Posted by Jack
Hillary was allegedly asked by a reported what her greatest accomplishments was to date and this was her answer, but please note we have not been able to source this quote and neither was SNOPES, they thought it was probably false:
“My accomplishments as Secretary of State? Well, I’m glad you asked! My proudest accomplishment in which I take the most pride, mostly because of the opposition it faced early on, you know… the remnants of prior situations and mind sets that were too narrowly focused in a manner whereby they may have overlooked the bigger picture and we didn’t do that and I’m proud of that. Very proud. I would say that’s a major accomplishment.”
– Hillary Clinton 11 March 2014
The above humor aside this is how she worked with our friends and partners and her and Obama produced these fine results:
√ Russia invaded the Ukraine.
√ 4 Americans, including an ambassador, are slaughtered in an American Embassy because the Secretary of State denied them additional security.
√ Syria crossed the red line and never looked back.
√ Iran contentedly works away at developing the nuclear bomb.
√ China disrupts its neighbors.
√ North Korea threatens South Korea and Japan.
√ Venezuela cracks down on democracy protestors.
√ al Qaeda spreads its reach from Asia to Africa (oh, but at least bin Lauden is dead).
√ We swapped five hardened terrorists for one deserter (okay, this was under Kerry’s watch).
√ Islamic fundamentalism, characterized by ‘death to infidels’, spreads throughout the Mid East.
√ Iraq falls to terrorists (a culmination of foreign policy initiated under Ms. Clinton’s tenure).
This is exactly why Democrats deserve her and why she deserves them. Together they make a perfect fit between two intellects, stupid liberal voters and the politicians that manipulate them.
Hah! What is not to like?
Literally the first result on Google when you search this quote is a Snopes piece debunking it. Come on, Jack–when you’re trying to prove someone else’s stupidity, a mistake like this is embarrassing! Hilary has said plenty of really stupid things, so it’s not like people have to make things up. So why do they?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/achievements.asp
SNOPES said they were unable to find the source of this quote. However, without a source to refer to, I will accept that it is probably a false quote. Note: I received this quote from one of our readers and I verified it on numerous other sites, but not on SNOPES, just an oversight. My bad, so there you go. Happy?
However, now that we’ve cleared this up, there is plenty of gibberish Mrs. Clinton did say that sounds similar to this and in my defense I would like to offer that up why the other sounded so credible and possibly why so my other sites had reported it before I ran it.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidadesnik/2014/06/10/hillary-cant-name-top-accomplishment-as-secretary-of-state/
Listen to Mark Levin as he goes over the question, what was your (Hillary’s ) greatest achievement… Click here
Now lets listen to the same thing without Levin’s commentary…. Click here
She really can’t talk straight, no matter how you look at it.
Now read this piece by Tom Quiner (http://quinersdiner.com/2014/07/10/ms-clinton-what-are-your-accomplishments-as-secretary-of-state/)
You remember George H.W. Bush grappled with that “vision thing?” Ms. Clinton grapples with that “accomplishment thing.”
Okay. Maybe she was caught off guard. Three weeks passed, giving her plenty of time to get her foot out of her mouth and reframe her answer. Here is her response the next time she was asked:
“Look, I really see my role as Secretary, in fact leadership in general in a democracy, as a relay race. When you run the best race you can run, you hand off the baton. Some of what hasn’t been finished may go on to be finished, so when President Obama asked me to be Secretary of State I agreed.”
Hmmm, no accomplishments listed so far. But she continues …
“We had the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we had two wars. We had continuing threats from all kinds of corners around the world that we had to deal with. So it was a perilous time frankly. What he said to me was, ‘Look, I have to be dealing with the economic crisis, I want you to go out and represent us around the world.’ And it was a good division of labor because we needed to make it clear to the rest of the world, that we were going to get our house in order. We were going to stimulate, and grow, and get back to positive growth and work with our friends and partners.”
Hmmm, still no accomplishments. A lot of talk about the economy, which has nothing to do with the Secretary of State. But she continues …
“So I think we did that.”
Wait, did what? Stimulate and grow? Obviously that hasn’t happened under Obamanomics, and, again, the Secretary of State has nothing to do with the economy any way.
And the way she worked with our friends and partners produced these results:
√ Russia invaded the Ukraine.
√ 4 Americans, including an ambassador, are slaughtered in an American Embassy because the Secretary of State denied them additional security.
√ Syria crossed the red line and never looked back.
√ Iran contentedly works away at developing the nuclear bomb.
√ China disrupts its neighbors.
√ North Korea threatens South Korea and Japan.
√ Venezuela cracks down on democracy protestors.
√ al Qaeda spreads its reach from Asia to Africa (oh, but at least bin Lauden is dead).
√ We swapped five hardened terrorists for one deserter (okay, this was under Kerry’s watch).
√ Islamic fundamentalism, characterized by ‘death to infidels’, spreads throughout the Mid East.
√ Iraq falls to terrorists (a culmination of foreign policy initiated under Ms. Clinton’s tenure).
Ms. Clinton continues …
“I’m very proud of the stabilization and the really solid leadership that the administration provided that I think now, leads us to be able to deal with problems like Ukraine because we’re not so worried about a massive collapse in Europe and China — trying to figure out to do with all their bond holdings and all the problems we were obsessed with.”
Stabilization? See list above.
She continues …
“I think we really restored American leadership in the best sense. That, once again — people began to rely on us as setting the values, setting the standards. I just don’t want to lose that because we have a dysfunctional political situation in Washington. Then of course, a lot of particulars, but I am finishing my book so you’ll be able to read all about it.”
Ahh, dysfunctional political situation in Washington. Obviously she blames the Republicans for something, as does the current Blamer in Chief. But what is she blaming them for? The string of foreign policy failures as listed above?
No, those belong to President Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. And despite what Mrs. Clinton has said on another occasion, all of this failure really does make a difference.
Ms. Clinton has a serious challenge. There are NO accomplishments she can credibly tout.
She could be much more effective with a more honest approach, perhaps something like this:
“What are my accomplishments as Secretary of State? Zilch. Nada. It pains me to say it. But any sentient being who has lived through the past five and a half years can see that the world is falling apart.
I did what I could do to stem the tide, but I just couldn’t get Barack to go along with me, and he is the Commander in Chief.
HE was the one who insisted on an approach of appeasement to the world’s tyrants.
HE was the one who insisted on apologizing for everything this country ever did wrong.
HE is the one who constantly invoked moral equivalence between events that had no equivalence. God only knows why Israel still talks to us. It’s no wonder Islamic thugs are on the march. I labored hard in my travels around the world trying to mitigate the damage created by Barack’s insistence that the president ‘talk loudly and carry a small twig.’
If I the American people should honor me by electing me as the first woman president of the United States, I pledge to use every fiber of my being and every single one of my feminine wiles to undo the unmitigated disaster that was Barack Obama’s foreign policy.
[Looking to the camera]: Won’t you join me in a quest to restore America as the world’s Super Power?”
What do you think?
One last shot…even her people can’t do any better than she, check this one out:
http://hardnoxandfriends.com/2014/07/17/hillarys-accomplishments-as-secretary-of-state/
Kristof Tries To Answer The Question Hillary Can’t – Forty-eight hours before the Diane Sawyer interview, Times columnist Nick Kristof did his best to defend Hillary’s record. He deserves an ‘A’ for effort. Kristof argues:
“Clinton achieved a great deal and left a hefty legacy — just not the traditional kind… For starters, Clinton recognized that our future will be more about Asia than Europe.
So Clinton deserves credit for repeating a fifteen-year old cliche — one which isn’t even terribly insightful, given that Europe has now risen sharply on our agenda and the current Secretary has focused on the Middle East?
“More fundamentally, Clinton vastly expanded the diplomatic agenda. Diplomats historically focused on “hard” issues, like trade or blowing up stuff, and so it may seem weird and “soft” to fret about women’s rights or economic development.” “But what did Hillary actually do to advance those causes?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4156955704001/judge-jeanine-hillary-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/?intcmp=latestnews&playlist_id=trending#sp=show-clips
WHAT accomplishment – other than helping to get 4 Americans killed in Benghazi and then participating in the “Blame the Video” coverup?
J. Soden: “WHAT accomplishment – other than helping to get 4 Americans killed in Benghazi and then participating in the “Blame the Video” coverup?”
I think reasonable people can disagree over whether or not Clinton bears some blame for the security failures in Benghazi (though it should be noted that there were similar security failures that led to embassy attacks under both Reagan and Bush, with very little blowback from the left).
What is completely unreasonable is your repeated allegations of some kind of “‘Blame the Video’ coverup,” because nothing of the sort ever happened. I explained this to you last week (which probably wasn’t the first time), and you did not respond. Hopefully you will do so this time.
To quote myself:
“To clarify your confusion, Hilary did not ever “blame” the video. She claimed that the terrorists who attacked Benghazi were motivated by the video. This is a fact; the terrorists who attacked Benghazi explicitly said that they were motivated by the video.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/world/middleeast/apprehension-of-ahmed-abu-khattala-may-begin-to-answer-questions-on-assault.html?hp&_r=2
Every person who is honestly concerned with the truth of what happened that night knows this by now. The problem is that Tea Party conservatives are not interested in an honest, sober look at the facts. Not in this case, and not in many others. They are only interested in using Benghazi as a hammer to bash Obama, Clinton, and the Democratic Party as a whole.
If the Democrats are as bad as you say they are, you shouldn’t need to make things up. The Obama administration has lied about many things. It’s possible they lied about certain things that happened in Benghazi. But they did NOT lie about the terrorists being motivated by the video, because the terrorists were motivated by the video. Period.”
http://www.norcalblogs.com/postscripts/2015/04/01/utter-stupidity-hillary-clinton/#sthash.zxQDtUDb.dpuf
Note that you also have not corrected or supported your claim that Harry Reid was re-elected due to voter fraud by ACORN.
Jack at #5: “Here was her response to the question in March:
“My accomplishments as Secretary of State? Well, I’m glad you asked! My proudest accomplishment in which I take the most pride, mostly because of the opposition it faced early on, you know… the remnants of prior situations and mindsets that were too narrowly focused in a manner whereby they may have overlooked the bigger picture and we didn’t do that and I’m proud of that. Very proud. I would say that’s a major accomplishment.”
Got that?”
No, Jack, I don’t “got that,” because this is the exact same quote you cited in the original article and which you just admitted wasn’t true.
Man.
Chris I didn’t say “got that” you must be reading somebody else.
Chris that was a quote from a story Tom Quiner wrote, he was using the possibly false Clinton quote. I removed it for the sake of not confusing readers.
I think Jack just sent Chris off to the back of the class and wearing the dunce hat.
Off Topic:
So, you were wondering just how sick and depraved California was?
http://ktla.com/2015/04/06/oc-judge-cuts-15-years-off-mandatory-sentence-of-man-convicted-of-sodomizing-toddler/
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Chris attacking Jack and defending Harry Reid.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/27/dirty-harry-the-12-craziest-most-insane-looniest-things-harry-reid-has-said-and-done/
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/great_news_nv_voting_machines.html
Re Chros “This is a fact; the terrorists who attacked Benghazi explicitly said that they were motivated by the video.” —
THIS is what you draw from the NYT atricle you cited? An article that states …
Mr. Abu Khattala stands out as both erratic and extremist.
He insisted that American foreign policy alone was to blame for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“He is sincere, but he is very ignorant, and I don’t think he is 100 percent mentally fit,”
In an interview a few days later, he pointedly declined to say whether an offensive online video might indeed warrant the destruction of the diplomatic mission or the killing of the ambassador.
Sheesh Chris, you are such an idiot.
Jack, I insist you re-read your comment #5. It is often very hard to tell when you are quoting someone else and when you are writing your own opinion.
Hey, Jack! Looks like I’m Chris’ new target.
Won’t lose any sleep over it ’cause past posts demonstrate that whenever Chris attacks, you know you’re doing something correct!
What really bothers me is; that I don’t like Hillary much, however I distrust any of the other potential candidates even more than her.
Are we really going to be back to the “lesser of two evils” thing again?
Off topic.
More on Common Core. What do you all think of this assignment?
You Will Be APPALLED At How This Public School ‘Teaches’ Students About The Bill Of Rights:
http://chicksontheright.com/blog/item/28204-you-won-t-believe-how-this-school-teaches-kids-about-the-bill-of-rights
Re #12: I insist Chris take his advice, write it down on paper bag, and stick it …
J. Soden:
“Hey, Jack! Looks like I’m Chris’ new target.
Won’t lose any sleep over it ’cause past posts demonstrate that whenever Chris attacks, you know you’re doing something correct!”
“Target?” “Attacks?” Don’t you think those are pretty strong words for what I wrote?
You made a couple of accusations. I demonstrated, with evidence, that both of those accusations were false. I did not call you names or insult your intelligence. Instead of rebutting with your own evidence to defend your initial accusations, you decided to complain about imaginary bullying.
Are you really saying that criticizing your accusations and asking you to back them up with evidence is somehow outside the bounds of civil discussion? Why are you on the Internet if you think that my comments amount to “targeting” and “attacks?” Have you ever read a YouTube comment?
Pie:
“Chris attacking Jack”
I did not attack Jack, I attacked his specific accusation. That’s because it wasn’t true, and Jack has now admitted that it wasn’t true. Does that matter to you, at all?
“and defending Harry Reid.”
From the specific accusation that J. Soden made, because it wasn’t true, and J. Soden hasn’t provided any evidence that it was true.
My god, this is so juvenile! You really seem to care only about tribal loyalty. You show no interest in the truth, only in whether one of your own is being criticized.
Pie: “Sheesh Chris, you are such an idiot.”
For future reference for J. Soden: This is what being targeted and attacked looks like.
Pie: “THIS is what you draw from the NYT atricle you cited?”
If Khattala were the only terrorist who claimed that the Benghazi attack was retaliation for the video, you’d have a point. But you know that he is not the only attacker to claim this.
Conservative anti-Islam activist Daniel Pipes has summed up the evidence quite nicely:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/07/did-the-innocence-of-muslims-video-play-a-role-in
The conspiracy theory that the video was simply used as a “cover-up” or an “excuse” by the administration simply doesn’t make sense, especially when weighted against the evidence that the attackers really did cite the video as their motivation.
Peggy: “What do you all think of this assignment?”
I think it’s a great assignment, and the writer of that piece must have missed the days in school where students were taught how to interpret tone.
She insists that the alien is supposed to be a representative of liberals…and that the writer of the assignment must be a liberal…which is completely absurd. The alien is obviously not presented in a positive light, nor is its desire to rid the citizens of the U.S. of half the Bill of Rights. To argue that this assignment is intended to teach kids that half their rights don’t matter is, frankly, ridiculous.
It seems clear to me that the entire purpose of the assignment is to get kids to think deeply about the rights they do and should value, and to show that ALL of these rights would be hard to give up…I almost can’t see how anyone could miss this–unless, of course, they were bound and determined to bash education and convince people that their kids are being “indoctrinated” into a “liberal agenda.”
Here was one comment on the article I appreciated:
“I did this assignment in HS in the 90’s. Once the class votes and they come up unable to make a unanimous decision, it brings to light how we CAN’T give up ANY of our rights. It’s actually a very important lesson that leads the class into a discussion about the Bill of Rights and leads to critical thinking skills about why they are so important to begin with. It really helped me to understand why we need ALL of them. It’s a great lesson….when done right. And when the 2nd Amendment is worded correctly.”
The commenter does have a point about the phrasing of the 2nd Amendment, which is problematic, but the assignment on the whole is awesome! I think it can really get kids thinking about the value of their rights in a way that they might not without the threat of losing them (even in an imaginary situation). Kids respond very well to imaginary situations like this.
I suppose if you just want teachers to tell kids how important their rights are in the form of a lecture, without the kids having to do any real thinking about why, or have their ideals challenged in any way, then this lesson would be very objectionable. But that kind of teaching isn’t effective. This is the kind of lesson that many kids are going to remember forever, and if taught correctly it could help them learn about and value their rights more than any lecture ever could.