Posted on 05/27/2013 11:40:50 AM PDT by lbryce
Mary Kissel and James Taranto discuss the current scandals facing the White House and put them into recent historical perspective
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Yeaaah!
Yes, but we had a moral society then.
No one died during Watergate. No administration appointees were put into a dangerous position and were refused help to secure their location. Nixon did not get word that Americans were attacked and then went to bed so he could get on a campaign flight the next day.
Of course, Benghazi is much worse than Watergate, only the lying afterward was the same.
The four who died at Benghazi are martyrs, willing and unwilling. If no one had died at Benghazi Obama’s true feelings about America and Americans might never have been revealed. Now it is clear to everyone, he just doesn’t give a shit.
Obama lies to protect his butt.
What Obama scandals? As a Democrat, especially as a Democrat ‘of color’, it is not possible for him to be scandalized.
He’s making Nixon look good to the WSJ readers and Yahoo news is talking about putting his likeness on Mt Rushmore.
who’re they planning on knocking off?
Beghazi is clear evidence of Obamas treachery, but that Benghazi operation was basically a criminal enterprise designed to funnel Libya weapons to the Syrian moslem brotherhoood wahabbists,,,the vaunted rebels who have sworn allegiance to Al Qeida.
The men who fought there to protect the embassy were honorable. But Stevens was no martyr, he was a solid Obama guy, a sodomite, and was busily helping the Moslem brotherhood insurgency in Syria.
He played with fire and he got burned. Too bad he got fighting men killed trying to rescue him.
But forget Benghazi for a moment. The IRS targeting of TEA, and the phone tapping of political enemies FAR exceeds anything Nixon did on his worst day. And the GOP was right at his side. They want TEA destroyed too. This is why in the end, the GOP will do nothing about these crimes that FAR exceed Watergate. It is deserving of overthrow that all of this was hidden through the last manipuluated election.
Let’s not denigrate Benghazi, it’s what they want.
Stevens was the ambassador. We do not need to get into judging whether he was bad or good, he worked for us, and he was afforded protection. His neglectors should be brought to the truth out in the open, and then we can sort out what he was doing over there. But fo rus to say oh well, you know that’s the banana republic side of the family and foreign countries like Libya to see that is what makes it worse than WG and all of the other scandals vying for attention.
This is a matter of objective v. subjective opinion. To the Democrats, the reason Watergate was such a massive crime is that it was entirely political in nature; it was about power. To a Democrat, power is a life or death matter, as with the exception of the extremely wealthy, virtually all of them are totally useless in the real world. Hence, Watergate matters to them far more than some obscure ambassador in a far country murdered for buying up armaments from terrorists originally supplied for an illegal war. Yes, the coverup was political, but so what? This is about power. /s
Nowadays, Woodward and Bernstein would have been investigated for crimes, like Rosen or the AP.
Right on!! Hoist by his own petard. (Current translation: Blown up by his own bomb.)
I'm thinking, if Benghazi was so freaking dangerous the WTH wasn't there more security??/
bttt
Nope, the entire truth needs to come out, not just some schmaltzy GOPe version. I’m way past the idea of getting misty eyed with reverence because he held the title.
We send a homo, to a moslem country to help install the most radical sect of moslems into power there. He personally declined better military security earlier that year. He was managing Obama’s secret weapons running operation to even worse moslems in Syria.
His actions in the gunrunning, and the security decisions he made, lead to that attack. Then when he was attacked, Obama left him to swing in the wind.
A few decent Americans tried to help him, and paid with ther lives.
There’s no room for misty eyed purity fables where Stevens is made into some kind of hero. He was as evil as Obama, and was pursuing the same goal.
The Obama scandals I care about are right here at home. Fast and Furious, IRS-gate, his CIA leader Brennan being a moslem, using DHS to target TEA, tapping the phone calls between reporters and congressmen, and the continual harrassment of TEA and others who oppose him. THATS where the worst evil is, everything else, including Benghazi pales in comparison to Obamas war against normal Americans.
Part of his killing of America is his RETENTION of employees that commit perjury and violate other laws which in office. This causes Americans to hate their traditional American institutions. 0bama wants Americans to HATE the IRS, HATE our military, our judicial institutions, etc.. It's all about ripping America apart and getting people to hate America just as much as he does.
Eric Holder as DOJ AG must not be allowed to continue, but 0bama won't do anything about him.
What to do, America? What to do..
the truth is that our ambassador was killed. Let’s address that. the rest of the truth will come out of that and will naturally avoid the schmaltz.
You cannot approach the idea that the ambassador is or isn’t gay now that the ‘BSA has signed on to it. so forget that.
“His neglectors should be brought to the truth out in the open, and then we can sort out what he was doing over there.”
A story that does not include EVERYTHING, right up front is not the truth. As for the message we send the rest of the world, do you really think they aren’t aware of the fact that the biggest pusher of islamist takeovers was the USA? Do you really think they don’t know that the Saudis are not inserted throughout our government? Do you really think they don’t know that Humma Weiner, the daughter of moslem brotherhood people, is practically joined at the hip with our secretary of state?
The full truth is what is needed here. What was that Benghazi post engaged in? Why did the other employees vanish? etc. Only answering those questions can make sense of this. It’s well known in spook culture that if you get caught, the Cavalry won’t come riding to the rescue.
Benghazi has al the hallmarks of a spook operation gone wrong.
As for waiting until we examine the failure to come to their aid, the two cannot be separated with any honest investigation. And yes, his mission does matter.
Our government has long since exhausted their blind allegiance account.
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