Using this old twat's logic anyways. Eleanor Clift: Ambassador Stevens Wasn't Murdered, He Died Of Smoke Inhalation http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...snt_murdered_he_died_of_smoke_inhalation.html Americans at large dont give a shit about Benghazi, so if the left really turns up stupid with comments like this, Americans WILL start to care.
A spontaneous demonstration by people who just happen to be carrying RPG's in their back pockets. Case closed!
I realize this is a ridiculous question in the Red Room, but does anyone have any facts to go with their opinions? I'll check back in a couple of days.
Why don't we talk about the real scandal aired on that episode of the McLauglin Group rather than the bumbling words of someone no one cares about: That would be the Chairidiot of the House Benghazi Committee, who can't seem to remember that we know exactly why security was denied: It's because the House Republicans refused to pass a budget that included the funds for Embassy Security requested by the Administration. The House's penny-pinching meant that the funds for additional security simply weren't there, and if it had been assigned anyway then you can bet every last dollar you own that the Republicans would be investigating if not impeaching Obama for using funds contrary to their appropriation in the budget.
Let's face it: The entire Benghazi "investigation" is nothing more than a political ploy, with no goal other than to try to discredit the perceived Democrat presidential candidate in 2016, Hilary Clinton. The Republicans are using the Democrats' playbook with this tactic, but much less skillfully. During the height of the 1976 presidential campaign, the Democrat-controlled congress did a major investigation of Gerald Ford's "role in Watergate." This was the same Ford who was approved by the Democrat-controlled congress at the height of the Watergate scandal -- it was obvious to anyone with the capacity to do any rational thinking that he never would have been approved for the Vice-Presidency if he had had any connection with Watergate. But he was simply a House member, not a part of Nixon's White House, and he had nothing to do with it. Once enough people had been scared into voting for Carter because they didn't want any more Watergate, a few days before the election the investigating committee announced -- surprise, surprise -- that Ford had had nothing to do with Watergate. But the damage had been done, and Carter managed to squeeze through the election, just barely. With their dirty tricks, the Democrats had managed to put one of the worst Presidents of the 20th century into the White House. Where the Republicans are totally incompetent in trying to use the same strategy is that Hilary Clinton is much more popular than Ford was and therefore that much harder to discredit, the Behghazi "scandal" pales in comparison to Watergate on the scale of what people care about, and doing it two years before the election will have no effect. Now whether or not it is a compliment to the Democrats that they are more effective in the dirty tricks department than the Republicans is probably a matter of opinion, but it was ridiculous when the Democrats did it and it is still ridiculous when the Republicans do it.
Aren't Arsonists eligible to be charged with murder if someone dies in a fire they've started? I don't think it matters if the victims burn to death or die of smoke inhalation, I think it all counts the same.
Carter will be better regarded in the future than he is now. I have come to greatly respect Gerald Ford. Would he have done better than Carter? In some ways you can bet the ranch, but it was Carter who brokered the Camp David accord and the Panama Canal treaty and I'm not sure that Ford would or could accomplished either of those. Do those accomplishments mean I think Carter was a great president. No. But, Carter was the right man at the right time to get those jobs done and we have hugely benefited from them.
It's called "felony murder" and in Florida can bring you a death sentence. In death penalty states if someone dies because of your actions while committing a felony you're on the hook for a possible death sentence. I remember a moron news director trying to tell me that "felony murder" was redundant and incorrect when I had the State Attorney on tape calling a particular crime a "felony murder". God what a shit-for-brains that guy was...
That varies from state to state. Certainly anyone who, in the commission of a felony, does something that meets the standards for plain old capital murder would be eligible everywhere there's a death penalty, but if the charge is specifically felony murder then some death penalty states make everyone eligible, some require aggravating circumstances, some require a specific culpable mental state, and some simply don't allow the death penalty for felony murder.
