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The Twisted Truth on Obama´s
Benghazi Response

American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu

Original Article

Posted By:JoniTx, 2/8/2013 5:19:47 AM

According to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as reported at The Weekly Standard, President Obama was completely aloof from the events in Libya on September 11. He neither asked nor ordered anything. He did not respond to information sent to the White House. He was not involved at all, during the seven-plus-hour attack that resulted in the deaths of four American government employees, including an ambassador. A few months back, when, for the sake of argument, we were all giving Obama the benefit of the doubt on being human, albeit wretchedly so, I felt compelled to qualify

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Th-Gr-Sil-Majority, 2/8/2013 5:42:38 AM     (No. 9164983)

...maybe the White House DID think it was going to be a kidnapping and were just waiting for the ransome note to come through...

...pre-arranged of course my Ms. ValJer...


Reply 2 - Posted by: LouD, 2/8/2013 6:16:22 AM     (No. 9165007)

Look closely, people. This is your CIC, who turns his back when a decision from him is needed. Reminds me of the mayor in that old tv show, Carter Country. When a problem arose, he would turn to a staffer and in his high-pitched voice say "Handle it! Handle it!" Now we have a real life version of that mayor in charge of the country.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Trigger2, 2/8/2013 6:31:03 AM     (No. 9165032)

It´s beyond time to take Barry´s CIC duties away from him and give them to someone who can handle the duties.


Reply 4 - Posted by: raspberry, 2/8/2013 6:52:27 AM     (No. 9165059)

Now we see how the MSM lets this slide by.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Judith, 2/8/2013 6:57:28 AM     (No. 9165070)

The cold-hearted testimony of panetta and dempsey reflects their boss´ character.....and, unfortunately, the character of the voters of this country. I think the people (military, diplomatic, tourists)better stay in this country and clean it up. To travel outside the borders means you are on your own and obama has painted a target on your back.


Reply 6 - Posted by: dragonlearner, 2/8/2013 7:05:02 AM     (No. 9165079)

We shouldn´t be surprised by this. After all, this is the senator who voted "present" rather than to be pinned down on his opinions.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Timber Queen, 2/8/2013 7:08:25 AM     (No. 9165081)

Kudos to Senator Ayotte. We´re finally getting some details and confirmation to our initial observations that Obama had gone to bed and couldn´t be bothered. Rather reminecent of the German General Officers on D day who were unable to reach Hitler because he had taken a sleeping pill. History repeats itself as farce.

If Zippy doesn´t know what´s going on, he can´t be held accountable for any outcomes. ´Handling it´ is Val´s job. Obama had to go skeet shooting. The Wookie loves ´em deep fried like her Twinkees.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: mindyourbubble, 2/8/2013 7:21:16 AM     (No. 9165097)

Liars all. POTUS,SECOS,SECOD along with the tree Monkey Ancors, News Papers and Leftist pundits. Reminds me of Seargeant Schulz...I know nothing, see nothing or hear nothing.
Congress after all this hoopala goes on with business as usual. Boehner the House blubberer and Reid the NO VOTE senate toilet flusher.
Do nothings all of them while the country begins to move toward total govermental, financial and security collapse.
Justices just 9 pins in black robes cloistered in the ash piles of constitutional precedents now long collapsed in stupid judgements like Roberts school boy decision.
Chaos,anarchy and Catostrophy of low probability of ever being resolved.
Twisted Truth indeed. Bah.


Reply 9 - Posted by: reilly, 2/8/2013 7:27:52 AM     (No. 9165104)


Jimmy Carter lost Iran, our long-time ally and business partner. There´s no telling what damage these clowns are creating for us down the road. (Down the road is when Barry will be a centi-millionaire with a hundred honorary degrees, and Mooch will weigh 300.)


Reply 10 - Posted by: steveW, 2/8/2013 7:33:13 AM     (No. 9165114)

Democrats want a disgraceful commander in chief, because they don´t respect the office.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Spidey, 2/8/2013 7:33:45 AM     (No. 9165117)

Obama was in one this,all this testimony is a complete lie to CYA Obama.For the sake of argument let´s say he wasn´t informed,why wouldn´t somebody be fired for not letting him know?

If i was the president getting blindsided by this,i would be throwing things around the WH in a fit of rage and firing people right a left.No so with Obama because it´s no big deal people died..

People around the world may not have liked Bush,personalty wise but they respected the fact he stood up for his country and it´s safety.They like Obama because they think it´s a step forward for a minority president,even though his policies are a disaster.


Reply 12 - Posted by: jgat, 2/8/2013 7:38:27 AM     (No. 9165120)

File it in the "Dog Ate My Homework " folder!


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: starboard, 2/8/2013 7:49:53 AM     (No. 9165139)

This is only the first act. I have no doubt there will be another incident, much worse, that will knock him off his styrofoam pedestal.


Reply 14 - Posted by: ziel, 2/8/2013 7:57:52 AM     (No. 9165144)

It is very typical situation in dictatorship.
Everybody in the top of the leadership knows that Obama will take the credit when results are good (Bin Laden) and everybody knows they will have to take a fall if something goes wrong.
In that situation Hilary, Panetta and rest of them are paralyzed and afraid of making decision.
Same situation happen when Hitler army made preemptive strike on Russian army getting ready for attack in summer of 1941.


Reply 15 - Posted by: DW626, 2/8/2013 8:10:36 AM     (No. 9165173)

This is so disturbing on so many different levels.


Reply 16 - Posted by: udanja99, 2/8/2013 8:15:39 AM     (No. 9165178)

The key paragraph in this article is this -

If Panetta is to be believed -- and we can only assume that if he is lying, he is doing so to protect his boss from even worse revelations -- then Obama was either completely unavailable that night (September 11!) or completely unwilling to take steps to help Americans who he knew were in the process of being killed in Benghazi.

Either scenario should be grounds to haul his butt out of the WH in chains and throw him in a cell UNDER Leavenworth.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Rinktum, 2/8/2013 8:17:30 AM     (No. 9165184)

Looks like we have a full blown situation that would result in impeachment of any other President. Unfortunately, it will not. Obama will not be held accountable for this. Big media will see to that.

The Republicans are like victims who can´t muster the will to stand up to their abuser. The Karl Roves of the world are more concerned with the next election than they are the real danger that we face today. More than half of this country has been brainwashed into believing that Obama is god. Face it, it is not looking good for this country. When Obama and his administration are allowed to run roughshod over the Constitution and aren´t held accountable for anything they do, we are on the fast track to tyranny.

I often wonder what the Founding Fathers would think of our stewardship of the government they gave us. Profound disappointment, I would guess.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Democracy First, 2/8/2013 8:20:50 AM     (No. 9165190)

The soft coup has already taken place. No one seems tocare much about this. We are sooooo screwed. Comrade Ø rules, ValJar and Moich demand that we bow and wirship...msm lapdogs hump Ø´s leg. Weskth being redistributed to andnsquandered by the underclass on crack , malt liquor, and tattoos, while their baby chirrens run wild. Homeland security has millions of rounds of hollowpoint bullets to kill dissemters and Ø has a kill switch for the internet and drones to back up his terroristic regime.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Periwinkel, 2/8/2013 8:21:48 AM     (No. 9165192)

#5 Panetta and Dempsey are not cold-hearted, but rather after years of dealing with these situations for Dempsey, anyway) they do SOUND cold hearted. But I assure in the privacy of their hearts they are crying copious tears for the four dead men in Benghazi. And I promise you Dempsey feels great guilt for men lost under his command. Especially men who did not have to die.

After hearing yesterday´s testimony of Panetta and Dempsey, I give more credence to the under the radar story of Panetta and Hillary taking matters in their own hands and giving the Seals the order to get Bin Laden; and calling the limp-di-k President off the golf course when the deal was nearly done...maybe they just photoshopped him into the oficial photographs.

President LD Obama is incapable of making the hard decisions and is never available for the 30 A.M. Call...neither is Hillary.


Reply 20 - Posted by: udanja99, 2/8/2013 8:25:57 AM     (No. 9165197)

One more thought - if zippy can order Americans to be killed without due process, shouldn´t we be able to throw him out of office without due process?

I´d welcome a military coup right about now.


Reply 21 - Posted by: steelbreeze, 2/8/2013 8:31:21 AM     (No. 9165205)

Have we impeached b hussein yet?


Reply 22 - Posted by: benignczar, 2/8/2013 8:33:43 AM     (No. 9165210)

I suspect that the gutless punk Indonesian Moslem was hiding under the bed in the Lincoln bedroom, terrified that he might actually be required to make a decision.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: lillehuset, 2/8/2013 8:49:35 AM     (No. 9165235)

...the same as when he voted ...present........


Reply 24 - Posted by: Nan, 2/8/2013 8:52:25 AM     (No. 9165245)

"To twisted to contemplate!"


Reply 25 - Posted by: saucy, 2/8/2013 8:52:28 AM     (No. 9165246)

Start impeachment hearings immediately!

The families should sue for failure of the president to do his "..primary duty -- namely, to protect its citizens against foreign aggression."

I know, I know, can´t sue government - but there must be SOMETHING to stop this weak, incompetent, anti-American, evil narcissist.



Reply 26 - Posted by: Gallo3, 2/8/2013 8:54:32 AM     (No. 9165258)

It was Beyonce´s birthday for cripes sake.

They had ordered special treats from Krispy Kreem, never mind any of that military/CIA crap.

Obama was busy. As always. Partying.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Starlady, 2/8/2013 9:04:13 AM     (No. 9165281)

It is because of this (lack of) response that so many in our country believe this pResident is capable of using drones on segments of the population in THIS country. He is a cold, evil person.
I applaud Senator Graham who stated on Fox last night that he will keep asking questions until it is made public what the pResident was doing during that attack.


Reply 28 - Posted by: lakerman1, 2/8/2013 9:28:42 AM     (No. 9165361)

Hillary took the blame for Benghazi, which is meaningless.
But those on the left were cool with that.


Reply 29 - Posted by: Yo Yo, 2/8/2013 9:30:08 AM     (No. 9165364)

Wow. But then, we knew this, didn´t we. Like his college grades, Fast and Furious, and so many other things I can´t even begin to list, if there had been an honorable explanation, we´d have known them by now. Don´t think our enemies aren´t watching this and making plans.


Reply 30 - Posted by: rfr46, 2/8/2013 9:33:34 AM     (No. 9165374)

Give him a break, people. Zippy was probably reading his bible or "doing skeet shooting."


Reply 31 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 2/8/2013 9:39:59 AM     (No. 9165396)

Our only hope for the next four years is to keep this man on the golf course, smoking cigarettes and paying for Moochelle´s wardrobe. He is good for nothing else.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Arby, 2/8/2013 9:50:31 AM     (No. 9165421)

Panetta is a pasty-faced bureaucrat, slavishly serving the dims, but deep down he appears to be an honest man, who can´t bring himself to lie and obfuscate the way the PIAPS and Fauxbama do.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 2/8/2013 9:59:16 AM     (No. 9165443)

Commander-in-Chief Child-in-Charge

One-and-the-Same Each above his pay grade.


Reply 34 - Posted by: glcinpdx, 2/8/2013 10:20:50 AM     (No. 9165488)

Phew, I´m sure glad this came out before the election so that the American People could see what a malfeasant, cowardly ne´er-do-well we have occupying the oval office and do the right thing by kicking him out of office...

/s


Reply 35 - Posted by: RightShoe, 2/8/2013 10:26:40 AM     (No. 9165502)

It troubles me greatly to think that our conservative media outlets, like Fox and even Rush would rather sit around a talk about nutty liberals that report the specifics about current events. Illustrating absurdity by being absurd had it´s place but that ship has sailed.

Liberals either don´t give a rip about this country´s future or they´re too blind to know better, and conservatives have become so distracted by liberals that nothing relevant is even being reported any more.

I happened to catch O´Reilly last night. He could have been discussing the specifics of Benghazi. Instead he was talking about Tony Bennett, Chris Rock and the possibility of Ashley Judd running for Senate. None of these people matter right now.

Watching Fox is like watching someone play whack-a-mole. A sad waste of my time.


Reply 36 - Posted by: Browneyes, 2/8/2013 10:34:19 AM     (No. 9165524)

It is interesting that there have been so many resignations in this administration. Realize that Panetta{after today} will not be available for any more public testimony. Nor will clinton. Gen Hamm should have been there yesterday, but wasn´t. He was demoted.

There really has been a purge of the knowlegable. Wonder if these two were "advised" to consider leaving, despite Clinton´s statements.

If the Senate approves all the "new" appointees,it will prove that obama´s long range plans to install a government much like those in the middle East, then we know that the US Congress{Senate}has been in the planning stage for years.


Reply 37 - Posted by: ida Lou Pino, 2/8/2013 10:50:26 AM     (No. 9165562)

Face it - - Zippy gets away with these crimes because his only opposition is a pack of gutless Pubbies who are always comfortable hiding in the deep weeds.

It is now five months after the attack - - how come not one linguini-spined Pubbie has demanded a minute-by-minute accounting of what Zippy was doing on Sept. 11 and the following day? FIVE months - - and no accounting!

Geez - - do I really have to ask why? We all know why - - Pubbies are emasculated girly-boys - - each and every one of them!


Reply 38 - Posted by: cjjeepercreeper, 2/8/2013 10:55:40 AM     (No. 9165571)

Sounds to me like an dereliction of duty, an impeachable offense and since he is allegedly CiC this may also be treason if you look at the definition of the law. So...impeachment AND treason charges need to be brought against Zero IMMEDIATELY, and treason can be a capital offense. It´s time for the pubs to get a backbone and DO IT!


Reply 39 - Posted by: trapper, 2/8/2013 11:38:53 AM     (No. 9165656)

FTA: "Through it all, Obama´s White House simply did not respond or engage. Given the auspiciousness of the date and the seriousness of the attack, we must now ask, with the utmost gravity, ´Why not?´"

I think the answer is obvious. If this indeed had been "the biggest national security emergency of his presidency" Obama, Jarrett, and others would have been frantically trying to put together the response that would yield the greatest political benifit for Obama, and they would have put him out front to take credit for any success and to cast blame for any failure. That is their pattern. Witness the immediate lap-taking over OBL.

However, that is NOT what happened here, and the only reasonable explanation is that they did not think it WAS a "national security emergency." They thought it was something else. Something they knew was coming. Something they had advance notice of. Something they may have even had a hand in planning. A bit of political theater designed to set up the narrative they were ready to roll out over the video. Something they planned to milk during and after the election.

The Cairo embassy "apology" was issued BEFORE the demonstrations began. Oops!

Given the way they have politicized the Sandy Hook shooting to make a direct run at the Second Amendment, could the video narrative have been designed to set up a direct run at the First?


Reply 40 - Posted by: strike3, 2/8/2013 11:46:33 AM     (No. 9165675)

"we were all giving Obama the benefit of the doubt on being human"

Oh no we weren´t. When the crisis began, we knew obama was going to screw it up, it was all a matter of how and when. He HAD to know what was going on. The SS with him would have made sure he was aware because they were certainly aware. He was either (A) drunk and unable to understand and make a decision or (B) afraid to make a decision. Either way, four Americans died on his watch and he did nothing but jet off to Vegas for three days of golf.


Reply 41 - Posted by: RancherJack, 2/8/2013 11:52:37 AM     (No. 9165690)

Bigger Question

Why has Hillary been going around the world destroying select nation´s governments, causing untold amounts of death and destruction, while rewarding select nations - like Burma (Myanmar), a rogue drug warlord hell on earth - with direct first nation contact with MY FREAKING NATION??

... no Republican has said Boo.


Reply 42 - Posted by: Jallmon, 2/8/2013 12:00:35 PM     (No. 9165711)

When I was in the Navy, they called this "Dereliction of Duty," and it was considered a very bad thing. You know, like "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" sort of a very bad thing.


Reply 43 - Posted by: Heil Liberals, 2/8/2013 12:11:49 PM     (No. 9165740)

At this point I long for Bill Clinton and Monika Lewinski. Corruption, incompetence, and moral departure was so much simpler then.


Reply 44 - Posted by: St. Pitbull, 2/8/2013 12:28:04 PM     (No. 9165782)

L.I.V. Press Release


Reply 45 - Posted by: Seaduck79, 2/8/2013 1:12:14 PM     (No. 9165862)

#1 & #40, you are on the right track.

When you look at the facts, which are:
1) Obama wanted to free the Blind Sheik (mastermind of the first WTC bombing), but knew we´d raise hell if he just did it.
2) Security was ordered away from the embassy in the days prior to the attack.
3) The attackers, when they found the Ambassador alive (but suffering from smoke inhalation), they cried "Allahu Akbar!". They wanted him alive, because he was their trade bait for the Blind Sheik.

This was a bungled kidnapping of one our own government officials, orchestrated and approved by people who put him there. How on earth is this not a crime and/or impeachable offense?


Reply 46 - Posted by: peterfleming, 2/8/2013 1:40:23 PM     (No. 9165911)

Pick your favorite mentally twisted tyrant in history, go back and compare, reearch, the terrifying things your favorite tyrant did to his subjects and slaves. Compare to what our current occupier of the WH is doing right now, mean nasty things, under cover of the day and night protection of Diane Sawyer, Scott Pelly, Brian Williams. Pick one. Obamao could be anyone in history, any pharoah, dictator, madman generalissimo, king, czar, high priest, fuehrer, chairman mao, islamic spremicist, premiere, Julius Caesar, even Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Pick one out enjoy the similarities of sickness and destruction. Could Panetta be considered at least a mild mannered whistleblower? Bless him.


Reply 47 - Posted by: bob913, 2/8/2013 1:45:07 PM     (No. 9165926)

obama spent 15mins listening to panetta then went away to watch tv or something while 30+ people were fighting for their lives.

obam, clinton, panetta spent months covering up.

The corrupt media going along!


Reply 48 - Posted by: Dante, 2/8/2013 2:00:31 PM     (No. 9165949)

Seems consisted with the great coward´s record of voting "Present" whenever there was a difficult vote in the Senate.


Reply 49 - Posted by: redwhite&blue2, 2/8/2013 2:54:25 PM     (No. 9166051)

Impeaching that lazy pot-smoking coke-snorting skeet-shooting foreign exchange student would be a good start, along with Biden, and jail time for both, leaving Boehner to run the country until the next fraudulent election.


Reply 50 - Posted by: tusker, 2/8/2013 3:06:50 PM     (No. 9166066)

Bow-Boy: well on his way to be one of the top despicable sons-of-bucks in the annuals of cowardice.

This birth certificate challenged, arrogant coward is beyond impeachment, way beyond impeachment.

What an absolutely hateful caricature of an assumed bi-pedal, a consummate incompetent who slept while the ambassador was being raped and killed, who did absolutely nothing to help these doomed souls, absolutely nothing. He let them be murdered. He is complicit in this barbaric occidental act against humanity.

Bow-Boy will pay, ultimately, but it will be neither enough or soon enough.


Reply 51 - Posted by: Italiano, 2/8/2013 3:46:14 PM     (No. 9166153)

Too many self-deleted posts. I give up.


Reply 52 - Posted by: Heraclitus, 2/8/2013 4:03:18 PM     (No. 9166177)

Won´t accept author´s conclusion that BO will skate... this assumtion has been made over and again, BECAUSE --in part-- we accept it, and do nothing but gripe and complain.

What can we do? admittedly, not much other than something simple which turns out to be important: call or otherwise contact those in Congress who ARE trying to get to the bottom, the very deep, slimey bottom, of these matters.

If they don´t hear from us, they do not know if their efforts matter. Human beings as they are (!) it makes a difference to get moral support, exhortations.

For critics of FOX, true, the cable channel is not perfect, but FOX investigates, pursues, covers the thorniest of issues. FOX is the only "news" outlet on tv that does this. --why else is the Dem/Left so eager to neutralize FOX? Our support is important.

We also need to keep trying to open the minds of those in our circle of acquaintances. I keep telling myself over and over: never give up, even on those minds apparently cemented shut.


Reply 53 - Posted by: Lonestar Jack, 2/8/2013 4:22:47 PM     (No. 9166206)

tiny wienie will not make any decision that can come back and bite him.
Who would he be able to blame for a bad decision but himself and he won´t be put in that position


Reply 54 - Posted by: bpl40, 2/8/2013 4:32:44 PM     (No. 9166222)

#s 1,40 & 46 dead on target. There is no other explanation. Zippy and the gang knew beforehand. The ambassador was to be ´traded´ for the blind Sheikh to give cover before the election.
All we need now is a repeal of the 22nd Amendment (especially) applying to the current incumbent. Don´t worry people are busy on it.


Reply 55 - Posted by: congaree53, 2/8/2013 6:04:03 PM     (No. 9166340)

Give it up. No one cares anymore. The whole spin on this revolved around the weird idea that Obama´s reelection chances all hinged on the public believing that he was the guy who won the war on terror once and for all. So if he admitted that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, then poof—Mitt Romney is the 45th president of the United States.


Reply 56 - Posted by: walcb, 2/8/2013 6:11:36 PM     (No. 9166349)

Obama was celebrating 09-01-2011 and stoned out of his mind on cocaine or this was a bungled kidnapping which he was involved in so he knew what was supposed to happen (or both).


Reply 57 - Posted by: geoguy, 2/8/2013 7:24:08 PM     (No. 9166435)

Did anyone remind Penetta that purgery is punishable with jail time? Oh wait, Zippy will parton his whole crew.


Reply 58 - Posted by: golfmann, 2/8/2013 8:34:42 PM     (No. 9166521)

I don´t believe a damn word of it....

He knew.... they ALL knew and ordered the stand down...

What makes anybody think they wouldn´t run an order to launch a rescue operation by the president for a yes or no?

I call flat out BS on ALL of it...


Reply 59 - Posted by: janylou, 2/8/2013 9:57:02 PM     (No. 9166615)

State said they were watching the events on 9/11 in real time. Panetta says he informed Obomination when he went to the WH for his scheduled meeting an hour and a half into the attack and they only discussed it for fifteen minutes. Why weren´t they in the situation room trying to figure out what to do from the onset of this attack? Why weren´t Shrill and Panetta not summoned immediately? Do we even know where Shrill was during this attack?


Reply 60 - Posted by: larryp, 2/9/2013 12:30:01 AM     (No. 9166733)

I wonder what happened to the Native americans-the Indians. The Amvbassador´s mother was full blooded indian. Which made the Amb half. They should have come out to vindicate him partic since the donks are such supporters. The Native americans should demand an explanation what happened.


Reply 61 - Posted by: falconer, 2/9/2013 6:02:15 AM     (No. 9166834)

Weakness invites terrorism.


Dick Cheney


Reply 62 - Posted by: Reality, 2/9/2013 12:16:30 PM     (No. 9167445)

I think that the most interesting testimony about the ecvents of 9/11/2012 would be that of Gen. Petraeus. I don´t know what they had on him to shut him up, certainly it was more than some trumped up dalienc with a bimbo.
Maybe he will man up some day soon and let the truth come out.
Remember David, Truth, Honor Country.



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Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from her home in Boston´s Dorchester section to her old middle school in South Boston - a journey of just two miles, but one that covered a huge emotional distance. Finally, she was able to leave the painful past behind. Powell endured the explosive battle over desegregation in Boston in the 1970s. Tears come to her eyes when she talks about how it took her decades to return to the place where she never felt safe as an African-American seventh-grader."It was scary because of what you were going into, getting bricks thrown at your bus.

McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns
Politico, by Jennifer Epstein    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM     Post Reply
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"

History was made at Dealey
Plaza long before the
JFK assassination
Dallas Morning News, by David Flick    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:13:43 PM     Post Reply
A few years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lindalyn Adams was escorting visitors on a bus traveling down Elm Street near Dealey Plaza. “I was pointing out the John Neely Bryan cabin and the Old Red Courthouse, and suddenly I realized the whole bus was leaning towards the right as we were going close to the Texas School Book Depository, and the women [were] pointing and saying, “Is that? Is that? Is that?’” Adams recalled during an oral history interview. She knew, of course, what “that” meant. “That” was where Kennedy had been shot.

WashPost Page One ´Scoop´:
How Democrats Hope to Unseat Tea
Party GOP With ´Non-Ideological
Problem Solvers´
Newsbusters, by Tim Graham    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:39:52 AM     Post Reply
Here´s today´s sign the Washington Post is a Democrat rag. This story is on A-4: "Health-care law may backfire for some on Medicaid: Expansion threatens to oust thousands in states with generous programs." This story is on A-1: "Democrats seek infusion of new faces." Paul Kane´s front-pager passed along the DCCC´s new strategy of finding "problem solvers" that...don´t know how to solve problems yet. The central character is Kevin Strouse, a former Army Ranger with no set positions on the issues. "Immigration? Tax policy? ´Certainly I have a lot of research to do,´

Central Jersey bracing for noisy,
nasty nuisance of cicada invasion
Star Ledger [Newark,NJ], by Mark Spivey    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:31:18 AM     Post Reply
They’re big. They’re ugly. They’re noisy. And they’re coming. So get ready. The blockbuster brood of the periodical cicada, large insects that emerge en masse from the ground in 17-year intervals across the northeast, is on its way — and New York City’s largest public radio station is encouraging residents in Central Jersey and beyond to help track the invasion. “The whole idea came from our news director, Jim (Schachter, of Summit), who lives in New Jersey — he promised his wife that they would move from their home before the 17-year cicadas came back,”

As Navy rape case unravels,
questions of homicide appear
Los Angeles Times, by Kim Murphy    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:27:22 AM     Post Reply
The night began like many at Boorda Hall, a five-story barracks at Naval Station Great Lakes, the Navy´s premier training base on the shore of Lake Michigan in Illinois. Somebody announced a party, and the hard drinking and beer pong began. A 21-year-old Marine lance corporal, so drunk on rum and Mountain Dew she was slurring her words, went to look for Kyle Antonacci, a Navy seaman she´d been dating off and on. Antonacci soon texted his friend Mike Pineda to help him deal with her. Both men had sex with her that night. But what distinguished May 8, 2009,

Kerry: Slain Foreign Service
officer ´smart, capable, eager to serve´
The Hill [Washington DC], by Carlo Muñoz    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 8:53:39 AM     Post Reply
A U.S. Foreign Service officer was killed and four others wounded in Afghanistan while carrying out a goodwill mission in the eastern part of the country. The State Department team was delivering books to an Afghan school in the Qalat district of Zaul province when their convoy was hit by a suicide bomber, Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. "She was everything a foreign service officer should be: smart, capable, eager to serve, and deeply committed to our country and the difference she was making for the Afghan people," Kerry said of the slain official.



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´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo

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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers    Original Article
Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM     Post Reply
Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.

Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
General´ Comment Was a Gaffe

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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM     Post Reply
President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that

We are living in a dying country (Thread 2)
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh    Original Article
Posted By: LComStaff- 4/7/2013 6:49:54 AM     Post Reply
This is the second thread of an article posted yesterday which can be found here:http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=730032

McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns

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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM     Post Reply
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"

Hillary Clinton Would Not
´Clear the Field´ for 2016

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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM     Post Reply
No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent

Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage

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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe    Original Article
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’

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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM     Post Reply
On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth

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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM     Post Reply
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank

White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM     Post Reply
The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look

The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM     Post Reply
Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM     Post Reply
Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM     Post Reply
The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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