Posted on 10/17/2012 6:10:28 PM PDT by markomalley
Here’s a little test to tell whether someone is unfit to be president of the United States: Suppose the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has just been ravaged in an attack on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 that has resulted in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. Suppose U.S. intelligence operations claim this occurred because of a spontaneous demonstration about a YouTube video that somehow spun out of control. Suppose the U.S. State Department claims that no such demonstration occurred and that the attack and murders were the result of a well-coordinated terrorist attack. Suppose the Libyan government claims that this was a pre-planned operation conducted by terrorists affiliated with al-Qaida. Suppose that other American diplomatic missions in other countries are also under siege. Would you: A) Promptly summon top intelligence and diplomatic officials to meet with you at the White House so that you might better determine which of these reports is more reliable. OR B) Proceed very slowly; let some lower-level administration officials begin looking into what happened; let it be known that you are willing to wait weeks, perhaps months, to discover the facts about what when wrong; and instead of letting the crisis disrupt your schedule, head off to Los Vegas for a campaign fundraiser. It should be obvious that anyone who would choose option B over option A is unfit to be president of the United States. Yet it appears that this is the option President Obama chose. If he also promptly summoned both intelligence and diplomatic officials to the White House and made them present their conflicting claims to his face in the Oval Office, surely the Obama administration would have let the news media know. Instead, the administration spouts platitudes about bringing the killers to justice and getting to the bottom of things sometime after Election Day while blaming the intelligence community and the State Department for messing up, without recognizing that in doing so it is admitting to a massive failure of intelligence on its watch and suggesting that the secretary of state deserves to be fired. The narrative of an honest news media would be that what happened in Benghazi and the manner in which President Obama has acted in response to it is scandalous; that Benghazi has been a test of leadership and that Barack Obama has failed that test. Of course, our media is not honest. But it still won’t be able to convince voters that Obama’s handling of the Benghazi crisis was anything other than woefully incompetent.
If they did, heads would roll.
They didn't. The president did. We are about to fire him. Its about time.
I’m thinking he had a coverup meeting and also a meeting to see how this would affect him politically.
Obama’s handling of Benghazi crisis suggests
proves he’s unfit to be president
I wish Romney had said to obama, “You handled Libya so badly, you do not deserve to be in charge any longer.”
Well gosh darn, my buddy Fred Eckert makes the Daily Caller. Thanks for posting, I had not seen it. The Ambassador is a great guy, knows his stuff, and of course is a great source on this particular topic.
“ Look Mr POTUS, the reason why you made up the story about the youtube riot is because you had already claimed that Bin Laden’s death made these diplomats safer and now they are dead due to your incompetence. “
I am reading a book about Lincoln and the Civil War and a comment someone made at the time about General Henry Halleck reminds me of Obama.
“He originates nothing, anticipates nothing, suggests nothing, plans nothing, decides nothing, is good for nothing and does nothing except scold, smoke and scratch his elbows.”
I can’t wait until November 6th when Romney is elected POTUS.
I heard a story yesterday while in Washington, DC. The the guards hired by the British firm were known Jihadist’s. It true this would be the nail in Obama’s reelection chances. If the story is true then it makes sense for Romney to wait until Monday’s debate. Allowing obummer to really keep his lies going until the can bring his regime down.
Has anybody else heard this about the guards being Jihadists?
Look up "February 17 Martyrs Brigade" and what they stand for. THAT is who we had hired to protect our Ambassador. U.S. Marines?!? Denied.
” “ Look Mr POTUS, the reason why you made up the story about the youtube riot is because you had already claimed that Bin Laden’s death made these diplomats safer and now they are dead due to your incompetence. “ “
Still the best “attack line” I have seen posted here. The “video war” was pure fiction.
Obama: “ Hey Candy, grab your notes!”
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