Oh, that's right! I forgot about that!
Posted on 05/27/2013 4:34:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The biggest scandal regarding Benghazi may be that the president was not at the helm on 9-11-2011 and was not directing the response to an attack. His aides insist he was getting updates, but the president is supposed to be more than an inbox for messages from his advisers. Was he peppering them with questions? Was he insisting they run through the available rescue options? The answer to both seems to be no, and for that dereliction of duty he needs to be held accountable. Maybe he would have been more accurate in his statements after the fact if he had had been plugged in and paying attention during the attacks.
Likewise, the president’s apparent inattention to the deteriorating security situation in Libya suggests that he, once again, was not in command. He was a passenger on the ship of state. Hillary Clinton wanted to go in; let her keep an eye on it.
With Obama it is all stagecraft and no state craft. He’ll chest-thump about the assassination of Osama bin Laden and be happy to leak details of “kill lists” (president, with brow furrowed, sits deciding life-and-death issues), but in fact he’s mostly talk. In this light we can see that part of the motive for cracking down on the media is to eliminate and deter information-gathering that is not White House-approved. It’s fine to leak favorable images and information. But if the media dare to put forth data that are inconsistent with his play-acting, then the retribution is fierce and swift.
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Did they mean 9-11-2012?
Pick any date between Jan 20, 2009 and today. He hasn't been at the helm any of those.
Wasn’t Benghazi 09-11-12?
Yep...that was an error.
White House communications go with the President where ever he’s at... Obama would have to actively reject connection in order to be NOT be tied into the system. Even then, within a few feet of him, someone would be connected to communications...
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Watergate hearings. For those of you too young to remember, back then the administration had an enemies list. They were spying on reporters, and they used the IRS to harass groups they didn’t like. Thank God those days are gone forever.
Jay Leno - lightens the day...
Given The One’s leanings, I am sure that at the time the raid on Benghazi was ‘no big whoop.’ There was, after all, a Vegas fundraiser and an election on the horizon. It is only a big whoop because of those waskiwwy Wepubwicans.
true.
“She is the WaPo’s token conservative and has to write a conservative piece every once in a while.”
Check out the comments at the WaPo. She is mesmerizing the DC Libs. Low Information does not even come close.
Wait now 0bama was running the show when they got OBL. I think he was piloting one of the helicopters.
Oh, that's right! I forgot about that!
That’s better. We must be fair.
“Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.” - Crown Prince Raphael Corrino, Dune: House Harkonnen (2000) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
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