04-11-2014, 10:38 AM
I like Hillary Clinton better than I do a lot of other politicians, but that's not saying much.
It was incompetent that threats made against diplomats in Libya weren't better investigated and addressed in advance. And, I think that some Republicans looked like assholes at the hearings when they made it a personal attack on her rather than a professional one.
I don't blame Clinton for defending herself against those personal attacks, but don't think she owned responsibility for her department not responding appropriately to advance warnings/requests -- the consequences were fatal. The measures she put forth after-the-fact to minimize the same type of security breaches from happening again at foreign embassies/consulates were good ones, IMO. But, what I perceived as defensiveness and evasiveness when questioned about the facts and her department's failures regarding Benghazi decreased my faith in her ability to be an effective world leader. I don't know if any other politician in the same situation would have handled it any better though.
IDK. Next year is gonna be an interesting one politically; curious to see which pols start campaigning and ramping up for a 2016 presidential nomination.
It was incompetent that threats made against diplomats in Libya weren't better investigated and addressed in advance. And, I think that some Republicans looked like assholes at the hearings when they made it a personal attack on her rather than a professional one.
I don't blame Clinton for defending herself against those personal attacks, but don't think she owned responsibility for her department not responding appropriately to advance warnings/requests -- the consequences were fatal. The measures she put forth after-the-fact to minimize the same type of security breaches from happening again at foreign embassies/consulates were good ones, IMO. But, what I perceived as defensiveness and evasiveness when questioned about the facts and her department's failures regarding Benghazi decreased my faith in her ability to be an effective world leader. I don't know if any other politician in the same situation would have handled it any better though.
IDK. Next year is gonna be an interesting one politically; curious to see which pols start campaigning and ramping up for a 2016 presidential nomination.