An ambassador was murdered and dragged through the streets, likely after being ass-banged by Islamists. Al Qaeda was behind the hit, which was planned in advance and orchestrated carefully.
It is likely that the US State Department — and perhaps the President (were he at one of his daily briefings, say by accident or something) — knew of the attacks in advance. Both the Israelis and MI6 have noted that they had advanced knowledge, and both would have passed such knowledge along.
In addition to this, the President, the State Department, the Justice Department, and the President’s Press Secretary all pushed the story that an American citizen, by way of a Youtube video, caused the “spontaneous uprising” that led to the death of an ambassador and others, the burning down of our embassy and consulates, and the compromising of assets and intelligence data.
They did this even over the casket of the dead ambassador, who we later found out requested additional security and had his request denied.
So while these bullshit jobs numbers make the rounds today — and all the talk of Obama’s racist, Marxist diatribes suddenly surfacing (and our racism for both viewing them and describing what was in them) made the rounds earlier in the week, along with joy over Romney’s debate victory — it is important that we keep our eye on the ball.
Whether by way of Fast and Furious and its attendant satellite programs, or by a foreign policy that attempted to create a narrative whereby the death of bin Laden equaled the death of Al Qaeda and Islamic radicalism (making it a-ok to enter into talks with, eg., the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt), Americans have died — and the blood is on the hands of this Administration.
I don’t much care that sappy undecided voters hate conflict and would rather not hear uncomfortable truths. Hold them down and make them listen.
At least then, they can’t pretend they voted for Obama yet again because they were uninformed. And for the rest of their lives and their children’s lives, living as indentured servants and subjects to the State, they’ll have to deal with how to keep their hair neat or their makeup applied correctly. Because I doubt they’ll be able to look at themselves in the mirror.
I don’t much care that sappy undecided voters hate conflict and would rather not hear uncomfortable truths. Hold them down and make them listen.
Better yet, tell them that the election has been postponed until Wednesday.
I voted for Obama, and was torn between voting for him again or not voting at all. This recent debate changed that for me. I’m voting for Romney. His dynamic performance was in stark contrast to Obama’s smirking and shoe-staring. Romney really impressed me. I hope I’m not making a mistake here.
You made a mistake in ’08, but fortunately you’ve been given a second chance.
Don’t eff up.
Fortunately for them, the members of the media will never be held accountable for their complicity in the enslavement of a once-free people.
Car -in: McCain was a terrible candidate. You can admit that, correct? I didn’t vote for Obama because of white guilt; I guess being a minority drew me to him. I also think he’s done a terrible job these last four years — so… (HOPEfully, CHANGE!
Basically, all they have to do is grit their teeth, hold on and — with the help of their mainstream pals — plow through any pesky, irritating Benghazi resistance. If they emerge victorious in November? The world is their oyster, with an R in every month.
And by the way, if that happens, there will be plenty of blame to go around, but the major culprit will not be Obama — it will be a mainstream media that has been completely, happily, determinedly derelict in its duty to the public trust for at least the past decade, but certainly since Obama emerged as a serious candidate in 2007. A republic cannot withstand the loss of an unencumbered press, and our press wasn’t even pressured into its encumbrances; it took them on willfully, carried Obama into the White House on its shoulders and then bowed out of the Oval chamber, ass-first and with besotted trembling.
A kind of coup d’ Etat? But, of course. Some of us described how it would go down ‘way back in 2005.
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Another denial surfaces.
And then just let the rest of the “Foreign Policy” debate take care of itself.
lilida, in ’08 I voted for Palin and that old guy who was running with her. I was close to writing her in this time, but the foreign policy disaster that is Obama convinced me to vote for Mittens, who I also think is as bad a candidate as that old guy from last time. Obama, however, is a lot worse.
lilida:
McCain was indeed a terrible candidate. Mittens is a much better candidate, but still a statist. Regardless of what the Team R cheerleaders say, he’s not the next incarnation of Reagan.
I’m still debating whether I’ll pull the lever for Romney or not. I’m certainly not pulling it for Obama, however, so at minimum my +1 won’t go into that column. Your conscience will, hopefully, guide you at least that far if not farther. As Carin said, you aren’t committed to repeating yourself. That said, with the recent debate performance and this past month’s Obama administration shenanigans, I’m finding it easier to rationalize holding my nose and pulling the lever for Mittens.
Just don’t be fooled by the “if’n yer not votin’ fer Romney, yer votin’ fer Obama!” rhetoric. Your vote is either a +1 for some candidate or a 0 for all candidates. At worst, a non-vote simply doesn’t move the ball.
Darth: It really would be difficult for me to sit out the election; I have never missed one. I grew up in a staunchly democratic household and my first vote was for Carter (only voted for him because he is a distant relative of my father. Politics really never played a part in my decision to vote for him. I was so young back then!). My father is now a Republican and would be thrilled to hear that I’m voting for Romney. He teasingly told me that I would be a Republican one day — once I grew up. I was so angry when he said that! My mother, who is Japanese, has always voted Democrat, as well. I’m going to convince her to vote for Romney.
Let me second Darth on the “if’n yer not votin’ fer Romney, yer votin’ fer Obama!” thing. The notion is incorrect and deserves to be ignored.
I’m certainly not suggesting you sit out the election, Lilida, as I intend to vote for every item on my ballot that I can see clear to. There are important local and state races and issues that I will vote on, and I’m sure there are wherever you are as well.
What I’ll do for that one item on my ballot, Elector for President of the United States, I’m not sure of at this point. Either 0 for all or +1 for anybody but Obama. You don’t owe your vote to anyone but yourself, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
And you’re related, however distantly to James Earl Carter??!? He’s history’s greatest monster!!! ;-)
I’ve relented. I’ll vote for Romney to remove Obama. I don’t want to. But Colorado will be close, and I’m concerned about a renewal of terrorist attacks and a willful destabilization of the middle east. Ryan will at least push for a halt to the runaway fiscal Leviathan. And Romney will reverse course on foreign policy.
Once I’ve voted, and if Romney wins, then I’ll dog the shit out of him every day if he doesn’t move right — and I’ll happily work to destroy the GOP establishment and either replace it, or else find some other party that represents the interests of liberty rather than of government.
This is it. Make or break.
Sadly, we could have done much more, and I resent that we were prevented from doing so, and I loathe those who worked to make that so.
On the other hand, if Romney loses, the GOP is as good as dead, so far as I’m concerned. I’d like to see Boehner tied up and put in a clown car exhibit every weekend for the rest of his orange life.
Now, I’m off to go shooting. Rifles.
Then I’m going to pick Satch up from school and return to the range. So that he can shoot rifles.
Back later.
Darth: I didn’t mean to suggest that you were encouraging me to sit out the election. I definitely will vote, especially casting a vote of confidence for my husband, who won his primary and saw his Republican opponent drop out. Yeah, my late grandfather was a third cousin, I think, to Jimmy. When Carter moved into the White House, grandpa was sent a genealogical map with his position in the family tree. I actually saw it myself, but after he passed, the map mysteriously disappeared. Since my maiden name is Carter, most folks think I was named after Ms. Lillian. But I was really named after my great-grandmother.
I was raised a southern conservative Democrat. I was in Young Democrats in college, and I volunteered and voted for Jimmy Carter in my first ever presidential election. Four years of Jimmy Carter mostly cured me of all of that, and I became what’s now called a Reagan Democrat. HOWEVER, given my heritage and the fact the GHWB couldn’t even explain why exactly he wanted to be President again, I voted for fellow conservative Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992 (back when Al Gore could vouch for Clinton’s conservative bona fides, ha, I know). After a good solid look at four years of Teddy Kennedy with a southern drawl, I was cured once and for all.
The Democrats of today are solidly totalitarian socialists (INGSOC baby!), who celebrate Margaret Sanger (eugenics) and have chosen Nancy Pelosi (D – Brain Death) as their leader in the House. The election of Obama allowed the national Democratic leadership to stop pretending.
To vote Democratic today is to choose servitude and the life of the cared-for cow with free food and health care until we die, or until we become an economic net burden to the collective, which ever comes first.
or did I miss Obama’s denial when Venezuela’s Chavez said he would vote for Obama and that Obama would vote for him?
The Democrats of today are solidly totalitarian socialists (INGSOC baby!)
My younger cow-orkers look askance at me when I make such assertions. It’s one reason you find me quoting JFK speeches here from time to time. Wasn’t so long ago that Democrats thought that things like “hard work” and “liberty” were virtues, and not ironic punchlines.
Screw Russia — where’s my reset button?
I grew up in a Democrat family but by 1980 both my mom and I had become open to voting GOP, to get rid of Carter and two years later to elect Deukmejian in CA.
My dad ended up writing off all politicians and my brother lost his right to vote — but at least the tradition of voting Democrat ended.
I’d write in “Prickly City’s” Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse before I’d vote for anyone that follows Obama, Pelosi or Reid.
… or maybe “PVP’s” Scratch Fury, Destroyer of Worlds, even though he’s mellowed with age.
I am voting Johnson as far as know right now. If I get much more disgusted with things I may not vote at all. Our local elective choices are about as sorry as the national ones, believe it or not.
The Rape of America’s Ambassador to Libya
Stunner: Turkey Infiltrating Native American Tribes — and May Get Congressional Help
Obama Weighs Retaliation for Attacks in Benghazi, Libya, That Killed Chris Stevens
Well, I guess it was only a matter of time until Obama went to the drones.
“I’ve relented. I’ll vote for Romney to remove Obama. I don’t want to. But Colorado will be close, and I’m concerned about a renewal of terrorist attacks and a willful destabilization of the middle east. Ryan will at least push for a halt to the runaway fiscal Leviathan. And Romney will reverse course on foreign policy.”
Yeah, the 9/11 rioting, embassy rushing, the attempt to blame it on a movie and the press barely covering it terrified me into voting for Romney for foreign policy reasons. It’s a bit like pushing the hyperspace button as the asteroids close in. It might not help but it’s more likely to help than staying where you are and hoping the ship will suddenly start firing faster. I just hope that the whole political system is not at this point, metaphorically, an elaborate scheme to steal my quarter.
And yeah I am practicing to bite Romney’s face and spit bile into his eyes like the serpents the Aesir hung above the head of Loki after his mockery of them at Aegir’s hall.
To clarify, I will not metaphorically use Mitt Romney’s own son Narfi’s intestines to bind him. That would be going a bit far. And I don’t think Romney has sons named Vali and Narfi in any case, nor do I possess the power or technology to transform one of them into a vicious, ravening, fratricidal wolf. So this analogy is really not going very well.
But the point is, after Obama pulled a double Iran in Egypt and Libya, and the press made a point of not noticing, AND I hear mau-mauing at the UN about ‘the future not belonging to those who insult the prophet’, I am now prepared to spend four years blowing on the feckless left leaning weathervane that I think Romney is.
Thanks, Jeff. I wish that every damned blog, commentator, and editorialist would link to these words daily, for the rest of the campaign. Actually, for the rest of that … President’s … life. Good words.
There’s not a freakin’ word–okay, a few—about the sabre-rattling between Turkey and Syria. For months and months we’ve been seeing smoldering rubble and dead children in the streets of Aleppo, chanting yoots with Kalishnakovs and more and more trash-talking from Assad.
Where the fuck is our State Department and our president on this? We unilaterally invade Libya, get Gaddafi killed and depose Mubarik and let the MB install themselves in both countries. Obama practically tells Netanyahu to blow him and that he’s on his own, while at the same time announcing our exit date from Afghanistan to the enemy.
At this point, I’ll crawl over broken glass to vote for Romney. We need an adult in charge.
I’m the child of two union Democrats. The only Democrat left in my family is my one moonbat brother and he doesn’t come around much anymore.
Leigh don’t forget China suddenly picking on Japan over some islands to distract the people from getting upset about their crumbling economy. Or North Korea recently more or less promising a nuclear war because the SK ain’t doing something or other fast enough.