So...conveniently before the second debate, Hillary takes the blame for Benghazi. Or does she? When nudged along by Reena Ninan of ABCNews, it sounds like they're falling in line with Biden's blame-the-intelligence-community schtick...
But wait...didn't she previously say 'the buck stops' at the President's desk during the '08 campaign? Oh yeah...
HotAir: Who could have predicted four years ago that electing a President with no executive experience might end up producing a chief executive that ran away from responsibility for his administration’s actions? The same woman who just took responsibility for this administration’s failures in Benghazi, as it turns out. BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski finds this nugget from January 2008, in which Hillary Clinton tells a Missouri crowd that America needs a President who understands that “the buck stop[s] in the White House,” and presumably not Foggy Bottom or Langley:
Hillary may or may not have intended to take some heat off of the White House after Joe Biden’s Sergeant Schultz “We knew nothing” declaration at Thursday’s debate, but all she ended up doing is making Obama look tremendously weak by contrast. Obama had almost five weeks to get in front of a camera and state the obvious — that he’s ultimately responsible for anything that happens within his administration. In fact, he’s had five weeks to get in front of a camera and address the American people about what turned out to be the first successful terrorist attack on an American diplomatic mission in 14 years — and he still hasn’t done so. Instead, he’s doing sports talk shows while his White House staff try to shift blame onto State and the intel community.
So has Hillary's proclamation really provided Obama with any cover before tonight's debate? Or has she just compounded the cover-up?
