Posted on 05/20/2013 4:05:21 PM PDT by raptor22
Benghazigate: The lack of a timeline for what the commander-in-chief was doing the night terrorists murdered our ambassador to Libya and three others is an "irrelevant fact," according to a key White House aide.
Playing the role Sunday of former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who last Sept. 16 went on all five talk shows to parrot the administration line that Benghazi was provoked by a video, was White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer.
Following in Rice's footsteps, he announced that the details of where President Obama was and what he was doing that fateful night were an "irrelevant fact."
"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace tried to pin down why we have pictures of Obama sitting in the Situation Room the night Osama bin Laden was killed, but on the night Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed we don't have so much as an artist's sketch.
"The president was kept up to date on this as it was happening throughout the entire night, from the moment it started till the end," Pfeiffer said.
So he didn't go to bed that night to rest up for his Las Vegas fundraiser the next day? Pfeiffer wouldn't elaborate.
Pressing Pfeiffer to fill in the blanks, Wallace noted that Obama was with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey in a previously scheduled meeting on the afternoon of Sept. 11, around the time the Benghazi attack started.
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Back in my military days, I was taught that the Commander must be at “The Critical Point”. Obama is a Commander. He’s the Commander In Chief of our armed forces. The Critical Point was that place in the operation where the Commander’s personal presence would have the greatest impact for victory. During the fight at Benghazi, was The Critical Point for Obama his bedroom? He failed miserably. The word “Commander” comes from Sanskrit and means “The one to whom we entrust our beloved”. Many people have entrusted their beloved sons and daughters and fathers and husbands to a Commander who, during a battle that cost four Americans their lives, went to bed and then went campaigning the next day. I wouldn’t entrust a hamster to Obama after his pathetic performance.
Did he get update texts on his stupid blackberry?
IBD EDITORIAL PING
The Battling Boys of Benghazi
(Author unknown)
We’re the Battling Boys of Benghazi,
no fame, no glory, no paparazzi,
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell,
defending the country we loved so well.
It wasn’t our job, but we answered the call,
fought to the consulate, and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate,
led them to safety, and stood at the gate.
Just the two of us, and foes by the score,
but we stood fast, to bar the door,
Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied,
so we fought and we fought, and we fought till we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,
but Barack Obama didn’t give a damn.
Just two dead SEAL’s, who carried the load,
no thanks to us — we were just “bumps in the road.”
“Mr Carney, was the President asked by any of his national security team to give a “go/no go” decision on military support in Benghazi?”
“And a follow up to that, if he was not asked, who made the decision to turn down the request for help?”
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Where was he? Seems obvious: He was in the situation room all night shouting at the top of his lungs “Stand Down, I said!! Stand down!!!”
That is what I suspect.
‘Leading from behind’ with Reggie Love?
“I don’t really care where he was. All he needed to do was take one minute and give the go.”
It matters!
What’s worse? Beauty sleep for Vegas-party/fundraiser and indifferent? or AWAKE and getting regular updates...and doing nothing...except the one thing that mattered to him-—micro-managing the “narrative.”
He NEVER goes to bed early.
Why do you think the WH never refuted the conservative meme that “Obama went to bed early and the next morning got on a plane to party in Vegas”?
Why? Because the truth is worse!
Bet on the fact that Obama never went to bed until :
1) the last plane was in the air with Steven’s body
2) Ducks were in a row re: the almighty narrative
3) He had a draft presented to him for his Rose Garden speech.
Contrary to the conservative meme, and with all due respect to the Feepers who repeat the meme, Obama DID NOT go to bed early.
He was quite awake and he was quite engaged!
Very engaged! As was all the top echelon!
EVERY single aching time-point along the timeline to the Benghazi massacre, the implicit and/or complicit order was a very present NO to saving the Benghazi victims!
In fact, one might make a case that the Obama Adm is on the side of Al Qaeda!
Not a single question about Benghazi at the briefing today. Not one.
As near as this civilian Freeper can tell, Hussein has no clue as to what it means to be a commander.
He was wherever V. Jarrett told him to be
He was wherever V. Jarrett told him to be
Agree with everything you said. My point was that no matter WHERE HE WAS, iT WOULD ONLY HAVE TAKEN ONE WORD TO START A RESCUE MISSION...And HE DIDN’T do it.
Scuse the caps. I don’t know how I keep doing that.
“Under cover with Mr. Love?”
My comment, precisely.
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