His reputation had already taken a hit because of the bad early intel from the CIA on Benghazi before anyone knew who Paula Broadwell … That’s like Obama needing an investigation to find out what he did or didn’t order the military to do to rescue Americans pinned down…
Rice, long a favorite of Obama. … And President Obama claims he had already characterized the attack as terrorism. … Either Obama is lying or Susan Rice ignored the president’s characterization of the Benghazi attack.…
answers with a scoop of its own before former CIA Director David Petraeus briefs a Senate committee on what he knows about the Benghazi … Expect immediate demands for Obama administration officials to testify on how Susan Rice got those talking points, who crafted them … Petraeus maintained that he said early on that the ambush was a result of terrorism, but King added that he remembered Petraeus and the Obama…
Barack Obama’s first choice to succeed Hillary Clinton at State has run into a trap Obama and his team set for her after the Benghazi … Decisions, decisions:
President Obama is said to be “genuinely conflicted” about whether to nominate his favored candidate, U.N. … If Hagel goes to Defense — or if it goes to anyone else besides Kerry — then Obama probably has to send Kerry to State. …
The last time Obama sent a senior administration official onto all five shows, Susan Rice told a fairy tale about a YouTube video and … a spontaneous demonstration outside our consulate in Benghazi. … Looks like a lot of cliff-diving talk today on all five shows, but if you want some Benghazi talk, CBS’ Face the Nation is your best…
Fox to wonder who changed the administration’s initial talking points for Susan Rice to avoid admitting that the attack on our Benghazi … point where hardly anyone got the joke:
“This week, CBS News became the first news organization besides Fox to ask President Obama … ‘Who changed the Benghazi talking points?’”…
First, her bosses send her out to sell what turned out to be a false narrative about the Benghazi attack on five news shows, despite … the fact that — as Barack Obama himself said — Rice had nothing to do with what happened in Benghazi. … — and perhaps Obama should rethink his plans to replace Hillary Clinton instead.…
s political future have been the real failures of the State Department and the White House to properly secure our consulate in Benghazi … Well before the Benghazi attack, our intelligence agencies, Department of Defense and State Department cables from the U.S. … real issues are why the Obama administration didn’t recognize the danger and respond to it properly.…
nomination, nor to those who oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, two very different constituencies that might have a common cause if Obama … White House official and Democratic aides said they think that Rice could win Senate confirmation for the top diplomatic job if Obama … The NRDC is opposed to the construction of the $7 billion pipeline. …
At a time when Obama is fighting Republicans opposed to Rice…
wealthy began to show cracks on Wednesday after a conservative congressman said he would back an agreement with President Barack Obama … Which is to say that Obama didn’t have a very good answer, because this time isn’t all that different. … While a recession would be terrible for the country, it may not be terrible for the Obama presidency.…
Barack Obama, D-Illinois. … Hoping to bridge that chasm, the Obama campaign and Democrats harped on comments McCain made on the Today show this morning, repeatedly … So evergreen is the “temperament” attack that Obama threw it at Romney after his initial statement on the Benghazi attacks, even though…
In response to a question from Major Garrett on whether or not the Obama administration’s decidedly botched handling of the 9/11/12 … What the president is worried about, Major, is what happened and why in Benghazi. … administration for the Benghazi attack?…
Senator Kelly Ayotte appears to have taken the lead on Republican efforts to stop President Obama from nominating Susan Rice to replace … have been answered:
The accusation of being misleading isn’t limited to Benghazi, either. … That assumes that Obama still intends to nominate Rice for anything at all. …
On those shows, Rice said U.S. intelligence believed the Benghazi attack was not a planned act of terror, but instead a demonstration … If McCain really did mean to block her nomination as Secretary of State rather than simply to hassle Obama, he sure picked a goofy … Exit quotation from Eli Lake’s piece linked above:
McCain isn’t the only Republican pursuing the Benghazi line.…
Almost three months have passed since terrorists sacked the oddly-undefended American consulate in Benghazi, and the head of the State … The House and Senate foreign relations committees have already announced that Secretary of StateHillary Clinton will testify on Benghazi … In other words, the internal investigation that the Obama administration has used to keep Hillary and other State personnel at arms…
On Thursday I asked that President Obama no longer consider me for the job of secretary of state. … President Obama didn’t want to be seen as backing down. … critics and distract from a pending report on what happened in Benghazi.…
If her confirmation had been a pure referendum on Benghazi, Senate Democrats probably would have gone to bat for her. … Per James Antle, Obama might like that just fine. … Update: BuzzFeed accuses Obama of “weakness”:
“Susan Rice is essentially a repeat of Gitmo in 2009,” a former Obama Administration…
the Syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the Syrian people in opposition to the Assad regime,” Obama … said…
“Obviously, with that recognition comes responsibilities,” Obama said of the young coalition. … minority rights.”…
“Not everybody who’s participating on the ground in fighting Assad are people who we are comfortable with,” Obama…
How well prepared was the security team at the Benghazi consulate on the night of September 11th, in an area known to be rife with … August didn’t prompt State to ramp up their own security at all:
A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi … Riots had erupted at the US Embassy in Cairo, a fact that the Obama administration used to insist that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous…
The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials … The US knew that Islamist terrorists operated in eastern Libya for years before Obama came into office. … If that’s the case, how could they possibly have left the consulate in Benghazi as unprotected as it was?…
Goes to Las Vegas fundraiser after attack on Benghazi consulate
No time to meet with Netanyahu, makes time for the Pimp with a Limp … radio show
Previous Obamateurisms of the Year:
Giving 2 minutes of “shout-outs” before getting to the Fort Hood shooting (2009)
Obama…
Board’s report on the “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies” that led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi … that the State Department has “already begun to fix” the security lapses that allowed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi … Administration on what went so tragically wrong in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of four patriotic Americans.…
chemical weapons, as do 63 percent if the Assad regime used these banned weapons against its own people – an action that Barack Obama … Gee, I wonder where (benghazi) Americans might have gotten (Benghazi) the idea that Arab revolutions would make it more difficult to … fight terrorism (BENGHAZI)?…
The Accountability Review Board report on Benghazi now making the rounds did not come up favorably for the State Department — “systemic … Consulate in Benghazi in the run-up to the terror attack that killed four Americans. … This has been a chief Republican talking point against Obama since the Benghazi attacks occurred on Sept. 11.…
Congress now has the Accountability Review Board report on the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans, including the … to the late Ambassador Chris Stevens — and unequivocally states that there never was a protest in front of the consulate, as the Obama … Hillary Clinton herself said that the buck stopped with her on Benghazi. …
