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Sowell: A Simple Question
Creators Syndicate ^ | March 24, 2015 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 03/23/2015 2:48:00 PM PDT by jazusamo

It is amazing how a simple question can cause a complex lie to collapse like a house of cards. The simple question was asked by Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel, and it was addressed to two Democrats. He asked what has Hillary Clinton ever accomplished.

The two Democrats immediately sidestepped the question and started reciting their talking points in favor of Hillary. But O'Reilly kept coming back to the fact that nothing they were talking about was an accomplishment.

For someone who has spent her entire adult life in politics, including being a Senator and then a Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has nothing to show for all those years — no significant legislation of hers that she got passed in the Senate, and only an unbroken series of international setbacks for the United States during her time as Secretary of State.

Before Barack Obama entered the White House and appointed Mrs. Clinton Secretary of State, Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq had notified their higher ups, stationed in Pakistan, that their cause was lost in Iraq and that there was no point sending more men there.

Hosni Mubarak was in charge in Egypt. He posed no threat to American or Western interests in the Middle East or to Christians within Egypt or to Israel. But the Obama administration threw its weight behind the Muslim Brotherhood, which took over and began terrorizing Christians in Egypt and promoting hostility to Israel.

In Libya next door, the Qaddafi regime had already given up its weapons of mass destruction, after they saw what happened to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. But President Obama's foreign policy, carried out by Secretary of State Clinton, got Qaddafi removed, after which Libya became a terrorist haven where American ambassador was killed, for the first time in decades.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; benghazi; clinton; email; hillary; hillary2016; hillaryfail; middleeast; obama; sowell; terrorism; thomassowell
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To: Travis McGee

Powerful. So true. Thanks for posting.


21 posted on 03/23/2015 5:51:15 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: KC Burke

22 posted on 03/23/2015 6:09:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

23 posted on 03/23/2015 6:10:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Impy

Prove it. She looks like Web Hubbell.


24 posted on 03/23/2015 6:12:18 PM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: TNoldman

Webb might be her dad, but Hillary is her mother. Or is there something I don’t know about Webb Hubbell?


25 posted on 03/23/2015 6:15:24 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thanks. A perfect graphic for Sowell’s point.

His columns are basic sense to any reader. Its what makes his voice so valuable to good reasoning.


26 posted on 03/23/2015 7:07:51 PM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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To: KC Burke

Dr. Sowell is one of my picks for, ‘You die and go to Heaven. Who else is seated at your table?’

I have been in LOVE with that man’s brain for many a year. His books are on my nightstand. I hope to meet him one day - but neither of us are getting any younger! :)


27 posted on 03/23/2015 7:11:51 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: jazusamo
Is this a fact? Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq had notified their higher ups, stationed in Pakistan, that their cause was lost in Iraq and that there was no point sending more men there. . If so, this is as egregious as covering up the snitches get stitches signs in MO.
28 posted on 03/24/2015 2:27:31 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

” Ol Crusty”


29 posted on 03/24/2015 8:32:26 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: crusher2013
Accomplishments don’t seem to matter much to most of the country.

Hmf. Just wait until the Ted Cruz campaign gets into higher gear. Then you'll hear all sorts of reasoning as to why it matters...from the usual suspects.

30 posted on 03/24/2015 9:56:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I've been to the 15th broken moon of the Medusa Cascade & the diamond coral reefs of Kataa Flo Ko.)
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To: mowowie

“Alec Baldwin would win the D nomination if he ran....”

Baldwin has, on rare occasion, done some credible acting so he would probably be able to act the part considerably better than Hillary. Either one of them would be only acting the part and Hillary is not talented at all.


31 posted on 03/24/2015 7:07:27 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Impy

I have heard that she had a little help from a friend on that one.


32 posted on 03/24/2015 7:08:33 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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