Posted on 09/03/2013 12:13:25 PM PDT by BO Stinkss
Possible 2016 Republican contender Jeb Bush is presenting Hillary Clinton, the presumptive front runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination, with an award Tuesday, Sept. 10 in Philadelphia — and it has one conservative group criticizing the ceremony.
Bush, the chairman of the National Constitution Center, is presenting Clinton with the organization’s 2013 Liberty Medal.
“Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Bush said in a statement released earlier this summer. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.”
The Independence Hall Tea Party Association sent out an email about the ceremony on Monday, calling it “extremely distressing.” A newly formed group, the Independence Hall Foundation, will hold a press conference on the day Clinton is receiving the medal denouncing her selection and offering an alternative award. Don Adams, an organizer of the Independence Hall Foundation, said in an email to POLITICO that the groups mission is to “seek to promote the ideals of the United States as embodied in its founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the U. S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. We recognize and honor Independence Hall as the physical and symbolic foundation of the American nation.”
Adams said the timing of the Liberty Medal presentation, on the eve of the anniversary of the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, “couldn’t be worse.”
“To give her a liberty medal on the eve of the Benghazi attack is an affront to the victims, it’s an affront to the American people. Frankly, it’s a sheer disgrace,” Adams told POLITICO.
Adams also said it was “a bit unseemly” that Bush will be the one to present the medal to Clinton.
Former recipients of the Liberty Medal include former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush in 2006, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 2008 and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in 2011, according to a release from the National Constitution Center.
Just one big happy family, aren’t they?
” “Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Bush said in a statement released earlier this summer. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.” “
Bush shilling for a murderous enemy of America.
The GOP co-authored the transfer of MANPADs to al Qaeda
and has NO (zero, zed, nada) interest in following it up.
I would like to award them both a ticket out of this country-——One way.
The next Republican presidential Candidate is showing where his heart is and he doesn’t really care who knows it, he is that sure of the Nomination. It would take an Act of God to change that inevitability. He will NOT be the next president but he Will be the next bobdole.
‘Get out da Bushes’.........
Hitlery sets up and kills Americans in Benghazi and the Republican elites will walk over backwards to give her an award.
Is the one who rewards this behavior any less a sicko than the one who caused the mess?
Another reason to leave the GOP????
So was the Manson clan...
*Remove* the GOP.
This is another joke, right?
B.S.!!!!! Another NWOdrerer!
I wouldn’t be surprised if twerking happens to be part of the festivities.
Correct
The difference between Republicans and Democrats is like the difference between Masons and Shriners.
As if I need yet another reason to leave the GOP..already glad I just did earlier today.
How come Bush politicians are always talking about democracy? This country is not a democracy and we don’t want it to ever be one.
Truly...we live in Bizarro World. Insanity prevails. Complete madness.
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