That is what Hillary told an audience of the National Automobile Association in New Orleans this week. (What an appropriate venue.) Here is the report from The Hill:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/196501-hillary-clinton-not-thinking-about-2016
Build on our successes? What successes? Benghazi? The Arab Spring? The Russia re-set? If this woman had any sense of shame, she would have retired from public life for good and become a recluse after that Benghazi debacle that caused the death of four Americans. It could have been 4,000 Americans, and Hillary would just waltz away and prepare for 2016 and her presidential run, which is exactly what she is doing.
“I’m not thinking about it,” she added. “I am trying to get other people not to think about it. I will think about it in the future sometime, but right now let’s think about what we have to do to continue building on our success.”
Right. And the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks are not thinking about playing in the Superbowl next Sunday.
"Clinton said she's more concerned about current issues facing the country. For example, she said she was “very pleased” Congress was able to pass a budget deal for the first time in four years. She said she also hopes Congress can overcome “this next debt limit challenge.”
Of course. Those are the things that are uppermost in Hillary's mind, not her own personal aspirations.
"Her comments about a future presidential bid took place as the Ready for Hillary super-PAC arranged meetings over the weekend in Iowa, the state that begins the primary season with its caucuses."
"President Obama's 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, also joined the largest Democratic super-PAC, Priorities USA, last week as co-chairman. The group announced it has begun raising money for Clinton's potential campaign."
Gee. If Hillary's not even thinking of running, maybe she should tell these folks to stand down and move on with their lives.
And finally this:
"At the New Orleans event, Clinton also said the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, was her “biggest regret” during her time as secretary of State."
Regret? Could you be more specific, Madame Clinton? Regret at ignoring the calls for more security from Ambassador Stevens and the Regional Security officer in Libya? Regret at not calling President Obama or Secretary of Defense Panetta and demanding that they immediately send military aid to Benghazi as you were watching the attack play out? Regret at not living up to your "3 a m phone call" campaign line? Regret about lying about the infamous video being the cause of a protest that got out of hand even to the families of the deceased and taking part in a monstrous government lie to the public? Regret, indeed.
The only thing this woman regrets is losing the 2008 presidential nomination to Obama.
Regret at ignoring the calls for more security from Ambassador Stevens and the Regional Security officer in Libya?
ReplyDeleteThe record is very clear that Ambassador Stevens DECLINED offers of increased security.
Oh, but that was published in the New York Times, therefore, once the Times published it, the facts became ipso facto untrue.
"Not thinking of running" .. Has to be the lie of the new year. It was made while she has been on a non-stop campaign tour. She is as believable as Obama or the NY Times or, as a matter of fact, her husband.
ReplyDeleteAny increase in U.S. military force would have required STATE DEPARTMENT approval. Stevens' requests for security might have passed along Ham’s offer to the State Department and been turned down, or whether he believed that the security team Ham offered would not provide the kind of security he needed.
Ambassadors are typically very sensitive to the appearance of the US to host country. Additional marines was probably not the kind of security he wanted. Did Ham or anyone else at State offer any other support than the security team?
There is nothing worse to anyone who has been in the armed service than someone who doesn't do all they can to help comrades under attack. Hillary will have to answer someday as where she was and what she did while the attack was under way. People have thrown themselves on top of grenades to protect their fellow soldiers. Hillary's bug out at that crucial time is enough to disqualify her to be Commander in Chief for me.
Her disappearance and dissembling in the aftermath is just another example of blatant lying.
Just what we need.... another lying President.
I have a great concern about Hillary becoming the next President of the U.S.
ReplyDeleteWith her incommunicado absence during the Benghazi attack, leaving our four Americans to die in an al Qaeda attack, one wonders where she would be if we were attacked by a foreign country.
Her deplorable record of diplomacy during her term as the U.S. Dept. of State, as mentioned in the blog, makes one wonder how she would do. As Russia continues to build Borei intercontinental ballistic missile submarines like the "Red October" in Tom Clancy's novel, our country could be wiped out, both East and West. The Russian know when to attack. It would be the evening prior to a major fund raising campaign event with the Hollywood elites.
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ReplyDeleteI really believe that if Hillary is elected president after this Benghazi debacle, then it is all over. The American people would have evolved in something that doesn't want to defend our country and freedom. In that case, I will continue to say what I believe and call a spade a spade, but there will be no more hope for a solution.
Never say never.
ReplyDeleteBut I have a reason with a much longer pedigree for not wanting Hillary to be president. In her seldom-read tome, "It Takes A Village," she posits that in the modern world government IS the village. It is not. The non-state private volunteer sector is, including the mostly informal network of people helping each other out in various ways.
No one has a problem with that village. The problem is when the government becomes the village.
ReplyDeleteJust what I said Gary.
ReplyDeleteAnd if Hillary becomes president, that will be a problem.