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By on 10.16.12 @ 6:09AM

By Obama standards, it’s been his team’s finest hour.

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And the timeline goes on, showing how through spin and denials the Obama team tried to cover up the facts of the attack. If Charlene Lamb knew it was a terrorist attack in real time, Hillary Clinton knew. And so did Obama. Yet Obama, Clinton and Susan Rice told us for weeks afterward that it wasn’t.

The Obama team’s attempts to cover up the attack having failed, they still haven’t given up on spinning the facts. On Sunday, David Axelrod told Fox News Sunday that the president had labeled it a terrorist attack the day after it happened. But as the documentation of the timeline proves, he called it a “terrible act,” not a terrorist attack.

The difference is important. Obama and his team lied about the attack, the lack of any connection to the obscure video, and the pleas from Libya to bolster security. All of this was done to protect the Obama claim to greatness in propelling the “Arab spring.”

Benghazigate is not just a massive scandal and cover-up. It is proof positive of Obama’s failed policies and bad decisions that will yet cost more American lives in the Middle East and wherever else Islamists are emboldened by his failures.

We can only wonder what goes on in the White House late at night. When Obama wakes in the dark, the chuckling sound he hears might be the shade of Richard Nixon, laughing about the fact that no one died in Watergate.

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (56) |

k iott| 10.16.12 @ 6:33AM

And now that Hillary has stated that "The Buck Stops with Her" she has completely emasculated the president. She now has his testicles between those generous cankles and is grinding them into a pulp. (Saves Moochelle the trouble).

First they threw Hillary and State under the bus. In typical Clinton fashion she recahed up into the speeding yellow disaster, grabbed the little Ones package and has exacted her revenge.

It would be delicious if it weren't so tragic for the country.

Kitty | 10.16.12 @ 6:52AM

Just in time for the 2nd debate, imagine THAT! And there's Little Barry hiding behind her pantsuit.

Von Mises Jr| 10.16.12 @ 9:44AM

The scrawny runt can hide behind just one leg of her pantsuit.

Anthony| 10.16.12 @ 10:01AM

To k iott and Kitty, This is perfect, Romney should hit this one out of the park. Lit'le Barry hiding behind Madam (Doublewide) Pantsuits.
When Obozo talked about leading from behind, I never imagined the behind he was talking about was Hillary's.
The pretender-in-chief is not just light in the loafers, he's a complete and total COWARD.
Imagine if Bush tried to hide behind Rice, the whores in the MSM would have gone bonkers, and rightly so.
The Muslim Marxist is a pathetic worm.

TLP| 10.16.12 @ 4:11PM

The REAL STORY is that, President Tower of Babel, got on a plane and went to Las Vegas, and Jay Z, and his Whore's house, to RAISE MONEY, almost immediately after finding out that two of our Embassies had been Sacked, and our Ambassador, and three of his Attachment, had been MURDERED in Benghazi.

That's the Story.

Joellen| 10.16.12 @ 4:30PM

2nd to that Tim, is that we have a ABSOLUTE CORRUPT Media that refuses to report the real story.

sotto voce| 10.16.12 @ 6:29PM

He flew to LV the following morning, which is bad enough (don't know if he skipped his daily security briefing but wouldn't be surprised). What's even worse is that when he was told the night before that the Consulate was under attack and his Ambassador was missing, he went to bed.

CJW| 10.16.12 @ 6:28PM

Anthony,
As ususal the Clintons are very slick with their words. Hillary said she has responsibility for the State Dept but that the security details are handled by the security people. The press reports it that she accepted responsibility. She outsmarted Obama by pretending to accept responsibility and making it appear that Obama is shirking his responsibility. She is not falling on her sword, she has the sword at Obama's back. Now we are all talking about what a man Hillary is and what a wimp Obama is. Did I use "is" without defining "is" like Bubba.

Mike G| 10.16.12 @ 11:49AM

I'm actually surprised she would do this. It certainly shows her as incompetent, which could hurt her chances of winning the White House in 2016. Maybe she thinks the incident will be forgotten by then.

Anthony| 10.16.12 @ 12:34PM

Mike, Rush just said that Hillary is doing this because in addition to being made Sec. of State, Obozo is paying off her massive campaign debts.
Well, so not only do we know what Hillary actually is, we know what her price was.
Oh well, at least Hillary doesn't cum cheap.

Butch| 10.16.12 @ 5:24PM

Not only not cheap, not at all.

Joellen| 10.16.12 @ 4:37PM

Mike there is no way this LEFTIST, FRAUDULENT, HYPOCRIT HILLARY, had any chance of winning the White House EVER! This woman(?) has blood on her hands, whether it is through her promoting and advocating abortion throughout the world (her other hero is Margaret Sanger); or the recent murders of our Ambassador and three American Soldiers. I WILL NEVER FORGET! And one more thing, these fiends are not incompetent - they are succeeding at everything they set out to do - create chaos and eventually anarchy. Dont you forget that!

Occam's Tool| 10.16.12 @ 5:08PM

Hillary is a woman who would benefit from experiencing real sharia at the street and bedroom level.

Occam's Tool| 10.16.12 @ 5:10PM

I say this not as a chauvinist, for I despise sharia. But a little of the Lara Logan treatment in Egypt would be both deserved and educational for her, and I can't think of a worthless scumbag who deserves it more, and at their hands. She killed our Ambassador.

TLP| 10.16.12 @ 7:46PM

He killed our Ambassador.

Appleby| 10.16.12 @ 6:51AM

There is no great loss without some small gain. It is probable that should Romney win, the Sixties will finally be over. Not a single thing they have tried has actually worked and now even the fading Kids admit Shangri-La is a myth. Anybody who wants to keep on clinging to the Sixties can move into Quebec -- and have the extra fun of doing it in French.

Stephie| 10.16.12 @ 7:45AM

Appleby, you don't really think that the Clintons are done with their attack on America, do you? She and Slick Willy still have their eyes on moving back in to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and won't quit until they're pushin' up daisys.

chuck| 10.16.12 @ 7:51AM

Hillary is toast. Ambassador Stevens death is her Chappaquiddick.

DTOM| 10.16.12 @ 9:01AM

chuck,

If only. Did Chappaquiddick put down Ted as it should have? Not really. Sure no Oval Office for Teddy, but we had to look at him for another forty some years.

The blue dress didn't sink Bill - a couple of dead Americans won't sink Hill. Bill wouldn't let her get away with surrender.

Besides Hillary's tight with the Muslim Brotherhood through Huma Weiner-the MB will be funneling millions of dollars to both Clintons until they are pushing up DANDELIONS. No daisies for them!

Those two are the biggest political threat to our country - after vote fraud...

DTOM

chuck| 10.16.12 @ 6:55PM

Yea, but the big prize for Shrillary is the Oval Office. One dead ambassador will forever keep her, and Bill, from ever returning to the White House.

We owe a debt of gratitude to Ambassador Stevens for this. May he rest in peace.

Cobalt| 10.16.12 @ 8:10AM

Just 21 days until the election.

Two more debates, stonewall, a quick military operation (wag the dog) and just run out the clock.

Kwan| 10.16.12 @ 8:34AM

Once again leftist fantasy and reality collide and people end up dead. Obama and Hillary were the two suckers who bought into this "Arab Spring" nonsense. Evidently leftists don't learn from past mistakes made in the Middle East ( Carter with Iran ), that when you remove the Dictator Radical Islamists fill the vacuum. Unless of course that's what the Muslim Obama actually wanted to happen.

Von Mises Jr| 10.16.12 @ 9:54AM

And one must remember that at the time of the intervention, Obama unilaterally made the decision to attack Libya. It is 100% his baby.

Joellen| 10.16.12 @ 8:36AM

Hillary is a disciple of Saul Alinsky, just like Obama and his whole administration. They will never go away. This battle we are in, we are in it for life, so never get complacent, they dont!

Nancy in NC| 10.16.12 @ 8:45AM

Exactly! They are like a fungus...always there. We must keep them in our sights forever.

Cobalt| 10.16.12 @ 10:57AM

http://fellowshipofminds.files.....-obama.jpg

Alan's Girl| 10.16.12 @ 11:06AM

As they used to say on "Friends", "Ee-u-w, ee-u-w, EE-U-W!"

florin| 10.16.12 @ 8:47AM

Oct. 16th: I wonder - if Obama had made time to attend his intelligence briefings, is it possible that the need for more security for our Embassies and Consulates had come up and he would have been made aware of those security essentials? Romney should hammer Obama about his indifference to Intelligence briefings. And he should remind people that Obama did indeed answer that '3a.m. call' and then went back to sleep and when he woke up, he went to Las Vegas...what kind of President does that? How could he have gone to Vegas after learning that our Ambassador and other Americans had been brutally murdered by Islamist terrorists? And that the Middle East was on fire? Romney needs to hammer this home...

Seapuss| 10.16.12 @ 8:57AM

There is no explanation for the "Benghazi was the result of a protest over a YouTube video" story, which Obama and members of his administration repeated in the media for nearly two weeks, other than it was a political cover-up.

Anyone (and everyone) with first-hand knowledge of the attack on the Benghazi Consulate (the State Department and, I assume, members of the faceless "Intelligence Community") knew instantly—in real time—that it was a pre-planned terrorist attack, and that no protest over a YouTube video (or over anything else) had occurred or was in any way involved. Thus, with absolutely no facts to support it, the story that "Benghazi was the result of a protest over a YouTube video" literally had to be created out of thin air.

Stories created out of thin air are known by another name: LIES.

Anthony| 10.16.12 @ 8:58AM

So Hillary is taking the big one for the team. I guess she really has given up hope for 2016, especially when Romney wins and the truth does come out.
The whores in the MSM have demonstrated that they truly are undeserving of any respect or attention.
If this was Bush, the media would be screaming, "CONNECT THE DOTS", it would be news 24/7, but it appears that catchy phrase is only reserved for Rs.
If we don't defeat Obozo, America is finished, and if Farrakahn wants riots after a Romney victory, bring it, house cleaning is long overdue.

DTOM| 10.16.12 @ 9:07AM

Anthony,

Lame stream media has already ordered twenty six rolls of heavy brocade wallpaper to paper over this little "bump in the road."

Hillary is worse than Dracula - she eats silver crosses pounded through her heart for breakfast...

Boy, it would be nice if they would just quit - but there's no quit in them - especially after seeing how much Barry accomplished. He passed Hillarycare!!!!

Tell everyone you know to vote on Nov 6 - let no one stay home, none, except of course the thick-headed O supporters...

Don't Tread On Me!

MelvinNC| 10.16.12 @ 9:54AM

If my design that the Republicans win, they figuratively could drive a stake through that Communist's heart by holding her through investigation directly responsible for four Americans death's in Libya.
The death of four Americans should not be touted as the cost of doing business in the Mid-east. These four Americans should not be Hillary's or Barry's, "Ooops, we made a mistake." This brutal murder was no, "Ooops, or mistake." The death's of these Americans lie directly at the feet of the Nehru pantsuit wearing worthless Sec. of State and Barrack Obama.
Hillary and Barry are as culpable in the deaths of our fellow Americans as if they pulled the trigger themselves.

Anthony| 10.16.12 @ 10:06AM

Between Fast & Furious and now Benghazi, Obozo, Holder, and Clinton have so much blood on their hands, they belong side by side working in a Chicago slaughter house.
Oh wait, they already do, my bad.

spoofproof | 10.16.12 @ 10:41AM

In the 2nd debate (October 16th 2012) between Romney & Obama, Mr. Romney should treat the gross betrayal of those under Obama's command in Benghazi as painful gout in Obama's left big toe. Mr. Romney should stomp Obama's Benghazi big toe hard & often. Romney should give Obama a kind of pain that Obama has never experienced before: the pain of unsparing humiliation. And if Candee Crowly interferes, humiliate her too. Romney should scorch Obama's earth. The future of Constitutional liberty is at stake. (h/t Wes Pruden, Washington Times for the gouty big toe imagery) Here is a picture of what actually happened to Obama's Ambassador: http://www.thesupernaturalist......TEVENS.htm

Anthony| 10.16.12 @ 10:51AM

Drudge has caved to Obozo, he has taken down his post of Farrahkan threating riots if Obozo loses.

BackToBasics| 10.16.12 @ 11:01AM

Drudge has a link to an article that quotes Clinton as saying, ""the confusion you get in any type of combat situation."

In "combat" situations you increase security, it's that simple!

There were at least 230 security incidents logged by the US in the months leading up to the 9-11 attacks that killed 4 Americans.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....re-attack/

http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....n-fog-war/

Anthony| 10.16.12 @ 12:08PM

Yeah, Madam Hillary chalks the confusion up to the "fog of war". What war???
When Bush & Co., who were actually conducting a REAL WAR, in real time, with real elements of the unknown, made mention of the "fog of war" the media whores and the Ds went ballistic.
But Obozo and Hillary get away with any damn thing they say.
How sick are these leftists?

BackToBasics| 10.16.12 @ 6:52PM

The more they say, the deeper they dig themselves into the pit. Obam should be taking the fall for this too, but what Clinton said does not clear them of culpability regarding the lack of security at all.

Alan's Girl| 10.16.12 @ 11:18AM

I do love that photo that heads this story-- Hillary's atrophied hands curled up under her chin. Very appropriate for her stance on the world stage. What an image for the Secretary of State of the most powerful country on the planet.

Who Knows?| 10.16.12 @ 11:22AM

Who was the guy who made “straight talk” famous?

Anyway, it’s blatantly obvious that crooked talk is ALL there is from liberals, and Obama is the master of ceremonies for this crowd. Maybe what goes around comes around is about to up and bite him.

I once read a book, “Infinity”, that playfully explained the Universe and light.

Imagine the number line, which goes to negative infinity on the left and positive infinity on the right. Obviously, in our conventional “wisdom”, we assume the line goes on to infinity, in both directions.

However, assume that “at infinity”, the line connects, so that plus infinity meets minus infinity.

Who Knows?| 10.16.12 @ 11:32AM

Hey, space-time is supposed to be closed, according to Einstein.

Now, based on this, consider light.

The book “proved” that any light beam, at infinity, turns around and comes back to its source.

Therefore, all those stars one sees in the night sky are really just reflections “at infinity” of previous beams from our sun. There is only one star, our sun.

Cute, huh?

So, it could be that with Obama, who’s taken the previous master of crooked talk, Bill Clinton, to a higher power, is like that light. The lies are bending, at infinity, coming back at us, maybe cleaned up or naked, and will be seen in truth by enough people to bring the Great Awakening so desperately needed.

John II| 10.16.12 @ 8:35PM

Yeah. Makes sense to me, Knowie. But I read a lot of Philip K. Dick before I died.

And now back to "Forbidden Planet" (1956), in which Leslie Nielsen is, as always, out of character in the role of an earnest leader of a space expedition a planet where Shakespeare wrote "The Tempest." Robby the Robot is particularly good as . . . well, Robby the Robot. He's somewhere in a closet now in Sony Studios, where MGM used to live before the Japanese won World War II by taking over the US economically. Partly with monster movies like "Godzilla."

Klabautermann| 10.16.12 @ 12:09PM

On November 3, 2011 in "Vox populi, vox Mohammad?" it was predicted that, "If events in the Middle East turn sour the media’s first response will be to ignore them. However, this may eventually become impossible." Well the murder of our Ambassador cannot be swept under the rug. Thus the frantic efforts to come up with excuses. The President can attend fund raisers during these "bumps in the road" but he will pay a price. Obama is the architect of a new Middle East, like Carter was the architect of a new Iran. First Gaddafi, then Moubarak, now Bashar al-Assad. Assad is a terrorist supporting, anti western tyrant. He will be missed. What replaces him will not be pretty. Is the Saudi Royal Family far behind? All these events in the Middle East are unexplainable. It is bi partisan with McCain and Graham on board. Why was there higher security provided to Barbados than Libya? Why was an obscure security firm hired to provide security? Are we subcontracting our embassy security to al-Qaeda? This reminds me of a remark by James Forrestal, "Consistency never has been a mark of stupidity. If the diplomats who have mishandled our relations with Russia were merely stupid, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor." 

Rockabilly| 10.16.12 @ 12:34PM

What this whole thing really illustrates is the importance of Fox news which was virtually the only big national media on this story. Were it not for Fox there is eery chance all this dirt would have been under the rung until after the election which is just what Obama's strategy was all along. At age 66 it makes me wonder what went unreported all those years before there was a Fox news channel and the "big three" monopolized the air waves.

elias| 10.16.12 @ 12:51PM

"We can only wonder what goes on in the White House late at night."

And we can only wonder about the stupifying ignorance, or the anti-American and unAmerican motivations of our fellow citizens who will vote to re-elect obama anyway..

pigdog| 10.16.12 @ 3:33PM

Events have spun out of control for the Obama administration. The only thing that can be controlled are the talking points, and that spin is coming from the campaign.

There is something missing in the timeline, and that is the embassy protests in Egypt. The initial criticisms from Mitt Romney were related to Obama's foreign policy, and were prompted by events in Egypt, not Libya. Protests popped up in other Muslim countries, ostensibly related to the much-condemned video.

Then the American Ambassador to Libya is murdered. This murder was campaign gold to the Obama Re-elect Committee. The murder, following Romney's policy critique in response to Egypt, allowed Chief ORC Axelrod to pounce. How unpatriotic of Romney to criticize the Commander in Chief in the midst of a foreign crisis, only to learn later that four Americans died! Shoot first, aim later!

But the ORC went out on a limb ahead of the facts, as known by the State Department.

Had Romney remained silent in response to the blasphemous video protests, events in Libya would have been seen for what they were--a terrorist attack. There would have been no reason for the campaign to orchestrate an attack on Romney, and for the administration to lie for so long about that blasphemous video. So you see, it is Mitt Romney's fault.

If these events were following a script, it could only have been written by James O'Keefe.

Occam's Tool| 10.16.12 @ 5:06PM

Why did we get rid of a browbeaten dictator anyway?

John II| 10.16.12 @ 7:07PM

"If Charlene Lamb knew it was a terrorist attack in real time, Hillary Clinton knew. "

And now she tells us she knew. The way I parse the old bull-dyke harridan's tortured admission of responsibility is that she was too busy with one of her girlfriends to answer the phone at 3:00 a.m.

Cobalt| 10.16.12 @ 8:39PM

If Hillary becomes President, maybe she will make Rachel Maddow her Press Secretary.

spike59| 10.17.12 @ 5:50AM

she's got experience in the gig, having "co-held" that post, along with Tingles Matthews, for ObaMao...

CLD| 10.20.12 @ 1:32AM

"Let's start with the fact that none of the four would have been in Libya had Obama not chosen to follow Nicolas Sarkozy into war there despite the advice of then-defense secretary Robert Gates that we had no national security interest there."

This is true. However, having toppled Ghaddafi did not require that we open an embassy.

Which doesn't help Obama's case any. I just tire of hearing how we had no reason or interest in ridding the world of the thug. Perhaps I feel different because I'm an alum of Syracuse University which every year has memorials for students killed on Pan Am 103.

Jasa SEO | 5.18.13 @ 2:22AM

I could not have said it better!.
Regards.
www.urbanvibes.co.id

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