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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
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Previous weekly “winners” in 2012:
Refuses to talk to reporters about Benghazi, but grants interview to Us Magazine
“Jim, you may … Goes to Las Vegas fundraiser after attack on Benghazi consulate
No time to meet with Netanyahu, makes time for the Pimp with a Limp … And unlike Slate, I promise to end the feature when Barack Obama leaves office.…
Quotes of the day
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The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound … in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th. … Had Obama answered Clark’s question yesterday, he would’ve violated this unspoken blackout agreement by making news.…
CBS: CIA talking points for Rice never mentioned terrorism
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/15/cbs-cia-talking-points-for-rice-never-mentioned-terrorism-n202919
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Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, four days earlier. … Protests of that nature had been seen in other Muslim nations in the days and weeks before the Benghazi attack. … “Available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the U.S.…
WSJ: Petraeus pushed out after defending CIA over Benghazi?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/15/wsj-petraeus-pushed-out-after-defending-cia-over-benghazi-n202911
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, and suggests that the Obama administration wanted Petraeus out because of it (via Instapundit):
In David Petraeus’s final days … At issue was whether the CIA should break its silence about its role in Benghazi, Libya, to counter criticism that increasingly was … Petraeus’s last days at the CIA show the extent to which the Benghazi attacks created a climate of interagency finger-pointing.…
Obama on GOP opposition to Susan Rice: You want to come after someone over Benghazi, come after me
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RICE: … with our personnel and the consulate in Benghazi. … Our presence in Tripoli, as in Benghazi, is relatively new, as you will recall. … But I’ve visited there myself, both to Tripoli and Benghazi.…
Graham: I'm "dead set" against promoting anyone involved in Benghazi debacle
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Hampshire), and John McCain (Arizona) are making the case for calling together a special joint select committee on the attack on Benghazi … Seeing as how it’s now starting to look “likely” that President Obama will be putting U.N. … “I am dead set on making sure we don’t promote anybody who was a player in the Benghazi debacle,” Graham said in reference to Rice’…
The Ed Morrissey Show: Jennifer Rubin, Mary Katharine Ham
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We’ll talk about the latest in the Benghazi and Petraeus stories, as well as Bobby Jindal’s calls for a conservative populism. … Mary Katharine Ham joins me afterward to discuss today’s press conference from Barack Obama, and much much more. Don’t miss it!…
Open thread: Obama's first press conference in five months
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/14/open-thread-obamas-first-press-conference-in-five-months-n202894
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Obama ducked into a press briefing in August unannounced in order to take a couple of shots at Todd Akin and actually deigned to take … Today, the stranger returns at 1:30 ET (or so), and Politico thinks that Obama will face “tough questions”:
This is not what the … A tough question would focus on what happened in Benghazi before, during, and after the terrorist attack that sacked our consulate.…
Carney: Obama "wasn't pleased" with Petraeus scandal when he found out, just after the election
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/11/13/carney-obama-was…us-scandal-when-he-found-out-just-after-the-election-n202878
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fiscal cliff (which, I’m sure, is perfectly true — no good lingering on security concerns that bring any more attention to that Benghazi … Peter King has wondered, this all looks kinda’ odd:
“If [Obama] was told and did nothing about it, that reflects on him,” King continued … Anyhow, Congressional hearings on the events in the Benghazi attack are going down later this week.…
Yep: Eric Holder to stay on as Obama's attorney general
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For a moment there, I was tempted to write that I am flabbergasted by the level of brazen contemptuousness that Obama & Friends somehow … So not only is President Obama considering pretty much promoting Ambassador Susan Rice to Secretary of State after they sent her out … to spin tall tales about “videos” and “spontaneous protests” after four Americans died in the 9/11/12 attacks in Benghazi (although…
Good news: Obama might pick John Kerry for Defense, Susan Rice for State
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The temptation for Republicans to nuke her out of hand over her Benghazi disinformation would have been enormous. … President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. … But several White House officials said Obama is prepared to dig in his heels over her nomination to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton……
Politico: The GOP's suffering from "Pauline Kaelism"
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According to a recent Pew study, MSNBC’s coverage of Romney this fall was significantly more negative than Fox’s coverage of Obama … reinforced and an alternate reality is reflected…
In this reassuring conservative pocket universe, Rasmussen polls are gospel, the Benghazi … The argument was that enthusiasm for Obama had faded too far from 2008 levels to replicate D+7 turnout, and that appeared to be supported…
Fox News source: Yes, the CIA was holding prisoners at the Benghazi annex
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A well-placed Washington source confirms to Fox News that there were Libyan militiamen being held at the CIA annex in Benghazi and … In which case, why would he still be sharing secrets with her two months later, after the Benghazi attack? … That being so, how were Obama and James Clapper supposedly kept in the dark until last week?…
Diehl: Obama's "light footprint" doctrine the author of Benghazi debacle
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When the West pushed Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak from office via diplomatic abandonment, Barack Obama declared that a victory for American … After decapitating the Moammar Qaddafi regime a few months later through NATO in an undeclared war against Libya, Obama argued that … For the last couple of years, the light footprint worked well enough to allow Obama to turn foreign policy into a talking point for…
Benghazi on front burner in Congress this week
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Get ready for some high-profile questions into the debacle of the Benghazi terrorist attack this week, as Congress returns from its … With Barack Obama safely re-elected, maybe the media will finally put it on theirs, too. … Consulate in Benghazi called the CIA annex and requested assistance.”)…
Quotes of the day
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On Thursday morning, just before a staff meeting at the White House, President Obama was told.
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The White House says no one … year-old was “in love with him.”
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Though Petraeus is not expected to testify at the committee’s closed-door hearing [at Benghazi … Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has been among Republican senators loudly urging hearings on Benghazi, called it “absolutely essential.…
Pentagon releases Benghazi timeline: took 19 hours to respond
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That would be news to anyone following the Benghazi story in some depth. … the oppression of the Qaddafi regime by Barack Obama and NATO a year earlier. … consulate was in the meeting with Obama 50 minutes after the attack started.…
Breaking: Petraeus submits resignation as CIA director
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/11/09/breaking-petraeus-submits-resignation-as-cia-director-n202817
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Catherine Herridge says the only explanation given so far is “personal reasons,” but notes that he met personally with Obama yesterday … and wonders if it may have had to do with the CIA releasing that timeline on Benghazi last week. … That was my gut instinct too — either this is fallout from Benghazi or there really is something personal going on.…
Open thread: Obama presser on "fiscal cliff"
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Barack Obama is scheduled to speak on the “fiscal cliff” at 1:15 pm ET today, which means of course that it will probably start closer … Democrats sense an Obama desire to shape-shift, but no one is quite sure. … And will the press get a chance to ask a few questions of their own — especially about Benghazi?…
Rice: GOP has to address changing demographics of US
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insight into Syria, China, and spent quite a bit of time talking about what we need to find out about the terrorist attack on Benghazi … Rice also talked about Benghazi, and had some interesting insight into what specifically we should probe. … Rice says we need answers on why the Obama administration apparently ignored months of warnings about security in Benghazi, and especially…
Pentagon: Oh, by the way, Iran fired at a U.S. drone in the Persian Gulf seven days ago
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It says President Obama “hopes to solve this issue peacefully and through diplomacy.” … Problem is, that argument didn’t do much for him as applied to Benghazi. … “Obama only won because of that dirty trick involving the drone.”…
Haley Barbour: The hurricane saved Obama's presidency
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election, no matter how grim, but I can’t bear the mental load of thinking that the fate of entitlement reform might have turned on Obama … It could just mean that the storm distracted them long enough from their “Obama or Romney?” … calculus that it turned into more of a “do I trust Obama as president?” referendum on O.…
Just a reminder: Congress not done investigating Benghazi
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which might have been rescued had prompt action taken place when the attack occurred — and none of them would have been dead had the Obama … Saxby Chambliss, said his panel would proceed with its review of the Benghazi attacks. … Speaking of the YouTube video that the Obama administration insisted was the cause of the attack, even to the extent of Obama speaking…
Looking at the national exit poll
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Romney got 1.8 million more votes than Obama among voters 30+. He lost under-30s by 5.1 million. Game over. … In 2008, Obama won them by 21. Yesterday, he won them by 25. … Maybe Romney won September because of Benghazi.…
Morsi grabs dictatorial powers in Egypt; Update: Protests, clashes erupt in Egypt
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/23/morsi-grabs-dictatorial-powers-in-egypt-n203026
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terrorist networks openly operate and control the eastern part of the country, which resulted in the sacking of our consulate in Benghazi … They come as Morsi is riding high on lavish praise from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for mediating…