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Nobody wake Barack
New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/10/2013 5:06:50 AM
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| The Benghazi terrorist attack was a debacle in three distinct stages. The fatal mistakes occurred in the first two — the failure to provide adequate security before the attack and the failure to provide help once it started. Those mistakes were tragic, but the Obama administration’s explanations are coherent, though hardly defensible. The mystery always has been the third stage — the aftermath, or more accurately, the coverup. Even before the bodies of the four Americans came home, the White House was eager to tell any story except the real one. Aides twisted and turned to create the false narrative
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
revdeppisch316, 2/10/2013 5:32:06 AM (No. 9168224)
The words Obama and "wake" sound pretty good right about now.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/10/2013 5:32:20 AM (No. 9168225)
Neither Hillary or Obama ever saw a request for more security and Obama wasn´t able to be reached during the attack itself.Panetta says he didn´t have enough info to respond to the attack even though there were drones shooting the entire incident.
This thing went on for 8 hours while our whole government was totally immobilized to respond and the best answer we get is "at this point what difference does it make."
But Hillary is the most popular politician in the US.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/10/2013 5:39:24 AM (No. 9168227)
#2 nails it. The only thing I would add is this: if it were MY loved one who trusted his government to provide security and failed, I would be screaming from the rooftops about it. One mother said "all she wanted was the truth"..well now she has the truth. Why are they all so silent? No anger at the gross incompetence?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
osprey21, 2/10/2013 5:45:07 AM (No. 9168231)
Whatever ills befall these people is well deserved.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/10/2013 5:55:16 AM (No. 9168237)
If Soros had been in that Benghazi compound, the entire military would have been pulled across the world and Benghzi itself would have been reduced to ashes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/10/2013 6:11:47 AM (No. 9168244)
There is still an ongoing effort to disappear all the other people who were at or near the compound. Where are they all ? Where is the media seeking their statements ?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rinktum, 2/10/2013 6:14:39 AM (No. 9168245)
Agree #3. I would not be silenced until I knew everything about this attack. Why isn´t the media camping out on these families´ front yards. They have no problem thrusting themselves in the face of anyone who has had a tragedy such as this. Just makes you wonder what the Obama thugocracy has "suggested" to these people.
Finally, how about you media hotshots ask Jay Carney where the folks that were rescued during the Banghazi attack are and can they be interviewed. Did no one at the hearing think to ask one of these guys to testify? You are not going to get the truth from Obama´s regime. The only hope is that someone who knows something will talk. Are there any patriots out there?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
beamer, 2/10/2013 6:15:03 AM (No. 9168246)
I have read other reports that Obama and company wanted to have the ambassador captured and then he would trade a terrorist we held for him. But the attackers were not aware of his plan and just killed the ambassador, and others. This is a debacle of major importance. This administration is totally incompetent!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MMC, 2/10/2013 6:31:19 AM (No. 9168256)
The family did protest and ask for answers... Someone in a black sedan with tinted windows talked to them...
Silence bought...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 2/10/2013 6:39:26 AM (No. 9168263)
This is all of a piece with Obama turning the writing of the Obamacare bill over to Nancy Pelosi who went to every Democrat Rep and asked if they had any old proposed legislation that had been rejected. She came up with about 2700 pages and I don´t think even Obama knew all that was in it. There were many blanksto be filled in later. Surely something incorporated after a bill is passed cannot constitutionally be law.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
edgar, 2/10/2013 7:18:18 AM (No. 9168293)
Unfortunately for Ambassador Stevens, he caught a tire when Barry threw him under the bus. I have watched a couple MSM news casts this weekend. NONE have covered this topic. If it were Bush in the WH, they would be all over this. Instead, I hear Lester Holt say "GUN VIOLENCE" 7 times in a half hour broadcast. Just making sure "the people" hear the message.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pineledger, 2/10/2013 7:26:26 AM (No. 9168305)
It´s not that easy if the sleeper is passed out.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 2/10/2013 7:27:22 AM (No. 9168307)
Why is this a surprise: Obama acted as he has consistently acted: letting others do the heavy lifting and sailing in afterward (e.g. Obamacare, written by others) to take credit or shift blame: leading from behind. The more egregious point, however, is that he flew off on AF1 to go to a fund raiser early the next morning: no wonder he needed his sleep. With Obama, politics and re-election trumped everything.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 2/10/2013 7:29:31 AM (No. 9168313)
And the PRESS has acted constant with THEIR ideals in not covering the subject. They should be scorned as deeply as our President!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
The Advocate, 2/10/2013 7:40:53 AM (No. 9168329)
Hitler lost when his yes men generals were afraid to wake him. Dempsey looked like the nerdy kid in third grade who would do anything to be liked. Panetta has been using the military as his private taxi service back to his taxpayer funded progressive scam. Neither Obama nor Hilary were to be seen or heard for the entire assault on America by Islamist terrorists. They were both derelict in their duties. Were they both drunk or under some other influence? Did Obama turn Stevens over to be kidnapped for the blind sheik or killed to silence him? Is their a gay connection to Obama similar to the murdered Donald Young? Why didn´t one Republican ask Hilary where she was and what she was doing during the 11 hours?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/10/2013 7:48:46 AM (No. 9168339)
And in case you missed it......as a thank you for those F16s.....Egypt has banned You Tube for one month so no one will see the infamous video.
You know that video that no one has seen in the first place.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
dolphin, 2/10/2013 7:57:40 AM (No. 9168353)
The priorities are obvious. No life of any ambassador or of any soldier is as important as is making the world safe for sex, drugs and rock ´n roll ...and getting that revenge.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
krause, 2/10/2013 8:31:10 AM (No. 9168394)
FTA: Had he been a military officer, he would face charges.
Well, being CIC should qualify him.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
eoddad, 2/10/2013 8:31:57 AM (No. 9168395)
#14 is right. The ultimate Villain in all this is the PRESS. The Benghazi incident should have been exposed before the election instead the MSM covered it all up as they will continue to do. You have to wonder will they ever have any self reflection and will it always be a total subjugation to their Socialist world view, in conflict with their stated goal of being the watchdogs to the powerful. All hear know the answer.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Chiritwo, 2/10/2013 8:50:48 AM (No. 9168412)
#7 if this were a Republican President, the press would be all over it. My local paper has had nothing in about Libya nor the hearings. That´s what makes low info voters. Right now this country is broken. It´s so bad that it seems ok to cheat to win the election for dems. No one is doing anything about that either.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
M2, 2/10/2013 8:54:53 AM (No. 9168416)
The writer doesn´t know how right he is:
You would think a presidential conscience would keep him awake and engaged until he knew what had happened in Benghazi. You would be wrong.
That assumes a conscience, "presidential" or not. This is not a flippant comment simply to make snide remarks about POTUS; it is a clinical observation. I am not the first to make the observation that people with NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) do not have a conscience -- there is a black hole where sympathy and caring should be.
POTUS is a malignant Narcissist. They have no conscience.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 2/10/2013 9:12:48 AM (No. 9168441)
...and of course Obama´s followers care about all of this. Look at the current accolades on Hillary, the media setting her up for the next election go-round. What does it matter what is revealed if the citizens do no respond to all of this.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 2/10/2013 9:16:53 AM (No. 9168449)
As I have said repeatedly before, no surprises here. Classic Obama right out of the radical playbook. What is stunning is that we (aka Joe average gullible American, that is) keep letting these travesties happen and then the sheep buy in to it again last November. And to those who refused to vote for a mormon.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Garage Logician, 2/10/2013 9:18:24 AM (No. 9168453)
When president Obama is stoned on his butt on any given evening, such as the evening of 9/11/2012, is the nuclear football with Joe Biden? Do they tell Biden he´s not allowed to get drunk on those evenings when Obama´s getting stoned?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
artlover, 2/10/2013 10:04:29 AM (No. 9168509)
When you say Hillary is the most popular politician there is now, it makes me want to upchuck. The whole bunch of them is making it hard for me to endure even thinking about them. I am sure that this country is in absolute decline and there is NO retrieving it. I am actually glad that I am old enough that I will not have to endure the pain that the low information voters and the Republicans who did not vote, have brought to this wonderful country. God Help Us, and my grandkids and great grandkids, please.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 2/10/2013 10:34:48 AM (No. 9168560)
Anyone else remember how the left defended CLinton´s lies?
"It was just sex. It´s not like anyone died because of it."
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
caddyjak, 2/10/2013 10:43:56 AM (No. 9168578)
#15...Gay connection. You hit the nail on the POTUS. Where is Breitbart when we need him???
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
chicodon, 2/10/2013 10:58:54 AM (No. 9168597)
I´ve suggested this before but I think Obama and Hillary may have been clueless. Obama has no time to actually be President. He was too busy campaigning and Hillary was gallivanting around the world partying. It looked to me like a spook operation gone bad. One of those things the President can´t know about. If it was a gun buying and smuggling operation I can see Obama blaming the CIA and throwing it in Panetta´s lap. Remember, Turkey is supplying weapons to Syrian rebels. The last visitor to the Benghazi outpost, at 8pm, was a Turkish representative.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rita, 2/10/2013 11:05:10 AM (No. 9168604)
Aides? Aides twisted and turned? Hell´s bells rang out! The principles themselves were first to air this lie, to obfuscate from questions that were serious, BECAUSE these players were themselves caught derilict and incompetent. Immediately, during the massacre, Hillary and Buhrock both were AWOL, period. Their lie was one to tamp down the obvious, trying to make the state run media blow this off, if not ignore it all together. Where were they anyway?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
udanja99, 2/10/2013 11:11:25 AM (No. 9168616)
One correction - zippy wasn´t MIA. The word "action" implies involvement. Zippy was AWOL.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Roberto 22, 2/10/2013 11:18:03 AM (No. 9168627)
Obama´s interest in foreign policy ends at the Coast line-our coast line
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 2/10/2013 12:05:49 PM (No. 9168703)
Parties, vacations, golf and riding around on AF1 - good. Responsibility for foreign policy catastrophes - bad.
Lay this one off on a youtube filmmaker and if that doesn´t hold, let Panetta and Clinton handle it. I´m late for my fundraiser in Vegas.
The contrast between Dr. Ben Carson and Obama is profound. It´s the difference between good and evil.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Arby, 2/10/2013 12:10:06 PM (No. 9168714)
Reagan was the great communicator; Fauxbama is the great delegator.
Bottom line: you can´t delegate responsibility.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Billyc, 2/10/2013 12:21:46 PM (No. 9168732)
The Democrats when questioned on Benghazi reply by the let´s move on. It should be told over and over again until Obama , Michael Mullins Panetta Hillary Clinton start telling the truth.For over 5 hours American citizens were fighting for their lives and no help or command whatever was issued to save these people.Not from Obama who was at the time ensuring he got in as prez again.Amazing that CIA , State Department. Defense Department, Joint Chief of Staff did squat publically and Panetta being interrogated again stated he did not have equipment or forces available. No one gave any effort to face the President and tell him to order help. F 16´s were nearby 15 to 20 mins away at Sicily. No colateral damage was necessary, low flying fighters would have pursuaded the attackers to lay off the Consulate.The Democrats need to wake up and let them realise that no help from this crowd in the WH et al would not help them if they were in the same situation.How can this incompetant occupant of the White House face publically any camera with a straight face. Makes one want to throw up .
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
bighambone, 2/10/2013 12:54:15 PM (No. 9168780)
If Obama was on duty, Obama´s immediate mission should have been to make one phone call to the top dog Libyan over there and tell him in no uncertain terms what he expected the Libyan government to do ASAP, and if that did not happen there would be dire consequences.
For some reason, maybe an exciting basketball game on TV, or Obama needing sleep before he set out early the next morning to campaign in Las Vegas, that phone call did not happen.
No doubt after the attack was launched and up to this time the so-called main stream media has been in cover Obama´s back mode 100% and you will never hear that media report that Panetta said that Obama was "absent" the night of the Benghazi attack.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
redwhite&blue2, 2/10/2013 1:14:11 PM (No. 9168810)
I´d like to WAKE UP the stoopid low-info American voters who re-elected this phony, hypocritical, weak-kneed liar! What were you THINKING? You idiots! Now we are stuck with Soetoro, Biden, Kerry, Carney, Axelrod, Holder, Reid, Piglosi, Jarrett, and all the other Marxist Muslim-loving terrorist lefty liberals for FOUR MORE YEARS!!! Thanks a frickin´ lot!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
novakid, 2/10/2013 1:35:43 PM (No. 9168836)
Actually, I think the country is better off when 0bama IS asleep.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
ida Lou Pino, 2/10/2013 1:36:06 PM (No. 9168839)
For those of you outside the NY metro area - - Michael Goodwin is a former far leftist who has slowly come to see the light.
He still describes himself as a "liberal" demonrat - - but he does seem to have a conscience and a sense of shame which keep leading him towards the truth.
Unfortunately - - the great preponderance of leftists is either too dumb or too evil to ever get there.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
pickle1, 2/10/2013 1:37:18 PM (No. 9168842)
He´s probably had his drugs and they can´t wake him.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 2/10/2013 1:57:30 PM (No. 9168869)
IF we had an actual cohort of journalists, not these brown-nosing toadies, not only would this story have been under hot, active investigation, most likely we would not be saddled with BO again. And, Hill-of-beans would not be considered for anything except the "Most Overrated" list.
We might try calling/contacting "news" outlets and complaining, asking them where their reporting is; and calling FOX to thank them for pursuing this, as they have on every other serious crisis, issue, malfeasance.
Other than that, share articles such as this one with your uninformed acquaintenances. Tell them to wake up before it´s too late!(kinda frustrating, i know... but i keep trying)
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
GoodGrief, 2/10/2013 4:58:12 PM (No. 9169096)
Had the U.S. Press (our so-called Fourth Estate) done a 20% job on this story alone, the election would have had a different outcome.
We are being betrayed by the holders of the First Amendment.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 2/10/2013 5:10:01 PM (No. 9169111)
Exactly, #21. The only thing that matters to Obama is his agenda, and his power. Conscience, if he had one, would be an impediment.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
artlover, 2/10/2013 5:16:06 PM (No. 9169115)
Its now wonder now one is reading newspapers anymore. I hope they all go broke and also hope all the liberal nuts on TV go broke. They deserve it.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
artlover, 2/10/2013 5:18:25 PM (No. 9169119)
I mean it is NO wonder No one is reading the papers anymore. Thanks.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
starboard, 2/10/2013 6:25:13 PM (No. 9169209)
#14 agree. Additionally, the press needs to have consequences when they don´t do their job. Perhaps a hefty fine may make them more responsible.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
TruthAndJustice, 2/10/2013 7:21:59 PM (No. 9169261)
WND reporting
Obama´s CIA pick is a Muslim.... FBI agent claims
Panetta said he, Hillary and Dempsey wanted to arm the rebels but Obama said no...more Kabuki to hide the fact that this is Fast and Furious II
Why is Obama arming our enemies and why is none in the military stopping
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 2/10/2013 7:27:39 PM (No. 9169270)
Still waiting to hear from the other 30 who where in Benghazi and were able to escape. Have they vanished off the face of the earth?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 2/10/2013 9:35:50 PM (No. 9169406)
Good, let him sleep.
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks
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Seattle to melt buyback guns into peace bricks
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Sanford gets second chance: On political scrapheap 4 years ago, ex-governor wins 1st district seat
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC: Newsman becomes newswoman
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Dem Congressman At Benghazi Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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Benghazi: Incompetence, but no cover-up
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution implies a right to health care, education
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South Carolina special election
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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