Posted on 09/23/2012 4:56:25 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
If Mitt is down everywhere, why is Obozo running ads 24/7 here in Oregon. I can tell you from this Blue state Repubs are dying to vote and our turnout will be massive. We can’t even get Romney/Ryan signs and have to buy them.
Larri?
Wow to see these, The Ambassador never died and the RATs never lied. Let’s talk about Romney gaffs.
“Though Romney is tied in the polls with a sitting president who has the explicit support of the the totality of the news establishment why the Romney is a failure and over.”
I was addressing that comment.
He told the interviewer that we have come across weak to the mad muzzies in the mid-east, playing spots, apologizing etc etc.
When the muzzies sense weakness they come here and ask for even more. Hence Egyptian potus asking for more muslim sensitivities for Islam and the phony profit old Mo'.
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Meanwhile, over on abc ol' stuffy stephy is grilling Reince Priebus over Piggy Noonan's pathetic column. Its all about me, all about me says piggy, about how poor Romney is doing with the campaign. Must be tough to live around so may libs you feel you have to appease them all the time to keep various jobs. what a pathetic life to lead.I'd rather be poor.
Reince comes off slow at the start but finishes strong telling it like it is. Economy in shambles zero in vegas when he should be on the job etc., etc.stuffy only want to talk about the 47%.
Enter Axelrot.
He tells stuffy how Romney slandered 47% of the population and then manipulated his own taxes. Evidently the chatting point is that Romney manipulated his taxes by giving away more money to charity. We are losing this fight as well by not countering it immediately. Are we hopeless or just hapless? Romney invests his own money against America,he wants to destroy the middle class(a little projection entering into things for the bent none) and run up the deficit, trickle down won't work,we drove the bus out of the ditch, usual crap from the bent one.
I guess the plan form here on out is to just lie about everything and hope the DBM can promote the lies fast enough to win.
Axelrod has indeed become a master of spinning half truths and lies since he can't get anywhere near the truth. The truth is always his enemy. It's his scorecard and how he won the first time around. He plans to do it again.
I was with you until I heard Stern’s interview. Then the wheels started turning again.
If there is some hesitancy for Mitt, I don't see why. I've always felt he's a conservative wrapped in Massachusetts liberalism and I've seen plenty of conservatism. He probably should show more of it.
Thank you. I missed that in #14. I have read just about everything the world media has put out and I have yet to read 'official' claims that Stevens turned down additional security. He may well have, but, this administration from the get-go blame that '14 minute video'. To date none of the top three, Obama, Clinton, or Rice have been able to admit this was a terrorist hit, and they were warned days before by the Libyan president. I sure would like to know exactly who the Libyan president gave those warnings.
I cannot see any person no matter their politics making themselves a sitting duck. And as it turns out that is exactly what Stevens was. Why would he deliberately make himself an unprotected target? Until I hear/read a better explanation, I think there was an orchestrated plot by our administration using that '14 minute video', to give plausible excuse for returning Gitmo detainees, and that blind man.
Not really. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security and its representative at post, the Regional Security Officer (RSO), make the call based on intelligence information and threat assessments. Although the Ambassador is the President's personal representative and is in charge of all agencies at post (except operational military commands), he is limited in what lattitude he might have in terms of security. In some cases, Ambassadors are directed or overruled when it comes to such things as reducing diplomatic presence in a country due to security conditions. And DS assigns personal protection details to Ambassadors whether they want it or not.
If the host government actually offered more security due to a perceived increased threat and the Ambassador rejected it, then that is a different matter. I would have a hard time believing such a decision or if one was made, it was in consultation with the RSO. More information would be needed to see what form that offer took place, if it did. And according to the story, the increased security appears to be for the Embassy in Tripoli and not the consulate in Benghazi.
I don't remember seeing Condoleeza on this. Are you sure you're not confusing her with Susan Rice?
Cheers!
I still question his involvement in getting armaments to the supposed freedom fighter during the takeout of gadaffi revolution. Why would they pick him? Is that usual detail for an Ambassador?
Lots still does not add up for me but if you say he probably was not CIA that means a lot to me.
are you suggesting the two Seals with him who also died may have been CIA?
Do you think any sensitive intel as to where he was at any time was leaked? And if so by whom?
I just don't trust the obama regime at all.
If you are potus and sitting in a hotel room in Vegas doing campaigning and you get the call the embassy is under fire do you go back to sleep?
Too much does not add up.
These shows have never been so unwatchable. MTP just running out the clock with the 47% banner running nonstop. Disgusting. Gregory throws away any hint of journalistic integrity and is going full court press for Hussein. Middle East in flames? You’d never know.
Wallace not much better. Leading with Gibbs?? Juan is the new Alan Colmes.
Chalk it up to a senior moment.
Cheers!
Cheers!
*I expected a total and complete cover for Obie.
Wow is this great news or what!!
Good point. Okay.
20/20 hindsight. I can't tell you how many threats are made against US diplomatic facilties on almost a daily basis. FS presonnel are in many places around the globe that are dangerous. Most of these threats never materialize.
Stevens was no novice to being assigned to Libya and the dangerous conditions it presented. He was on his third assignment there. He had also served in Damascus and Cairo and did a stint in the Peace Corps in Morocco. He was quite familiar with the region. The possibility of violence went with the territory. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and I don't blame him one bit for what happened. The real question is should we have had an unsecured consulate in Benghazi given what had happened the mmonths leading up to the attack.
I don't buy the "orchestrated plot by the Administration" nonsense at all. It was sheer incompetence and the cover-up was worse than what happened.
I forget which one stated that he turned down the additional security.It was offered by the Libyans several days before 911. What I have read led me to believe that Stevens had a deep love for the country,rumors were he was a practicing muslim, and trusted many of its inhabitants. There was a huge outcry from some of the locals after his death and they did go out and take out many of the bad guys. But when you are a muslim/Islamist country to begin with its all gonna be downhill sooner or later.
CNN found a diary of his in the ashes and it reportedly noted that he was aware he was on a terrorist hit list and it did worry him.Sorry, I didn't document everything.
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