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Are Republicans Exploiting Benghazi?

Are Republicans Exploiting Benghazi?


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pbrauer

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I seriously doubt the Republicans who keep harping about Benghazi care about the four people who died September 11, 2012. They are in my opinion using their deaths for political gain, they want to use this tragedy to weaken the chances of Hillary Clinton should she decide to run for president in 2014. They misquote what Clinton said during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Jan. 23, 2013, they say she said "What difference does it make?" Here is what she actually said:

"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."​
 
I seriously doubt the Republicans who keep harping about Benghazi care about the four people who died September 11, 2012. They are in my opinion using their deaths for political gain, they want to use this tragedy to weaken the chances of Hillary Clinton should she decide to run for president in 2014. They misquote what Clinton said during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Jan. 23, 2013, they say she said "What difference does it make?" Here is what she actually said:

"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."​

pbrauer: they're doing this because of what you just said. Presently the GOP have no real candidates to run for President. Chris Christie has his problems, and one other candidate that might have a chance is Jeb Bush; however, he will probably divide the party because he will either tick off the Tea Party half or the Mainstream portion.
 
pbrauer: they're doing this because of what you just said. Presently the GOP have no real candidates to run for President. Chris Christie has his problems, and one other candidate that might have a chance is Jeb Bush; however, he will probably divide the party because he will either tick off the Tea Party half or the Mainstream portion.

" What diffrence does it make " ?
 
other.

they want all the documents related to the issue released by the administartion and the transparency the administration has promised.

neither have happened.
 
Yes, yes they are. That's not to say that their counterparts wouldn't do the same under similar circumstances, or that their weren't legitimate failures in the chain of command, but they certainly have milked the event for all the political capital it's worth.
 
I seriously doubt the Republicans who keep harping about Benghazi care about the four people who died September 11, 2012. They are in my opinion using their deaths for political gain, they want to use this tragedy to weaken the chances of Hillary Clinton should she decide to run for president in 2014. They misquote what Clinton said during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Jan. 23, 2013, they say she said "What difference does it make?" Here is what she actually said:

"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."​

Just like how Democrats exploited the whole Iraq war and their were no WMDs thing. Point being that all political parties do it, it is politics after all.
 
" What diffrence does it make " ?

Finish the quote or it is meaningless drivel from someone who would stand on the dead bodies of heroes for cheap political nonsense.
 
Just like how Democrats exploited the whole Iraq war and their were no WMDs thing. Point being that all political parties do it, it is politics after all.

Actually that is completely different. The lie about WsMD was one to willfully trick both Congress and the entire country to enter a war that we did not need. Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld both said they knew where they were. They didn't, because there were none. And was is disrespectful even more was when the Commander-in-Chief had Americans in harms way doing a stupid video of him looking for them in White House. Please show me the jokes this administration have made about Benghazi. You are comparing dynamite and cream cheese.
 
Scuttlebutt from the Hill. The Obama White House has decided that the Democrats in the House should use Jesse jackson and Al Sharpton tactics of calling for a boycott of the hearings.

I wonder when they play the race card ?
 
Doesn't matter who exploits who/what. If the Republicans keep Persisting on useless **** (I've already defined useless **** in so many other threads) other than their stronger ideals (less government, better use of taxes, etc.) then they will NEVER win an election anytime soon. I seriously would bet on the next 2-3 presidents being democratic should the Republicans not take a look in the mirror and fix that ant up their ass called the Tea Party.
 
Probably a mix of both. I doubt they're apathetic to the deaths, but I don't think their only motive is justice. Similar to the exploitation of tragedies such as Newtown and Aurora by the Democrats, they feel horrible, but are also using them for political purposes.
 
Of course, the republicants are exploiting it for political purposes. The fact is that Benghazi always was exploited; initially by the demorats. The demorat Benghazi spin (exploitation) was to bolster Obama's "UBL is dead, GM is alive and Al Qaeda is on the run" slogan. The curious use of Rice to prevent Hillary from having to initiate the spin did not allow Hillary to escape completely. So the republicants are using it to associate Hillary's involvement with Obama's lying, just as the demorats are using bridgegate to pound Christie.
 
other.

they want all the documents related to the issue released by the administartion and the transparency the administration has promised.

neither have happened.
Do you realized the government has classified and unclassified information? The public does not have the right to know everything the government knows for obvious reasons. Transparency is not the issue here. The Republicans who are making an issue of Benghazi are total and complete asses, they should be voted out office, in my opinion.
 
What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."

Well, if you are going to prevent it from ever happening again it would help to know what happened in the first place. That's what difference it makes.

What an incompetent bitch.
 
Dude, that was six post ago.
Dude, you repeated the line after someone posted the whole quote. So I will just assume are just a partisan hack who has no idea what you are talking about just repeating what you are told by the right wing noise machine.
 
Do you realized the government has classified and unclassified information? The public does not have the right to know everything the government knows for obvious reasons. Transparency is not the issue here. The Republicans who are making an issue of Benghazi are total and complete asses, they should be voted out office, in my opinion.

when you have to use the freedom of information act to get documents the public is entitled to see, something doesn't appear to be right with those who have the documents.
 
when you have to use the freedom of information act to get documents the public is entitled to see, something doesn't appear to be right with those who have the documents.
Sorry, it does matter what the issue is, the president no matter who it is will fight it. Bush did it, Obama does it and all future presidents will do it.
 
other.

they want all the documents related to the issue released by the administartion and the transparency the administration has promised.

neither have happened.

maybe those documents are top secret? given the fact the CIA is involved i would suspect a few things are not meant to be disclosed to the public.
 
Dude, you repeated the line after someone posted the whole quote. So I will just assume are just a partisan hack who has no idea what you are talking about just repeating what you are told by the right wing noise machine.

Should I really take your word for it that C-SPAN is right wing ?

You no longer have any credibility making that claim.
 
I seriously doubt the Republicans who keep harping about Benghazi care about the four people who died September 11, 2012. They are in my opinion using their deaths for political gain, they want to use this tragedy to weaken the chances of Hillary Clinton should she decide to run for president in 2014. They misquote what Clinton said during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Jan. 23, 2013, they say she said "What difference does it make?" Here is what she actually said:

"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."​

Ah, the go-to-the-well rhetoric: "to prevent _________ from ever happening again."

Someone should make a Youtube video of all the times someone in the government has said that. Probably best to break it up into several parts because that video would be looonnnggg.
 
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