Posted on 05/11/2013 8:04:05 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Congressional testimony this week showed the appalling lengths to which the Obama administration went to cover-up its mishandling of last fall’s terrorist attack at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, but President Obama’s precise role in the cynical operation remains hidden.
Americans still don’t know what President Obama knew and when he knew it. We don’t know what exactly he did when he learned on Sept. 11, 2012 that U.S. officials in Benghazi were under attack. Obama may have gone to bed while the attack was in progress, leaving others in the administration to develop a politically expedient cover story calculated to get the Obama administration past the finish line last Election Day.
Obama’s advisers, with the president’s consent or not, opted to tell lies to get their man reelected, and to deal with the consequences of those untruths later. They knew they could count on the mainstream media to snooze on the job and dismiss the investigation to come as a partisan witch-hunt.
The manufactured storyline emphasized Obama’s increasingly hollow claim that “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.” It allowed the president to escape much need scrutiny about his lame approach to national security and the threat that Islamism poses to the United States.
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It’s just about death, let’s move on.
“Obama was conspicuously absent during all of the timeline. Where was Obama for those 12 hours”
For that matter where was Shillary? Personally I think they were both three sheets to the wind. Mary Jane, Single Malt, take your pick
Lying for political reasons is one thing, but negligence or ineptitude that leads to the death of an American ambassador and 3 other embassy personnel is quite another. 12 revisions to the talking points finaly caught the main stream medias attention yesterday, so we’ll see if this goes nowhere as you say. I think there is much more to come yet
Oh this is so light weight! Hannity is on this line, as well.
This was not about getting elected. How could it have been?
Getting reelected was a side effect.
Exactly right, and bears repeating.
The press let them get away with it, they knew there was a story and they chose not to pursue it.
Impeach the low life Obama. He is a criminal and traitor. A true Satan!!! Benghazi, Obamacare, Hitler’s (Obama’s) IRS,......what a dirt bag!!! Clinton, Biden Rice, Panetta, Carney, traitors, all!!!
Boehner and McConnell are as complicit as CNN. They are going to get pushed aside by Trey G and NOT Paul Ryan.
They live in the golfing, cocktail party, Sunday show world.
They work for u, yet you would fire anyone who paid as little attention to his job description, hint protecting and defending the Constitution, as these two ineffective dolts.
Was Ambassador Stevens gay and was he sodomized before he died?
I really REALLY wish this phrase would go away, forever.
It was clever back when Howard Baker first said it in 1973, but verbal automatons like Hannity have worn it to a nub. Please, writers, give it a rest. Try being original.
That’s the question I most want answered: what exactly did Obama do between learning of the attack at 5 p.m. and jetting off to his Vegas campaign stop the next morning.
You’re absolutely — and sadly — right. Benghazi WAS above Obama’s paygrade. Pathetic, isn’t it?
Juist tell me about supplying arms to the Muzzie Bros.
To summarize what Rush Limbaugh has been saying for days:
At about 5pm eastern time in Washington, we’re told that Obama met separately with Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta telling each they needed to handle the attack in Benghazi.
Neither Hillary Clinton nor Panetta had the authority to order the military into action. And, conversely, neither could legally order the military to “stand down” during an attack on sovereign territory.
Obama’s whereabouts after 5 pm (Washington time) are undocumented. We are to believe Obama was having fish tacos and watching TV...while a terrorist attack was occurring on the 10 year anniversary of 9-11?
Really?!?!?
Who gave the “Stand-Down” order?
They are totally useless at stopping OBozo.
It's not the conservative media's job to carry the ball on this, it's their damn job.
If OBozo weasels out of this, we need to put the blame where it belongs, Boehner and McConnell.
FRiends, once upon a time, yes once upon a time they fooled us and treated us as fools and yes they (who told us what to think) believed we were fools. Guess who the joke is on? We know and those who were sent out, on television, to lead us down the wrong path are completely shocked, shocked I say, we do not believe them. Most Americans knew we were being lied to from day one. Most Americans knew but stayed silent. Wonder if staying silent will continue? Good Day Everyone! Is a Great Day to run down the dream!
Since he continually operates in the HupA mode, he still may not know the facts, only responds with what is on his teleprompter.
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