Posted on 05/07/2013 8:37:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama will be unable to finish his second term due to the Benghazi scandal, media personality and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expects.
The prediction came Monday during his radio show, "The Mike Huckabee Show."
"I believe that before it's all over, this president will not fill out his full term. I know that puts me on a limb," he said, according to Politico. "But this is not minor. It wasn't minor when Richard Nixon lied to the American people and worked with those in his administration to cover-up what really happened in Watergate. But, I remind you as bad as Watergate was, because it broke the trust between the president and the people, no one died. This is more serious because four Americans did, in fact, die."
This Wednesday, at least three whistle blowers are set to testify before a Republican-led U.S. House committee. They will present evidence that the Obama administration failed to respond quickly to the September 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya that led to the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. They will also present evidence that the administration purposely misled when it blamed the attack on a YouTube video and said it arose out of a spontaneous demonstration.
One of those testifying will be Greg Hicks, who served under Chris Stevens. Hicks was not in Libya during the attack, but was in contact with Stevens as the attack was taking place.
Hicks' "story is totally at variance with what some American officials were saying in public on this broadcast five days after the attack," veteran CBS journalist Bob Schieffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation." "The administration claimed the attack grew out of a spontaneous demonstration provoked by protests in Egypt. Greg Hicks told investigators that was simply not true."
Huckabee said that the Benghazi scandal "goes all the way to the heart of the integrity of the United States government."
"When a president lies to the American people and is part of a cover-up, he cannot continue to govern," Huckabee added. "And as the facts come out, I think we're going to see something startling. And before it's over, I don't think this president will finish his term unless somehow they can delay it in Congress past the next three and a half years."
A third part of the scandal has to do with the denial of additional security by the Obama administration for U.S. officials stationed in Libya. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed in January that she was unaware that requests, by Stevens and other top officials, were denied. Republican investigators, though, found that Clinton had signed off on a plan to reduce the number of security personnel in Libya. Administration officials counter that many State Department documents bear the secretary's signature, but she does not see all of them.
Unfortunately, it is faith in the eGOP - he best prepare for a big letdown.
Exactly. The Pravda of Sodom on the Potomac will CYA him.
Nixon didn’t have an impenetrable melanin based defensive shield.
Huckabee is wrong, and is just trying to stay relevant. People who don’t need to wear sunscreen need not worry about being law-abiding anymore. They can break laws and lie with impunity and 50% of the voting electorate will forgive them. But, keeping our eyes on the ball, if HRC is derailed from any attempt at being the Dumbacrat presidential nominee in 2016 then all is good in my book.
Pubbies hoping to flip Red State demos are going to have to push this hard. Those are the states to watch if there is to be any hope of getting anything done.
“Not without a Woodward and Bernstein.”
“Nor without a congress.”
NOT WITHOUT A JUDGE SIRICA.
Judge Sirica kept the Watergate burglars in jail until they broke and started talking. Except for Gordon Liddy who stayed in jail and never said a word.
This current gang of wussies couldn’t spend an overnight in jail without singing.
I’m also waiting for the secret White House tapes. You know the ones in which The One is snoring the whole night long during the Benghazi attack.
I’d love to see that as an RNC ad. Just the sound of the snoring and crickets on one half of the screen while the other half shows the ambassador being dragged through the streets.
Oh, that's good.
If a scandal falls in the forest and no media cover it, does it still make a sound?
On one hand you have many well-meaning Republicans who don’t want to purposefully do damage to the country or tear it apart. One the other you have the Democrats who have made it their life’s work. The Republicans lack the will to drive the dagger home and twist it. That’s what it will take to get this guy and so it won’t happen.
Our only hope is if Dick Morris says he’s going to skate.
There are not enough people in this country who care anymore. For them this is just more of that boring political stuff that doesn’t mean anything to their lives.
“Ben who? Do they mean that actor? What? Oooh, look at how big Kim Kardashian’s butt is now that she’s pregnant! I’m going to go post this on my Facebook page!”
RE: I’ve already heard Juan Williams on Fox “The Five” dust off and invoke the ole’
“This investigation is costing us Millions of Taxpayer Dollars.”
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Does anybody remember if Juan Williams made the same complaint when they were investigating the “outing” of Joe Wilson’s “spy” CIA wife, Valerie Plame for the “Nigergate” affair?
In the end, Scooter Libby was indicted for “obstruction of justice” even as we now know that the prosecutors knew that it was Richard Armitage who leaked her name from the very beginning.
How much did this investigation about nothing cost and was Juan Williams concerned about it?
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So Tired of talk show hosts with blinders on (and peopel like rove, michael barone and others ‘predicting’ there was no way dearl eader woudl win another election- etc)- I will be shocked IF the mainstream media actually does hteir job and ruins their messiah-
Hey Huckster, you’re living in a world of make-believe. With flowers and bells and leprechauns, and magic frogs with funny little hats.
Lol. Yep. Pretty much our only hope.
Investigative journalism — nice concept from a long gone era — too bad it no longer exists in the MSM.
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