Presidential debate: Libya questioner says Obama didn’t answer

WAPO ^ | 10/17 | erik wemple

[RummyChick]

Kerry Ladka stood before President Obama at last night’s town hall-style debate and asked the question that would touch off an onstage verbal brawl and, later, an intense national discussion. Here’s how it went:

Q: It’s Kerry, Kerry Ladka.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Great to see you here.

Q: This question actually comes from a brain trust of my friends at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola yesterday. We were sitting around talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks that killed four Americans. Who was it that denied enhanced security and why?

Was Ladka satisfied with how the president responded? Simply no. “I really didn’t think he totally answered the question satisfactorily as far as I was concerned,” Ladka tells the Erik Wemple Blog.

[RummyChick]

Somebody better get this private answer to Kerry to Romney’s team for the next debate

[Wings-n-Wind]

Had Romney brought the focus back to Mr. Ladka's original question....
There might be some serious groin pain this morning...

somewhere... umm....
... in D.C..... on Pennsylvania Ave...

[RummyChick]

Oh and let me add, his reponse makes me furious

“The rationale for the delay, Obama explained to Ladka, was to make sure that the “intelligence he was acting on was real intelligence and not disinformation,””

Shouldn’t the same have been done about the video.

And if they had real time info including a drone . ...THEN HE ALREADY KNEW.

[DYngbld]

question actually comes from a brain trust of my friends at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola yesterday

I am going to can BS on this. This was a shameless plug for his company.

Also, I would be willing to bet all questions had to be submitted for approval a few days prior to the "debate"

[Iron Munro]

[Last Dakotan]

While I agree with the commentary here, the shameless plug for “Global Telecom Supply in Mineola” cuts this guy’s credibility.

[Morpheus2009]

I always find it amusing when a president who boasts about taking down Osama bin Laden and plenty of alleged terrorist masterminds suddenly gives excuses when terrorists really strike.

That’s pathetic, and makes it look like it really didn’t take much work to kill those guys.

[Doogle]

Hilda Clinton was always answering questions with...”The question should be.....blah blah blah” whenever she didn’t want to answer a question.
Odungo starts to answer a totally different question while walking away...
THIS DID NOT GO UNNOTICED BY MILLIONS..because millions were waiting for the question to be asked for three weeks!