Americans Don’t Believe Christie on Jam, Clinton on Libya

[Purveyor]

By John McCormick Mar 12, 2014 8:00 PM ET

Americans aren’t buying the explanations offered by Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton about controversies that could stand between them and the White House if either runs for president in 2016.

Sixty-three percent say they don’t believe the New Jersey governor’s claims that he knew nothing of a plan by his top aides to create a politically motivated traffic jam, according to a Bloomberg National Poll.

“I think he kind of knew what was going on and chose to ignore it,” said David Smith, 66, a Republican-leaning retired high school science teacher from Quincy, Massachusetts. “Am I going to hold that against him forever and ever? No.”

More than half say they don’t believe Clinton, the former secretary of state, when she says she never saw requests for more security before the 2012 attack at a U.S. diplomatic compound that resulted in four American deaths in Libya.

“I don’t believe that she did anything recklessly, but I tend to believe that there was something, and it just wasn’t realized at the time that it was significant,” said Lee Proctor, 49, a Democratic-leaning author and online consultant in Philadelphia who wants to see Clinton run. “I don’t think we’ve gotten the whole, true story.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/americans-don-t-believe-christie-on-jam-clinton-on-libya.html

[Scuba]

1. Well the media has been smearing Hillary for 22 years now, what should we expect?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Both sides do it!!!!

[hedgehog]

3. Did anyone ask Americans if they cared about these issues?

My guess is that most Americans know more about the traffic jam than about Libyia, and that the traffic jam worries them more!