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Obama on Benghazi: “If four Americans get killed, it is not optimal”
Hotair ^ | OCTOBER 19, 2012 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 10/18/2012 7:11:43 PM PDT by RobinMasters

People are e-mailing about it so I’m giving you the transcript, but I want to see the clip before making a judgment.

Stewart: “Is part of the investigation helping the communication between these divisions? Not just what happened in Benghazi, but what happened within. Because I would say, even you would admit, it was not the optimal response, at least to the American people, as far as all of us being on the same page.”

Obama : “Here’s what I’ll say. If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal. We’re going to fix it. All of it. And what happens, during the course of a presidency, is that the government is a big operation and any given time something screws up. And you make sure that you find out what’s broken and you fix it. Whatever else I have done throughout the course of my presidency the one thing that I’ve been absolutely clear about is that America’s security comes, and the American people need to know exactly how I make decisions when it comes to war, peace, security, and protecting Americans. And they will continue to get that over the next four years of my presidency.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaffes; libya; notoptimal; obama; obamagaffes
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1 posted on 10/18/2012 7:11:43 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

############### GAME CHANGER @@@@@@@############

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/oops-mammogram-machines-require-licenses/

this needs it’s own thread...I have no skills


2 posted on 10/18/2012 7:18:31 PM PDT by advertising guy (" that lie has it's own sleep number " David Feherty PGA Championship 2012)
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Hey, don’t criticize Obama on the dead ambassador thing. As he said in debate #2, those were HIS representatives. He apparently owned them. And if anyone is pissed off about his property being destroyed, it’s him.


3 posted on 10/18/2012 7:18:31 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: RobinMasters; maica
America's security comes,

comes where? Perhaps this is a typo omission. On the other hand perhaps it's just another example of what happens when Obama doesn't have a TelePrompTer.

4 posted on 10/18/2012 7:20:11 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: RobinMasters

The name “Benghazi” will become synonymous in history with the demise of the Obama administration.


5 posted on 10/18/2012 7:23:50 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: advertising guy
FR absolutely sucks tonight.

I'm out of here.

6 posted on 10/18/2012 7:24:09 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: advertising guy
FR absolutely sucks tonight.

I'm out of here.

7 posted on 10/18/2012 7:24:10 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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FR absolutely sucks tonight.

I'm out of here.

8 posted on 10/18/2012 7:24:12 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: RobinMasters

The name “Benghazi” will become synonymous in history with the demise of the Obama administration.


9 posted on 10/18/2012 7:24:22 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: advertising guy

The little Bighorn mission was not optimal - George Armstrong Custer.

The way the Tigers whooped us like stolen mules was not optimal - Joe Girardi

Our miscalculation of the American response was not optimal - Hirohito


10 posted on 10/18/2012 7:24:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: RobinMasters
I have little use for Obama as a President for the last four years, however, I have absolutely no use for the slime who he shared time with in this interview! The families of the four killed will not see the comedy in this interview.

It is interesting that Mr O'Reilly teamed up with this slime.....

11 posted on 10/18/2012 7:26:31 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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So it means he wanted more dead?????


12 posted on 10/18/2012 7:28:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Never Have Regrets, Because At The Time It Was Exactly What You Wanted.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Doesn’t Obama get credit for “saving” the lives of all the rest of our diplomats around the world whom haven’t been murdered?


13 posted on 10/18/2012 7:28:43 PM PDT by kevao (Is your ocean any lower than it was four years ago?)
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The loss of American lives was tragic, but why did it happen? Why was there no military intervention during that 6 hour battle? Why were the allied commanders, as well as Hillary, Biden & Obama watching and listening to this battle and not doing anything about it?

This man is so incompetent it surprises me that even one person votes for him. I'm shocked that he gets so many votes from so many uninformed people.

14 posted on 10/18/2012 7:29:24 PM PDT by mia
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To: RobinMasters
If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.

Sounds like an Al Queda strategy session.

15 posted on 10/18/2012 7:31:24 PM PDT by kevao (Is your ocean any lower than it was four years ago?)
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To: cripplecreek

BUMP!


16 posted on 10/18/2012 7:33:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: RobinMasters

Why did Mamam Cass have the transcript in her hand? I was watching and Mamma Cass tried to save the president from himself! Damn.


17 posted on 10/18/2012 7:35:03 PM PDT by DOGHEAD
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You think that's not optimal, wait till you see what he has lined up for us during his hopefully lame duck time before he's retired to golf and book writing.

The UN treaties, including a UN small arms treaty, UN taxes, etc., the incredible array of EOs he signed into law, and God knows what else are set to strip us of all it means to be an American.

The most dangerous elected official in our history isn't finished with us, regardless of what happens on election day.

18 posted on 10/18/2012 7:36:46 PM PDT by GBA (Vote as if your Freedom depended on it...)
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MaMa Cass...That’s hilarious! Somebody shoulda given her a ham sandwich.


19 posted on 10/18/2012 7:37:44 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: GBA

So true.

Nor is the world for what he set up from our office.


20 posted on 10/18/2012 7:41:47 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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