Conservative denial tour: “Racist?  It’s not racist!  its amazing how you can no longer criticize someone on their work performance without be called a bigot, racist, or some kind of phobe.”

Either way, get a grip.

lulz

*We take no responsibility.

*Go Fuck Yourself.

*Now enjoy this five year super-recession (which is totally the next guy’s fault).

How is this the heart of the matter when it’s 100% irrelevant?

And it certainly does matter if the attack was caused by a spontaneous reaction to a blasphemous video which happened to originate in the U.S. or if it was a planned (and predicted) attack by fighters who oppose U.S. actions in their countries.

Clinton’s exact quote is actually very misleading…

“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 and decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”

There is a huge difference between a planned, organized attack by soldiers with military weapons and “guys out for a walk one night” deciding “they’d go kill some Americans.” Being prepared for one is quite different from being prepared for the other.

I would also say that the way one’s government department communicates with the people makes a lot of difference as to the level of trust and respect the people have for that department.

And let me just add that I don’t think most of the questions posed by the Republicans were in good faith, as they are, mostly, pathetic hypocrites when it comes to foreign policy (very much like the Democrats).  And the “analysis” by Fox was as immature and dishonest as it usually is.

It’s incoherent because you can’t “figure out what happened,” and “prevent it from ever happening again,” if your attitude about what caused it is, “What difference does it make?”

That’s silly. If I’m defending my property against high water, it doesn’t make much difference if the surge is caused by a distant earthquake or a distant storm; the defenses are largely the same. That’s her point, and it’s a reasonable one.

Beyond that, as long as we intend to have a U.S. presence wherever in the world there is instability (because, basically, we’re the U.S. and we can do whatever we want), it’s ridiculous to think that we can “prevent it from ever happening again.”

The deep, visceral hatred of Hillary Clinton is, and will always be, the terror over the end of male domination of politics.  Rice or Palin could be cunning and venal, or stupid and venal, but always they were obsequious and dependent.  Even as the First Lady, Hillary was not.

If the Obama administration knew this, their initial response could be interpreted as an attempt to suppress information about widespread anger towards US foreign policy in the region.

See: http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/12/02/muslim-brotherhood-fox-was-hired-to-protect-our-benghazi-consulate-henhouse-interview/

“The primary reason for the focus on the video was likely to caste the Americans’ deaths as an unfortunate and unforeseen incident resulting from an inflamed crowd.  That video story redirected the debate from scrutinizing our Libyan policies that were supporting known extremists, to a debate centered on blasphemy.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uurZa3HX5f0

Right?…….