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It was all about spin, it seems. \u00a0The presidential election of 2012 was drawing near, and the Obama administration badly wanted\u00a0to continue its pretense that the fight against al-Qa\u2018ida had been won: \u00a0\u201c\u2018Usama b. Ladin is dead, and General Motors is alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Keep honesty out of politics: Hillary in 2016!<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 This is actually pretty important: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/425933\/benghazi-committee-emails-hillary-clinton-lied-video-excuse \u00a0 It was all about spin, it seems. \u00a0The presidential election of 2012 was drawing near, and the Obama administration badly wanted\u00a0to continue its pretense that the fight against al-Qa\u2018ida had been won: \u00a0\u201c\u2018Usama b. Ladin is dead, and General Motors is alive.\u201d \u00a0 Keep honesty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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