John McCain, 2012: Obama is probably a good man
JHoward
The Senator from Arizona, not content to have established four years ago that Obama was A Good Man, is back on the President’s campaign bus, arguing that he remains A Good Man, the self-identified Commander in Chief who’s being victimized at this unfortunate hour by his Pentagon.
Fox:
Sen. John McCain, one of the leading critics of the Obama administration’s handling of last month’s terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, accused the Pentagon on Friday of not having enough military reinforcements in place to respond to such an attack.
“After three weeks of investigation we have concluded that there was no way that the military could have intervened because they were not ready,” McCain, the Arizona Republican, told Fox News. “They were not prepared and there was no alert of any kind that would have enabled them to reach a state of readiness that they could not have intervened.”
McCain’s comments come as sources tell Fox News that CIA operatives twice asked for permission to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and his staff and were told to ‘stand down’ — while a later request for military backup was denied. Stevens and three other Americans died in the attack on Sept. 11.
A senior defense official at the Pentagon immediately pushed back against McCain’s criticisms, saying his claims “would just be wrong.”
The fact likelihood* that assets were available, a fact likelihood that from his vantage point surely a more thoroughly informed McCain not only knows “after three weeks of investigation” but is in office to know in part thus to reflect the information back to his constituents? The fact the Administration hadn’t pointed out preexisting unrest in order to insulate itself against a freshly rogue Pentagon but for weeks had instead blamed the Filmmaker for the deaths of four American officials in a known hotspot halfway around the world?
Both irrelevant. Yet these are our times, when nearly the entire Press, savoring its sudden noble political indifference and detachment, drags its feet reporting the gravest assault on official American capacity since 9/11 itself, and when a sitting US Senator and former prisoner of war is so uninformed and so badly spoken that he should probably consider retiring.
Spit. Unless Senator McCain has gone into conspiratorial mode and is frantically blue-skying some other unlikely scenario in semaphore behind the podium, I say vote them all out.
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but Sarah Palin explicitly said he was teh fookin oosum
one of you is missing the mark
McCain just never misses an opportunity to be a douche, huh? He needs to retire.
“Ready”? What knows McCain of “ready”?
At the H2 ,phat suggests we dial it back a bit. He does air traffic for the military and says he was unaware of assets there available. I should link his comment but I’m on my phone.
Carin, at the least the buck needs to stop. From my 3rd link:
If that didn’t prompt readiness — whether by the Administration’s direction or intelligence SOP; I cannot know but something should have — then what really went on here?
John McCain in a security investigation strikes me like Chuck Schumer in a monetary policy committee. That’s something McCain did to himself.
Well come on, it’s not like there was any particular reason to be concerned about readiness on that particular day. Right?
McSenile should be headed for the same looney bin as Spongejoe Hairplugs.
Here’s an interesting take on the situation from outside the US media.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50586#.UIvuc5rdhFg.twitter
It doesn’t necessarily explain everything, but would go along way toward accounting for the lack of any clear, all inclusive, pronouncements/explanations by the intelligence community; something that’s been touched on in the comments here during the past week…
I still believe that it’s O! & Co covering for their completely failed foreign policy any way you cut it. And all talk about SPECTRE gunships aside, I’ll never understand what stopped them from scrambling a flight of A-10′s or F-16′s in response. If nothing else, it would have kept the Tango’s heads down…
I find the whole episode to be disgusting, from the inaction of the administration all the way down to the uncurious response of the alphabets to this.
My Regards to all.
So to go with McCain’s idea of the military, they couldn’t organize a two hour trip in eight hours.
These people really won’t retire until the beyond debase themselves and our country as well. At least it gives me a reason to keep fighting for our country’s future as well as legacy.
A good man? Good for whom?
Obama’s a good man if the bar for being a good man is extremely low: he’s never laid down on a frightened inebriated hobo to slupr his blood from a badly bitten ear lobe, or set a new born baby on fire and then tossed it into a wood chipper set to to run slower than usual because someone bet him that he wouldn’t. Yet.
But he’s shown himself to be either a liar, a manipulator and a saboteur, or a staggeringly incompetent clueless delusional fool who does the same sort of thing a liar and a manipulator and a saboteur would via accidental flailing.
This would have been good practice for fighting te
terrorists and stuff I mean
It isn’t about R vs. D.
at the very least they could have sent in tylerperryasyouveneverseenhimbefore…
well ok that would have been overkill really
Damn straight. It’s getting way too easy, in fact, to see this as being about USA vs. D.
Vladimir Putin would be an upgrade over Obama.
Ten more days.
Only if Romney’s lead is greater than the margin of fraud.
At the H2, phat suggests we dial it back a bit. He does air traffic for the military and says he was unaware of assets there available. I should link his comment but I’m on my phone.
Which post? I can’t tell where such a discussion would take place, given all the boobie shots and all.
BTW, with Carin’s H2 comment plus the thing from Blackfive, that’s two suggestions that there was no one to call for help.
Which, on 9/11? WTF?
Has the laser-painting story been debunked? It still makes no sense to do that without angels at least on the way.
What’s H2? 2 hydrogens?
1812
Hugh Hewitt maybe?
H2
At least there would be a pair of balls in our leader’s pants.
That’s what I thought geoff.
It’s here. But there’s a later comment that notes his potential knowledge of such assets is not complete:
Not knowing what “WE” refers to, but knowing that it doesn’t include AFRICOM, well, it’s AFRICOM’s AOR. I suspect he’s talking about asset availability at Sigonella. So, that might take a readily available gunship off the table, but it tells us nothing about In Extremis teams or other options which we know existed, thanks to Panetta, even if we don’t know precisely what they were. There was a decision made to stand down.
Dan Riehl is apparently improving.
Guys on the ground in Benghazi.
As for any claim from the Administration today that it had no available recourse, that explanation may have gone more smoothly had the Administration not lied leading up to it.
There are some problems with that story, JHo. We kicked them around a bit starting here.
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