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Topic: What the President Said About Benghazi |
What the President Said About Benghazi
Real Clear Politics, by Tom Bevan
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Posted By:Drive, 11/30/2012 9:00:14 AM
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| U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice is under fire for going on several Sunday talk shows five days after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and providing apparently erroneous information to the public. But President Obama’s own public statements about Benghazi, made in three separate nationally televised interviews in the days after Rice’s appearances, were equally misleading and have received scarcely any attention. In defending Rice from criticism from an array of Republicans, including Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Obama said at a November 15 press conference,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoDeacs79, 11/30/2012 9:43:12 AM (No. 9041005)
The sad thing for our nation is that none of this matters to the useful idiots who vote Dem election after election. They don´t care if the candidate is a plagiarist (see Joe Biden,) a fraud (see Elizabeth Warren,) a foul-mouthed deviant (see Al Franken,) a serial liar (see Debbie Washerwoman and a host of others including the preezy) or a totally incompetent, lazy racist with a computer-generated birth certificate.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 11/30/2012 10:16:04 AM (No. 9041093)
#1 - preach it
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Chiritwo, 11/30/2012 10:26:15 AM (No. 9041116)
The press has already lost "the freedom of speech". If one can´t say the truth without fear of losing, then the freedom is gone. I don´t think there are too many journalist anymore who are bright enough to see this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
loveUSA, 11/30/2012 10:56:02 AM (No. 9041213)
Fasten your seat belts. For the next4 years, it´s going to be a bumpy ride.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
leftcoastmom, 11/30/2012 12:28:02 PM (No. 9041421)
For the next four years, our family will go into survival, dog-eat-dog, take no prisoners mode. Obama is evil and I really believe that so is the rest of the ruling class in DC. I loathe them all with a few exceptions. L-dotters know who they are, the true conservatives whom the elites and media laugh at. God Bless all of you guys. Let´s survive.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rafter, 11/30/2012 12:30:13 PM (No. 9041425)
The president thought Ben Gozzi was his roommate at Occidental College.
No, wait... maybe at the Indonesian Madrassa School (spelling?)...
Anyway, Ben was the kid whose uncle or dad or somebody... went to prison as a mobster or hit man.
Not to worry, Obie has a lot of hit men in his past. He don´ care. Bump in da road.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 11/30/2012 12:56:17 PM (No. 9041469)
Two One admits "he don´t know much" However he does make this statement ‘The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet Of Islam’ These words alone should tell US what is in his heart (if he truly has a heart.....we know he has no conscience) He lies well. That due to LOTS of practice.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 11/30/2012 1:23:56 PM (No. 9041541)
FTA- "When Obama taunted McCain and Graham to “go after” him on Libya, he added that he would be “happy to have that conversation.” That would be a discussion worth having. It´s a discussion the public deserves -- and one that voters were probably entitled to before Election Day. "
I would take out " probably " and add definitely. I believe that Barry was MIA during the time the critical decision was made not to send help to the consulate. Now-where was he and in what condition ? If only we had a media to ask these serious questions. Or an elected Republican . Barry was MIA during a previous terror attack. On Christmas Day 2009 , when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight inbound from Amsterdam on final approach to Detroit - Obama was the last to know. " White House spokesman Bill Burton said Friday that Obama, on vacation in Hawaii, was informed of the incident about three hours after the plane landed. " Three ...hours..... later ??? This sounds just like Obama now saying in lawyerly fashion " as soon as I was informed of the Benghazi situation ".... Not a single member of the media asked where Barry was and why he wasn´t informed until hours later on December 25, 2009. Just like none of them will ask for the exact time Barry was informed of the Benghazi attack.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
billa, 11/30/2012 4:30:33 PM (No. 9041887)
As long as BO is black, he will never be accountable for anything, nor to anyone. No media will question him about anything and no politician of any party will criticize him.
The term racism has more atomic punch than the N-word, C-word and F-bomb.
Get used to four more years of unbridled and unaccountable spending, tax increases of epic proportions, vacays and parties every month, appointments and beareucracies created thin air, amnesty for 30 to 50 million illegal aliens and a tidal wave exodus of business and capital from the US.
Meanwhile, unemployment, deficit and debt numbers will be faked and hidden. And if more wars or conflicts erupt globally, it will be someone elses fault. Most likely Bush´s fault.
I believe this bafoon should just be ignored, no one show up to his incoherent speeches, refuse to donate or volunteer for his endless campaigning and every venue he stains, the cities should send him a bill for the ginormous costs these cities incur.
Shunning would be the worse than impeachment for the narcissist-in-charge.
I wonder what calamities will occur during the time he and his possee are on vacay?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bnrmusa, 11/30/2012 4:57:32 PM (No. 9041914)
Obama was too drunk or high at 5PM EST. 9/11/12. He could not be reached.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BadgerBill, 11/30/2012 8:32:58 PM (No. 9042168)
#9--50% Caucasian, 43% Arab, 7% black.
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