It’s all a vast right-wing conspiracy:
Who cares about whose fault it is that four Americans are dead? Not her. Stop asking her questions, she has a headache!
Here’s the UK Telegraph assessment of Hillary’s performance at the hearings.
Excerpt:
It was not exactly a bravura performance today from the Secretary of State, who testified this morning before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Hillary Clinton came across as defiant, evasive, blasé,and at times hugely unconvincing when answering questions from Republican Senators about the death of four Americans at the hand of Islamist terrorists in Benghazi last September, including the assassination of the US Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. After listening to several hours of Mrs. Clinton defending her administration’s handling of the Benghazi debacle, including UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s preposterous suggestion on Sunday morning talk shows that this might not have been a terrorist attack, the American public will only be left with the impression that this is a presidency that doesn’t take any responsibility for its actions, is highly incompetent, and remains firmly in denial over the scale of the al-Qaeda threat.
[…]With an eye on a possible 2016 presidential bid, Hillary Clinton did herself no favours with today’s testimony, just a few days before she steps down from high office. It underscores the fact that Clinton has been a less than impressive Secretary of State, whose leadership on an array of foreign policy matters, from Syria to Egypt and Iran, has been underwhelming. Some of her initiatives have been disastrous, including the much-hyped and weak-kneed Russian “reset,” which now appears to have sunk without a trace after Moscow decided not to cooperate. And who can forget Mrs. Clinton’s decision to stand alongside Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires, and support the Argentine president’s call for UN-brokered negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands? Or her department’s extraordinary attempts to intervene in the internal British debate over membership of the European Union.
The last four years have been a period of marked U.S. decline, coupled with a sneering disregard for America’s key allies such as Britain and Israel. The Secretary of State floundered today before the Senate, struggling to defend a feeble foreign policy that has undercut American leadership and projected weakness in the face of America’s adversaries. The Obama administration’s blundering response to Benghazi is symbolic of its wider failure in the Middle East and beyond, one that does not bode well for the next four years.
Remember, Hillary’s focus as Secretary of State is not what you would expect.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that she has stood up for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and and Transgender rights all around the world.
“Memories are short, and we can’t afford to rest on the laurels of the past,” Clinton said Thursday at an event co-hosted by the State Department and Foreign Policy Magazine. “So it’s our job to reintroduce a post-Iraq generation of young people around the world to principled American leadership.”
“That is part of why I’ve logged so many miles over the last four years going to something on the order of 112 countries, holding town hall meetings with young people from Tunis to Tokyo, shining a spotlight on the concerns of religious and ethnic minorities from the Copts in Egypt to the Rohingya in Burma, putting down a clear marker on internet freedom, going to the UN Human Rights Council to stand up for the rights and lives of the LGBT people around the world, advancing a new approach to development that puts human dignity and self-sufficiency at the heart of our efforts, and pushing women’s rights and opportunities to the top of the diplomatic agenda,” Clinton continued.
National security? What’s that? The State Department’s job is to promote abortion and gay rights.
Rand Paul sums up my response to our affirmative action Secretary of State:
The question that this shrill shrieking suggests to me is this: is the feminist “blame men for the glass ceiling” attitude compatible with competence and accountability? Should you put a feminist in charge of something and then expect her to take responsibility for mistakes and be transparent?
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the American public will only be left with the impression that this is a presidency that doesn’t take any responsibility for its actions, is highly incompetent, and remains firmly in denial over the scale of the al-Qaeda threat.
We can only wish that the American public will get that impression. They won’t. The vast majority of the American people are in deep denial or plain ignorance about this president and his administration. And with no actual Fourth Estate to shine a light on what is really happening (just wait for the fawning news coverage of Clinton’s testimony) they will remain that way.
We on the Right have been mumbling to ourselves for four years now that any day the American People are going to wake up.
They are faster asleep now than ever.
“I try to get more cynical every day, but I just can’t keep up” – Gerard Vanderleun.
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If I heard her correctly, in one sentence she said something like “what difference does it make why they did this”, reaction to a film, or out walking your dog and decided to pull off an attack. Then in the next sentence she said something like “we need to find the people who did this, bring them to justice and find out why they did this.” Huh?
It would be a good idea to find out why. But the more important why question is why there was so little intelligence, so little protection and security, and why there was so much delay in responding with appropriate rescue and security forces. The simple answer to the why question we already know. But the failure to respond and providing proper security is the much more pressing question. Maybe she was busy watching the re-runs of the comics on which her dept spent $100,000.
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Um. Amen to what Donald Sensing said. I’ll have to remember that quote.
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For the Benghazi investigation to go any farther and to get the full truth which has NOT bee given yet, a Select Committee needs to be appointed to probe deeper in the this attack. Please write your Congressman and Senators and tell them you demand the Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks and the deaths of 4 Americans. We are not and will not get them from Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/25/Select-Committee-Needed-To-Probe-Benghazi-Attacks
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