush money........It involves treason at the highest levels of the White House, possible even the president himself.
Arming the enemy and then refusing to defend US staff against those arms? That’s treason to anyone who can read the law.Will has taken a lefty pill, his view is far too narrow and academic, all of a sudden, A RINO approach. Charles Krauthammer has it right exactly.
Treason of the President of the United States:
.U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 115 › § 238118 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Translation, it is more than politics and a break-in and cover up and it is too icky for George to get involved in. It involves, Trust, Lies, Arms-Deals with shady characters and the soft underbelly of what people do behind the scenes dealing with despots and unfortunately this deals with the loss and injury of many of our bravest and brightest. It also deals with the fact is we probably didn’t send support which means a lot to many of us. But it is too much for the cucumber sandwich crowd in the beltway...
Krauthammer’s the guy who made the Watergate comparison, so methinks Will is feeling a bit of rivalry against his fellow network contributor.
Unfortunately the majority of the American people do not care. Unless the mainstream media take up the story and begin attacking the current administration like they did Nixon, most of the people will view Benghazi another Republican political witch hunt.
Average people I know, even those who dislike the current regime, are weary of the 24 hour news cycle and the in inability through the political system to have a voice. The economy is bad, private sector jobs are insecure and hard to find, private sector work hours are long, and in general day to day life gets harder every year.
Many conservatives I know are disgusted by both the Dems and the GOP. The aftermath of the 2010 elections, the endemic corruption at all levels of government, and the war on the tea party by the elites, has created apathy. More and more people I speak to are just tuning out with respect to politics as well as the news. They’ve turned inward, focusing on family, friends, hobbies, jobs, and whatever aspects of their daily lives they can control.
Meanwhile the left wingers I know are fired up. They know they are winning and want to impose their socialist agenda on their neighbors.
The GOP establishment may be surprised this year. The base may be so apathetic, or so tired of being taken for granted, it doesn’t show up to vote for the lesser of two evils. When you get to the point you realize your vote really doesn’t matter, why make the effort?
At this point all Benghazi seems to be is a way for the GOP elites to make some noise to fire up the base and distract conservatives from the amnesty they plan to deliver as well as the retreat from any effort to repeal the ACA. Even this weak effort to throw red meat at the base is lackluster, proving the leadership really doesn’t care.
To be blunt, the GOP does not like or respect the conservative voters it relies on to win elections and the elites of the party have overtly demonstrated their disdain for the flyover country and suburban voters. The feeling has become mutual. In any organization, when leadership loses the respect of the rank and file, the organization will fail in its mission. This of course assumes there is a mission.
Misleading headline. Wonder why they do that?
This scandal cost the lives of four Americans. Obama was probably looking at his golf swing while these people were being killed. No matter the faults of Nixon, can anyone imagine him rolling pins in the White House bowling alley while Americans were being killed by jiahdis? It goes to the core of Obama being an incompetent fool as regards national security which is far more dangerous than a semi-paranoid, insecure president, Nixon, who covers up for his subordinates.
If there was EVER a doubt that George Will
is nothing but a DNC-plant of RINO Fox “News”,
.... this is IT.
What a phoney pro-Obama pro-corruption phoney.
I guess George Will is trying a sort-of-C-Y-A for Obama here.
Yes the memo is less significant than the tape because the tapes showed nixon directly involved.
But we have a ways to go and more evidence is to be revealed.
was deeply involved in
both Watergate and Benghazi.
hey George, that’s the IRS SCANDAL you’re referring to....which is FAR WORSE than Watergate. But, you haven’t done a damn thing about that either. You’re no conservative, haven’t been and in my mind, are persona non grata...
Refreash my memory ... how many died in Watergate?
With Watergate people went to prison any bets about the Benghazi mess.
Was not there an investigation of George H.W.Bush for allegedly flying an SR-71 to Iran just before the election in 1980?
Wasn’t the excuse for this the”appearance of impropriety”?
or do I now live in an alternate universe?