Ladies and gentlemen, The Obama Administration:
For much of the past four years, the Obama administration’s propensity for asserting views of reality wildly at odds with those evident to most rational citizens has looked increasingly like a page from that film script.
All administrations conceal, falsify and tell lies—this is understood—but there’s no missing the distinctive quality of the prevaricating issuing from the White House in these four years.
It’s a quality on vivid display now in the administration’s mesmerizing narrative of the assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya. Here’s a memorable picture, its detail brutally illuminating, of Obama and company in crisis mode over their conflicting stories about who knew what when. The resulting costs to truth-telling and sanity, or even the appearance thereof, are clear. Nor can we forget the strong element of farce—think U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on those five Sunday talk shows, reciting with unflagging fervor that official talking point regarding mob violence and a YouTube video. Farce, but no one is laughing.
Team Obama clung to its original story—the attack had come spontaneously at the hands of a mob enraged by that now famous video insulting to the Prophet—long after it was clear that it had been an organized terrorist assault by an al Qaeda affiliate. By Tuesday’s debate, we saw a Barack Obama in high dudgeon over suggestions that his office might have deliberately misrepresented the facts. It was, he fumed, an intolerable insult that such charges could have been made about him, the president who had had to receive the bodies of the slain Americans—and who then had to set about getting to the bottom of this murderous terror assault.
Profound and urgent concerns indeed—which, the president neglected to say, had not prevented him from jetting off to his fundraiser in Las Vegas the day after the murders. His administration was not given to politicizing serious matters, the president sternly informed the nation in that second debate: “That’s not what we do.” […]
More and more clearly, the Obama administration has put its faith in the view that the governed, who must be told what is best for their lives, whether they want it or not (see ObamaCare), can also be told that they have not seen what they’ve seen, have not heard what their ears clearly told them.
well, who are you going to believe? The MSM or your lying eyes?
food stamp asked youtube to pull the video but it was already too late
It’s not nice to mock the unwise black man on account he can’t help his skin is dusky. By golly, his unwisdom can’t be held against him, be he fool or retard, for he owns the votes of the angered descendants of former slaves to his side, possessors of all formal moral authority in their innocence and victimhood. See?
I’m a descendant of actual former slaves and Obama can kiss my lily-white feet …
– Sroryline #8 is that its all a non-issue.
– Murders and cover up? What murders and cover up. You must be thinking of one of those silly truther conspiracy theories.
I won’t miss him after he scoots back to Chicago in January, with his again-not-proud-of-America Klingoon wife. And her mother. And every “R” from the White House word processors, not to mention the Roosevelt table settings.
But I bet they leave the bust of Churchill.
serr8d
Look for Barry to come back to run in 2016.
– Oh no, no, no…..No South side patchwork ghetto for His highness. Not on your life. No, he’ll be heading for that happy hunting grounds in Aloha-land at his palacial 35 million dollar Hawiian “I got mine, screw you” payoff spread.
Look for Barry to come back to run in 2016.
You know I’ve seen this in other places, and I just don’t buy it. This guy has been a disaster for the democrat party, he’s been a disaster for the black community, he’s been a disaster for the youth voting block. Most especially, I think, he’s been a disaster for the legacy media. I don’t think anyone is flocking to his banner in 2016 (of course, assuming he loses this election.)
Only thing that would keep him from being completely out of contention is the notion that there are no big names in the Dem stable to make a run in 2016, and that’s assuming that Hillary doesn’t run.
I think it more likely that he gets treated like radioactive waste, ala Carter 1981-2002 or so, by the party, or he preempts that and retires to his Hawaii beach front property, having had enough of prezidentin’, it being really hard and all.
The sub-hed at that Root article is “In the second debate, he used a losing strategy that’s a GOP staple: belittling the black president.”
For how many decades have the GOP been losing elections because they belittle the black president? As to moral authority, I can only observe that the Minnesotans got absolutely slaughtered in Gettysburg, so I think my moral authority is in pretty good shape (never mind my family didn’t come over the Atlantic until 30 years later).
I sincerely hope that Teh Won spends the rest of his days working diligently to get his handicap under 28. I also sincerely hope that he gets hit by lightning on the back nine.
I’m thinking that’s the subject of Hillary’s Benghazi quid pro quo: that he not run in 2016.
Or it could be moot — Obama can run again but I doubt he’d still be viable past the end of March.
It certainly seems as though Stevens could have been saved had there been a response up to the task of clearing the attackers from the consulate. From the timeline published today at NewsBeast:
That’s 5 hours after the attack started. Help was only an hour away. AC-130 support would have been a huge boon to the first reaction force:
I’d say he could serve as the Dem’s whipping boy, but, well, you know…
Linkage for the NewsBeast piece.
Squid! Since JD is on outhouse duty, I must lend a hand and DENOUNCE! in the best way I can (please note this is only a fractional denouncement, good only for the duration of this post’s useful life. JD must still perform his denouncement duties, when he tires of shoveling lime on those steaming piles somewhere LA. )
To be fair, we don’t know if Ambassador Stevens and the others could have been saved. We do know that they didn’t even try though.
Had better judgment been used it could be no one among the dead Americans would have been in Benghazi to be killed on Sept 11 2012. I mean, were there Red Cross people killed there that day?
If we’d reacted, that would have created an international incident. I mean, it’s not like this was an attack on American soil that we had a sovereign right to respond to with overwhelming military force.
oh wait
Ever wonder whow President Obama would have reacted to the Berlin Blockade in 1948-1949?
Quit overseeing Obama.
Of course you’d ask permission for the forces already en route to enter the country. And if it wasn’t granted, the response would be “Let me rephrase that.” The Libyan government is ostensibly allied with us, and they’re clearly incapable of provided the required and necessary protection.
Denounced. Denounced and condemned. Good Allah, you guys are racists.
I don’t think he’ll run in 2016 because I think he’s served his purpose which was to Trojan Horse this country to death. Just as he waited in the wings while serving in various capacities including government at the state level, it’s likely there are others.
And, I would count on him not going gently into the night either. Just as Uncle Jimmeh has been in our faces as the benevolent do-gooder for everyone but hardworking legitimate citizens of this country, this one will be sticking his fingers in eyes and pies all over.
Absolutely Pablo.