Posted on 10/15/2012 5:01:35 PM PDT by maggief
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"I take responsibility" for what happened on September 11, Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Elise Labott soon after arriving in Lima, Peru for a visit. The interview, one of a series given to U.S. television networks Monday night, were the first she has given about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Clinton insisted President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not involved in security decisions, Clinton said.
"I want to avoid some kind of political gotcha," she added, noting that it is close to the election.
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“Hmm. She’s taking responsibility for the security. Who’s taking responsibility for the BS about the film?”
You may be onto something..
hehe
Note that she did not take responsibility for the stupid film protest lie...
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Could this have been the plan all along? Biden would say in the debate “we” didn’t know. Then all the media lap dogs would say “we” meant obama and Biden. Then Hillary would fall on her sword.
I knew she looked very “whipped” standing next to obama in front of the coffins.
” “Hmm. She’s taking responsibility for the security. Who’s taking responsibility for the BS about the film?”
Obama can’t hide on this. Too many of his people swore to the lie....right down to kneepad Tim.
I am not the expert here; but I think she is correct, and her department was responsible for the security.
Ok she is correct to admit her failure, and she should resign.
Next is the matter of the cover up. That goes right up to the White House. After Hillary resigns; which she now needs to do, who at the White House will take responsibility?
I posted this on another thread about 2:00 AM this morning:
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It's an attempt to divide blame in order to diffuse it. Hillary has to take the fall for pre-9/11 security lapses, and for the events of 9/11. Barack has to take the hit for the cover up, because he and his flunkies continued with the preposterous video story for nine days after it became clear it was a lie.
No complicated conspiracy stories are required: Bill and Hillary discovered to their very great shock that race trumps gender in their party. It trumps EVERYTHING in their party, because without a 90+% black vote, the Democrats cannot win any election with national implications. Think about what it means: a net 80% of 13% of the electorate. They START with a 10% advantage because of a nearly monolithic block of voters.
The downstream implication for Bill and Hill is: if they want any chance of winning the nomination in 2016, they must have 0bama's blessing, and that is why BJC ate a huge sh!t sandwich and gave a rousing endorsement of a man he despises at the convention. The Clintons know perfectly well from their own prior experience that four years is forever in American politics, and it will all be forgotten in the next primary season -- anyone still remember BJC was impeached AND disbarred? Nope.
So Hillary is going to suck up every bit of the blame. The best outcome for them is that Zero loses, but they can't under any circumstances make that public knowledge. The lawyering up by Bill is nothing more than a warning shot to 0bama that he'll only take so much. So far we have not seen commentary with deniability by the Clintons' usual loyalists. Lanny Davis, Paul Begala, and James Carville are quiet. That says Hillary is going to bend over and take it all.
When you see someone on CNN talking to Donna Brazile about whether she thinks Hillary can weather the storm, and run successfully in 2016, and Brazile suggests that some of the blame goes higher than the SoS, you'll know there's a split brewing. Brazile is the obvious person to draw first blood if the Clinton's decide to come out swinging. My bet: they won't, unless it's 100% clear that 0bama is going to lose.
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Bless their dark hearts.
Since when does the Dept of State operate in a vacuum separate from the White House and his czars?
Romney is ruthless. He won't let this slide for truth.
A lot of folks here got suckered buy Hillary thinking she. Was going to spill the beans on Obama. However I wasn’t one of them. I said it was all a diversion and rope a dope. The GOP should not have given her a pass
On putting her under oath during the hearings.
She should resign before Nov 6th. But that's probably not going to happen without public outcry.
NOT resigning before her term ends with Obama in Jan 2013 was probably the deal she made with Obama for taking responsability. That way she can try to save her political career (A LA 2016). If she resigned over this - she'd be toast.
Something like this was necessary for obama PRIOR to the debate tomorrow.
So who’s going to take responsibility for not doing anything while the attack was going on, for 6 hours according to reports?????????????
She’s actually made it worse.
Shows the Marxist is NOT in charge....LOL.
Again, I ask you, since when???
And so what if she resigns? What does that prove, help, or change? Not a damn thing. Unless "somebody" (Congress? LOL) is willing and able to hold her criminally accountable, this is all just a story-of-the-week.
"I take full responsibility" is the equivalent of flipping everyone the bird.
bump!!
I wish they would do that as well. They are near the end of their political careers and don’t have that much to gain by continuing in politics.
The only explanation I have is that there must be something in their past that is still prosecutable that could see them sent up the river for the rest of their lives.
We can only imagine Bill Clinton saying “ ..... Hey Obie, Hawaii just gave me a call and wow... they said that they so happened to have accidentally found that long lost KENYA birth certificate... how about that “
Commentators already told us Condi and Rob Portman shouldn't be V.P. picks because they were "tainted" by the Bush administration. Yet Hillary can screw things up and the Obama administration isn't tainted by her? If she doesn't tender her resignation, she hasn't "taken one for the team" yet. If Obama keeps her on staff, the buck stops with Obama.
yeah and the happy blowback is that this story is bubbling with contradictions - not sent to the backburner like the MSM hoped for. Romney will get a common sense line in about this that sticks with normal people. Advantage Romney.
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