NBC News: Obama Administration Not Telling the Truth on Benghazi Security Lapses

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[TigerClaws]

I'm somewhat mystified by the Obama administration and campaign's continued attempts to convince Americans that the deadly raid on our consulate in Benghazi was not premeditated.  They're obviously trying to shield the president from political fallout for the horrifically inadequate security measures at our outpost there, but contradictory evidence is mounting.  Libyan officials and eyewitnesses have described the nature of the attack as clearly pre-planned, and US Senators briefed on the matter have drawn similar conclusions.  The president has fielded precisely zero questions on this matter (one wonders if he's eager to respond to inquiries about how often he does or does not read the intelligence memos about which he's rarely briefed).  He has outsourced the whole Q&A annoyance to various underlings, including UN Ambassador Susan Rice -- who ironically once admitted that her boss was "not ready" for a proverbial 3 am phone call on a pressing international crisis.  Appearing on Sunday's Meet the Press, Rice claimed that two of the four American diplomatic staff murdered in Benghazi were security personnel; evidence, she said, that the diplomatic outpost was not unprotected.  NBC Nightly News now reports that her assertion was untrue:  

[Cherokeesquaw]

I’m not ashamed of my heritage. I can prove I’m 1/4 Cherokee. Elizabeth Warren is a........... Never mind. I can’t say on this website what she is.

[gundog]

Do ya run around with yer little card showing everyone how Cherokee ya are? I met a guy that did. He’s 1/128th and he gets all the freebies. Looks like Howdy Doody...way too many red-headed Indians running around. Coulda smacked the prick. Why use the perjorative “squaw?”

[Cherokeesquaw]

Why use the perjorative “squaw?”

Why not? I’ll tell you what my 3 point test is for deciding if someone really is Indian:

Do they have:
1. The high cheek bones
2. Black or very dark hair
3. A hellacious temper

And for the men I could add: Do they like their “firewater”. LOL

[gundog]

I wish you worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (Sorry) Someone could be 1/4 Cherokee and still be blonde, with the proper, or improper, I suppose, genes. And an hellacious temper is fine, combined with a slowness to anger.

The aforementioned Howdy-Doodey guy was a freckled, red-headed Scot to all appearances, but because someone got lucky with a Cherokee woman 150 years ago, everybody else pays when he gets teeth knocked out in barfights. And he does.