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Obama’s Intelligence Negligence

By Paul Kengor on 9.28.12 @ 6:10AM

Obama’s defenders insist he has a Nixonian command of foreign policy.

I commented here recently on a startling fact of presidential incompetence, provided courtesy of the investigative work of an excellent new group called the Government Accountability Institute. The group reported a jaw-dropper: President Barack Obama didn’t attend a single daily intelligence briefing in the week leading up to the anniversary of 9/11. In fact, he has attended a minority of daily briefings (44%) since becoming president, and a little better than a third over the last year. While skipping intelligence briefings, the president has enthusiastically campaigned and met with TV personalities. Obama has done so in this dangerous post-9/11 world, and as one who in his re-election speech at the Democratic convention flagrantly mocked his opponent’s foreign-policy credentials.

And then, of course, all hell broke loose in the Middle East — on the eleventh anniversary of September 11, 2001.

Consider the timeline:

The chaos started at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, with scenes looking eerily like a replay outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran 33 years ago under Jimmy Carter. Mere hours later in Libya, we learned of the murder of the first U.S. ambassador killed since the Carter years. By the end of the 9/11 week, the Middle East was in turmoil, with protests against America in over 20 cities, including Iraq, and with Afghanistan suddenly witnessing a surge in violence against U.S. troops, some of which were killed.

In a remarkable display that made those “Osama is Dead” signs at the Democratic convention look haughty and overconfident, Middle East demonstrators hoisted pro-Osama signs and chanted “Obama, we are all Osama!”

Things were looking bad for President Obama. But they got worse.

In one of his campaign interviews amid the Middle East madness, the president stated that Egypt is not a U.S. ally, prompting a public correction by no less than Jimmy Carter. Even worse, Obama and his administration were unwilling to call the Middle East attacks premeditated or even terrorism, and continually (and ludicrously) sought to blame an anti-Mohammed video for the whole sorry mess. On the Sunday talk shows, the president’s U.N. ambassador claimed the action in Libya was “not a premeditated” attack. She was quickly repudiated by the Libyan president, who stated categorically that there was “no doubt that this was pre-planned, determined.” And CNN and others reported that U.S. diplomats in Libya had been warned about the rapidly deteriorating situation three days before it occurred.

Now, we have also learned that al Qaeda appears to have been involved in Libya, as even Mrs. Clinton seems to finally concede, and a released Gitmo detainee was involved as well.

President Obama, bear in mind, did not attend a single daily intelligence briefing leading up to this explosion.

Do you think that this presidential negligence mattered?

Obama’s defenders, naturally, are arguing to the contrary. In moments like this, they know what to do: investigate not Obama, but those who dare to investigate Obama.

One of them is Glenn Kessler, fact-checker at the Washington Post. Kessler has weighed in on this battle over the brief — that is, Obama’s habitual absence from his daily intel briefings. Kessler is arguing, contrary to the likes of myself, the Government Accountability Institute, and Marc Thiessen of the Post op-ed page, that Obama’s absence at these meetings doesn’t matter. Kessler uses historical comparisons from previous presidents to make his case, and sometimes makes a defensible to decent case — while other times not.

For instance, Kessler notes of President Richard Nixon: “Richard Nixon also had few, if any, oral briefings and instead received his intelligence from the morning memo of his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.” Kessler cites a CIA history of the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), which says of Nixon: “Throughout the Nixon presidency, the PDB was delivered by courier to Kissinger’s office. Each day Kissinger delivered to the President a package of material that included the PDB along with material from the State Department, the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs, and others. Nixon would keep the material on his desk, reading it at his convenience throughout the day. Feedback to the Agency typically was provided by Kissinger directly to the DCI.”

So, Nixon apparently didn’t meet every day with his intel briefers, though he did meet with Henry Kissinger, his chief foreign-policy and national-security adviser.

Of course, Richard Nixon also entered the presidency with far more foreign-policy experience than Barack Obama. For eight years from 1953-61, Nixon travelled the world as the most active vice president in foreign policy in history (up to that time). He further burnished those credentials throughout the 1960s as a private citizen thinking and writing (extensively) about the world.

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About the Author

Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.

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spike59| 9.28.12 @ 6:28AM

the ObaMao administration knew within 24 hrs that the Libyan attack was an act of terrorism, yet 4 days later, they were pimping out Susan Rice to every talking head show to proclaim their 'it's the video' nonsense...and the MSM sat back and said 'okiedokie', and now that the cat is out of the bag, the same MSM is SILENT about being used in a blatant disinformation campaign (pun intended)...the ObaMao administration has calculated that they've told the lie often enough to be believed. hell, this morning, NPR was STILL blaming the Libyan attack on the video!

Jack in Wi| 9.28.12 @ 6:53AM

Obama and Romney are ignorant front people who are putty in the hands of their consultantsn and handlers. Obama gets up in the morning and is handed a schedule and pile of speeches for the day. He hasn't got the inclination to get involved in the study of the issues. He does not have too. He has handlers and consultants telling him what to do. Romney seems to be as ignorant and consultant led as Obama. Obama has had far more practice.

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.29.12 @ 7:59PM

the GOP has historically been better at Postwar foreign pollicy: Ike, Reagan, Bush 41.
While the Dems backed the wrong horse with LBJ, Carter.
But starting in 2001, the GOP has been overwhelmed by the multipolar shift. wasn't Bush 43's fault, anyone would have been swamped by 9-11's "challenges" (headaches).

Joellen| 9.28.12 @ 8:00AM

Spike, "MSM" is silent" about being used in disinformation campaign (pun intended); is what is most distressing. Remember it was Matt Drudge who MADE the media come out about Sick Willie Clinton and his sexual misconducts. It's Rush, Sean, Mark, Michelle the late Breitbartt, the young man who exposed the going ons in Planned Parenthood (I am so sorry I cant remember his name right now); these are the "media" we can count on to get accurate and timely reporting on. MSMis just as guilty as Obama/Clinton/etc. in their attempt to destroy America by refusing to report the real news.

Joellen| 9.28.12 @ 8:07AM

James O'Keefe is the heroic young man who exposed Planned Parenthood.

Seek| 10.3.12 @ 12:47PM

Fact check: First, the person who did undercover work against Planned Parenthood was a woman, Lila Rose. James O'Keefe had nothing to do with that. Second, while O'Keefe exposed ACORN (along with Hannah Giles), he did so in a rather disingenuous way. And later on, he and three male compatriots were arrested for unlawful entry at the New Orleans home office of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. Given that the Nixon administration was brought down by such shenanigans, "heroic" wouldn't be my first choice of adjectives to describe Mr. O'Keefe.

Stephie| 9.28.12 @ 8:16AM

Joellen, this is just what I was saying to my husband this morning. We now have to have people and organizations to tell us what the "news" people are not telling us or what they are lying about. This cover up that is being promulgated by obama's people concerning the attack in Byngazie is criminal but as usual, not much is being said in the MSM on it, not ONE Republican will call for a full fledged investigation into this crime. Not one will call for the impeachment of this front man, this arrogant creep and his disgusting wife who live off of our money like kings while hating us. Romney plods along, won't get tough and call obama what he is, a LIAR. An INCOMPETENT. A commiter of TREASON. NEGLIGENT.
It's so frustrating and I weep for our nation.

Stephie| 9.28.12 @ 8:16AM

Nick| 9.28.12 @ 11:53AM

Joellen and Stephie,

The Appeaser-in-Chief's failure to protect American lives this past September 11th is just a continuation of his regime's failed policy in Afghanistan.

He is letting our brave troops in Afghanistan get butchered by "blue on green" attacks, because he cares more about being on The View than he does about our heroic forces fighting the global jihad.

He said that the killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, consular official Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs/private security contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, are just "BUMPS IN THE ROAD"!!!!

If you haven't already, please listen to a father's account of how his son, LCpl. Greg Buckley, Jr., was killed in Afghanistan, from Laura Ingraham's radio show the other day:

http://www.lauraingraham.com/p.....0xMzYwMQ==

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 3:27PM

Have you and Yoir BOLD LETTERS been to The Contest, yet?

Matt Purple's Column.

Underpants.

Bus Tickets to Purp's Aids Test.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 5:18PM

So what? Who cares?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 7:30AM

Not only did Obama fail to connect the dots, he failed to look at the dots (waiting on that contest, TLP. This might not be a bad spot).

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 7:57AM

Where ya been?

I was about to put your name on a Milk Carton.

p.s. you read my mind.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 8:47AM

Its been a hit and run week, with just a few appearances here. I'm looking forward for another opportunity to compete today, though.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:08AM

I moved the Contest to Mr. Purple's place.

Pass it on.

Von Mises Jr| 9.28.12 @ 8:30AM

Exactly, Albert. This is a specious argument by the Obama regime and MSM based on the fallacy of composition. It is the false assumption that a statement about an integral part of something necessarily holds true for the composite. So their argument goes like this: Nixon had Kissinger as an integral part of his Foreign Policy by his side every day. Hillary (who probably has not had a meeting with "The One" in months) is therefore sufficient since this scenario with the Secretary of State worked before.
But there are a few problems: Hillary is no Henry Kissinger. Hillary was not in contact with the President daily. Hillary was essentially left in charge and got four people killed due to negligence.
And these are the "Best and Brightest?" We are supposed to believe Hillary is the heir apparent in the Democrap Party and most qualified in 2016. These people did too many hallucinogens or they are stupid as a mushroom.

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 11:33AM

Hillary is an expert on hiding subpoenad records, hiding the bimbo eruptions of Bubba, making $100,000 from $1,000 by reading the WSJ, taking tax deductions for donating Bubba's clothes to charity, and for attacking the vast right wing conspiracy.
She may be the most unqualified person to serve as Secretary of State.

Von Mises Jr| 9.28.12 @ 11:36AM

Unless the job description is hiding documents, covering for liars and working with insider crooks?

SYAsked| 9.29.12 @ 11:58PM

Annoys me totally that she has the loyalty of so many. The comedian Sinbad accompanied her on a trip to Eastern Europe, and after she claimed they had to dodge bullets, we have Sinbad saying nothing of that sort happened. We also have video of a little girl giving Hillary a bouquet on that same airport tarmac. Hillary is a deceiver, like her husband.

benny havens| 9.28.12 @ 7:40AM

Did you notice from the photograph, he has his feet up on our furniture again.

Some people have no class.

Stephie| 9.28.12 @ 8:17AM

No Benny, some people have no RESPECT.

My name for obama is "punk".

Occam's Tool| 9.28.12 @ 6:38PM

Assume Obama is a traitor. Then, "snick," all makes sense.

The polls showing him ahead are putting thumbs on scales by oversampling Democratic registered voters excessively. I predict a low Dhimmi turnout. oBama's gonna get Bammed in Nov..., just like Auburn's gonna get creamed in Bryant-Denny this year! Roll, Tide, Roll!

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 7:13PM

He's not a Traitor, because he's not an American.

Unless he can explain why he has a Connecticut Social Security Number.

SYAsked| 9.30.12 @ 12:03AM

I want everyone to know about Lessadolla Sowers. People like her are working to make sure Obama has a second term, but she is going to jail. Ten years for voter fraud for putting in votes on behalf of several dead people. Yet voter ID efforts are supposed to be not needed.
Why do we all not know about Lessadolla Sowers?
How can we stay free when our media lies by omission?

Mike G| 9.28.12 @ 7:47AM

"But do you think -- on the heels of Libya, Egypt, and all else -- that maybe Obama feels like he might have been missing something?"

Don't bet on it. After all, he is the smartest man he knows. It' a purely political move.

spike59| 9.28.12 @ 8:11AM

I doubt ObaMao feels he might have been missing something? not at all...i'm guessing that he feels that not enough folks are falling in line with his agenda; although the notion that his mere presence in the Oval Office hasn't cured all the world's ills must give him pause at least once in a great while...

pogybait| 9.28.12 @ 8:14AM

Of course he feels like he might have missed something, for starters none of the briefings have been written in Farsi......

Von Mises Jr| 9.28.12 @ 8:35AM

Mike G. Obama fell for the Sophist conundrum. "Is the man who learns wise or ignorant?" If he is wise, then he does not need to learn. If he is ignorant, he is incapable of learning.
Of course the fallacy is that "learn" is used both as a noun "to have learned" and a verb "to learn."
But Obama thinks he is infallible and the most brilliant "affirmative action" product in history. He does not think anyone can teach him anything. So why go to a freaking briefing with your inferiors?

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 8:07AM

Nobody cares about this foreign policy crap. The right wing keeps trying to stir it up, but it's the Romney stupid that has become the issue. He's arrogant, incompetent, stupid and frighteningly close to the Presidency. America is rejecting HIM, and Libya, Egypt or anywhere else matters not. If anything, it scares people what he would do as President.
So keep talking about foreign affairs, it also hurts Sky King Romney.

spike59| 9.28.12 @ 8:14AM

I'm pretty sure Ambassador Stevens' family, as well as the families of the others killed in the 9/11/12 'spike the football' attack, and those serving in Afghanistan and their families, might actually 'care about this foreign policy crap'...but then again, you're the turd who blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own murder, and has been pissing on his grave ever since

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 8:50AM

I'm sure they do - just like 3000 American families mourned the loss of their loved ones because of GW Bush's negligence.
You want to revisit HIS incompetence? He wins that race ...

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 9:57AM

ObamaboyPurpie

You continue to show you stupidity.

Sept 11, 2001 was the direct result of the incompentce of Bubba, the spiritual leader of the Dems. He did nothing about the repeated attacks, such as World Trade Center Towers attack of 1993, the Khobar Towers attack, the USS Cole, the embassy attacks (familiar?) in Kenya and Tanganyika, and others.

Bubba, like you and Obama, thought foreign policy was crap, especially the defense of the USA.

Bubba was too busy harassing women, lying in depositions, and covering up scandals.

O is too busy campaigning, vacationing, fundraising, and partying with Letterman and Beyonce.

No time for the foreign policy crap that involves the security of the USA.

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 11:47AM

GW Bush was warned repeatedly during the summer of 2001 - he did NOTHING. He was warned by the outgoing Clinton Administration - He did NOTHING.

When asked by his Treasury Secretary why he wasn't concerned - GW Bush said "I don't want to swat at flies" ! He had bigger game in mind - IRAQ.

You're right wing mythology is peddled incessantly, but it happened on his watch, he's responsible and he's accountable. Simple.

And, then he couldn't even kill Bin Laden - it had to wait until the intelligent and persistent Barack Obama did it.

Pfffft with your right wing talking points. America knows the reality and they don't want GW Bush III (Romney) in the White House!

Nick| 9.28.12 @ 11:57AM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 1:21PM

Obamaboy
You are a liar.
There were no specific warnings and you know it, only general vague references.

Maybe you want to post the specific warnings made by Bubba? If there were any they would have surfaced 11 years ago, moron.

Why don't you cut and paste the date and complete article about the quote of swatting flies?

Speaking of swatting flies, it fits you.. You are a little bug peddling the left wing talking points supplied to you by DebbieWS.

BobNY| 9.28.12 @ 1:22PM

It was the enhanced interrogation (that oblamo was against) that Bush put in place that finally led to Bin laden. But you conveniently forget that part. Without it Panetta (not obama) couldn't have made the call to go get him (jarrett cancelled the go 3 times making obama a limp noodle in that respect).
Clinton had his chance to get bin laden as well, yet he failed and cost us 3000 innocent American lives.
It's your left wing mythology that is peddled incessantly, and very untrue.

Al Adab| 9.28.12 @ 1:49PM

This is stupid. We might as well blame FDR for Pearl Harbor or Wilson for the Lusitania. The problem involving the current administration is the ongoing refusal to admit a state of war exists between the U S and a multi-faceted international organization.

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 3:50PM

Al Adab
You know they are desperate when they resort to blaming Bush because they have no rational factual based defense of Obama. They are saying, "yeah we know Obama is incompetent, but so what, Bush was too."

Maybe they will blame the first Republican president, Lincoln, for not being prepared for Fort Sumter.

Stkman| 9.28.12 @ 3:51PM

Purp,
You can look this up for yourself. On three seperate occasions African countries had caught Bin Laden and asked the White House if they wanted him. Each time the White House declined to take him, knowing full well he had already blown up two embassies and commited other crimes of terrorism. Your boy Clinton was the President. Don't you dare blame GW Bush. As bad as Bush may have been, this was Clintons doing. I'll aslo say that at least Bush fought against the terrorist after 9-11. Unlike your dumbass boy Clinton when he started bombing in Yugoslavia killing Christians. Thats all Democrats do, appease the wrong side.
Democrats left Stalin in power at the end of WWII when Patton wanted to rollover them and sided with Mao instead of Chiang Ksi Sheck who was our ally.
Between Stalin and Mao 20 million people lost their lives.
What I scrape off my shoes smells better than you Purp.

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 3:53PM

Stkman
Mao is responsible for over 50 million. The book "Black Book On Communism" put the commie kill at 100 million, give or take a couple of million.

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 9:33PM

Too late Stkman - Bush will always be known for being asleep before 9/11 - and there is no comparison to the 1940's when we didn't have satellite surveillance, the CIA and instant communications ... He wasn't interested and let it happen. Bush might as well have well piloted the the planes himself.

I will say this - if you don't blame Bush for THAT enormous terrorist attack on the Continental United States, then you cannot blame Obama for the remote Libyan Consulate attack, can you?

I doubt history will absolve Bush, but the Libyan attack was nothing compared to a coordinated attack all over the United States while the Commander-in-Chief was reading "My Pet Goat" ...
Oh, and let's not forget that Bush is a Twofer - he also caused the Bush Economic Crash! Republicanism will take decades to recover from the stench.
Stench? Isn't that what Paul Ryan is calling Romney now? I heard that today.

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 10:06PM

Obamaboy
Your handlers forgot to tell you the article about the "stench" was satire? And did they explain satire to you?
You are really, really, really stupid.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 5:19PM

CJ - well, if you don't think there's a "Stench" around Romney - you aren't paying attention - everything the man says turns to shit.

CJW| 9.30.12 @ 8:17AM

Purp the Village Idiot

Caught in another lie about the stench satire and you have no answer.

You are an embarassment, an Idiot.

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 8:16AM

Obamaboy
Words of wisdom from the Village Idiot.

"Nobody cares about this foreign policy crap."

You are correct that Obama and his stooges, Hillary and JoeyBiden, do not care. Who cares about attacks on our embassies, consulates, and American citizens. Who cares about losing the Iraq war by withdrawing, and losing in Aghan by announcing a withdrawal date AFTER increasing the troop level. It is all crap to Obama and purpie, who is here to regurgitate the Obama lefty line.

You are so stupid that you indadvertently once in awhile speak the truth. Obama's negligence is responsible for the death of Ambassador Stevens and the attacks on our embassies. The securtiy of the USA is just crap. He was too lazy to have daily presidential briefings, but now he has them.
Start boning up on your Hillary talking points for 2016. Obama is a loser, like you, and will be back in Hawaii or Chicago in January.
President Romney. Get used to it, Idiot.

Von Mises Jr| 9.28.12 @ 8:37AM

CJW, they found Perp's mother. It turns out she is also D'Red's aunt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....pAOwJvTOio

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 8:51AM

This is low, even for you. Shall we talk about YOUR mother?

Von Mises Jr| 9.28.12 @ 9:20AM

Maybe I was mistaken. Actually she looks like she could be Aunt Zeituni's daughter. I think she is an Obama astroturf family member: http://boston.cbslocal.com/201.....-help-her/

Al Adab| 9.28.12 @ 3:12PM

Jr:
Where can I get my phone? After all I'm entitled aren't I?

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 3:51PM

The Obama phones are available through Purpie, our representative to the Obama handout window.

Von Mises Jr| 9.29.12 @ 7:49AM

Perp is double dipping. Soros pays $10 for being a freaking troll and dribbling nonsense while his mom got him signed up for her $11 per hour SEIU job distributing Obama phones.
Actually it is the 250 free minutes that is the big expense. And if you find another dreg and sign them up, you get bonus minutes.
Isn't "fundamental change" fun and interesting?

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 5:20PM

VM-Insults is all you got - I get that. But do you?

Von Mises Jr| 9.30.12 @ 8:08AM

That's all I have for you, Caliban. You are not worth talking to, but for those who read this should understand you just used the fallacy of Irrelevant Evidence known as the appeal to pity, Non Sequitur and Tu Quoque (You Yourself Do It).
But your posts are always fallacies of Irrelevant Evidence sometimes sewn together with Linguistic Fallacies. So why would an intelligent person waste time with a false prophet of Obama and socialism.

Seek| 10.3.12 @ 12:51PM

I've read virtually every published word of Ludwig Von Mises. Sir, you are no Ludwig Von Mises. And I doubt you're an Austrian.

Stkman| 9.28.12 @ 3:52PM

Close, Purps mother IS his Aunt and his uncle is his grandfather. Both of them from the matriarchs side of the family.

pogybait| 9.28.12 @ 9:07AM

Well if anything Purp, at least with Obama we can rebuild America out of the ashes of Capitalism, leading us down the path to a bright new social utopia, with a government issued boot in every pot and two families in every garage...

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 11:48AM

Bogeyman, Bogeyman - be very afraid. Don't you get tired of Crying Wolf? It's not working....

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:08PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Joellen| 9.28.12 @ 9:10AM

Perp, "nobody cares about this foreign policy crap". Well Perp, tell that to those who died 9/11; tell it to the troops out there still today; tell it to those soldiers who have perished just this week due to the foreign policy crap that this administration continues to perpetuate. You Perp, are the one, while the fireman are running into the fire is running away, trying to justify your cowardice. We have you pegged Perp = COWARD.

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 11:50AM

Not all foreign policy, just your feigned concern for the Libyan attack.

President Obama is far better on foreign policy than was Bush baby, and light years ahead of Romney.

Trying to gin up an issue for political gain is all you are doing and that's the crap that no one is falling for.

Nick| 9.28.12 @ 11:58AM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.

Al Adab| 9.28.12 @ 1:53PM

This administration is the most inept foreign policy administration in the nations history far surpassing the Carter years in that regard. All the wishful thinking to the contrary notwithstanding.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 12:49PM

Based on what yardstick?

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:08PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 10:21AM

ObamaboyPurpie/PurpieWassermanSchulz.

Still a coward, cannot answer:

1. Michelle got a raise from$100,000 per year to $350,000 per year as "Community Relations Attorney" from the Chicago hospital that got an earmark from Obama. Could this be a variation of the kickback? I would have more respect for her if she just took the cash like Spiro.

2. Obamas getting the house/land paid indirectly by the Chicago crook Rezko?

3. How about your hero Bubba selling a pardon for one million to Denise Rich for her fugitive husband, Mark Rich? Eric Holder was involved.

4. Obama missing 60% of the presidential daily briefings. You are not stupid enough to say he did not miss those meetings because those meetings did not occur because he failed to attend?

5. Obama not providing security to our embassies and consulate, and Ambassador Stevens gets killed.
Stop blaming Stevens to coverup for Obama.

6. Most of the muslim countries are rioting against us despite (or maybe because) the apologies and appeasement of Obama.

7. Even Baghdad Bob Carney and the Obama regime admitted these were planned terrorrist attacks, and not caused by some video.

8. Obama thinks the attacks on our embassies, killing our ambassador and three other Americans is just a" bump in the road,"

9. Fast and Furious scandal. Brian Terry dead,and hundreds of Mexicans dead by guns sent to Mexico by Obama/Holder.

Al Adab| 9.28.12 @ 1:57PM

W:
We can only wish this president were as competent in foreign policy matters as was Nixon who, for all his personal faults, guided this nation successfully through the greatest foreign and domestic crises since the civil war.

Now we have an administration that does not even recognize the war condition in which they find themselves. They (like many of us) wish it were not so but sadly they (unlike many of us) act as though wishing made truth.

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 3:56PM

I agree, Al.
Nixon will be regarded as a great president for ending the Vietnam mess created by LBJ and JFK, for saving Israel i 1973, and for opening China which led to breaking the commie monolith that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.

He was hounded out of office for far less than misdeeds of LbJ, JFK, Bubba, and Obama's sheer incompetence.

Al Adab| 9.28.12 @ 4:41PM

W:
We could also evaluate the handling of Benghazi and Cairo in comparisaon to the 1979 handling of Teheran and attacks on the U S embassy there.

The murder of an ambassador by a host government would constitute an act of war. Is it different when perpetrated by an international organization acting under the auspices of several governments? At the same time we should note that both Egypt and Libya reacted properly if somewhat belatedly to the attacks and riots.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 12:53PM

You did know that Nixon made a deal with the Vietnamese not to end the Vietnam war in 1968, which they were preparing to do with LBJ, didn't you? 20,000 American boys were killed because Nixon wanted to win the Presidency.

THAT's who you put up as COMPETENT? Go learn something - LBJ tapes released have LBJ talking to the Republican Majority Leader in the Senate, Everett Dirksen, saying Nixon is committing treason and Dirksen says, "I know" ...

OMG you're stupid.

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:09PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 12:53PM

CJ - you know nothing about Watergate apparently... go learn something.

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:01PM

Obamaboy

Four Americans died two weeks ago in the BengahaziGate scandal due to Obama's incopentence, and he has tried to cover it up. It will not work.

Brian Terry, and hundreds of Mexicans, died in Fast and Furious Obama Scandal that Obama and Holder are covering up.

Nobody died in Watergate, idiot.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 5:24PM

Let's see CJ - Bush - 3000 on 9/11, 4000 in Iraq (100,000 Iraqis) , 2000 in Afghanistan (who knows how many Afghans) and Nixon 20,000 in VietNam (Millions of Vietnamese) after 1968 while he kept the war going... Hmmmm, you win -

Republicans have killed more American soldiers than Democrats.

You really shouldn't accept a battle of wits, when you are unarmed. You LOSE.

CJW| 9.30.12 @ 8:21AM

Purp the Village Idiot
Now that is a real credible source, LBJ, the man who sent 700,000 American troops to Vietnam, botched it, then cut and ran, leaving Nixon to clean up the mess.
You show your stupidity with every post. Guess who was president during WW I, WW II, Korea, and botched Vietnam? How many Americans were killed during those wars, idiot?

With your revision of history, you must be a fan of Jack inWi, and hate Bibi too, right, idiot?

Please keep posting, we could not make this stuff up about the beliefs of you lefty totalitarians.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 12:52PM

Are you kidding? Nixon presented the nation with the worst Constitutional crisis in history - and then ran away and resigned.
You did hear of Watergate, did you not?

OMG you're stupid.

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:04PM

Obamaboy

You are a lying idiot.

What is your source, HuffPo, the Nation? Not even the lefty liberals believe your nonsense. You are really, really, really stupid. And a liar.

What else can we expect from someone who blames Ambassador Stevens for his death just to help the Obama coverup.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 5:26PM

The LBJ Tapes idiot - Google them and you can find out all by your little ol' lonesome.

They don't release that type of stuff for over 50 years and after the people involved are dead.

CJW| 9.30.12 @ 8:22AM

Purp the Village Idiot,

LBJ Tapes, right, very credible source. Who else besides you, maybe Jack, believes this?

Getting desperate, Obamaboy.

Nick| 9.28.12 @ 11:56AM

During the past couple of weeks, Burp has REPEATEDLY blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate. He STUPIDLY believes that an ambassador has more power than the president.

Burp will say ANYTHING to help the Appeaser-in-Chief cover-up his incompetence and lying.
__________________

Purp| 9.19.12 @ 8:06PM

"Who is in charge of the Embassy in a country? Who decides what is or isn't done in the Embassy?
"It is the Ambassador. He loved Libya, he miscalculated and tragically is dead.
"But, why would a President bother appointing an Ambassador if you're not going to listen to his advice. [...]
"Sadly, we can't ask the Ambassador himself - but that was his job."

__________________

Purp| 9.19.12 @ 10:49PM

"Say it all you want ... Ambassador is the boss. If he wanted more security, he'd have had it. It sure isn't the President's fault. [...] Twist all you want. He was the boss, and he is now dead."

__________________

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 12:55PM

You are just plain stupid. Libya was responsible for security in their own country - as is every other host country of diplomats.
Did you ever hear of "Diplomatic Immunity"? OMG you're so stupid.

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:06PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 5:55PM

You and Nick gay? Who's the pitcher and who's the catcher? Or both fudgepackers?

CJW| 9.30.12 @ 8:29AM

Purp the Village Idiot

Getting desperate, Obamaboy? Projecting again.

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Keep reading those LBJ tapes and let us know what LBJ said about MLK, Israel, and blacks. Maybe you can visit the grassy knoll while reading the LBJ history of Vietnam.

Stephie| 9.28.12 @ 8:24AM

The crass, ugly, and animal-like woman who yesterday was yelling how "Romney sucks-bad and I gonna vote for obama 'cause he gave me a cell phone" don't care about foreign policy, but those of us who finished school, pay our own way, pay taxes so she can have her effing phone, food stamps and welfare, DO GIVE A SHIT Purp. You are a vile person and I wish you would be back to MediaMatters, MoveOn or HuffPo and leave us alone. Knowing there are people like you walking the face of this earth makes me physically ill.

Pecos Pete| 9.28.12 @ 8:52AM

Stephie: ObamaCare will cure your physical illness. Not. Instead, ObamaCare will cause your physical illness to become fatal.

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 8:53AM

Nope - Most Americans - 59% don't care about the foreign policy crap. Sorry, you picked another LOSER.
I am part of the 2% and look down on your measly incomes - but you console yourself by projecting all you think is bad on anyone you disagree with.
It doesn't work, Sunshine, it doesn't work... Ha!

Stkman| 9.28.12 @ 3:57PM

Purp,
Just because you steal the Social Security check from the 86 yr old widow down the street you don't get to lay claim to the U.S. treasury and state you are part of the 2%. It just doesn't work that way.
What you are, is part og the "going down in November" crowd.
What I scrape from my shoes smells better than Purp.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 12:57PM

Insults is all you got, I get that. But it doesn't change the fact that Romney is losing, you won't be regaining the Senate, and you might lose the House.
You got nothing and nobody wants your stupid conservadum ideas. Teabaggers included.

Far too extreme and dangerous.

You even like Nixon - who killed 20,000 American boys so he could be President. Sicko

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:06PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Seek| 9.28.12 @ 4:08PM

"Foreign policy crap," as you describe it, determines whether we can fill our cars with gasoline.

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 12:58PM

Seek - only because we are stupid enough NOT to get off their oil.
Germany did in in WWII - you think we couldn't?

Corporate Oil is stopping us, and you sheeple fall for it. Idiots.

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:09PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Occam's Tool| 9.28.12 @ 6:41PM

1% myself, Purp---$340K this year. Foreign policy will matter a lot when your city gets blown up, doofus.

Pucker up to your jihadist masters, Purp. And don't forget the Jelly!

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 1:02PM

Libya is going to blow us up? Are you deranged?

The Libyan people stormed the radicals hideouts and took their arms, the Libyan government apologized and demonstrations of "I'm sorry" sprung up in Libya in support of the United States.
Who's side are you on, anyway?

340K and you want lower taxes? How much tax do you pay - 10%?

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:05PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Hardcard| 9.28.12 @ 8:40AM

obama and his crew lie,cheat, misinform, and if all else fails they ignore, to cover their ass. Their party is coming to the end.

Louis Jenkins| 9.28.12 @ 8:47AM

Was Ambassador Stevens gay or not? If he was that might have some bearing on the way he was treated at or near his death by the mid-eastern death squads. And if he was why did our foreign office put him in there to begin with?

Purp-Steven's death is all your fault. Gay or not, you put him in there and you guys killed him. Do you give an extra sticker for getting both ends of the stick? The notices about attacks came in three days before, and you ignored them. Does Steven's get a star beside his name?

Nobody cares about foreign policy, except now maybe Mr. Steven's family, and perhas all the other families, serving in any capacity, who have loved ones in Muslim worshipping nations. Obama be nimble, Obama be quick, Obama jump over the candlestick.

Purp| 9.28.12 @ 8:57AM

No Louey - Tragic as this was and we applaud his bravery and commitment to Libyan Freedom - HE was Chief Diplomat. He put himself where he was, no one else put him there.

His security was the responsibility first of himself, and next Libya State Security, the host country -- as is the case in EVERY OTHER COUNTRY in the WORLD!

Blaming the President isn't working, but you go with that crap. It makes you feel good I guess. I mean, what else you got? Mitt the Twit? Lyin' Ryan?

CJW| 9.28.12 @ 10:02AM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

John II| 9.28.12 @ 2:33PM

"Tragic as this was . . ."

Purp, you keep showing your hand by using that cheap language. Let me explain again.

A tragedy is a bad event inadvertently brought about by a confluence of circumstances. The murder of Stevens was an atrocity, not a tragedy.

When you use the cheap, non-committal language of the faux-diplomat, you betray your indifference to the atrocity. You're probably also betraying the Left's general denial of human responsibility in favor of a materialist and determinist ethos, but we don't need to go there. The psychology, if not necessarily the philosophy, of your optic is on full display in your kneejerk choice of language.

I don't know whether you're a scumbag, but I'm certain that you're one shallow dude.

And now back to "Forbidden Planet" (1956), a hugely influential MGM epic with great production values but a rather shallow gosh-wow script that projects much less of human interest than does Shakespeare's "Tempest," on which the plot is loosely based.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 9:34PM

"I don't know whether you're a scumbag, but I'm certain that you're one shallow dude."

Is there any reason that you could offer(presuming of course, that you were presented with the requisite level of proof) that he couldn't be both?

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 1:05PM

You and the right wing seemed to have no problem sending 4000 soldiers to die in Iraq and 2000 in Afghanistan who had no choice, following orders, and did not have enough body armor or armored vehicles ... and you call me "faux" ...
Give it a rest, you're argument is orders of magnitude too small to bother with.

CJW| 9.29.12 @ 1:06PM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Stkman| 9.28.12 @ 4:00PM

Sorry Purp,
But Ambassador Stephens worked at the pleasue of the President. No if's and's or but's about it. If you democrats are going to blame Bush for everything that happened during his term, then you're going to have to blame Obama for what happens during his.

Stkman| 9.28.12 @ 4:01PM

What I scrape from my shoes smells better than Purp.
You thought I forgot didn't you?

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 2:16PM

I don't step in shit, STK ... haven't you learned that yet?

Hardcard| 9.28.12 @ 8:48AM

PS: obama flip-flopped Gen. Patraeus with leon pannetta, strange mix the military man to CIA and the political hack to DOD. Is this the "what me worry " inteligence strategy?

Dave Williams| 9.28.12 @ 8:55AM

Of course a genius doesn't NEED to know actual facts in order to create and run brilliant foreign policy....and Oblahblah IS a genius, just ask him.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 8:57AM

If I had a nickel for everytime I was ridiculed for tying this Mulatto with The End Times? I could buy a Time Machine and go back to the Past and pay for an Abortion for all of the Brain Addled Obama D*cklickers on this site.

Now, everybody's getting in on the Act. Even Miss Canada. She's out there, every day now, rehashing what I've been pointing out for TWO YEARS.

That's okay. At least sHe's paying attention, and that's why Her Underpants (Bloomers) will be the Prize for Today's Contest Winner. (I'm actually using them to cover my Mowers right now, but I'll clean'em up, fresh as a Daisy.)

On with the Show!

Once again, we are confronted with one more Smartes Guy in the Room, who DOESN'T GET IT. (I call it - O'Reilly Syndrome.

Mr. Kengor actually thinks that all of this Sh*t that's going down in Murder World, is because Hamas' Deliveror is just 'In over his head'.

What happened this 911, happened because he was "Unprepared". And, just like the Video of Mitt Romney and his 47% remark? This was not a New Tape. So, why the Heads Up to the Land of 9 Year Old Brides for 70 Year Old Husbands, about this Tape?

President Green Light strikes, again.

These Embassies went Unguarded ON PURPOSE.

Our Ambassador in Benghazi was an Acceptable Loss, to the Greater Plan. If you can't see this, than you aren't paying attention.

What used to be AN ACT OF WAR for any other American President, is now "A bump in the Road".

Joellen| 9.28.12 @ 9:06AM

Of course you heard Rush's "Bump in the road" parody yesterday. That was after he played the obnoxious "female" screaming about Obama phones. Stephie is right it makes you "physically ill".

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 9:17AM

Damn it, Joellen. I'm trying to set up today's Contest. I'll remember this, come Prize time.

Joellen| 9.28.12 @ 9:27AM

Hurry up with details - gotta get to work to pay for Obama phones and Perp's laptop.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:08AM

Party at Mr. Purple's.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:20AM

I've moved it to Purple's.

Joellen| 9.28.12 @ 10:24AM

I am still in TLP - I'am thinking of how I can outdo myself:)

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:42AM

The Contest is at Mr. Purple's House.

Understand?

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 9:15AM

What used to be a Situation that would cause every other American President to Lock himself into a room with all of his Military, and Intelligence Advisors, and Professionals, burning the Midnight Oil.

Now, it doesn't even keep this guy from going to a PARTY at Jay Z's house, to yuk it up for some Cold Hard Cash, with Z, his Wh*re, and their 1% Leaning Tower of $1,800 a Bottle, Champagne.

He's still out there pushing that Video. The Video is the Green Light. One that his Muslim Brethren did not have, until he gave it to them.

It's not that he's In over his Head. It's not that he doesn't care. (He doesn't care, but that's not what it is.) it's not that he's Oblivious. He's not. In fact, it's the Opposite. These things are part of The Plan.

Like JESUS, inside the Temple, being questioned by the Pahisees, telling them - "I have not come to disprove the Prophets, but to Fulfill them."?

Anti-Jesus is doing the same thing.

He is fulfilling the Prophesy of John of Patmos.

Why do you think that Hamas believes that he has been "Sent" by their God of Murder?

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 9:38AM

There's no other explanation, which brings us to why we come here on Fridays in the first place.

What I see, when I look at this THING. What I think of, when I think of his Life Story, and how THIN it is, I remember - The Boys From Brazil.

In that Movie, Gregory Peck plays an old Former Nazi Eugenist, who, as the Reich was about to be extinguished, smuggled out DNA from Hitler, himself.

The idea was to Clone these Samples, when the Time was Right, and then place these New Boy Hitlers with Carbon Copies of Hitler's Parents, right down to his relationship with his Mother, and his Fathers Death, when he was just a Boy. (The "Fathers" of these Colnes, were all subsequently Killed by New Nazi Operatives. They would Guide him, shape him, and MOLD HIM in to the Man he was Born to be.

Obama is the same.

An Atheist Communist Mother, and a Muslim Marxist Father? His Father dies in the Gutter, and his Mother trucks him off to Indonesia, where he is Adopted by his New Father, and sent to the Muslim Hate Schools, and Hate Mosques, for his "Education".

His entire life, he's been Immersed in Hate. His Parents. His Mentors. His Friends and Associates. They all hate Israel, and they all hate This Country.

Every step of the way, in his life, has been Preordaained, and Manipulated, right down to the Nazi Loving Jew Boy, who has Bankrolled him, every step of the way.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 9:49AM

Today's Contest is to come up with a Movie Anaology of something else that's going on in the News, that pertains to Black Jesus.

It doesn't have to be about these attacks, and his lack of "Interest".

It can be anything that has happened this week.

I'm expanding the Parameters to make it a little more Contestant Friendly.

We're looking for a Movie. Or a T.V. Show. Or a Cartoon.

We are NOT looking for Female Body Parts that Rhyme with Mits, or Deloris. I can't stress that, enough.

Good Luck, and Good Hunting.

The Winner(s) get Appleby's Underpants/Bloomers/Car Cover. And the Loser(s) get a Free Bus Ticket for a Free Trip, with Purp, to the place where he gets his Aids Tests Done.

Everybody Wins.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 10:14AM

May I open with the scene from Pulp Fiction, where Jules Winfield (played ably by the highly flawed Samuel L. Jackson) is contemplating his survival following the frat boy emptying his magnum at point blank range at him and his partner Vincent Vega (John Travolta). He interprets the miracle of the missing bullets as a sign he should get out of the life, and discusses the religious significance of his epiphany over breakfast with his skeptical partner.

He follows his instinct, and survives the film. Vincent doesn’t, and is gunned down following his morning constitutional a few days later.
Vincent and Jules represent that part of the electorate who chose Obama in 2008, and the gangster life represents his reelection. The frat boy with the revolver is the Libyan Embassy attack, one of the moments of clarity that illustrate the danger of Obama remaining in the White House.

And I would like to nominate Purp as the collaborating snitch in the apartment whose head is accidentally blown off when they hit the bump in the car.(I know, he is probably better as “the Gimp”, but that’s another scene for another day).

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:20AM

I moved you over to Purple's.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:22AM

The Contest has been MOVED to Purple's.

John II| 9.28.12 @ 2:37PM

Whoa. Now THAT is what I call useful film commentary. Why didn't I think of it?

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 3:30PM

The Comtest has been moved to Matt Purple's Column.

I will transfer you Entry.

Matt Purple.

DRed| 9.28.12 @ 10:06AM

Why'd they name a Hate Mosque after St. Francis of Assisi?

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:14AM

Yeah.

His Father was a Muslim.

His Stepfather, whom he was ADOPTED by, was a Muslim.

His Mother was an Atheist Whore.

Yet, he went to CATHOLIC SCHOOL, in the Largest Muslim Country in the World.

Take his dick outta your mouth, for five minutes, and listen to yourself.

Then, put it back in your mouth.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:23AM

The Contest has been MOVED to Mr. Purple's.

DRed| 9.28.12 @ 11:12AM

hahhaha. Oh, Timmy. It's hard to know where to begin. It' s a stiff challenge trying to figure out how it is that someone can be so willfully ignorant.

Obama went to a Catholic school in Jakarta for almost 2 years. That's just a fact and all the gay fantasies in the world won't change it Then he went to public elementary school number 1, which in your mind is somehow a sort of Hate Mosque. But you know this-you just like to stay in your little fantasy bubble where you can write ignorant garbage day after day after day. Maybe next week your contest should ask your friends to write the hottest gay sex story featuring Obama. Wouldn't that be so hot?

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 12:31PM

That is agood idea.

Maybe you can tell us WHY the Son of a Muslim Marxist Father, and an Atheist Communist Mother, went to a Catholic School.

WHY, the Adopted Son of an Indonesian Muslim Man, went to a Catholic School.

We're waiting.

DRed| 9.28.12 @ 12:41PM

I have no idea. But he did. So-the better question, is why do you keep lying about it?

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 3:32PM

That's perfect.

"I have no idea."

You should Cut and Paste that, for all of your Future Dumb@ss Posts.

DRed| 9.28.12 @ 3:57PM

So why do you keep lying about Obama going to muslim schools in Indonesia? That's what I don't understand. You can comprehend that St. Francis of Assisi is not muslim, right? I've explained this to you before. But you just keep lying and lying and lying. Why is that? Do you really not understand you're saying something that isn't true?

Nick| 9.28.12 @ 12:14PM

DRed,

Sorry I didn't respond to your reply, from the other day.
Were you in Morocco on September 11th? If so, you're lucky you got out alive.

Since, the Appeaser-in-Chief left all Americans in Moslem countries UNPROTECTED on the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack by radical jihadis in American history.
Or, else, you also could have been a bump in the road, as O'Bama considers the killing of Americans by terrorists, in countries freed by the so-called Arab Spring.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 12:33PM

He is a bump in the road.

DRed| 9.28.12 @ 12:54PM

I was in the air on the 11th. I guess it was the 12th when I got to Morocco. There was no anti-American violence where I was, so I don't feel particularly lucky.

Nick| 9.28.12 @ 8:59PM

You're still lucky, DRed.
The "protests" could have swept across all of North Africa.
You should thank the Lord. And, your Guardian Angel.

DRed| 9.28.12 @ 10:03PM

I'm pretty sure I didn't see Curtis Sliwa anywhere.

Nick| 9.28.12 @ 11:47PM

Wrong angel, DRed.

Besides, how does your trip to Morocco explain your absence during the conventions?
Admit it, you were just too embarrassed by the lies of Debbie Blabbermouth-Putz & the O'Bama regime, weren't you?

When are you guys going to let DWS out of the locked attic the democrats put her into, at the end of the convention?

Purp| 9.29.12 @ 2:18PM

The host country is responsible for diplomat's security - if you knew anything about foreign affairs, you'd know that.

oldeham| 9.28.12 @ 9:25AM

I completely disagree with the content of this article. President Obama has an outstanding, in-depth command of foreign policy and foreign intelligence. He also ranks among the outstanding leaders since Napoleon for his grasp of military strategy and tactics. When playing the board game Risk.

John II| 9.28.12 @ 2:43PM

I dunno. I think Risk might be above his pay grade. Meanwhile, his performance is astonishingly below his pay grade.

Mike W| 9.28.12 @ 9:35AM

The Republicans prattle on and on about the "foreign policy crap" and I assure you that most people don't care about it one bit. They could not find Tripoli on a map. They have no idea where Lebanon is and they certainly don't give a crap that Obama "snubbed" Netanyahu.

We are losing. We will not only lose the Presidential election but incredibly enough, we may lose more seats in the Senate and Heaven forbid Pelosi might become speaker again. And yet we prattle on and on about foreign affairs of which the swing voters have no concern for. Way to go Republicans.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 9:37AM

There's no other explanation, which brings us to why we come here on Fridays in the first place.

What I see, when I look at this THING. What I think of, when I think of his Life Story, and how THIN it is, I remember - The Boys From Brazil.

In that Movie, Gregory Peck plays an old Former Nazi Eugenist, who, as the Reich was about to be extinguished, smuggled out DNA from Hitler, himself.

Obama is the same.

His entire life, he's been Immersed in Hate. His Parents. His Mentors. His Friends and Associates. They all hate Israel, and they all hate This Country.

Every step of the way, in his life, has been Preordaained, and Manipulated, right down to the Nazi Loving Jew Boy, who has Bankrolled him, every step of the way.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 9:53AM

Ignore this.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 10:23AM

The Contest has been MOVED to Mr. Purple's..

sickofit5| 9.28.12 @ 9:43AM

Hey Purp,
The polls may show that few voters care about foreign policy but his incompetence in that area isn't what voters will be judging Bammy on. With the exception of blind sycophants like you and the rest of the demo rats the fact that, once again, BHO and the most transparent administration in the history of mankind are nothing but a pack of pathological liars.

Who Knows?| 9.28.12 @ 10:04AM

It’s not about Obama’s intelligence negligence.

There are the putative voters, but most vital are their masters, who pull their strings, the MSM.

What about the MSM’s intelligence negligence?

First off, I maintain that the denizens of that power elite are lacking in intelligence. Not too many of them could have hacked it in hard sciences, so they “chose” to be journalists. They picked parents who were somewhat negligent in the IQ department.

Secondly, they are negligent in the intelligence realm, with intelligence meaning FACTS, in two ways.

Since “journalists” long ago ceased to be reporters who worked hard at digging out the truth, they are bereft of all but a patina of “intelligence” about whatever the story is. But worse, these days, is the fact that many of them---the “best” and “brightest”?---are ACTIVELY covering up any “intelligence” they DO discover, that would harm their cause.

And, you thought ONLY space was a vacuum!

No, the overwhelming majority of people are living examples of intelligence negligence. It’s about time we faced THIS truth.

The defining moment for Americans is---leaving compulsory education: whether as a graduate or a drop out.

Who Knows?| 9.28.12 @ 10:22AM

What is the feeling that escaping public education brings?

ELATION! Free at last!

No more need to THINK! Now, I can just live my life, without the demand to learn ANYTHING I don’t want to.

And, after the horrible Pavlovian experience of force fed “classes” on subjects I “learned” to despise, more and more, as the year of my 18th birthday approached, what a relief it is to be unshackled from the “intelligence” pole!

Ah, but for those of us who relish the intelligence dance, like most bloggers on this site, isn’t it fun to cluster fluck all ABOUT even the minutest issues?

While knowing, usually subconsciously, if at all, that for most people, mounting our “hill of beans” du jour is worse than doing yourself.

It reminds me of a conversation I struck up with this 30-something woman, concerning some depredation of the Iranian regime. It was like---“Iran, what’s that?” She was TOTALLY ignorant of foreign policy.

Indeed, if you randomly ask people, even voters, WHAT “foreign policy” means, I’d be prepared to be shocked at the back-to-the-future full body-mind knee jerk responses. Why, just to ASK a serious question is to pluck that memory most people try to quickly forget---being in a high school history class, say.

Out (of that) damned spot!

Indy| 9.28.12 @ 10:39AM

The media and Congress (both parties) are failing our country.

The two former Navy Seals were not there as part of Steven's "security detail" so what were they doing there?

What was Steven's doing there along with the other staffer who was murdered? Was he really just an ambassador or did he have another objective for being there? Stevens told ABS news he was looking for weapons, is that the role of typical ambassadors? on September 11th? Seriously?

Were they killed with our weapons, after all, weren't we arming the "rebels"?

Why was security outsourced to the locals? Answer, decision made by State Dept in 2011, Clinton had to sign off on security / rules of engagement.

Was Stevens raped? Is anyone asking anymore what happened to him for the 5+ hours he was missing?

If this had happened in the previous administration, would Congress and the Media respond in the same way, we all know the answer is no.

Is Kirsten Powers the only one on the Left willing to call out the Media?

There are so many questions nobody is asking?

Our SoS Clinton championed a UN Resolution banning free speech
http://cnsnews.com/news/articl.....nistration

Freedom of speech is under attack, ACLU is MIA what a joke they are.

Who Knows?| 9.28.12 @ 11:29AM

Buck up, conservatives.

With the odds of a return of the flexible Obama to the White House now 4 to 1--- and with every precious day they’re getting better--- maybe it’s time to start thinking ahead. Go ahead and enjoy the next weeks, and even do your damnedest, like Limbaugh, to expose the usurper, BHO, and beat the long odds.

Romney for president!

And, if Barrack is sworn in again, just think!

We “get to” see him and his minions unleashed. With a GOP house, and maybe a Senate as well, the fights should be awesome.

And, Obamacare will be implemented!

Perhaps the accumulated “fat” between the ears and inside the bodies of most Americans is too much, in 2012, to allow a majority of them to oust the One. Let’s go ahead and give the socialist-in-chief MORE rope to try to strangle America!

Four more years!

Yes, my mood about the dire condition of Americans is boosted on regular public wanderings. Seeing gross bodies galore---that’s the only “poll” I need.

Obama may be about to put America on a REAL diet.

oldeham| 9.28.12 @ 11:43AM

RE you point on Obozo's 2nd term with a Republican Senate and House. There will be no fights - Emperior Obama 1st will rule by executive order. He will get to appoint four supreme court justices who will rule that anything he does is legal. He, already in so many words, has said he does not need the Congress. 'We don't need no stinkin' Congress'

Who Knows?| 9.28.12 @ 11:52AM

Yeah---you may be right.

Maybe we should begin to think about where real resistance to Obama unleashed will come from---

states.

States rights!

Al Adab| 9.28.12 @ 3:19PM

Given the by now obvious mental instability of this President, his reaction to the election, win or lose, bodes no good for the nation. Should he win his ambition to Rule will know no bounds and should he lose his reaction ("they don't deserve me") could be self destructive in the extreme. This is a dangerous time.

cicero| 9.28.12 @ 11:31AM

We all make a mistake if we believe that this guy ran for the presidency so that he could help this country in any way - even a misguided one. His only job was to get elected. Once in, it was just a huge money grab by his backers. Where did the Stimulus money go? Where was the $1.4 trillion over budget for the past three years running (going on 4 now) spent? We have not had a budget for 4 years now. So far, $6 trillion has diappeared with no accountabllility. We only know about the tip of the iceberg - Solyndra, and other green projects.

Foreign policy is of no concern, because it brings no money to the backers of the Pres. Whether this country is harmed is of no concern. After all, that ambassador and the trhee aides were only white guys who were of no concern to anybody O knows. This is not a matter of negligence. Negligence means that someone made a mistake. There was no midtake here. It is a lack of concern.

Stephie| 9.28.12 @ 11:52AM

Have you seen his accumulated wealth today compared to what it was 4 years ago? He and moochelle are raking it in.

RedinDenver| 9.28.12 @ 11:32AM

It appears that the Obama administration was criminally negligent in not providing adequate protection for the Libyan consulate; since the area around Benghazi was known to be home to a large number of radical Islamic militias AND there had been several instances of violence prior to the killing of the 4 Americans there.

No WONDER the administration is trying to claim it was spontaneous violence which they could not have predicted.

WHERE IS OUR CORRUPT MEDIA on this? They have abdicated all responsibility to inform the American public in favor of electing the guy whose ideology they share.

Stkman| 9.28.12 @ 12:09PM

Some of us seem to get it, others don't. Many of you are using the word "failed, or failure". Obama has not failed. He is doing exactly what he intended to do. This is all part of his plan to destroy us from within. He aqchieves this in two way, by actions or inactions. In the case of the Lybian consulate we are seeing his plan of inaction. A few months ago in Lybia, it was a plan of action to take down Kaddaffi just as it was in Egypt to take down Mobaruk. Obam knows what he is doing and Hillary is assisting him.
He hasn't completely taken us down yet, but he's doing a pretty damn good job of it. We can't survive another year of him as President.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 12:35PM

Good boy.

It's nice to know that I haven't been wasting my time here, all these years.

I'm giving you an A+.

TLP| 9.28.12 @ 12:36PM

Now, get your @ss over to Matt Purple's House, and enter the Contest.

Stkman| 9.28.12 @ 4:03PM

My mother is going to be so proud!

Cats1cowboy| 9.28.12 @ 7:25PM

Starting in January 2013 o-bumbler won't need to attend any intelligence briefings. A Patriot will be in The White House.

theyjustcantstop| 9.30.12 @ 10:21PM

o'bama's forgeign policy,as bad as it's been,has giving america,and other western countries,a true forwarding looking,world policy,there will be a ww111,with muslum countries.
there's probably only a handful of real experts that could tell you within a dozen,how many different sects of muslums(islamist),there are,and the only time they stop killing each other is when there's a jihad againist christians,or western countries beliefs.
would'nt it have been nice to have bush's policies been able to suceed in iraq,as we speak it could be filling up with christians,and women running for their lives,from the arib spring.

bison cookie| 10.2.12 @ 6:56PM

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