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To: The Sons of Liberty
No Liberal on the face of the earth is capable of decisive action. NONE!

The inept, spineless, equivocal and “that depends on what the definition of ‘is’, is generation” have NO business whatsoever in positions of responsibility and authority!!! Period.

These old stoners are so attached to their irresolute character, noncommittal and ‘damn the absolute’ mind-set that they are instantaneously paralyzed by circumstances one inch out of the ordinary!

YES character counts! THEIR lack of it cost our ambassador his life.... and it bodes the same and more to come for the rest of us.

15 posted on 02/07/2013 12:03:32 PM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: SMARTY
No Liberal on the face of the earth is capable of decisive action. NONE!

A) In this case, no liberal had to take any action. Obama, as President, simply had to say "Yes" to authorize the military to do its normal job.

B) This administration is quite proud of the fact that Obama supposedly took decisive action in ordering the osama bin laden kill. So Obama is certainly capable of authorizing the military to do things when he wants to.

C) It would have been far more politically expedient for Obama to say "Yes" and authorize an attempt to save his own personal representative, the Ambassador, and all other Americans at the site. The media would have presented the story exactly as the White House wanted, so "hiding arms transfers" would not have been an issue at all. Instead, Obama cost himself politically from every angle by effectively restraining the military in this instance - as opposed to how he gleefully employed military options in numerous other instances.

D) IMHO, this points to only one conclusion: Obama took a dive on this, with no upside for himself, which can only mean that he did this at the behest of someone other than himself (who this might be in particular I have no idea). No President in their right mind would have acted as Obama did in this situation if he was acting solely from his own personal perspective.
25 posted on 02/07/2013 4:15:09 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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