Posted on 05/08/2013 10:03:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Here we go. The House Oversight Committee hearings on Benghazi begin today, and do you know what we’re going to learn? We’re going to learn that 0bama and Hillary Clinton were informed almost immediately that the attack on the Benghazi consulate was being waged by Islamic jihadists connected to al Qaeda. Then we’re going to learn that 0bama and Hillary immediately went into protective mode … protecting 0bama’s reelection efforts and Hillary’s chances for 2016.
0bama had a narrative to protect. His diplomatic efforts in the Middle East had brought about a new era of cooperation and peace, right? Al Qaeda was on the run and all but decimated, right?
Hillary? She had incompetence to cover up. Almost immediately she came to understand that this consulate had requested additional security and protection, and that her chain of command had said no. Now she had four dead Americans, including one dead Ambassador to deal with. The 3:00 am phone call came, and her phone was turned off.
There was one current and one future presidency to be saved here, so a narrative had to be developed and presented to the American people that would clear 0bama and Hillary of any culpability. So not only did they come up with this phony YouTube video lie, they actually used the police power of the Executive branch of government to take an American citizen, an unknown video producer from California, and jam him in jail on spurious (at best) charges in order to support their phony and entirely contrived YouTube video narrative.
Now, as the hearings begin, we have luminaries such as Senator Lindsey Graham, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and my friend Mike Huckabee all predicting, to one degree or another, dreadful times ahead for 0bama. The predictions range from a Watergate-style scandal to outright impeachment.
Forget it. Ain’t going to happen. You’re dreaming.
Only a minority of Americans give a flying widget about any 0bama cover-up of the Benghazi matter. They are more likely to buy into White House Spokesman Jay Carney’s “That was a long time ago” narrative, or Hillary’s “What difference does it make” rant than they are to actually care about a deliberate, lying cover-up of the reasons behind the death of four Americans.
Watergate? Gimme a big league break here. There’s a HUGE difference between 0bama’s problems with Benghazi and Nixon’s Watergate mess. When the Watergate scandal broke we had a New York and D.C. press corps with a burning desire to destroy Richard Nixon. With 0bama and the Benghazi scandal we have the very same press corps ready to do anything it can reasonably expect to get away with to protect their God-like hero and preserve his presidency. “But people died in Benghazi!” you say? And you think that’s enough to stop the 0bama hero-worship among the Fourth Estate?
But what about the American people? Really? Think about that for a few moments. Now … you’re not telling me that the same people who put this colossal failure back into the White House for four more years is going to get worked up over Benghazi, are you?
Let me tell you what the American people are concerned with right now – and we’re talking about those who aren’t gunched up with 24/7 discussions about college football recruiting and gay NBA players. In a nutshell (and thank goodness for the few exceptions we DO have) the majority of the American people are more worried right now about acquiring and keeping their monthly checks from the government than they are about 0bama’s lies or foreign policy failures. They think a Benghazi is a small yappy dog.
These people are more concerned about next Winter’s home heating assistance checks than they are about dead ambassadors. They’re worrying about getting more federal dollars for child care to help them take care of the next tricycle motor they’re fixin’ to download without the benefit of a husband. They’re wondering who is going to pay their medical bills, and how they can get their hands on one of those great Section 8 housing vouchers. Some are looking to upgrade their 0bamaPhones.
How many people do we have on Social Security disability right now? The figure is nearing 12 million Americans. These 12 million are principally worried about how to keep those checks coming, while another 12 million (at least) are wondering how to get on this bandwagon as well. After all, their backs hurt and you surely can’t expect them to get out there and work for a living, can you? (Apologies to those of you with actual disabilities, but we could probably cram every one of you into a Jai Alai Fronton somewhere in Miami if we had to.)
Then there’s millions more who’s main concern is making sure their unemployment benefits don’t run out (Me? Get a job?) and others who are waiting for 0bama to make their boss pay them more than they’re actually worth on their jobs.
Benghazi 0bama’s Watergate? For that to happen you need concerned citizens who actually care and a media that will do it’s job objectively. Both ingredients are in short supply.
It’s going to be a great show, to be sure. But in the end it adds up to nothing.
Between the White House smear machine and a MSM that will cover for Obama no matter what nothing will come of this. Besides the low information voters will be too busy watching American Idol to care.
” same people who put this colossal failure back into the White House”
Barely, and Obama’s effectiveness and reputation have declined since the election.
A point I made yesterday. We owe it to the dead and their families not to let this thing go but it's a lot more upstream struggle than it ever was with Nixon. In addition to the corruption and partisanship in the media there is something quite a bit more frightening going on - the Dems feel that holding power is worth a few deaths, and that includes the Dems that pervade the media. We've come a long way since the 70's and it's all been downhill into a moral and ethical snake pit.
I accuse the author of this article of plagerizing my thoughts - because it is word for word exactly what I think.
Not going to happen.
WHat we will learn.... IS.. that..
America already knows all this..... AND DOES NOT CARE!...
It’s called : the Corruption Index re-adjustment.. i.e. inflation index.
Yep. He’s right. It’s far far far worse than Watergate. But the press will obstruct the investigation and seek to destroy those who want to take down King Barack I.
Satan: You’d have Issa ignore it?
Except that it was the Benghazi lie that caused the American people to put Obama back in office. Had the lie been exposed instead of supported, we might perhaps have a President Romney now.
Even if Obama steps down in a Nixonian Watergate way, the Democrats still win be keeping the White House for Biden, and not Romney.
The cover-up worked, strategically, if not tacticly, for Obama.
-PJ
Because ABCCBSNBCCNN doesn't want to make it the next Watergate.
The MSM is acting like the Praetorian Guard for Caesar Obastard. Nothing will come of this at all.
Well.....then......we have to make it understandable to the Democrats.
“Why are you concerned about Benghazi?”
Because four Americans were murdered there including an American Ambassador who served as your representative to Libya. If people can murder American citizens around the world, then no American can be safe outside of our country.
“Why should I be concerned about what went on in Benghazi?”
Because you, or someone close to you, may want to travel outside of the United States. You wouldn’t want to be murdered, would you? If Americans can be murdered in other countries, how will that affect American businesses? Do you realize how many American jobs depend on our ability to conduct business in other countries? How many more tax paying jobs would we lose in this country if we can’t conduct business in other countries? And if Americans can be easily killed in other countries, wouldn’t our enemies feel strong enough to kill Americans in our own borders? And then, aren’t you and your loved ones at risk?
I could spend all day doing this, but you see how easily it’s done. The Democrat voters aren’t inhuman. They do think. We just have to be smart enough to make the case that conservativism is right for them. We have to MAKE the link for them between Benghazi and their lives.
Presidential scandals?
Benghazi is the worst. By far.
Then comes Fast and Furious.
Then comes any number of scandals the Clintoons got away with.
Then maybe Teapot Dome.
Then Watergate.
But hey. Keep America focused on that fat preggy Kardashian and repeat after me....
“What difference does it make?”
I hear you...
I keep pointing out that when the WHY of Benghazi is known,
THAT WE WERE ARMING AL QAEDA
Even the stupidest of low information voters might get it.
But we have to stop with the investigation about the cover-up, and get to the WHY of the cover-up. The cover-up is so massive that the WHY has to be more than just some 0bama campaign messaging and Hillary’s maladministration.
I’m betting the only person to see the inside of a cell over Benghazi is going to be the poor schmuck film maker.
ABCCBSNBCCNN - AKA “Ministry of Truth”.
Does anybody even know his current whereabouts?
And why isn’t ANYBODY on the Republican side bringing his name up? Talk about defending the innocent...
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