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.
I’d say something about trying to tell the fly specks from the black pepper but it would sound racist
Stay Outta the Bush’s.For once I actually agree with Jessie Jackson on something.
“Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,”
Yes, such amazing sacrifices she’s made. She’s had to deal with fame, riches, incredibly special treatment paid for by American taxpayers, and having to rub elbows in circles the rest of us have little to no chance of ever interacting with, unless we have enough cash to contribute. How could she sacrifice herself so much?
Like lawyers in love.
Well there maybe just a penny’s worth of difference in that if it were Jeb Bush who was to receive the award and had done actually done spectacular service rather then media hyped service like Hillary. You can bet that Hillary would have refused to be the one to give Jeb the award and probably would have been in support of the liberal and media generated protestors all the while leading the shriek again a deserved award being given. Since someone in the GOP could no way deserve such an award. This is all a crock. All I see the Clintons doing is a fair amount of self service as well my way or the highway tactics though not on as intrusive a scale as the nobama-inchief.
I have voted in every presidential election since 1976. Except for 1976 (I wrote in the Libertarian candidate instead of voting for Ford), I have voted GOP every time since. If Jeb Bush or Krispy Kreme gets the 2016 GOP nomination (assuming we still have a country and still have elections), I will either vote 3rd party or leave that slot blank. It won't matter any more by then.
“Liberty Medal” for Hillary Clinton.
Orwellian NewSpeak.
“Republican”
More Orwellian NewSpeak
Between McCain and this, my hair hurts!
Hillary! supports abortion. The fact that, in Jeb Bush’s eyes, this doesn’t make her a pariah and a traitor tells me that Jeb Bush is pro-abortion, as I define it.
Jeb Bush stood by while Terri Schiavo was murdered, so this is no real surprise. Jeb Bush’s god is mainstream respectability, not the God worshiped by true Christians.
I am Jeb Bush, and I approve this message.
Sick sick sick disgusting disgusting disgusting
Well, didn’t “W” just praise Obama for his excellent leadership of this country at the dedication ceremony of the Bush Presidential Library at SMU?
I lost a little more respect for this buffoon after listening to his speech, even though he is still miles better than homObama.
Way to go Jeb. You are now Hillary's bush.
Not even a moderate would hand Hillary a medal. Only a left wing globalist would do this.
INCOMINGGGGG !!!!
Jeb, Jeb, Jeb. Why? The odor of death hangs on Htlery. Why align yourself with such a creature? You shame yourself and your whole family.
bush/clinton... at least the bush family hasn’t suffered public sexual deviancy. I see very little difference in them politically.
LLS
I hereby present this award for the largest ankles connected to tree stump legs ever measured for a Secretary of State.
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