Hillary Clinton stated months ago that she accepts
responsibility over the failure to protect our diplomatic outpost in Benghazi.
The problem with her seemly bold admission is that during the House and Senate
hearings she admitted to absolutely no mistakes, errors or poor judgments.
In fact, she repeatedly danced between the factual truths
and bold faced lies because most of our representatives chose to “smile for the
camera” rather than hold her feet to the fire. For instance she repeated the
lie (following Candy Crowley’s lead of CNN) that the President immediately
called the attack at Benghazi an act of terrorism.
Even if you torture the words and contexts of Obama’s Rose
Garden comments after the attack to make the case that he called it terrorism,
you cannot dismiss the CBS interview with Steve Kroft in which the President
punctuated his remarks by claiming it was too early to know.
Hillary claimed she knew it was a terrorist attack early on
and not as a result of a protest over a video. Yet, no one asked Secretary
Clinton why she reportedly told Charles Woods father of Tyrone victim of the
Benghazi terrorist attack that “We’ll make sure the person that made that film
is arrested and prosecuted.”
In a mind bending acrobatic twist Hillary and this administration
want to deflect answers to questions based on an on-going investigation by the
FBI yet Ambassador Rice, the President and the Secretary of State were willing
to blame a video with no evidence to support its involvement.
Hillary might it seem have had a moment of candor during
what otherwise was a well scripted and prepared testimonial performance.
“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 decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point
does it make?” Clinton asked the Republican Senator. “It is our job to figure
out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening
again.”
However, her false outrage and impertinent response was
arrogantly planned to intimidate the committee and is as old as the hills a
tactic to deflect blame. The “How dare you” and the “does it matter who did it”
let’s just move on and focus on fixing the problem is a well worn way by many
to avoid accountability.
If there is an ever increasing theme in the Obama
administration and the Democratic Party it is to never blame members or
supporters for corruption or ineptness and only always blame either the
opposition party (Bush) or everyone.
We heard Democrats once again blame a lack funding for the
lack of security at the Benghazi consulate. We heard Democrats blame conflicting
intelligence reports from CIA, or the fog of war excuse. Finally we hear
Hillary tell us “What difference at this point does it make?”
Right Obama won the debates and the election through lies,
cover-ups and subterfuge and he was just sworn in to the highest office in the
world. So what difference does it make?
Regardless of whether you voted for Obama, are a loyal
Democrat or one of us (wretched nasty) conservative voters do you accept that
your government lies to you? If it doesn’t bother you that they lie about the
deaths of brave Americans then do you really believe your “check is” and will
be in the mail?
So shouldn’t it matter even more to those that are big government
statist’s that this benevolent government you trust to take care of you is
truthful?
Conservatives understand that government is corrupt and the
bigger government becomes the bigger and less accountable allows that
corruption to expand beyond constraints. Smaller government will still have a
measure of corruption but at least it makes those responsible for the
corruption less able to hide behind a mountainous bureaucratic process.
All Americans should refuse the new normal that allows the
government to lie, shield the truth and mock the truth seeker. Honesty matters
to Americans and we still teach our children (I hope) not to lie, but rather to
stand up and admit mistake or wrong-doing and vow to improve.
I ask Hillary Clinton and all Democrats, when did we ever
decide as a culture that there was no difference between lies and the truth?
When did the new normal become “What difference does it make?” When did you as
a voter and an American decide that your government lies so let’s just move on?
Because the next question would be move on to what; trusting
liars?
