I’m sure by now everyone knows that Hillary has ‘taken one for the team’ by accepting responsibility for the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. She has not only pulled Obama’s ass out of the fire, she saved Biden from being branded a liar. If she IS, in fact, responsible for this tragedy, she should be fired, prosecuted for incompetence, and sent to prison.
So…. knowing the animus between the Clinton’s and the Obama’s – what could be in store for Hillary that BILL WOULD AGREE TO. Consider this.
First of all – the timing of her admission is totally suspect, as it takes this horrible event totally off the table for tonight’s debate. This acceptance of blame would also kill her run for the White House, unless…..
There will be no ‘punishment’ for Hillary in the Benghazi attacks. This administration won’t hit the girl. THEY OWE HER NOW, and she has Obama and Biden right where she and Bill want them.
If Obama should win re-election…… (perish the thought!)…. I will wager that Joe Biden’s ‘health’ will take a rapid and serious turn for the worse. And who better to replace him as Vice-President than…….. HILLARY! This is the ONLY, absolutely ONLY condition that Bill would agree to that would make Hillary fall on the sword for Hussein, because it would situate her perfectly for 2016.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Hmm, makes sense in a way. However, by 2016 she will be pushing 70, and been in Washington for 24 years. She’ll be pretty shopworn.
LOL – she already IS
Ace has an interesting theory. Basically, it makes Obama look like a shirker, unwilling to take responsibility for anything, will put him at a greater disadvantage debating Romney, etc.
People tend to admire others who stand up and take the hits. Hillary looks like A-the loyal soldier and B-the only one who is going to stand up and say, “something awful happened on my watch and I’m going to look in the mirror to see who is in charge and not like some other people I could name, look around for scapegoats”.
Hillary isn’t taking the blame, she’s taking the credit.
Now a lot of this is hypocritical because Hillary already tried casting the blame elsewhere but when all else fails, it’s sometimes better to own it in the end.
How does this hurt Obama? Well tonight he will be standing next to Mitt Romney. Romney you might recall has made a rather big stink about Obama’s failure to lead and his own stellar leadership record.
Makes a lot of sense to me. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Obama may have kept an enemy a little too close.
The solution to the ‘Hillary problem’ is for Romney to win in a landslide!
I find your theory intriguing and will watch further developments with interest.
Woodward link H/T Ann Althouse
The problem, as even now-aging Bob Woodward acknowledges, is that all of these diversionary mea culpas after the fact are the sort of irrelevant, transparent excuses any elementary school teacher or parent of young children would immediately recognize. Mommy, the dog ran off with the needed security.
The Secretary of State does not set foreign policy, in this case rushing to present a submissive, non-defensive “normalized” presence in a still-failed, immediately-post-revolutionary state; she only carries it out at the pleasure of the President.
It was the President who set that academically irenic, Sesame Street policy in the face of every possible concrete evidence of threat to the contrary, it was executed according to his wishes, and so security sufficient to protect Benghazi was not installed because to have done so would have contravened President Obama’s explicitly stated foreign policy.
That “normalizing” policy then failed, foreseeably and lethally, and four Americans died unnecessarily.
After that, how the scapegoats then either get chosen for sacrifice or strategically choose themselves is really, ultimately beside the point.
H. M. Stuart
Alexandria
If you parse Hillary’s mea culpa, she said she was ‘responsible for all the 60,000+ people in the Department of State’. You are right, Sir – she does NOT set foreign policy. Perhaps if Obama had not scooted off to Vegas the morning after, or even attended more than 60% of his ‘foreign policy’ briefings, he could have responded more plausabily. It’s my thought that the video theory came from his campaign rather than anyone in the intelligence food chain.
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=44415
This is a link to a ‘theory’ of what happened. I’ve read Ulstermann in the past and either this person has someone so far inside the system they are microscopic – or – he’s the greatest fictional writer of this decade (and possibly of the past few).
The totally WORST thing about this article – this ‘October Surprise’ – is….. it’s believable. (I inherited my mom’s conspiracy theorist gene)
My good FIREBIRD,
I find the Ulstermann theory implausible, and, if nothing else did, Occam’s Razor would argue convincingly against it.
However, it is public knowledge that Susan Rice, who receives daily intelligence briefings, is being groomed to succeed Hillary Clinton who is not expected to continue as Secretary of State after the current term.
In what universe, then, does Susan Rice’s parade of explanations across the media that a protest caused Benghazi make sense, well after that explanation was known by all but the public to be untrue?
In a universe where this man
is shaping the face of foreign policy which America sees, not this man
President Obama did not get where he is today by not dutifully following what others told him to do, legislatively and administratively.
H. M. Stuart
Alexandria
My favorite summation of the man at the helm of the Ship of State:
“Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?….
Our president is a small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.” Matt Patterson, THE AMERICAN THINKER
I’ve always been disappointed with Obama for, knowing his weaknesses as he should have, he surrounded himself with equally weak and unqualified people, Susan Rice among them. No one ever told him that if you surround yourself with strong, talented and able people, they cannot help but make you look good. What a waste….
If one follows Matt Patterson’s thinking, if one follows Ezra Klein’s complaint that Obama has lost the trail of the vision thing, if one listens to the Left wondering if Obama still wants to be President and so forth, one is led to an hypothesis diametrically opposite to Ulstermann’s and diametrically opposite to the characterization of Obama as some type of dominating socialist Mao Tse Tung: quite to the contrary, Obama is only now beginning to digest, with an increasingly paralyzing horror, the life-redefining bill he has incurred as a less than qualified contender in his Faustian bargain with the Devil of presidential politics.
He was adequately smart and adequately accomplished academically, but never, ever presidentially so. Nevertheless, like George W. Bush before him and unlike Bill Clinton before him he eagerly allowed himself to be chosen by others to fill a role and groomed for it. He was the eager, less than qualified child cynically and sadistically told by opportunistic elder others who would profit from him that he could do anything he set his mind to, except that he himself naturally could not quite, and now that is slowly, horribly dawning on him.
He can still make all the grownups clap with his oratory, but now he also finds himself responsible for all the other aspects of being President, including Benghazi. Everything anyone did in his name he himself and only he is responsible for. One can pity a child caught in such a situation, but never a President.
David Axelrod will move on eventually and groom other campaigns, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Dodd and Frank have all got theirs, and Barack Obama, after all is said and done, is left petering out as the first black Jimmy Carter.
His is nothing if not a lesson in being careful what you wish for.
H. M. Stuart
Alexandria
Well said.