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Boost Assendahm

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Hillary is a warrior (in the Beltway warrior sense of that word). I'll give her that. But, she is nothing more at the moment than a candidate running for President. She has name recognition that is positive, unlike poor old Jeb, who may be the smartest candidate running for either party.

However, she gets NO passes for her actions or inaction up to this point. Those of us, who want to compare her brain dead handling of the Benghazi massacre as something similar to what actual Presidents have done in crisis situations is beyond laughable. She is NOT a President, and has NEVER been a war time Secretary of Defense or General or any other level of military office.

To brand HER mistakes leading up to and immediately following the Benghazi "incident" as "it is what it is" misses the integrity and accountability mark so badly as to make most of us think someone simply did not hear the question or that they had only half the information available at that time. The private email server (which was in operation as her only email) only adds to the gaps in truth. Given two years to build her defense and to practice answering any and all possible questions, plus 24+ months to prepare documents and edit emails and lose documents and emails, who wouldn't have done fairly well in those hearings, which included peanut gallery commentary from agenda driven Democrats as well.

And the greatest joke of all is that some of us are outraged that one political party may have partisan leanings when it comes to grilling the other side of the aisle. "Oh My! Lions and Tigers and Bears!!"
 
Hillary is a warrior (in the Beltway warrior sense of that word). I'll give her that. But, she is nothing more at the moment than a candidate running for President. She has name recognition that is positive, unlike poor old Jeb, who may be the smartest candidate running for either party.

However, she gets NO passes for her actions or inaction up to this point. Those of us, who want to compare her brain dead handling of the Benghazi massacre as something similar to what actual Presidents have done in crisis situations is beyond laughable. She is NOT a President, and has NEVER been a war time Secretary of Defense or General or any other level of military office.

To brand HER mistakes leading up to and immediately following the Benghazi "incident" as "it is what it is" misses the integrity and accountability mark so badly as to make most of us think someone simply did not hear the question or that they had only half the information available at that time. The private email server (which was in operation as her only email) only adds to the gaps in truth. Given two years to build her defense and to practice answering any and all possible questions, plus 24+ months to prepare documents and edit emails and lose documents and emails, who wouldn't have done fairly well in those hearings, which included peanut gallery commentary from agenda driven Democrats as well.

And the greatest joke of all is that some of us are outraged that one political party may have partisan leanings when it comes to grilling the other side of the aisle. "Oh My! Lions and Tigers and Bears!!"

You're correct, Hillary's handling of Benghazi doesn't compare to that of a POTUS, she wasn't calling the shots. She had a role to play, but it wasn't her ball game.
The comparison I've made to far worse fumbling by Presidents is valid though.
Also the idea one party should get a pass for making this a political event as opposed to trying to improve the next response seems a bit absurd to me.
Your contention seems to be that Hillary should be held more accountable than a POTUS and We should ignore Republicans turning the tragedy into a political opportunity.
 
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You're correct, Hillary's handling of Benghazi doesn't compare to that of a POTUS, she wasn't calling the shots. She had a role to play, but it wasn't her ball game.
The comparison I've made to far worse fumbling by Presidents is valid though.
Also the idea one party should get a pass for making this a political event as opposed to trying to improve the next response seems a bit absurd to me.
Your contention seems to be that Hillary should be held more accountable than a POTUS and We should ignore Republicans turning the tragedy into a political opportunity.

Agree for the most part, but at some point, who is going to step up and NOT play politics as usual? I have not seen evidence of it, and I observe regulary.
 
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