Barack Obama’s prospects for re-election have been fading for some time now. As Mitt Romney surges, Obama flails, embarrassing himself with silly trivialities that are often summed up as Big Bird, binders and bayonets. That’s what happens when your record is so bad that you can’t talk about it; not truthfully, anyway. So it has been clear for a while that Obama’s re-election hopes can’t absorb another blow. Which the Benghazi story, to the extent the facts get out, surely is.
That is why Obama made a decision early on to stop referring to the Benghazi debacle as a successful terrorist attack. Acknowledging what really happened would have utterly destroyed one of Obama’s main campaign themes, that through his own personal heroism he had al Qaeda on the run. Instead, Obama chose to pretend that Benghazi was an unfortunate but essentially meaningless mob uprising, prompted by a YouTube video. So we got the nauseating spectacle of Hillary Clinton hugging the father of one of the murdered SEALS and assuring him not to worry, the Obama administration would prosecute the guy who made the video to the fullest extent of the law.
But, with a little over a week to go until the election, the lid was blown off the administration’s cover-up by Fox’s story yesterday, alleging that the administration turned down repeated pleas for help over the course of the seven-hour Benghazi battle, and by the white-hot anger of Charles Woods, who has repeatedly called Barack Obama and his White House “cowards” for failing to come to his son’s aid.
If the allegations of Fox’s story prove to be true–still an open question at this point–and if voters know about them, Obama has no chance on November 6. So how will the media formerly known as mainstream, which have done their best to try to drag Obama’s sorry campaign across the finish line, deal with the Benghazi story?
Read more at Powerline. By John Hinderaker.
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How can Obama ignore the Benghazi terror attack, in which he personally refused to send help to the 4 brave Americans who lost their life because of him. Gen. Petraeus has said the CIA was not the ones who refused to send help. Hillary Clinton has said that she wanted to send more help but she was over ridden by Obama. So tell me how Obama can dodge this. It is my opinion that any American who votes for him is guilty of treason.
Yes, I will have to agree with you on this one.
Why did obama do nothing to help Chris Stevens and the 3 Navy Seals? What was he trying to cover up? Was obama running guns to the al qaeda? We know he gave weapons and money to the Muslim Brotherhood to help them overthrow the Syrian government. Al qaeda was hired to join the rebels. Turkey was also involved in overthrowing Syria. If you believe that obama is a Muslim and he working to help unite the Muslim countries, stuff starts to make more sense. Obama see himself as the father of the United Arab States. The Muslim leaders dream of the day when all Muslim countries are united and then they can go after the West to convert the world to Islam. Obama is the enemy. Everything he has done makes more sense when things are looked at this way. He is breaking our economy and military so we will be weak. Meanwhile, he is making the Islamic world stronger. In the last 4 years, al qaeda has gotten bigger and stronger. Obama has not stopped them. He has been helping them! The Americans who were killed in
Benghazi should be martyred if Romney win the election and turns us around. They gave their lives and they just may have saved America. It was the final push we needed to expose obama farther and save this great country. Even when Romney gets in, we will have a lot of work to do. Each one of us must honor those who sacrificed for us by do our very best each day. Be a better person and set an example of what we are supposed to be. America is the greatest country in all of history. This is not arrogance. It is the plain truth.
I agree is is time to remind some people of responsibility for themselves.
obama is not a muslim, he is a christian,. he worships at a church, not a mosque., end of conspiracy theory no. 537
btw, someone famous said this once, and it applied today [he was a pastor in nazis germany ]: First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
well said
simply put i do not believe you
Unfortunately the mainstream media is identical to our Congress, in that they will do nothing, nor will they say anything to inform the American people that might, and I say might put Obama in a poor light with the American people and as such, the majority of American’s, are clueless, about Benghazi or anything that happened to the four American’s that died on September 11, 2012.
I suspect that with most American’s in the dark, they will eagerly cast their vote for Obama since no one in their right mind would ever consider biting the hand that feeds them. The sad part is that even those American’s that are not in the dark but are dependent on the handouts that Obama has gotten millions of American’s accustomed to, they too, will vote to keep him in office.
The media has become the propaganda arm of the Chicago crime machine, headed by none other that Obama’s Ambassador of Propaganda, David Axelrod, and controlled by Valerie Jarred, Obama’s in-house Chief Advisor, who by the way is also an Iranian, as is Hilary’s Chief of Staff traveling Huma Abadien. companion.
I bet that they all have a peachy time during Ramadan, as they all bow down and kneel onto their prayer rugs. If this madness is allowed to continue, America will soon be in its death throws,
Huma Abedin is not Iranian. She was born in Michigan. Her father was born in India. Her mother was born in Pakistan. Huma Abedin and her parents lived for several years in Saudi Arabia. I’m no fan of Obama’s filling key positions with people with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, but get your facts right if you want to be taken seriously.
and what is wrong with that, if they want to pray as a muslim? why do u discriminate? do u feel the same way about other relgions> or is your prejudice just against muslims?
are you a troll sleeping in a public park
The media will continue to sweep Benghazi under the carpet and report on a monster storm instead.
It damn sure better not go unpunished! Whether or not the Legislature has the cajones to pursue BO as the criminal he is lies in the hands and voices of their constituents. If “The People” remain moot, removed and silent, the sob may well get away with aiding and abetting the murder of 4 government employess that he minimalized with his narcistic attitude.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO JAM THE PHONES, FLOOD THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS WITH FAXES, E-MAILS, CARDS AND LETTERS UNTIL THE BASTARD IS PROSECUTED FOR BENGHAZI AND ALL THE OTHER “RIMES AND MISDEMEANORS” HE’S PERPETRATED SINCE ASSUMING THE OFFAL OFFICE!
i see no cover up. what i see is a swear campaing by certain people who do not want to see a black man reeelcted
you see nothing then.
how is fantasy land?
You’re acting in the manner of raging Joe Biden…when you can’t or refuse to handle, face or accept the facts…yell, cast aspersions and/or pout.
You damn sure wouldn’t want me as C-n-C. I ultra-conservative and believe a lot of heads must role to clean up the mess that American citizens have let this country mire itself in over the past 3 decades…probably longer.
Dammit! That comment was intended for “donblassvivar”. And yes “siquijorisland” it is apparent that don is deeply immersed in the cool aid. To bad it is Mr. Jones’ toxic brew from his “religious” camp where around a 1000 of his followers were murdered!
OK i get it.
You are so correct
DON – Wake up, take off your sleeping mask, wash your face to feel refreshed and LOOK at the facts. Obama is not a “black man”, but a product of conception with 3 bloodlines. He’s only “50%” black blood. He plays the role and even changes his disalect/lexicon only when it suits him.