Axelrod Refuses to Say Whether Obama Met with Nat’l Security Team Before Heading to Las Vegas
Wallace followed up on Axelrod’s non-answer by asking whether the President managed to squeeze in a meeting with the National Security Council before jetting off to Las Vegas for a campaign rally. Given Axelrod’s inability to produce a straightforward answer to the questions, it’s pretty clear the answer is “no.”Wow. Empty Chair can't even be bothered to go through the motions. He went to bed on September 11, 2012, knowing our ambassador to Libya was missing, and chose a campaign event over his real responsibilities the next day. (Video of Chris Wallace's interview with Axelrod at link above.)
Other Libya-related posts worth reading:
Powerline: What Happened in Benghazi This is a transcript of a State Department briefing given to reporters on October 9.
Andy McCarthy: If They’re Moving Their Lips, the Obama White House Is Lying About the Benghazi Massacre
Recommended by McCarthy, this from Stephen Hayes:
There are two possibilities. Either the intelligence community had a detailed picture of what happened in Benghazi that night and failed to share it with other administration officials and the White House. Or the intelligence community provided that detailed intelligence picture to others in the administration, and Obama, Biden, Clinton, Susan Rice, and others ignored and manipulated the intelligence to tell a politically convenient—but highly inaccurate—story.Audio from Mark Steyn talking with Hugh Hewitt: Hillary Clinton used Libyan ambassador’s dead body ‘as prop to peddle a false narrative’
If it’s the former, DNI James Clapper should be fired. If it’s the latter, what happened in Benghazi—and what happened afterwards—will go down as one of the worst scandals in recent memory.
“If I were a Democrat — I don’t care what party this is,” Steyn said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re Republicans, if they’re Democrats or the Socialist Workers’ Party or the Raving Green Looney Party, if you support that party, you should be ashamed of a shriveled definition of politics, that it consumes even those who you claim are your friends, like Chris Stevens. He’s a real person. Sean Smith is a real person. Tyrone Woods is a real person. Glen Doherty — these are real people, not just props in Obama’s attempt to swing 1,200 soccer moms in southern Ohio.”Listen to the rest.
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If he'd gone security briefings, he wouldn't have been able to blame the attack on the alleged movie protest.
ReplyDeleteAnd going to Vegas is so much more subtle than running around the White House with his fingers in his ears, yelling "I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"
You know, I feel that my faith would recommend that I not hate anyone. But he is pushing me to the edge of having to go to confession. Can I at least say he is my least favorite person...ever?
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to hate Obama to loathe and despise what he has done to this country. Jesus didn't hate the moneylenders but threw them from the temple nevertheless. So we need to concentrate on throwing Obama out of our White House, it is not necessary to hate him even if it is difficult to resist. Resist we much, LOL.
DeleteTexasMom2012
This week on Sesame Street, we learn to spell I-M-P-E-A-C-H.
ReplyDeleteIn "Police Academy" the recruits line up for haircuts. They all get buzzed semi-bald. Our hero steps up to the chair and says: "A little off the top and back please." The duffus pair that just got buzzed look in astonishment and exclaim in unison "You can do that?!"
ReplyDeleteIn the famous interview that Sarah Palin had with Katie Couric, Gov. Palin seemed undone by the question about which newspapers she read. Who could have guessed that the correct answer was: "I am such an astute consumer of news and intelligence that I don't need newspapers." And we all stand here and exclaim: "He can do that?" Apparently, he can.
Now, obviously, I am not suggesting some conservative Republican try this at home, because, well, it's more like the part in "Ghost Busters" where the pretty girl and the normal guy are tested and no matter what the guy says he gets shocked and no matter what the girl says she is complimented. We can't win. No matter what President Bush says he will be blamed with ignoring intelligence, misusing intelligence, playing politics with intelligence and generally being a duplicitous dope that does what the evil lord, Lord Cheney, tells him to do.
And the crowd laughs at the laugh lines and boos at the villains and nods in sombre agreement as they are led by the "professional" news "cheer leaders," I mean hacks. Of course, arrogant Bush got us into two wars by ignoring intelligence and, anyway, he WANTED those wars to insure his political security whereas the smartest president we ever had (he doesn't even have to go to briefings) has his hands full (full of golf clubs). He and his administration aren't to be blamed for the "foibles of the intelligence community" since, it couldn't be that the most astute consumer of intelligence got it wrong. And the crowd nods sombrely in agreement.
Has it occurred to anyone that the President doesn't go to briefings solely to be informed? And, that the goal isn't an informed President but a team working to keep the nation safe. What we want is a nation that is ahead of our enemies not a president that is ahead of the news cycle.
Brad Ervin
"What we want is a nation that is ahead of our enemies not a president that is ahead of the news cycle." How does that fit with leading from behind?
DeleteI posted this at Neo-neocon on October 11th, 2012 at 1:08 pm: Another way to understand Obama’s reaction to the terrorist attack and targeted assassination of our Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others (Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and former Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty): SPINELESSNESS and OBFUSCATION. By denying that it was a terrorist attack, Obama could abdicate his duty of responding forcibly and immediately and shift our nation’s response to a debate amongst ourselves. I admired the way Turkey responded to the shelling of its territory by Syria: Immediate retaliation. We should have done the same. Now we are seen as even weaker.
ReplyDeleteI saw that Chris Wallace/Axelrod clip yesterday. I was cheering Wallace for pinning that down - "Did he meet with any national security staff before jetting off to campaign?" - then I remembered Wallace was just doing his job. Rice should have been asked this the Sunday after the attacks, while she was lying about the vid on the talkshows.
ReplyDeleteWe're so ill-served by the media.
Wallace grants to Ax that some intel said it was a demo that got out of hand. Stephen Hayes is right to question that - which intel bureau reported a demonstration that didn't happen?
Mark Steyn is right.
ReplyDeleteI am voting for Romney. God Bless America. God Bless the brave men and women in our embassies and consulates.