Well, it does pass the House each time, doesn’t it?
The worst the GOP can pin on Obama is that someone in his adminstration may have tried to politically spin the events in Benghazi, maybe even with his knowledge? Really? The most horrible crime by the ‘worst president of all time’ is that he may have been fast and loose with the facts that he revealed to the public in those first few days of a minor hashup in the middle of a civil war in a jerkwater country ? Makes me want to vote for Obama again. Now, if he flat out lied to the public in order to start a war, then I would be pissed off.
‘Hitlery’ does not roll off the tongue for me. Can’t anyone come up with something better?
“Shrillary” was popular among her haters in 2008, IIRC. Expect to hear it again, along with the same snickering.
Andrew Sabl states the problems with the Benghazi! ‘scandal’ better than anyone, IMHO:
Hannity covers this every day
- Insufficient security despite repeated requests
- During attack there were assets available for rescue, but they were ordered to stand down. Why?
- Obama was told about the attack while it was happening but show no interest, didn’t talk to State or Defense and simply went to bed. ( big day campaigning ahead)
- They know it was a terrorist attack but that hurt Obama’s campaign slogan that he had won the war on terror, so they lied about the motives of the attackers
- Something else bad too
I assume it’s all bullshit.
Probably a good assumption.
You know who else wore…aw forget it.
Wow. A 1977 Steve Martin reference. You’re OLD, dude.
As far as #2 goes as I understand it there were 4 special forces troops who were willing to go, but this was after all the violence was over and they SF guys only had handguns.
Another ‘asset’ was the idea that some jets could have been scrambled for flyover. But these jets would have had no way of refueling.
Haters gonna hate.
The point is that this issue won’t change anyone’s mind. The people who won’t vote for Hillary Clinton in 2013 because of some supposed issue over Benghazi had already made up their minds not to vote for her back in 1992. This is the kind of issue that will only convince people who were already convinced.
And stupids gonna stup. This is Vince Foster + 20 years.
Did Vince Foster investigations go on for 5 months?
If you think that “blaming the attacks on the movie” is somehow a gotcha, you’re a stupid person.
That’s the one thing that I just can’t get over, how utterly vapid the Gater-ers are when it comes to this. “They initially thought this was related to the other demonstrations across the middle east. Since they were wrong… something… mumble… blarghl!!!11”
Ron Brown’s body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave…
and Juanita Broderick still needs to “get some ice on that” lip!
thx to all fer the jockey short references!
(I did vote for Bill twice - but yeah - I’m old… time changes things)
yew libbie demmie dipshits have a good day now, ya hear?
Seemed like years.
“And stupids gonna stup”
Hey - Mod - should the verb form of stupid be “stupe” rather than “stup”?
Ken Starr’s investigation ended about two and a half years after Foster died. Others ended sooner. Anyway, I think the deal is this: conspiracy thinking is so prevalent on the right that it’s just a party ID thing at this point. Same with Birtherism. If you’re a hardline conservative, by definition you believe all this bullshit.
See what I mean? Welcome to batshit country.
What’s it feel like to fail so utterly?
Does it burn?
nevermind – outsnarked.
While neither Benghazi or “Fast And Furious” was a shining moment for the White House, I am struck yet again by how relatively pissant these Great Scandals are in the history of turpitude involving presidential administrations.
Yes, we should have protected our ambassador and staff in Libya better, and there was butt-covering in the State Dept. after the killings. It is pretty obvious to everyone that the never-ending wrangling over this is just more political crapola, designed in part to inflict lasting wounds on Hillary Clinton (and while I am definitely no Hillary* fan and would in fact like to see the Clintons and their dynasty laid to rest as soon as possible, hyping up Benghazi isn’t going to do the trick).
*Hitlery! Dang, that’s a good one. :rolleyes: