OBAMA FEIGNS INDIGNITY OVER MISLEADING CHARGE; THEN WHY DID HIS MINIONS MISLEAD US ?

The great gaffe

By Charles Krauthammer, Published: October 18

“And the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive.”

— Barack Obama,
second debate, Oct. 16


Fight night at Hofstra. The two boxers, confined within a ring of spectators — circling, feinting, taunting, staring each other down — come several times, by my reckoning, no more than one provocation away from actual fisticuffs, of the kind that on occasion so delightfully break out in the Taiwanese parliament. Think of it: the Secret Service storming the ring, pinning Mitt Romney to the canvas as Candy Crowley administers the 10 count.

The actual outcome was somewhat more pedestrian. President Obama gained a narrow victory on points, as borne out by several flash polls. The margin was small, paling in comparison to Romney’s 52-point victory in the first debate.

At Hofstra, Obama emerged from his previous coma to score enough jabs to outweigh Romney’s haymaker, his dazzling takedown of the Obama record when answering a disappointed 2008 Obama voter.

That one answer might account for the fact that, in two early flash polls, Romney beat Obama on the economy by 18 points in one poll, 31 in the other. That being the overriding issue, the debate is likely to have minimal effect on the dynamics of the race.

The one thing Obama’s performance did do is re-energize his demoralized base — the media, in particular. But at a price.

The rub for Obama comes, ironically enough, out of Romney’s biggest flub in the debate, the Libya question. That flub kept Romney from winning the evening outright. But Obama’s answer has left him a hostage to fortune. Missed by Romney, missed by the audience, missed by most of the commentariat, it was the biggest gaffe of the entire debate cycle: Substituting unctuousness for argument, Obama declared himself offended by the suggestion that anyone in his administration, including the U.N. ambassador, would “mislead” the country on Libya.

This bluster — unchallenged by Romney — helped Obama slither out of the Libya question unscathed. Unfortunately for Obama, there is one more debate — next week, entirely on foreign policy. The burning issue will be Libya and the scandalous parade of fictions told by this administration to explain away the debacle.

No one misled? His U.N. ambassador went on not one but five morning shows to spin a confection that the sacking of the consulate and the murder of four Americans came from a video-motivated demonstration turned ugly: “People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent and those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons.”

But there was no gathering. There were no people. There was no fray. It was totally quiet outside the facility until terrorists stormed the compound and killed our ambassador and three others.

The video? A complete irrelevance. It was a coordinated, sophisticated terror attack, encouraged, if anything, by Osama bin Laden’s successor, giving orders from Pakistan to avenge the death of a Libyan jihadist.

Not wishing to admit that we had just been attacked by al-Qaeda affiliates, perhaps answering to the successor of a man on whose grave Obama and the Democrats have been dancing for months, the administration relentlessly advanced the mob/video tale to distract from the truth.

And it wasn’t just his minions who misled the nation. A week after the attack, the president himself, asked by David Letterman about the ambassador’s murder, said it started with a video. False again.

Romney will be ready Monday.

You are offended by this accusation, Mr. President? The country is offended that your press secretary, your U.N. ambassador and you yourself have repeatedly misled the nation about the origin and nature of the Benghazi attack.

The problem wasn’t the video, the problem was policies for which you say you now accept responsibility. Then accept it, Mr. President. You were asked in the last debate why more security was denied our people in Libya despite the fact that they begged for it. You never answered that question, Mr. President. Or will you blame your secretary of state?

Esprit d’escalier (“wit of the staircase”) is the French term for the devastating riposte that one should have given at dinner but comes up with only on the way out at the bottom of the staircase. It’s Romney’s fortune that he’s invited to one more dinner. If he gets it right this time, Obama’s narrow victory in debate No. 2, salvaged by the mock umbrage that anyone could accuse him of misleading, will cost him dearly.

It was a huge gaffe. It is indelibly on the record. It will prove a very expensive expedient.

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Monday night will be a disaster for Obama. He has the worst foreign policy record since LBJ. He can't defend his record, because it has been terrible.

And don't forget the lying.

Monday night will be a disaster for Obama. He has the worst foreign policy record since LBJ. He can't defend his record, because it has been terrible. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

LBJ and The Gulf of Tonkin event that NEVER happened.
A False Flag, a lie to get America into the Vietnam War.

Sound familiar?

Video - Patrick Clawson, Director of Research at Washington Institute Of Near East Policy (WINEP) Lobbyist Says Israel Should Create A 'False Flag' To Start A War With Iran

Video - Former Minnesota Gov. & Ex Navy Seal Jesse Ventura on CNN - Piers Morgan Tonight: ‘Every War Starts With a False Flag’

Despite Obama's lies and throwing the US intelligence under the bus, we now know the CIA knew the Libya attacks were from militant terrorists within 24 hours.................yet lying Rice was sent out by TeamObama to mislead the American public ...........

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-wo...tack-militants

Despite Obama's lies and throwing the US intelligence under the bus, we now know the CIA knew the Libya attacks were from militant terrorists within 24 hours.................yet lying Rice was sent out by TeamObama to mislead the American public ...........

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-wo...tack-militants Originally Posted by Whirlaway

In order for Rice or Obama to be lying you would have to prove that the CIA intel was presented to them within 24 hours, and you haven''t. Your own article shows the flaw in your conclusion:

It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the agency the information went.

Such raw intelligence reports by the CIA on the ground would normally be sent first to analysts at the headquarters in Langley, Va., for vetting and comparing against other intelligence derived from eavesdropping drones and satellite images. Only then would such intelligence generally be shared with the White House and later, Congress, a process that can take hours, or days if the intelligence is coming from only one or two sources who may or may not be trusted.
U.S. intelligence officials say in this case the delay was due in part to the time it took to analyze various conflicting accounts. One official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the incident publicly, explained that "it was clear a group of people gathered that evening" in Benghazi, but that the early question was "whether extremists took over a crowd or they were the crowd," and it took until the following week to figure that out.

An ambassador was killed. It was on the President's desk the next morning. You people will defend ANYTHING!! It's amazing! Maybe the President skipped the briefing. He does that, you know.

Even if it took a couple days, why did Obama lie about it for two weeks?

Yeah; on one hand the Obamazombies defend him skipping intelligence briefing citing his ability to absorb/process information without meetings...then when it blow up, they claim he wasn't in the know......can't have it both ways zombies.

And as COG asked...why did Obama lie about it for two weeks?

Yeah; on one hand the Obamazombies defend him skipping intelligence briefing citing his ability to absorb/process information without meetings...then when it blow up, they claim he wasn't in the know......can't have it both ways zombies.

And as COG asked...why did Obama lie about it for two weeks? Originally Posted by Whirlaway

the same reason willard refuses to show his tax returns for months ...

Right. I forgot the Obama family crest motto: "You cant be called a liar if you never tell the truth."

So Obama wasn't told it was a terrorist attack, the annointed one devined it and went to the Rose garden to announce the terrorism..then sent Rice on the lie circuit to Sunday talk shows to tell Americans it was the video and non existent street protests......got it!

An ambassador was killed. It was on the President's desk the next morning. You people will defend ANYTHING!! It's amazing! Maybe the President skipped the briefing. He does that, you know.

Even if it took a couple days, why did Obama lie about it for two weeks? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Go read some books asshole.

You are a Tea Puke. You better hope someone like me never gets elected, I would late term abort folks like you and HatingKayla.

You are a menace to society.


At least HatingKayla is proud to be associated with that Hate group. Just admit wtf you are and move on.

Yeah; on one hand the Obamazombies defend him skipping intelligence briefing citing his ability to absorb/process information without meetings...then when it blow up, they claim he wasn't in the know......can't have it both ways zombies.

And as COG asked...why did Obama lie about it for two weeks? Originally Posted by Whirlaway

Faulty intel.

All you have to do is remember your reaction to WMD's where all those soldiers died due to faulty inrel and your reaction to that....oh wait, you had no negative reaction to that.

Fake outrage is all you got.

An ambassador was killed. It was on the President's desk the next morning. You people will defend ANYTHING!! It's amazing! Maybe the President skipped the briefing. He does that, you know.

Even if it took a couple days, why did Obama lie about it for two weeks? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Maybe the same reason the Bush admin lied for years about WMD'S..