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Obama’s Libya statements become ludicrous
Washington Post ^ | October 10, 2012 | By Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 10/10/2012 2:06:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Bring on the racks of “pants on fire” fact checks. Unload an army of Pinocchios to debunk the most egregious of the many untruths we’ve heard since the 9-11-2012 attack in Libya. In what is surely the most jaw-dropping of the many fudges, misrepresentations and outright lies by the Obama administration in handling the Libya attack that killed four Americans, we now hear from the State Department that it never linked the attack and death of four Americans in Libya to the anti-Muslim movie. I bet this comes as a bit of a surprise since you saw U.S. officials say just that for days. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama even went on Pakistani TV to express regret about the movie, an odd thing to do if it wasn’t linked in any way to the attack.

Moreover, the State Department now confesses there was no protest at all outside the Libyan installation before the attack.

That’s awfully problematic, given that Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice went on five talk shows suggesting in fact that the movie did provoke the attack. Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy adviser, Richard Williamson, told Right Turn, “Last time I checked, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was part of the U.S. State Department.”

It is long past the time for the president to come clean, explain what he knew, why his administration was putting out a false story for days, why proper security was not in place, why he went on Pakistani TV to express regret about a movie and why no one has been fired for lying to the American people.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; benghazicoverup; corruption; democrats; election2012; failure; fraud; libya; libyagate; obama; obamatruthfile
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We will fire the president himself for this and many other things on Election Day.


21 posted on 10/10/2012 2:57:26 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Fitzy_888

:-p. LOL

These people remind me of my brothers kids. Rather climb a tree to tell a lie than stand on the ground to tell the truth - even if it wasn’t necessary. Wouldn’t it have been easier to lie later after they’d had enough time to get the media on board? They panicked, and they did so because Mr Obama is The Amateur - the consummate amateur. A tactician so terribly inept as to rival no other in history.

To be sure, it was Obama directing the false narrative from moment one.

This story hasn’t even begun yet. Delicious.


22 posted on 10/10/2012 2:57:52 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.u)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Read the rest of the opinions in the Washington Post. They’re giving campaign advice to the Democrats. The Washington Post is the same old oily Democrat shill it’s always been. Hey! Washington Post! How many dead Americans will it take for you to finally do your job? 100? 500? 10,000? Oh, that’s right, you’re not Americans.....you’re Democrats.


23 posted on 10/10/2012 3:00:54 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Read the rest of the opinions in the Washington Post. They’re giving campaign advice to the Democrats. The Washington Post is the same old oily Democrat shill it’s always been. Hey! Washington Post! How many dead Americans will it take for you to finally do your job? 100? 500? 10,000? Oh, that’s right, you’re not Americans.....you’re Democrats.


24 posted on 10/10/2012 3:01:32 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Col Frank Slade
Strong stuff from the Washington Compost.

Bear in mind that this is a blog [not in the printed version] by the resident conservative. Liberals need not know about it if they don't want to.

And they don't.

25 posted on 10/10/2012 3:10:22 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Teach a man to fish and you lose a Democratic voter.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WHO initially found this movie scapegoat and when? It seems to have been seized upon used since day one, but where was it and who knew it was there? Was it just on the fly creative invention?
26 posted on 10/10/2012 3:31:46 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I watched live on CSPAN the bodies of the four killed unloaded from the plane and brought into the hangar where Zero and Hilarity each made a speech about that “awful video.” Don't tell me State, which IS Hilarity never believed or said it was the video.
27 posted on 10/10/2012 3:47:02 PM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I think the idea to lie about what caused the attack came from Obama and his campaign. Obama wants everyone to think he is responsible for finally defeating AlQuida. He wanted to use this as a campaign issue. He couldn't claim this if they were still attacking us. He told the State Dept. what he wanted said and they obeyed him.
28 posted on 10/10/2012 3:52:02 PM PDT by Cindy of Nashville (What has the Democrat party become???)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama’s position and lies about what happened in Libya give aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. That is not only treason by definition, it is impeachable. It is a criminal conspiracy to mislead the nation about Al Qaeda and terrorism so Obama can get re-elected.

MEMO TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.....get busy drawing up charges. This is more significant than President Clinton's lies about Ms Monica.

29 posted on 10/10/2012 3:56:19 PM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: Col Frank Slade; Oldeconomybuyer

and folks were wondering why Obama and Hillary were said to be meeting this afternoon.

I’ll bet they got wind of this piece and are in total panic


30 posted on 10/10/2012 3:57:31 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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Best ad on the attack from American Crossroads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp4MuRY3o1Q&feature=player_embedded


31 posted on 10/10/2012 3:57:53 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: atc23

Two days ago Obama said “Al Qaeda is on it’s heels”.

Looking well heeled to me!

The truth would have served us and ultimately Obama, but that wasn’t to be. It’s sad, so now we’ll hear a lot of outright duffas’s repeating the MSM line.


32 posted on 10/10/2012 4:02:44 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

33 posted on 10/10/2012 4:17:14 PM PDT by potlatch (~~And the truth IS what counts, RIGHT ? ~~)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
misrepresentations and outright lies hmph, every politician does it. That's just how it is. I'm just a follower! doin what they all do.
34 posted on 10/10/2012 4:17:42 PM PDT by uncitizen (SCANDAL SCANDAL SCANDAL scream it from the rooftop)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Actually, I’ve been pretty impressed with their coverage of this. They have some older stories on Africa that are interesting, too.


35 posted on 10/10/2012 4:20:21 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Irenic

Perhaps the MSM has a tiny little voice in the back of their heads saying it will be more fun to trash the Romney Admin the next 4 years than defend the Obama Admin ??


36 posted on 10/10/2012 4:28:48 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Col Frank Slade

If Romney is bad, I will help them trash him. He will certainly be better than Obama though. I don’t know how but we need to demand more from our media, just the same as our gov’t. So tired of the both of them.


37 posted on 10/10/2012 4:39:55 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: All

we need to start trolling this info at the huffpost and the DUmmies.

keep them buying depends undergarments.


38 posted on 10/10/2012 4:44:41 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Dapper 26

“It is us, the American people, who must take care of our dirty laundry...”

Well, in a Constitutional Republic, isn’t that our job?


39 posted on 10/10/2012 4:50:07 PM PDT by henkster (With Carter, the embassy staff was still alive.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WE WANT A SCAPEGOAT! WE WANT A SCAPEGOAT! Then we can let this story die.


40 posted on 10/10/2012 5:00:46 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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