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katmondoo

(6,454 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 01:04 PM Oct 2015

What came through for me about the Benghazi hearing

was how uninformed all of these Republicans were about how our Government runs. They had no idea of the size of the State Dept nor what it's responsibilities are, no idea of what the Secretary of State does, what roll the Military plays, why we have Ambassadors, the duties of an Ambassador and on and on. I learned a lot from Hillary's answers about the State Department and how it works that helped also to explain what happened in Benghazi and why.

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What came through for me about the Benghazi hearing (Original Post) katmondoo Oct 2015 OP
Most of those members are actual morons, who got mad when Black man got 2b president randys1 Oct 2015 #1
Yep, and you will like this article from rollingstone.com which makes the same points. emulatorloo Oct 2015 #2
Good article treestar Oct 2015 #5
Or how many of them thought she was the President too justiceischeap Oct 2015 #3
ignorant know-nothings elected by other ignorant know-nothings phantom power Oct 2015 #4
Boy... you hit the nail on the head, katmondoo. Thanks. lamp_shade Oct 2015 #6
Good article. ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #7

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Most of those members are actual morons, who got mad when Black man got 2b president
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 01:08 PM
Oct 2015

and they joined together, all of the car wash Black haters, all the 7-11 store clerks who hate Black people, they all got together and elected each other to government.

Gowdy is a former prosecutor, so he has some background.

Wonder how many Black people he put in prison.

They are basically stupid people who dont care how the government runs, because they want to destroy it.

emulatorloo

(44,109 posts)
2. Yep, and you will like this article from rollingstone.com which makes the same points.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 01:10 PM
Oct 2015

Plus the writer is funny as hell. Link here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/republicans-11-hour-gift-to-hillary-clinton-20151023

The Republican members of the committee demonstrated their ignorance on two issues repeatedly over the day’s duration. Many seemed totally unaware of the contents of previous Benghazi reports and testimony. If this had been a conventional courtroom, Clinton's attorneys could have objected with "asked and answered" and turned the proceedings into 11 hours of tape hiss.


Many of the Republicans also seemed ignorant of how the State Department even functions. Republican Rep. Susan Brooks of Indiana showed off a pile of Hillary's emails pertaining to Libya from 2011 and another from 2012, then insinuated that the much smaller 2012 pile indicated her administrative indifference to the issue. Her case of the piles signaled an unawareness of the face that the State Department conducts the majority of its communications through cables, and that things like telephones exist, and that one of the unfortunate byproducts of conducting business on the telephone is that it doesn't generate an email afterward. Even the most generous interpretation of her questions can't elide the fact that the disparity in emails could easily have indicated general conversational traffic about Libya that eventually shifted to the official cable system as the maintenance of the Benghazi compound became more urgent.


Much more at link.


justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
3. Or how many of them thought she was the President too
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 01:12 PM
Oct 2015

because they seemed to think she made the final decision on going to Benghazi.

lamp_shade

(14,826 posts)
6. Boy... you hit the nail on the head, katmondoo. Thanks.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 01:41 PM
Oct 2015

Maybe I missed the others, but yours is the first post I've read that calls this out. Last night, a guest on MSNBC, a former Clinton assistant of ??, who had been a witness at one of the prior hearings, made a similar observation. After having watched all 11 hours, his statement smacked me in the head. I yelled "YESSSS".

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