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Benghazi victim's mother calls on Trump to stop invoking son's death
The Hill ^ | July 23, 2016

Posted on 07/23/2016 5:42:06 PM PDT by SMGFan

The mother of the U.S. ambassador killed in the 2012 Benghazi attacks called on Republicans to stop invoking her son on Friday, blasting their references to his death as “opportunistic and cynical.”

“As Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s mother, I am writing to object to any mention of his name and death in Benghazi, Libya, by Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party,” Mary F. Commanday wrote in a letter to the editor published in the New York Times Friday.

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KEYWORDS: benghazi; stevens
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To: Ann Archy
WHY does she have a different NAME than her son??

Maybe they were married to different men.

61 posted on 07/23/2016 6:20:47 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: atc23

Exactly - he was a US official. Trump could refer to him as “our US Ambassador” & not say his given name which would show sensitivity to the grieving Hillary stooge mother while still keeping the fact front & center that Hillary has our Ambassador’s blood on her hands plus that of 3 other Americans.


62 posted on 07/23/2016 6:21:19 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: SMGFan

I think the answer to what the hell happened in Benghazi and the basement/bathroom private servers is this:

We now know Barry and Cankles were running guns from Benghazi to Syria. Of course Chris Stevens knew. Did Sean Smith? I believe something went bad OR somebody balked, so Barry and Hillary ordered hits on the embassy. That’s why the embassy was unprotected and help was refused, and others told to stand down.

Kill the insiders and get the computers and any incriminating files and make it look like an attack. Chris Stevens and Sean Smith were the only people killed at the embassy.

Sean Smith was a computer guy. His mother said, at the RNC Convention “To this day, I don’t even know why a computer guy like Sean was sent to Benghazi.”

The guys who ran to help got in the way and screwed up the scene. The fight followed them to the CIA compound - to be sure no witnesses were left alive?

If that seems feasible then add to it that communication about this was on her private server, and that’s why they had to have a computer guy at the embassy, and why Comey was ordered to not press charges.


63 posted on 07/23/2016 6:21:37 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (islam is the worship of Satan)
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To: SMGFan

She cannot change events.

The ambassador of the US was killed in Benghazi.

It’s not ‘invoking’ his name to retell the incompetence of Clinton.


64 posted on 07/23/2016 6:22:05 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: SMGFan

I do believe his parents do support her and Obama. I recall when it first happened that they came forward early on and said they supported both of them and they felt they did all they could to save their son. I will see if I can’t find it.


65 posted on 07/23/2016 6:22:24 PM PDT by funfan
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To: SMGFan

““As Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s mother, I am writing to object to any mention of his name and death in Benghazi, Libya, by Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party,”

Sorry there, Mary. You don’t get to re-write history. Hillary is directly responsible for the death of your son, and the election of Donald Trump will make sure that no MORE innocent people die under her watch.


66 posted on 07/23/2016 6:23:14 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: SMGFan
Patricia Smith's response:

For all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the cynicism the tragedy in Benghazi has wrought upon America, I blame Hillary Clinton.

I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son. In an email to her daughter shortly after the attack, Hillary Clinton blamed it on terrorism.

But when I saw Hillary Clinton at Sean’s coffin ceremony, just days later, she looked me squarely in the eye and told me a video was responsible. Since then, I have repeatedly asked Hillary Clinton to explain to me the real reason why my son is dead.

I’m still waiting. Whenever I called the State Department, no one would speak to me because they say I am “not a member of the immediate family.”

Sean is my son.

Hillary Clinton is a woman, a mother and a grandmother of two. I am a woman, a mother and a grandmother of two.

How could she do this to me? How could she do this to any American family? Donald Trump is everything Hillary Clinton is not. He is blunt, direct, and strong.

He speaks his mind, and his heart.

And, when it comes to the threat posed by radical Islamic terrorism, he will not hesitate to kill the terrorists who threaten American lives. He will make America stronger, not weaker. This entire campaign comes down to a single question.

If Hillary Clinton … can’t give us the truth … why should we give her the presidency.


67 posted on 07/23/2016 6:23:24 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: SMGFan

Madame Stevens read my tagline.


68 posted on 07/23/2016 6:23:31 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: SMGFan

He was a U.S. Ambassador,not a private citizen.

The lady is out of line.

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69 posted on 07/23/2016 6:24:43 PM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: Ann Archy
Giving or selling MANPADS to OUR ENEMIES???

I use the term "MPAD". The word "MANPAD" makes me giggle.

70 posted on 07/23/2016 6:30:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Anyone done a deep background dig on his family?

Working on it. It appears she has good reason to be pissed at George Bush.

Not all the normal BS democrat reasons, but a real reason.

Source here: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/28/ambassador-j-christopher-stevens-mother-spells-out-family-legacy-136422

She's a Chinook Indian. Ambassador Stevens is 1/16th Chinook.

An excerpt from the source:

"Like many tribes across North America, the Chinook people lost their lands to white encroachment in the 19th and 20th centuries.

By the 1950’s the Chinook Nation dissolved under federal termination policies designed to assimilate Native Peoples into white society.

In 2001, the U.S. Department of the Interior initially granted the tribe federal recognition. Yet, it’s unclear why this status was overturned under George W. Bush’s administration in 2002.

Since then, Gardner and other tribal leaders have been engaged in regaining their formal recognition as a sovereign tribal government—a status that would open the doors to a host of federal Indian entitlement programs linked to trust lands, low to no-cost healthcare, education benefits, housing assistance, and gaming opportunities.

In an editorial published in Ilwaco’s local newspaper, the Chinook Observer, it described the tribe’s federal government wrangling as “unjust” and brought similar comparison to Stevens’ untimely death. “The innocent suffer while the guilty often go free,” the editorial read. “Will it be any different this time?”

71 posted on 07/23/2016 6:34:06 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: SMGFan

Looks like it...


72 posted on 07/23/2016 6:35:24 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Ann Archy

she didn’t speak up right after he was killed and I always wondered WHY?.....
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I didn’t realize that...

Often something like his death is too painful for the close family members to speak about and a “spokesman” will ask for “privacy” etc...

but it is odd that after all this time she hasn’t said anything...

It was Sept 2012...


73 posted on 07/23/2016 6:39:27 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SMGFan

“As Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s mother, I am writing to object to any mention of his name and death in Benghazi, Libya, by Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party,”


So she’s okay with Hitlery, then.


74 posted on 07/23/2016 6:45:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“MANPAD” makes me giggle.

It’s what Bruce Jenner wears.


75 posted on 07/23/2016 6:45:19 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: SMGFan
Supporting HRC anyway.?

So strange. The day the Ambassador died, HRC couldn't even get his name right:


76 posted on 07/23/2016 6:50:55 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SMGFan

A loyal Democrat party member to the bitter end.
They killed her son, but she doesn’t care. Pathetic.


77 posted on 07/23/2016 6:52:05 PM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: CaptainPhilFan

I’ve long thought all of that except didn’t know (or remember actually) about Sean Smith being a computer guy and why was he there. I’m sure it’s the content of Hitlery’s emails that will convict her, and the server stuff was specifically to hide her crimes.


78 posted on 07/23/2016 6:52:48 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The fact that her son was homosexual and may have been “close” to Bathhouse Barry has no bearing on her pronouncement.

/s


79 posted on 07/23/2016 6:54:01 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: SMGFan

Ambassador Stevens was a public servant. Trump can invoke his name and death! Double down, Mr. Trump the left is attempting to pull at your heartstrings. If it was not effective, they would not try to stop it. Be kind, express your sympathy to the Hillary supporting mother, but say no.

With respect to the truth, we must be ruthless.


80 posted on 07/23/2016 6:55:07 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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