Mrs. Bill Rodham Clinton
was deeply involved in
both Watergate and Benghazi.
Posted on 05/05/2014 1:59:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
On Fox News Sunday, George Will was asked about the significance of the Benghazi memo. Specifically, host (Chris) Wallace asked about remarks by Charles Krauthammer comparing the discovery of the Rhodes email to discovery of the Nixon tapes. […]
“Rather less (significant) than the Watergate tapes, which showed a President at the heart of a crime wave suborning perjury and raising hush money and all the rest. …”
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Unfortunately the majority of the American people do not care. Unless the mainstream media take up the story and begin attacking the current administration like they did Nixon, most of the people will view Benghazi another Republican political witch hunt.
Average people I know, even those who dislike the current regime, are weary of the 24 hour news cycle and the in inability through the political system to have a voice. The economy is bad, private sector jobs are insecure and hard to find, private sector work hours are long, and in general day to day life gets harder every year.
Many conservatives I know are disgusted by both the Dems and the GOP. The aftermath of the 2010 elections, the endemic corruption at all levels of government, and the war on the tea party by the elites, has created apathy. More and more people I speak to are just tuning out with respect to politics as well as the news. They’ve turned inward, focusing on family, friends, hobbies, jobs, and whatever aspects of their daily lives they can control.
Meanwhile the left wingers I know are fired up. They know they are winning and want to impose their socialist agenda on their neighbors.
The GOP establishment may be surprised this year. The base may be so apathetic, or so tired of being taken for granted, it doesn’t show up to vote for the lesser of two evils. When you get to the point you realize your vote really doesn’t matter, why make the effort?
At this point all Benghazi seems to be is a way for the GOP elites to make some noise to fire up the base and distract conservatives from the amnesty they plan to deliver as well as the retreat from any effort to repeal the ACA. Even this weak effort to throw red meat at the base is lackluster, proving the leadership really doesn’t care.
To be blunt, the GOP does not like or respect the conservative voters it relies on to win elections and the elites of the party have overtly demonstrated their disdain for the flyover country and suburban voters. The feeling has become mutual. In any organization, when leadership loses the respect of the rank and file, the organization will fail in its mission. This of course assumes there is a mission.
There is more. Sequestering witnesses using the IRS to intimidate political opponents weaving a pattern of lies about their activities refusing to enforce laws and unilaterally changing law out side the legislative process
Nixon looks like a kid in short pants
No. He is not right. He is exhibiting typical weak-kneed DC insider "go-along-get-along" attitude and language of pusillanimity presented in the guise of reason. A condition that too many conservatives, let alone Republicans, seem to be overtaken by.
On a very basic level, there is no comparison between the two scandals. The argument that Benghazi is insignificant is incredibly idiotic.
Will also agreed with Rep. Adam Schiff that it would be a smart move on the part of Democrats to boycott any further investigation into the Benghazi incident, as it would make the Republicans look “obviously” as if they were just participating in partisan presidential election politics.
Translation: Shrink back, roll over, accept you can't oppose the evil, it's far too strong. Settle in the yoke of tyranny and find it in ourselves to capitulate and learn to be at ease with it.
George Will is a useless poltroon.
Misleading headline. Wonder why they do that?
This scandal cost the lives of four Americans. Obama was probably looking at his golf swing while these people were being killed. No matter the faults of Nixon, can anyone imagine him rolling pins in the White House bowling alley while Americans were being killed by jiahdis? It goes to the core of Obama being an incompetent fool as regards national security which is far more dangerous than a semi-paranoid, insecure president, Nixon, who covers up for his subordinates.
The tension between the two is evident when watching them on Bret Baier's Special Report.
I used to put some stock into George Will's opinion many years ago.
Now he seems to grope for his position and seems always slightly off track from the topic at hand.
And I'm not fond of his cute little turns on cliche's.
...”Who decided on no added security when asked for by the Ambassador, not once but several times and why? Who decided on no military rescue and why? Where are the witnesses who were whisked off and have not been heard from? Were threats made to shut the witnesses up? Was the Ambassador set up for murder and why, did he know to much? Who picked out the native security forces that either allowed it to happen or were involved? What is so important that the cover up was started to begin with and continues to this day? Who gave the MSM their marching orders to enable the cover up and mislead the public? Would the truth have resulted in a failed reelection and didn’t that result in a stolen election? Do not all these actions rise to the level of treason not to mention murder? What if the IRS was used to make certain witnesses toe the line, both witnesses on the ground and in the MSM? Why was the FBI not allowed into the site of the attack for 3 weeks and who stopped them, could that lead to Holder? Who coordinated the talking heads by providing them with the questions they were allowed to ask and if they weren’t willingly agreeable were there threats made and by who? Who told Carney to lie, though he probably would have anyway, who told him what to lie about? Who else was Cummings coordinating with to slow or stop the Issa committee?
This isn’t just a little smoke and mirrors, this is a full fledged forest fire. I am just an ignorant hillbilly and even I can see this and more. Why can’t you?”...
You are one smart guy, Foundahardheadedwoman. I would love to see you on the leading television talk shows. Thank you for fully expressing your thoughts here.
“Krauthammer’s the guy who made the Watergate comparison, so methinks Will is feeling a bit of rivalry against his fellow network contributor.”
A couple months ago, when his book was released, there was a TV special on Krauthammer’s life. In interviews with C.K., he implied, possibly said (I can’t recall exactly), that George Will is just about his closest friend and they’ve been close for decades. (C.K. met Obama the first time at a party at G.W.’s house, I believe.) Perhaps something has happened to change that relationship recently.
If there was EVER a doubt that George Will
is nothing but a DNC-plant of RINO Fox “News”,
.... this is IT.
What a phoney pro-Obama pro-corruption phoney.
I think that influenced the response (actually lack thereof) by US forces, trying to keep the arms trafficking under wraps.
There is the greatest significance: giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war.
For all his failings, Richard M. Nixon didn't come close to that.
The juxtaposition of your posts #24 and 26 is interesting.
I guess George Will is trying a sort-of-C-Y-A for Obama here.
Could it be an elaborate plan to release the “Blind Sheik” via a staged kidnapping?
the question then becomes...
1. Why would the US do that??
any explanation at that point becomes really destructive
The reason I bring this up is that anybody who watched the hearings can plainly see that security was drawn down intentionally and the Ambassador was sent on a fools mission!!! (from an administration perspective that would make perfect sense to allow/plan it to happen and have minimum loss of life and little collateral damage)
I believe you meant #24 and #28.
If so, I do value, although I don't always agree with, CK's opinions.
Yes, that is interesting.
Yes the memo is less significant than the tape because the tapes showed nixon directly involved.
But we have a ways to go and more evidence is to be revealed.
“Arming the enemy and then refusing to defend US staff against those arms?”
Think about that one for a min.
Was the cover-up and long delay to investigate because the guns and mortars used in the attack were US issue?
The terrorists got the stuff, and likely training, from the CIA and used it on them in the attack. THAT would be pretty hard to admit just before the election!
Is that why access to witnesses that were there is being blocked? They likely know if that was the case.
If that’s what happened... You have O’bastard and Hildabeast signing off on the CIA giving arms to terrorists, that wind up being used to kill the ambassador and other Americans on the ground there.
was deeply involved in
both Watergate and Benghazi.
I watched him earlier today. He’s wearing a toupee.
George Putnam used to say that about Sam Donaldson.
hey George, that’s the IRS SCANDAL you’re referring to....which is FAR WORSE than Watergate. But, you haven’t done a damn thing about that either. You’re no conservative, haven’t been and in my mind, are persona non grata...
That is precisely what I believe is being covered up. There was a pre-arranged plot -- hatched by Morsi and Obama -- to kidnap the Ambassador then, on the eve of the election, exchange him for the Blind Sheikh. Both Morsi and Obama expected to win political points from the exercise.
This theory explains why Stevens was sent to Benghazi in the first place. And why he was methodically denied the security he requested. And why Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty had to disobey orders in order to mount a resistance to the attack -- which was supposed to be unresisted. Which also explains why Obama made no move to counter the attack -- it was supposed to be successful.
But, in the ensuing violence, Stevens lost his life -- thereby eliminating the objective of the exercise. Once Stevens was confirmed dead, Clinton and Obama were left to formulate a cover story.
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