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Obama says he is 'ultimately' responsible
for Benghazi security
The Hill [Washington, D.C.], by Meghashyam Mali
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Posted By:garnet, 10/28/2012 11:31:31 AM
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| President Obama on Saturday vowed to hold his administration “accountable” for September’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, saying he took ultimate responsibility for any security lapses. “What my attitude on this is is if we find out there was a big breakdown and somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable,” said Obama in an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, according to a report on that network’s website. “Ultimately as Commander-in-Chief I am responsible and I don’t shy away from that responsibility," Obama added.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
boomerak, 10/28/2012 11:36:57 AM (No. 8969355)
Obama is going to be a true lightning rod someday. Anyone who takes responsibility for all things good and can NEVER do any wrong is nothing less than pure evil.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoVirginia!, 10/28/2012 11:37:04 AM (No. 8969356)
Hahahahaha. Too little, too late.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 10/28/2012 11:37:08 AM (No. 8969357)
FTA:"somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable,”
That would be you, Butcher of Benghazi and your SOS and you should both resign or impeached.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/28/2012 11:37:14 AM (No. 8969358)
Wow, getting corporate on us.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
CzndCitzen, 10/28/2012 11:38:08 AM (No. 8969360)
Then accept responsibility and out those that directly or indirectly allowed 4 of our people to be killed. It isn't rocket science and it doesn't take six weeks to find out what happened. This is a cover up and it stinks to high heaven.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
horacer, 10/28/2012 11:41:05 AM (No. 8969367)
Why not hold a press conference Obama. Don't we deserve some transparency and answers. That would be the responsible thing to do.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dreadnought, 10/28/2012 11:42:28 AM (No. 8969372)
He's laying it off onto (DoD) Panetta, (CIA) Petraeus, and (State) HRC. They failed him.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lazyman, 10/28/2012 11:44:08 AM (No. 8969379)
He voted present.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
starboard, 10/28/2012 11:52:17 AM (No. 8969394)
#8 Great line and best description of this total failure of leadership.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoDeacs79, 10/28/2012 11:53:02 AM (No. 8969397)
What was that word he used to describe Romney last week?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mabelkitty, 10/28/2012 9:45:53 PM (No. 8970454)
And? Who gave the order to stand down?
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Posted By: garnet- 4/19/2013 8:58:18 AM
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Shame Old Shame Old
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Posted By: garnet- 4/19/2013 6:10:55 AM
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President Obama is mad. Not raving mad, thankfully, just boiling mad. He used the awesome power of his office to make a public pronouncement berating Republicans, or 90% of them at any rate. Shame on them for not passing his common sense gun reforms. He called them and none could even offer a coherent argument. They let down the parents of Newtown. They would not try to save our kids. This despite his straightforward campaign in which he told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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If America were a bus, Deneen Borelli would be the new Rosa Parks. Borelli is the very model of a human being, an African American and a woman who is just plain tired up to here at all of the back of the bus treatment dished by liberals — black and white alike — to conservatives who happen to be black. Ms. Borelli has in a figurative sense, as Rosa Parks did in the original and literal sense, sat down in a seat reserved for liberals at the front of the American bus. She won’t get up, she isn’t moving
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Harvest of uncertainty
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Orange County Register [CA], by Editorial
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Posted By: garnet- 3/27/2013 8:05:35 AM
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Closed to the Public
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Politico, by Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen
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Posted By: garnet- 3/21/2013 8:36:02 AM
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The Nation Will
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American Spectator, by Betsy McCaughey
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The weasels who wrote the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 presidential election. Popular provisions were put into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent’s plan until age 26, offering “free” colonoscopies and mammograms (in truth, forcing you to pay for them in your premium, whether you get them or not), and giving women the thrill of getting contraceptives at the drugstore without paying anything. The White House also granted 1,472 waivers to certain companies and unions exempting them from insurance reforms
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The Emptiness of a Politicized Life
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Washington Free Beacon, by Sonny Bunch
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This may sound odd coming from someone who has spent his life working in political reporting, but I find it extremely sad when people can’t separate politics from the rest of their lives. I’m not talking about people getting worked up about politicians; we live in divided times, so things are bound to get heated when talking about elected officials. I’m talking about people who say “I want nothing to do with [Person X] because he is a conservative/liberal/Republican/Democrat in his personal life.” This is why I find the Orson Scott Card thing so frustrating.
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Implementing Obamacare?
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Posted By: garnet- 3/19/2013 5:40:10 PM
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense
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Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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President Obama to daughters:
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New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 12:18:38 PM
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President Obama and the First Lady have come up with a crafty strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos — and it banks on the girls thinking their parents are deeply uncool. “What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decide you´re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo. In the same place,’” Obama said with a smile. “And we´ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.” “And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that that somehow that´s
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Bombing Suspect Immediately
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 7:46:45 AM
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Since the Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured, there’s been quite a debate over his Miranda rights and how to treat him — given that he’s a United States citizen. An Associated Press report out this morning is sure to add fuel to the fire. As soon as he was read his Miranda rights, it says, Tsarnaev stopped talking. The report notes that Tsarnaev was read his rights 16 hours after his interrogation had began. Then, he fell silent: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immediately stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. Attorney’s office entered his
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GOP Pollster Frank Luntz:
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Progressive publication Mother Jones has revealed yet another secretly-recorded video of a Republican saying something newsworthy. This time, it’s of GOP pollster and frequent Fox News analyst Frank Luntz remarking that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other right-wing talk radio hosts are “problematic” for the Republican Party’s efforts to reach out to other demographics and to fight the polarization of politics. The video was recorded on an iPhone while Luntz delivered a College Republicans-sponsored speech at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this week. Most of his speech reportedly consisted of his thoughts on how words matter — for
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Congress, Fearing ´Brain Drain,´
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Forbes, by Avik Roy
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Her Hall of Fame: Chelsea
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New York Daily News, by Jason Sheftell
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Think of it as a horizontal townhouse. Most developers hype the sky-high verticals of their new glitzy buildings, but a new condominium called The Whitman — soon to be home to former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton - has a completely different selling point: It features the longest apartments in the city. The four-unit building stretches an entire block between E. 26th and E. 27th Sts. It takes almost 30 second to walk the approximate 250-foot central corridor. "The hallway is a wow factor," said Douglas Elliman broker Dina Lewis, who shares the listing with partner Melanie Lazenby, daughter of
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Sins Of The Fourth Estate (Part I)
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: toledo- 4/25/2013 6:33:30 AM
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The one clear thing that came out of last week´s chaotic activity in Boston, Massachusetts is that real reporters were missing. For that matter, they´ve been missing since last year´s attack in Benghazi. From Benghazi, the Gosnell abortion trial, gun control debates, immigration and then the Boston Marathon bombings, television news reporting has become positively painful to watch. The First Amendment to the Constitution grants freedom of the press but this was supposed to endow it with a responsibility to be the people´s watchdog. The modern Fourth Estate represented by the mainstream media has made a mockery of this privilege.
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´GOP´ Pollster Frank Luntz
Denounced Limbaugh, Levin
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 7:39:06 AM
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The leftists at Mother Jones are brandishing another secret tape. Pollster Frank Luntz, denounced as too conservative by liberals when he turns up on liberal networks, told a group of college students at the University of Pennsylvania this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are "problematic" for the GOP and that he and Mark Levin were “killing” Marco Rubio for his immigration proposals. Democrats have “got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what´s driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio´s getting his ass kicked. Who´s
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Bush’s legacy keeps getting worse
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Washington Post, by Eugene Robinson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 10:47:05 PM
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In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse. I join the nation in congratulating Bush on the opening of his presidential library in Dallas. Like many people, I find it much easier to honor, respect and even like the man — now that he’s no longer in the White House. But anyone tempted to get sentimental should remember the actual record of the man who called himself The Decider. Begin with the indelible stain that one of his worst decisions left on our country’s honor: torture.
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George W. to Jeb: We need a
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Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 9:34:22 PM
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As President Bush prepares for Thursday’s opening of his library on the campus of Southern Methodist University, he’s already pushing his younger brother Jeb to begin the next chapter of the Bush family political legacy. Politico got an early look at Mr. Bush’s sit-down interview with C-SPAN’s Steve Scully scheduled to air Wednesday night and came away with the impression that former George W. Bush seemed content and at peace with his seclusion and distance from Washington. But that didn’t stop him from encouraging his younger brother to dive into Washington politics
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