Posted on 09/14/2012 10:57:18 AM PDT by tellw
Officials in the Obama administration were warned of a possible or imminent attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, given specific warning 48 hours in advance of the planned attacks on the anniversary of 9/11, according to the UK Independent newspaper, and were warned on Sept. 4 of possible attacks on U.S. interests in the region, according to the Jerusalem Post.
We now know that while President Obama was campaigning in Norfolk, Va., on Sept. 4, and was mugging for the cameras and getting lifted off the ground in a bear hug on the campaign trail in California on Sept. 9 — the dates both warnings came — he was also skipping at least six of his daily security briefings (now claiming to have read them, but declining in-person, face-to-face briefings), and did not even inform Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and other officials of the threat or put them on high alert in any way, shape or form.
Stevens and several of his colleagues are dead as a result.
In fact, Obama has played hooky and missed more than half of his daily security briefings. In contrast, his predecessor, President George W. Bush, missed almost none. It’s noteworthy that Obama has broken records for rounds of golf played — again, hitting the links far more than his predecessor, despite 23 million of his fellow countrymen looking for work, $16 trillion in debt and the growing deadly threat to Americans worldwide happening right under his nose.
We also now know that Obama’s hand-picked ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, might be responsible for the reprehensible instruction to leave U.S. Embassy security unarmed in one of the most dangerous places on Earth, on the anniversary of the deadliest attack on the United States of America since Pearl Harbor. We do not know if President Obama was aware, or if he was aware but simply didn’t care or understand how dangerous this move was, not only to our embassies, but to all of us, as we see from today’s unfolding global attacks on the United States.
American diplomats and civilians are under attack, not just throughout the Middle East, but across the globe, including threats inside our own borders. President Obama’s weakness — a weakness so blatant one could almost conclude it is intentional — has placed us all in grave danger.
Stevens and his colleagues were sitting ducks, due to Obama’s inexcusable failures. Now Americans are out-and-out targets for assassins and terrorist attacks worldwide.
The mainstream media has bent over backward to protect President Obama and promote him for his reelection. But the stakes are much higher now than any of us dreamed possible mere days ago. We need a competent president but don’t have one. Can we at least, please, have competent journalism as our last defense?
Superb assessment
Bravo! Cheri Jacobus tells it like it is.
A very well-conceived article!
Or and over cooked spaghetti noodle.
This would be funny if it was not so pathetic.
Can we at least, please, have competent journalism as our last defense?
The very, very sad answer to that question is no, more is the pity.
“He gave them what they wanted and brought leanness unto their souls.”
Good piece.
One would think that national security briefings are the most important meetings a president would attend...at least on a daily basis.
Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to enjoy presidential duties.
Good piece.
One would think that national security briefings are the most important meetings a president would attend...at least on a daily basis.
Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to enjoy presidential duties.
Carry the 9 Iron but give our troops the means to defend themselves like BULLETS.
Wouldn't she have had to clear this first with Hitlary?
For Obama to deliberately choose a WOMAN to be the Ambassador to a country in the Middle East run by the radical Muslim Brotherhood sounds like a set-up for problems to me.
Wrong from the beginning.
Thanks to dead for this reality: 
Carter is Obama. Obama is Carter.
Both are Traitor Losers, who hate America!
Jimmy Carter's presidency was doomed by the Iranian hostage crisis after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed by Islamist extremists following the Iranian revolution.
A year after the 52 Americans were taken hostage, Carter lost the 1980 election. The hostages were released just as President Ronald Reagan, who defeated Carter, was sworn in.
1979
2012
As Clint noted, the Empty Chair improved by codetoad:
It is past time to fire Barack and have him hit the road back to Chicago!
Thanks to RushIsMyTeddyBear and Focault's Pendulum and for finding these morphing graphic art realities
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