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The Mystery of Benghazi
New York Times ^ | October 13, 2012 | By ROSS DOUTHAT

Posted on 10/14/2012 4:37:21 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

TWENTY-FOUR hours after the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and our ambassador murdered, the tragedy seemed more likely to help President Obama’s re-election campaign than to damage it.

The White House already enjoyed more public credibility on foreign policy than on almost any other issue. When Mitt Romney reacted to the attack with a partisan broadside, portraying a news release sent out by the Cairo embassy before any violence began as a White House apology to the attackers, the president’s path forward seemed clear. He would be disciplined and careful, show anger and steel but also coolness under pressure, and let the rally-round-the-flag effect do its natural work.

What happened instead was very strange.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; benghazigate; clinton4alqaeda; dnc4alqaeda; libya; obama4alqaeda; octobersurprise
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Hey Rossy....here's the mystery....WHERE'S HILLARY????

Why the HELL aren't you media dumbasses DEMANDING ANSWERS from HILLARY, OBAMA, PATREAUS??????

41 posted on 10/15/2012 3:35:48 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Fresh Wind

What for ?


42 posted on 10/15/2012 5:14:17 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Brad from Tennessee; zencycler
Nice little collage of Obama and Hillary and quotes on a timeline:

Obama's Benghazi Lies

Put together by Freeper...zencycler

43 posted on 10/17/2012 1:33:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Great. This would make a good commercial, newspaper ad or a poster.


44 posted on 10/17/2012 2:00:53 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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