{"id":16000,"date":"2012-10-16T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16000"},"modified":"2012-10-16T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:53:58","slug":"when-dealing-with-the-clintons-always-read-the-fine-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16000","title":{"rendered":"When Dealing With The Clintons Always Read The Fine Print"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story is based on two sources, a Power Line<\/a> article posted yesterday by Paul Mirengoff<\/a> and an article posted yesterday at Hot Air<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both articles pointed out the small print.<\/p>\n

Power Line stated:<\/p>\n

Similarly, Clinton<\/a> reportedly told Fox News<\/a> that she is \u201cresponsible for the State Department<\/a>, for more than 60,000 people around the world.\u201d But she added that \u201cthe decisions about security are made by security professionals.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This statement appears to shift blame to these professionals. And Clinton again invoked them when she said that the June explosion in Benghazi<\/a> \u201cwas taken into account by security professionals as they made their assessments\u201d about what kind of security was required thereafter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hot Air says the same thing in different words:<\/p>\n

Fearless prediction: With Hillary having now formally accepted blame<\/a>, President Above The Fray will magnanimously volunteer at tomorrow night\u2019s debate that, no no, it is with him that the buck ultimately stops. The White House<\/a> has been holding off on doing that because they\u2019re desperate to frame this as an internal problem at State. Now that Clinton\u2019s gone and done that, Obama<\/a> can pose as a stand-up guy and loyal boss by symbolically accepting responsibility on behalf of the people who are really at fault.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…She\u2019s not claiming actual responsibility in the excerpt above, just symbolic responsibility as the head of the Department that\u2019s at fault. Given how the public generally respects showy professions of blame, it\u2019s really the easiest thing in the world to make a \u201cbuck stops here\u201d statement. The One himself would have done it weeks ago, I\u2019m sure, if not for the fact that he\u2019s caught in an election death struggle and knows the GOP<\/a> would have hammered him with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note that HIllary said that the decisions about security are made by security professionals. Really? So she is actually saying that she had nothing to do with the ultimate decisions, so how is that taking responsibility?<\/p>\n

The Power LIne<\/a> article further points out:<\/p>\n

Second, Clinton did not, and cannot, take the fall for the false statements by the Obama administration about what happened in Benghazi. The State Department, which was following events there in real time, knew that this was a terrorist attack, not a protest. Yet, days after the attack, the administration mischaracterized it as a protest that spun out of control against a movie. That\u2019s on Obama, not Clinton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Third, Clinton cannot take the fall for our failure, to date, to strike back at those responsible for the Benghazi attack. This too is on Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m really not sure Hillary’s statement actually makes things any better. Her motive? I wonder if President Obama has paid off the campaign debts of Hillary’s campaign that he promised to pay if she dropped out of the race.<\/p>\n

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