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Ron Paul Agrees With Obama: The Debate Over Benghazi Is A ‘Sideshow’
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Posted on 05/17/2013 1:49:03 PM PDT by mnehring

Could President Obama have read this op-ed by Ron Paul before his joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron this morning? The president’s assessment of the Benghazi scandal was remarkably similar to that of the former congressman. Both men called the controversy a “sideshow.”

While Obama primarily went after Republicans for trying to politicize his administration’s response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last September, Paul chose a more equal opportunity approach in his article, published this morning on the website of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

“Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole discussion is again more of a sideshow. Each side seeks to score political points instead of asking the real questions about the attack on the US facility, which resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.”

Paul accused Republicans of smelling “political opportunity over evidence that the Administration heavily edited initial intelligence community talking points about the attack to remove or soften anything that might reflect badly on the president or the State Department.”

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1 posted on 05/17/2013 1:49:03 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

He’s an a##.
Ron Paul should take it up with Bob Woodward!


2 posted on 05/17/2013 1:50:13 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: mnehring

Thanks Ron.

Jackass...


3 posted on 05/17/2013 1:50:23 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: mnehring

Ron Paul - irrelevant.


4 posted on 05/17/2013 1:50:26 PM PDT by Viennacon (l)
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5 posted on 05/17/2013 1:50:55 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: mnehring

Ron Paul is a sideshow.


6 posted on 05/17/2013 1:51:49 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: mnehring

Ron Paul is a sideshow....


7 posted on 05/17/2013 1:52:06 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: mnehring
Takes one to know one.
8 posted on 05/17/2013 1:52:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: mnehring
WRONG!
Benghazi is the MAIN COURSE.
It's about Barack Hussein Obama II's TREASON !
9 posted on 05/17/2013 1:52:32 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: al_c
Ron Paul is a sideshow.

More like a freakshow.

10 posted on 05/17/2013 1:53:41 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: mnehring
For those who are entertained by Ron Paul's bizarro antics, check this out at the Daily Caller: Rand Paul and Ron Paul: The secret emails revealed
11 posted on 05/17/2013 1:56:54 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything. Bolshies' gonna bolsh.)
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DING! DING! DING!


12 posted on 05/17/2013 1:57:40 PM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: mnehring

This is a week old and Ron Paul is still a goofball.


13 posted on 05/17/2013 1:57:51 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: al_c

Amen to that....


14 posted on 05/17/2013 1:59:23 PM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: mnehring

Turn his argument inside out and take that Ron Paul is wanting his own sideshow for his own political purposes. His statement shows no respect for those that died and I have thought for sometime he had similar feelings for any action of our military, worthy or not.


15 posted on 05/17/2013 2:00:39 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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You all just hate the constitution and liberty. DOCTOR Ron Paul knows more about what is going on than all of you. Benghazi is no where in the Constitution, neither is Obama, therefore it is none of our business what Obama did or didn’t do in Benghazi.


16 posted on 05/17/2013 2:01:18 PM PDT by mnehring
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“However, the whole discussion is again more of a sideshow. Each side seeks to score political points instead of asking the real questions about the attack on the US facility, which resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.”

HE IS RIGHT. I might also add, Obama referred to the talking points as a sideshow not Benghazi and they are, his orchestrated sideshow with the MSM, the diversion from what happened that night. Carefully read Paul’s comment. “INSTEAD OF ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ATTACK”. I saw it happening, the yap, yap, yap of the talking points and not one question about the real issues was asked by media. That’s a twofer, MSM gets to look tough, Obama gets off the hook.


17 posted on 05/17/2013 2:01:35 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: mnehring

what?!


18 posted on 05/17/2013 2:04:07 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: mnehring
Paul accused Republicans of smelling “political opportunity over evidence that the Administration heavily edited initial intelligence community talking points about the attack to remove or soften anything that might reflect badly on the president or the State Department.”

There are two "shows" here.

The first one is about the so called "talking points".
I think they should be called "lying points", the purposeful evasion of the truth by the administration to the public. A free country cannot function with a government that lies or obfuscates.

The second "show" is what happened in Benghazi.
This show tells us that this administration is incapable of overseeing the operation of our government. And Americans paid with their lives for this incompetence.

19 posted on 05/17/2013 2:04:29 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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Note now when Republicans attack Democrats they are always
“playing politics.”


20 posted on 05/17/2013 2:05:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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