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Topic: Pants On Fire: Obama Scrambles For Cover As Benghazi Lie Explodes |
Pants On Fire: Obama Scrambles For Cover As Benghazi Lie Explodes
Forbes Magazine, by Larry Bell
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Original Article
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Posted By:Scottyboy, 10/14/2012 9:20:19 PM
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| The carefully coordinated and heavily armed September 11th strike upon the American Consulate in Libya contradicted President Obama’s repeated narrative that, thanks to his tough policies and actions, al-Qaeda has been defeated. And although misrepresented by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as a “spontaneous” outbreak” of violence provoked by a “hateful” movie denigrating Muslim prophet Muhammad, he and other high members of his administration knew full well and early on that this was patently untrue. Congressional testimony reveals that the White House had been informed on day one that al-Qaeda terrorists were responsible for the murders of U.S. Ambassador
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Comments: Yo Barry, how's that debate prep going, eh?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
miceal, 10/14/2012 9:28:39 PM (No. 8933330)
This is impeachable...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NY Betsy Rose, 10/14/2012 9:49:48 PM (No. 8933364)
What #1 said. How much do Americans have to put up with? If this was a Republican.. well.. you know. Enough!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Halfvast Conspirator, 10/14/2012 10:08:40 PM (No. 8933382)
Mittens needs to hammer him with this on every question/answer/discussion or whatever it is they are going to be doing. Iron fists in velvet mittens. Get him flustered then his petulance will start showing and it will be ugly.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
engrpat, 10/14/2012 10:25:06 PM (No. 8933405)
Obama just flat refuses to call Islamic terrorism terrorism. I guess if he doesn't call it want it is it doesn't exist. He, has by words and action, gone to great lengths to almost cover for them and protect the radicals. Sure wish someone would ask him why.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Haskell, 10/14/2012 10:41:55 PM (No. 8933424)
Agree with OP -- Impeachable offenses, all.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rita, 10/14/2012 10:53:02 PM (No. 8933433)
I am so sick of Republicans covering for Hillary Clinton, leap frogging over her and her direct responsibility for every under armed and under prepared embassy that suffered attacks.
So eager to get to Obama, who is but indirectly responsible for every government function and failure, Republicans waste facts against Hillary, by pointing instead to Susan Rice, over at the UN, when Hillary was days out in front of Rice dragging this fiction around.
Obama says only what he's told to say, but Hillary runs her ship of State, knows very well the truth was running in real time on live video downstairs at the state dept, and chose to replace the truth with a lie.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
steph_gray, 10/14/2012 11:03:16 PM (No. 8933447)
Sick of all that, #6.
Also pretty sick of the pejorative "mittens." Our candidate is a good strong one and needs all our support this month to free us all from the nightmare in the White House.
I personally can't wait for the moment we get President Mitt Romney.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/14/2012 11:21:29 PM (No. 8933481)
Obama has lied steadily and systematically about the murder of our Ambassador in Benghazi for 4 weeks. Now the real story is coming out and it is not pretty. How does Obama deal with that in 'debate prep'?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
quark, 10/14/2012 11:35:53 PM (No. 8933503)
I would like to know who first came up with the "video did it". The embassy in cairo put out a statement about the "video" 9 hours before there was a protest there. That's where an investigation needs to start.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
devnull, 10/15/2012 12:00:40 AM (No. 8933538)
So, does Hillary slip a little "inside baseball" knowledge to Team Romney to sink the President? Because you know she will not take the fall for this. How will the White Queen checkmate the Black King?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
maggie2u, 10/15/2012 12:34:45 AM (No. 8933568)
Poster #9 is asking a question I'd also like an answer to. Just whose bright idea was it to blame the attacks on some video that no one had ever seen. How did anyone in the administration even know about this movie?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 10/15/2012 4:19:29 AM (No. 8933680)
Isn't it a Koran mandate that muslims lie to the unwashed?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 10/15/2012 6:52:24 AM (No. 8933761)
RE: #10 - Ol' Bill knows a thing or two. Trust me...he's already figured it all out. And he and Hillary! will look as if they're totally behind Obama.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
FenwayFrank, 10/15/2012 7:01:24 AM (No. 8933770)
Exactly #9 - The timeline surrounding the video is more than a little suspect. That factoid has silently fallen by the wayside. Time to resurrect the Cairo tweets and web posts.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
4freedom, 10/15/2012 7:06:34 AM (No. 8933773)
If that's the case #10, and if I were Bill or Hillary, I'd be hiring extra security.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Judith, 10/15/2012 7:08:35 AM (No. 8933778)
No need to hold hillary's feet to the fire. She is just a weak, pathetic, lying woman that will never even get near the presidency. It is the supposed head of the hydra that the republicans are attempting to take off.....and being a hydra, that will not be very effective. Either obama is the true potus and MUST have seen the video and report of the attack and slaughter very shortly after it happened if not during the attack, OR someone else has the true power and THAT person was privy to the info. Seeing a bored potus next to the coffins, the idiotic fairy tale he told and then followed by the attitude of the dems on the congressional panel, followed by the nitwit biden in debate, it is evident that NONE of the dem party holds our people or country in high regard. It is only something from them to feed off of.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LAW428, 10/15/2012 7:20:12 AM (No. 8933791)
I agree wholeheartedly with #7.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LZK, 10/15/2012 7:41:37 AM (No. 8933817)
Take heart poster #1 -- if the demorats "steal" the election like they do here in Illinois -- WE can always impeach the liar.....
LZK
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Maybeth, 10/15/2012 7:43:42 AM (No. 8933820)
This is the most damaging evidence to date! But, Obama is still not worried. He will just continue telling lies, accusing the State Department of misdeeds. He has been assured that his vacant-minded followers will believe 'his' version of events. .... In addition, he already knows that the town hall debate's moderator, Miss Candy, will stand in for the teleprompter. Just as ABC'S little Georgy Porgy does, Candy will doubtless 'correct' any slip of Obama's tongue and help him to avoid other embarrassing moments.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 10/15/2012 7:46:52 AM (No. 8933825)
I agree with #17 about #7. IMO, there is no need for obama to "scramble", the "msm" is doing their best to provide him "cover". If it weren't for his LIES, obama would have NOTHING to say.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 10/15/2012 7:56:35 AM (No. 8933837)
BUT if a tree falls in the forrest and there is nobody there to hear it........? Watched, again, Morning Joe this a.m. and Libya was nowhere in sight until the 2nd hour, when a slight reference was made. Ditto the vaunted NYTimes and, apparently, the NETS, including those wonderful "newsmen:" Brian Williams and Tom Brocaw.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Periwinkel, 10/15/2012 8:05:18 AM (No. 8933852)
I still believe the whole fiasco started when Obama sent people to Libya to retrieve the American arms GIVEN TO AL QAEDA to bring down Kadaffi.
CIA and mercenaries...completely expendable to Obama. But now they are starting to turn on him and tell the truth. Hillary's hands are dirty on this, too.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LOL Thomas, 10/15/2012 8:10:03 AM (No. 8933861)
Only an authentic U.S. President can be impeached. A usurper cannot be impeached.
However, a usurper can be tried for treason.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Mobyclik, 10/15/2012 8:15:00 AM (No. 8933867)
This whole disaster is being buried by the LSM. You'll notice a vast majority of the articles posted here are from conservative online magazines, just a few conservative papers and the British press.
The LSM is pushing it under the rug, at least until after the election. And then, it'll be 'old news' still under investigation.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
tocsin, 10/15/2012 8:20:06 AM (No. 8933874)
#24-You are so right. That being the case, isn't it incumbent on US to get this information to our email list?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 10/15/2012 8:25:51 AM (No. 8933885)
Undoubtedly, Woodward will have another book out about all of this. Arise all ye investigative journalist, beat him to the punch in real time. Who's idea was the video blame game and who set the wheels in motion to lie to the public"?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 10/15/2012 8:29:08 AM (No. 8933888)
Agree with Laura Ingraham on FOX News yesetrday - why aren't reporters camped out on Hillary's laen or Susan Rice's front yard as they were for weeks when the LIbby Scooter/Valerie Plame fiasco was going on? And no one died in the Plame affair.
Or how about the mother of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi telling how Leon Panetta held her face in his hands and said they would get to the truth. Why the heck is DoD holding her face - where's Hillary as SoS?
Romney should remind Obama during the debate that no ambassador died under George W Bush's watch - how many under yours?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Cadillaqjaq, 10/15/2012 8:35:22 AM (No. 8933898)
As far as Hillary is concerned? I doubt there is a bus with enough ground clearance to throw her under.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
chicodon, 10/15/2012 8:53:08 AM (No. 8933923)
When Obama and Biden say they didn't know about requests for extra security they may be telling the truth. All they've been doing is campaigning. Obama couldn't care less anyway. Hillary is just as bad cavorting around the world with Huma.
Since Candy Crowley gets to approve the debate questions from the "undecided" voters in advance, it may not even come up unless Romney forces the issue.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
fed-up, 10/15/2012 8:54:10 AM (No. 8933926)
Im not a talk show host, but how hard would it be to have asked axelgrease one simple question. "Why did Obama say it was a protest because of a video".. we know that is the reason susan Rice said it.. It was already the lie out of our president's own mouth, and repeated by our esteemed Sec of State. They make the questions too complicated and allow the slime to squirm out of it. I am so sick of these people, I could scream. To hear Stephanie cutter accuse Romney of making this a campaign issue is sick. They are the ones that treat everything as it relates to getting re-elected. That is abunbantly clear by the actions of our dear leader directly after the attack. Going to campaign is his priority. Again I repeat.. he never wanted the job.. he just wants to run for it all the time, which shows a constant need for adoration and approval.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 10/15/2012 8:56:00 AM (No. 8933932)
whoa - excuse many typos - you all get my gist, though
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
bpl40, 10/15/2012 9:00:01 AM (No. 8933940)
Impeachment and Conviction, all rolled into one is coming up Nov 6 - from the highest court in the land.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Griz70, 10/15/2012 9:04:30 AM (No. 8933949)
Have You Had Enough Yet?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/15/2012 9:24:42 AM (No. 8933991)
Precisely, #7. Thank you.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
stryker714, 10/15/2012 9:42:41 AM (No. 8934029)
Obama has been just a little bit too obsessed with Dhimmitude & Taquiya. "Shhh-it was work place violence. Shhh-it was a video slandering Islam. Shhh-it was an isolated incident".
Most presidents would have made an effort to rescue those people in Benghazi or at least fight back to some degree. But no, the story goes Obama thinks aircraft, including jets, could not fly 450 miles from Italy in less than four hours! ha!
He should have sent in several helicopters-two or three Cobra gunships(or choppers with door mounted guns) to orbit and lay down suppressive/protective fire, while one or two Blackhawks landed and retrieved embassy staff. This president doesn't believe in fighting back-much like Jimmy Carter. Will the democrats ever learn, in regards to who they submit for the pressydentcy? Nope.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 10/15/2012 9:50:13 AM (No. 8934047)
If read properly, the WH record of the evening reveals that Obie went to bed after the attacks began,apparently as the second wave was beginning...so he knew that nightwhat was up... Dems and lefties are very adept at sacrificing someone for the cause....in every sense of the words..... I do believe that Hillary and The Slick One from Arkansas have handed Obie his own "October Surprise".
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
texas_gop, 10/15/2012 9:59:19 AM (No. 8934074)
Will thePresident throw Biden under the bus or double down?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
mindyourbubble, 10/15/2012 10:06:16 AM (No. 8934089)
I don't mean to be a party pooper, but how many people read Forbes Magazine??? My point is, as great as a story this is,IMO it will not make its way into the MSM or all of the alphabet new sources on TV. I am hoping that it will come up in this second debate and Mitt is all set to light the fuse again on the "Benghazi Lie."
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Coy860, 10/15/2012 10:06:43 AM (No. 8934091)
Having NO faith in Congress, I suggest WE the People impeach Obama on November 6.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Arby, 10/15/2012 10:07:22 AM (No. 8934092)
Meanwhile, back to reports on Watergate . . .
Thanks, LSM; you should be impeached too.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff, 10/15/2012 10:32:41 AM (No. 8934161)
Broken glass, my friends, broken glass. Let's make impeachment moot by voting his lying, incompetent butt out of office three weeks from tomorrow.
And Mitt needs to hammer on this issue tomorrow night.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 10/15/2012 10:33:27 AM (No. 8934167)
Everything Obama does is a crime against our Constitution, including his usurper status for being in office.
Matters not one whit to the media nor to 47% of the voters.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
zbogwan2, 10/15/2012 10:49:34 AM (No. 8934203)
Obama is probably wetting his undies(when Lybia comes up) just thinking about this Tuesdays debate. Obamas caught between a rock and a hard place here: Obamas first debate was an exercise in futility at the least and Bidens debate was an act of insanity. Obama will now have to continually think of facts(some baloney to spout)and try to control his demeanor. He'll probably crash and burn big time in Tuesdays Debate?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
thatsomewhereplace, 10/15/2012 11:09:06 AM (No. 8934249)
As with Fast and Furious, 0bama is spinning spinning. So much so that he hopes the mind-numbed robots will tire of this and go on with watching Dancing with the Stars. I think it's a commie trick. BS it as much as possible and soon no one cares.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 10/15/2012 11:24:46 AM (No. 8934311)
#1 - NOTHING is impeachable - with a Democrat President and a Democrat Senate.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
radrelic, 10/15/2012 11:25:59 AM (No. 8934315)
A CEO in the White House-can we get so lucky? A CEO who has limited his needs to 250 mil for self and family and gone out of the money accumulating business and served where called or needed in Olympics and Mass where fiscal problems were solved (temporarily in Mass-they re-elected a tax and spend dem)
obama stuck w3ith his record and if he goes for the I got Osama headlines and credit he just whips up more mid-East riots and terror strikes. His underlings expendible (?) this might have been tried but the American public is war weary.
Even the corrupt leftist media cannot save obama from his record or his muddle in the middle East.
Boots on the ground on the Syrian Border? And a plan to put all the Special Forces on one ship in the Gulf--who thought that one up? The Ayatollahs? The Seals and other Special Forces used by dems as if they were supermen--they do make good photo ops.
How much does it cost to train a Special Force troop? It takes a long time and can't just be drafteed off the street. IOW they are not as expendible as the dems who use them seem to think?
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
snewb098, 10/15/2012 11:27:42 AM (No. 8934322)
It's still under investigation and we can not comment on an on-going investigation. Nothing to see here.. Move on folks.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
dotonbut, 10/15/2012 11:30:47 AM (No. 8934332)
Immediately after the murders and for weeks after we heard: “it was due to an offensive video”, “it was caused by a video” “we now know the attack was spurred by a video”, Video, video, VIDEO! That’s all we heard. Did a single enterprising reporter ask: “What evidence do you have that indicates the attack was caused by a video?” ??
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
shurnuff, 10/15/2012 12:17:23 PM (No. 8934494)
Obama and Hillary BOTH should be impeached over this... along with everyone who aided and abetted them.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
DebiAnn, 10/15/2012 12:30:36 PM (No. 8934527)
Obama's v Clinton's.....get the popcorn started....showdown at the OK corral!!
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Mobyclik, 10/15/2012 12:35:43 PM (No. 8934540)
Actually #50, that would be more like the 'Showdown at the Sleazebag Motel.'
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Razorgirl, 10/15/2012 1:08:15 PM (No. 8934641)
I don't know why they thought the video thing was a good excuse. Regardless the reason for the attack,it is obvious there was not enough security. The ambassador and other Americans were murdered. So are they saying the video excuse makes the Americans a little less dead? What kind of mind works that way? There are lots of bloody hands in this matter that goes all the way to the top.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
gman244, 10/15/2012 1:20:41 PM (No. 8934693)
It is time for heads to roll! first should be Susan Rice, then her boss Hillary Clinton and last but most important Hillary boss! President Obama!
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
larryp, 10/15/2012 1:31:40 PM (No. 8934720)
Don't you think t his is all Kabuki? That it is a distractionfrom Obama and the Junta'sterribel record. The MSM covers forthe lies and stops the coverage dead. reall no one knows about BenghaZI.Ask ten of yr friends if they know. But what these many folks see is almost nothing of election except polls and how Romney is doing. There is no discussion of Obama record tho. If people died in Benghazi, well "bumps- in-the-road in search for peace, right?
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
redwhite&blue2, 10/15/2012 1:33:30 PM (No. 8934728)
Calling Gov. Romney "Mittens" is a juvenile insult best saved for the Daily Kos...with that said....Impeach the Indonesian Marxist NOW! And his demented old fool partner too!
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh, 10/15/2012 1:41:45 PM (No. 8934756)
BO's record is appalling in just about everything. But the press is complicit by not probing in the slightest. They not only ignore, they actively cover for BO. They are despicable. As pointed out, when Republicans have the slightest whiff of a problem, the press is camped out asking leading questions that imply failure and corruption.
But for BO, no curiosity whatsoever. Everything is fine. Ignore a murdered ambassador. Ignore 23 million people out of work. Ignore crushing poverty. Ignore massive deficits. Ignore an economy crawling on it's knees and about to fall down on it's face. Ignore 2000 dead in Afghanistan. Ignore out of control crony-ism. Ignore a world in chaos. Ignore continual lies, deceptions, and breathtaking incompetence.
BO's pants are 5 alarmers but the press doesn't care.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 10/15/2012 2:45:23 PM (No. 8934931)
I just lifted this from ''the site which must not be mentioned'':
According to Col. Hunt (Fox News contributor and Howie Carr regular) as soon as the alert button in the U.S. Libyan Consulate (U.S. sovereign territory) was pushed signaling that it was being attacked a dozen or more monitoring units through-out the world (European, African, Nato, U.S. States Dept. in DC area, etc.) were alerted and instant monitoring began (including the audio and video being sent [real time] from the Consulate's security cameras and the on air voice transmission of Ambassador Steven's aide. With-in MINUTES protocol dictates that The President be alerted, the Sec. of Defense, the Sec. of State, the heads of the CIA, FBI, etc. be alerted ... the monitoring took place for the entire six hours that the attack lasted.
The 09/11/12 terrorist attack [on U.S. sovereign ground], assassination and murders began at 9:30 PM Libyan time = 3:30 AM Eastern U.S. time. Apparently, when that "3 AM Phone Call" came-in ... President 0bama turned-over and went back to sleep as did Sec. of State Clinton.
Can anyone here confirm the ''alert/panic button'' reference? Anyone of us ever work at or for an embassy or consulate??? Is this what Charlene Lamb was doing? If so, why didn't she light up the board with red alerts???
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
xcenturion, 10/15/2012 3:24:12 PM (No. 8935045)
Don't see too many Obama bumper stickers out there this time around do you?
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
rochow, 10/15/2012 3:34:40 PM (No. 8935071)
#1 and #2, right on the money....however, Harry Retard is delaying any further investigation until after the election....so, if zero is back another 4 years, God forbid, there will never be a thorough investigation, plus, this delay gives them a chance to clean up even more so less can be 'found'.... I heard that a lot of our weapons are in the hands of Al Qaeda and seals are looking for them. Who handed them the weapons???? Zero??? Is this another Fast and Furious?
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 10/15/2012 4:01:10 PM (No. 8935168)
Mark Steyn reportedly said (tongue in cheek, of course) that what happened in Libya was 'a spontaneous movie review,' according to Susan Rice, Zero, Hildebeast, and Joe Bite-me.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
simple simon, 10/15/2012 4:44:41 PM (No. 8935312)
I think most are missing the under-story...
Fast and Furious was an engineered attempt to control our 2nd amendment rights.
This whole video thing being blamed for riots in Egypt and across the region was their attempt to control our 1st amendment rights.
When you have 47% of the population who can't think and suffer cognitive dissonance it is easy to steer them to desired results.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 10/15/2012 5:09:39 PM (No. 8935370)
Lies Lies Lies A Sea of Lies Washington Lies Academe Lies TV MSM Lies The Diane Sawyers of NY are as criminally prone as are the Obamas of DC, and they both protect each other without hesitation. What a racket !
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
rocco49, 10/15/2012 5:21:16 PM (No. 8935395)
#56 and #62 I agree wholeheartedly with you about the corrupt enemedia!THEY are the ones keeping the 47% STOOPID and THEY are the ones keeping Obama/Biden from the mounds of criticism that they both deserve. We have three enemies haunting us in our beloved US of A...the idiots, Obama/Biden, and the ass-press. Wish they'd all just relocate...dont you?
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 10/15/2012 5:50:16 PM (No. 8935451)
No mas pantalones.
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
rocco49, 10/15/2012 6:25:32 PM (No. 8935525)
Forgot to mention that I too agree with #55 about calling Gov. Romney "Mittens"...When you do that it only isolates you and reflects poorly on you.
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
strike3, 10/15/2012 8:44:59 PM (No. 8935768)
Obama's problem is that he can't afford to offend the muslims. All of this mayhem and murder is part of his plan to cause massive destruction in the world and tear it down to the point where sixth century barbarians can take it over. Then his primary wet dream is to become their grand mullah or whatever the head murderer is called. The man is insane and the sooner his handlers realize it, the better off we will all be. If he doesn't go peacefully, so much the better.
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
danu, 10/15/2012 10:23:53 PM (No. 8935966)
#57--sounds like these bureaucrats just watched, in real time... as US territory was overwhelmed and Americans were murdered before their eyes.
What are we supposed to think here: they 'just like to watch'??!
No one budged when it was reported that SEC lawyers were watching porn 8 hours a day, instead of watching Barney Mae bring down the global economy.
Now we have our foreign representatives murdered ...and these Zombiecrats pretend they 'monitored' but didn't actually see anything. Yet, they were very quick to arrest some poor schlub in the CA suburbs. And they're still lying about these ''bumps in the road''.
Let them all go to blazes.
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
Pinchem, 10/15/2012 11:32:35 PM (No. 8936108)
Anyone who now votes for Obama should be declared Anti-American traitors and should be shunned by friends and neighbors or do we have the ethics and integrity to do that?
For the Hollywood crowd, avoid their movies. Yeah yeah, great actors but bad politics is no excuse.
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President Obama held a private meeting with top national security journalists on Thursday afternoon following his national security policy address at the National Defense University in Washington, POLITICO has learned. Present at the meeting were Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist; Gerald Seib, the Wall Street Journal´s Washington bureau chief; Fred Hiatt, the editorial page editor of the Washington Post; David Igantius, the Washington Post columnist; Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic correspondent and Bloomberg View columnist; and Joe Klein, the Time Magazine columnist
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Did Obama Forget to Salute?
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ABC News, by Chris Good
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Posted By: scottyboy- 5/24/2013 11:43:17 AM
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The president may have forgotten something as he boarded Marine One this morning. On his way to the U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremony on Annapolis, Md., President Obama didn’t return the salute of the marine standing guard at the door of Marine One, as he climbed the steps to the helicopter cabin. Obama soon ducked his head out, waved to the pilot, and jaunted back down the stairs to address the marine, shaking his hand. In the short video clip, one can’t hear the two men talking, so it’s unclear what exactly was said.
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Scandals usually lead to reform. Maybe not this time.
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Washington Post, by Ezra Klein,
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Posted By: scottyboy- 5/24/2013 11:38:08 AM
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Put aside the politics, and the question of who-knew-what-when. There are two policy problems highlighted by the controversies at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice. The first is the growth of 501(c)(4) groups into vehicles for anonymous and unlimited political spending. The second is the Obama administration’s overzealous prosecution of leaks. Unfortunately, for those who would like to see these policy problems resolved, the wrong party is angry about them and the wrong party is complacent.
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Huma Abedin deemed her husband´s greatest political asset and the architect behind Anthony Weiner 2.0
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Daily Mail (UK), by Dan Bates
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Posted By: scottyboy- 5/24/2013 11:23:46 AM
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She had to endure the public humiliation of his sexting scandal, but now it turns out that Anthony Weiner’s wife was the driving force behind his comeback. Huma Abedin put her feelings of betrayal aside and backed her husband to run for mayor of New York in this year’s election. She has also been working her close connections to the Clinton family to get Mr Weiner access to wealthy and powerful donors who he so badly needs. Having been frozen out of politics when he quit his Congressional seat, Mr Weiner is now effectively relying on his wife
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Eva Longoria graduates with master´s degree in Chicano studies
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/23/2013 3:03:53 PM
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Eva Longoria is backing up her beauty with a whole lot of brain. The actress graduated with a master´s degree Wednesday. Longoria, 38, took home a real degree (not an honorary one) in Chicano studies from Cal State Northridge, where she physically attended classes for three years, according to TMZ. "Big day today!!! Very excited to graduate for my master´s degree in Chicano studies! You´re never too old or too busy to continue your education!" the actress wrote on her Who Say site Wednesday, sharing loads of pics of her big day, posing with her family, cohorts and diploma.
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Mark Levin Tears Into Obama: ‘Flat- Out, Bald-Faced Lie’ That He Knew Nothing About IRS Targeting
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Mediaite, by Josh Feldman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 9:48:28 PM
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Conservative radio host Mark Levin is very skeptical of the idea that President Obama had absolutely no idea about the IRS tea party targeting before the story broke in the news mere weeks ago. Levin declared adamantly that it is a “flat-out, bald-faced lie” that Obama didn’t know beforehand, citing prior reports by a few conservative news outlets picking up on the news well before the 2012 presidential election. Levin said, “I don’t believe for two seconds that Obama wasn’t aware of this.”
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Obama nominates Nuland for assistant secretary of state
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Politico, by Reid J. Epstein
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 10:08:52 PM
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President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration´s talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State´s top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace Philip Gordon, who Obama picked to serve as Middle East coordinator for the National Security Council. Nuland´s nomination -- which requires Senate confirmation -- could come under scrutiny from Republicans who see her as playing a central role in shaping
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Anthony Weiner says Houston psychiatric facility made him ‘a new man’
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Houston Chronicle, by Nicole Narea
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 10:52:02 PM
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Anthony Weiner’s New York mayoral candidacy was only made more improbable today after he revealed that he visited a Houston psychiatric facility following his resignation from Congress in 2011. Haunted by scandal surrounding his sexually explicit online communications with women, the Democratic former congressman sought treatment for his compulsive behavior from mental health professionals at the Gabbard Center. According to its website, the facility provides “3-day outpatient psychiatric evaluation,” particularly to “professionals who are in personal or professional crises.” While Weiner did not disclose
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Mark Levin: "RINO" Issa Didn´t Investigate IRS Before Because He "Despises The Tea Party"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/24/2013 5:38:38 PM
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MARK LEVIN: So why didn´t Chairman Issa hold an investigative hearing a year ago? Why didn´t Chairman Camp, all Republicans, hold an investigative hearing a year ago, and all the other tripping over themselves right now? I´ll tell you why. Because the establishment Republicans, the RINO Republicans, despise the Tea Party. They despise the conservative movement. We exist to be managed, to be shuttled to the polling place, to vote for their candidates. The Karl Roves of the world, and all the rest of them. They fight us in the primaries, they fight us at the grassroots.
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Fox News’s Roger Ailes responds to Justice Dept. investigation
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Washington Post, by Erik Wemple
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 11:00:19 PM
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Fox News chief Roger Ailes has sent a memo to his subordinates at the leading cable news network. He sent this memo to his staff today in connection with the federal investigation into an alleged leak to Fox News reporter James Rosen, a story that the Washington Post’s Ann E. Marimow broke earlier this week. The memo’s a masterpiece, too. For all those who wonder what it is about Ailes that endears his people to him — and that makes him such a good interviewee for any media reporter lucky enough to get an audience
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Obama Asks Staff to Start Cc’ing Him on Stuff
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New Yorker, by Andy Borowitz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/24/2013 5:31:36 AM
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WASHINGTON —In a dramatic departure from existing White House procedures, President Obama requested today that his staff start cc’ing him on stuff. “Look, I know a lot of you think I’m really busy and you don’t want to bother me,” the President reportedly told his staff in an Oval Office meeting. “But cc me anyway. It’s good for me to keep up on what’s going on around here.” “It’s not good when I turn on the news and they’re talking about something at the White House and I’m like, whoa, when did that happen?”
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