“The country used to come together in a crisis.”Last night I had a discussion with someone on the WSJ comment board that pointed out the real danger for Obama in Biden’s answer. I had missed it completely. This is the conversation that I had last night, or at least part of it.
James- I missed it the first time through. Biden let the cat out of the bag about why the Libyian situation was allowed to happen when he plaintively complains, “The country used to come together in a crisis.”. That statement finally gives a reason for why the situation was allowed to develop in Libya and why the Americans were allowed to be killed. Poor Joe seemed completely baffled about why they were not getting the desired outcome. And people are going to claim he got through the night gaffe free...not so.
Me - I had never considered the possibility that they actually thought that allowing the situation to “develop” would benefit them. It is just too despicable to even consider, but I’m afraid you’re right. That’s what Cutter meant when she said that none of this would be an issue if it wasn’t for Romney and Ryan, she meant that they would have gotten away with it and used it to their advantage.
I recall reading a description of the NSA meeting that Obama is supposed to have had on 9/11, where they discussed sending in a rapid response team, but said that the next day would be soon enough because it would take hours, 4, 6, even possibly 12 hours to have planes there. Someone on these WSJ boards, commented that it would only take military jets 20 minutes to get there from souther Italy, but Obama waited until the next day. Sharlene Lamb testified that she watched the whole thing on her computer in real time, and they waited until the next day. They let those people suffer a horrible death, they waited until the next day, all because the lives of those four Americans were not as valuable as their blame America first ideology and a political campaign.
Apparently, the days of October Surprises, like the days of claims of racism, are over.
This helps confirm my contention that this was supposed to be an October surprise. I think Obama was waiting for captives, and demands to be issued. Then, right before the foreign policy debates, he’d wave his magic hand and get the hostages released, the situation calmed down, and he’d be the uber-hero of foreign policy.
But as someone pointed out about radical Islam:
Befriend
Betray
Behead.
Obama is so far beyond dangerously ignorant and naive, he thought this was a plan that would work out to his favor.
There was an earlier thread which speculated the Libyan situation was supposed to be a controlled event where Obama would emit his mystic and rescue all through superior negotiating charisma.
Meant to ping you to post #12.
If he ok’d the jets from Sicily to go to Libya there wouldn’t be enough time to hide or move the evidence....