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Heart-ache: Even MSNBC finds Obama presser "embarrassing"
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/06/heart-ache-even-msnbc-finds-obama-presser-embarrassing-n209396
– MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe — who wrote not one but two Obama-friendly books over the last four years — called the President … Robinson calls this “dilemma creep,” which he says is even worse than mission creep, and says Obama should stop talking about fixing … If Obama is this far from making the sale on what has been his most friendly media ground, how much more difficult will it be four…
Obama advisor: He won't attack Syria if Congress votes no
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/09/06/obama-advisor-he-wont-attack-syria-if-congress-votes-no-n209385
OBAMA: Right. And you’re not getting a direct response. … Will Obama go back to Congress and ask again for approval to strike? … That’s what’s coming down the road, even if Congress thwarts Obama this time.…
Breaking: Obama to address nation on Tuesday
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/06/breaking-obama-to-address-nation-on-tuesday-n209389
– And he’ll do it on the day before the anniversary of 9/11 and Benghazi: President Obama will speak to American people from the White … Obama wants to strike against the Syrian regime in response to a chemical attack on civilians last month that the Obama administration … If that’s true, then why not force the UNSC to reject Obama and expose that paralysis? …
Two new polls: Heavy public opposition to U.S. strikes in Syria
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/09/03/two-new-polls-heavy-public-opposition-to-u-s-strikes-in-syria-n209304
– Since #Obama still refuses to tell us the whole truth about #Benghazi, why do GOP leaders trust Obama to be truthful about #Syria? … If we can’t trust Obama to enforce the employer mandate required by ObamaCare, why would you trust him to enforce tough new border … If you can’t trust him to protect the consulate in Benghazi and track down the bad guys who attacked it, why would you trust him on…
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: There are "dozens" of countries who'll help us in Syria, but I'm not allowed to tell you which ones
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/09/03/debbie-wasserman-s…s-in-syria-but-im-not-allowed-to-tell-you-which-ones-n209296
– John McCain, President Obama said he plans to give Syrian rebels more advanced weapons, according to McCain. … “This was a shift in the president’s thought and actions from before.”… Obama didn’t say which weapons he would give the rebels, … (Collecting MANPADs may — may — have been what the CIA was up to in Benghazi.)…
Kerry: This is our Munich moment, or something
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/03/kerry-this-is-our-munich-moment-or-something-n209289
– For the moment, John Kerry has his focus on Democrats, who aren’t exactly rushing to grant Barack Obama super war powers, and that … The same is true here, with Obama alternately shooting his mouth off about “red lines” and then failing to do any work to prepare Congress … Given what happened later in that Libyan city, the skeptics will remain unconvinced. 4) The lack of confidence in Barack Obama. …
The ad-libbed war?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/08/30/the-ad-libbed-war-n209242
– Some reportedly wished Obama could have taken those words back. … Dwyer refers to Obama as a “tortured spirit,” who never wanted to find himself in this position.   … Even at the time, though, it was clear that Obama did want to put himself in this position — while hoping that Assad wouldn’t call…
Video: Cameron stunned as Parliament rejects call for Syria strike
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/08/30/video-cameron-stunned-as-parliament-rejects-call-for-syria-strike-n209238
– We mentioned this in the QOTD last night, but David Cameron’s defeat in Parliament last night puts Barack Obama in a bind — and may … reconsider, but for now Cameron is throwing in the towel: ABC News sees this as a settled question on UK participation: The Obama … Did Obama learn anything from this political disaster?  At least for the record … no. …
AP, NYT: Evidence lacking that Assad ordered chemical-weapons use
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/08/29/ap-nyt-evidence-lacking-that-assad-ordered-chemical-weapons-use-n209216
– Barack Obama insisted yesterday in a PBS interview that only the Bashar al-Assad regime possessed the chemical weapons used in the … York Times waits a while to get to the point, but their lead-in focuses on the erroneous intel of the Iraq War, which then-Senator Obama … One correction to the New York Times’ argument: Obama is the only President who goes to war without Congressional approval. …
Bill Clinton on the U.S.-Russia plan for Syria: "Who cares" whose idea it was?
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/09/17/bill-clinton-on-th…s-russia-plan-for-syria-who-cares-whose-idea-it-was-n209654
– Via Politico, between this and Hillary’s infamous line to Congress about Benghazi, they’re developing a nifty theme for the next presidential … likely to be blowing hawkish or dovish in two years and figures that the safest place for the Clintons right now is hiding behind Obama
House Oversight: State Dept obstructed Benghazi probe
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/16/house-oversight-state-dept-obstructed-benghazi-probe-n209614
– Just five days after the one-year anniversary of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi and the murder of a US ambassador and three … Oversight accuses the State Department of willfully obstructing the Congressional investigation into the attack and the actions of the Obama … The Benghazi ARB was the nineteenth Accountability Review Board held since 1988. …
Video: Taliban attack on US consulate in Afghanistan, seven attackers dead
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/13/video-taliban-att…on-us-consulate-in-afghanistan-seven-attackers-dead-n209558
– If the Taliban intended to make a point on the first anniversary of the sacking of our consulate in Benghazi, then they were a day … The Obama administration fumbled those talks, and that was with a government that’s friendlier to the US than Hamid Karzai’s is at…
The other anniversary: One year later, trying to figure out why we were in Benghazi
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/09/11/the-other-annivers…r-later-trying-to-figure-out-why-we-were-in-benghazi-n209523
– Via Ace, carve out 10 minutes for John Sexton’s news mosaic of what the CIA was really up to in Benghazi when the jihadis made their … Surely the totality of western arms shipments to the rebels didn’t dry up after the Benghazi attack. … So why was the CIA station’s location so well known in Benghazi?…
Must see: A brief history of Obama's "smart power" on Syria
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/09/11/must-see-a-brief-history-of-obamas-smart-power-on-syria-n209520
– That’s where President Obama finds himself today. … Because one message is already clear in Damascus: The Obama administration will do everything in its power to do nothing at all. … How will President Obama respond then? It is hard to say. Because no one knows what the president is doing.…
CIA Director promises to produce Benghazi survivors for Congressional testimony
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/11/cia-director-prom…oduce-benghazi-survivors-for-congressional-testimony-n209511
– Will John Brennan clash with John Kerry over Benghazi? … One group of lawmakers expressed concerns about demanding access to the Benghazi survivors. … This once again casts light on the tension between the CIA and State Department over Benghazi. …
Obama speech: As confused as his policy
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/11/obama-speech-as-confused-as-his-policy-n209505
– Yesterday, though, Obama sounded contradictory and confused.  … So what was Obama asking of the American people? Nothing. … Did Obama offer any evidence of these assertions? …
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/09/10/quotes-of-the-day-1492-n209501
Obama, on the other hand, found himself constantly check-mated, either by his own hand, or, this time, by Kerry’s. … The hidden rebuke: It means that when Putin met with Obama at the G-20 last week Obama, due to his lack of competence, got nothing. … That’s all true, but now we see that Putin was testing Obama and looking for openings… The Russian proposal not only saves Obama
Syria denouement: An unmitigated disaster for US foreign policy and credibility
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/10/the-foreign-policy-disaster-of-syria-n209468
OBAMA: I did have those conversations. … , a reliable Obama supporter, calls his policy “dumb.” … Well, that may be an exaggeration — but Obama promised a “fundamental transformation,” after all.…
On eve of Benghazi anniversary, Libya stiffs US on arrests
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/10/on-eve-of-benghazi-anniversary-libya-stiffs-us-on-arrests-n209462
– A year ago tomorrow, terrorists sacked our consulate in Benghazi and killed four Americans, including our Ambassador to Libya.  … Despite claims that the Obama administration would seek out the culprits, the New York Times reports that the successor government … Libya, has rebuffed the Obama administration’s efforts to arrest the suspects.…
Hillary to speak on Syria today
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/09/hillary-to-speak-on-syria-today-n209430
– The comments, the first since an unidentified aide said last week that the former Secretary of State supports President Obama in going … before Congress to get support for a limited strike against Syria, will come after she meets privately with Obama at the White House … Having the Clintons behind the plan may make it even more difficult to get Republicans on board, especially in the House, where Obama
Benghazi whistleblower: I'm being punished for telling the truth
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/09/benghazi-whistleblower-im-being-punished-for-telling-the-truth-n209429
– Thanks to some bizarre timing by Barack Obama, his call for military intervention against Bashar al-Assad’s regime will go prime-time … the night before the one-year anniversary of the sacking of the Benghazi consulate — which was a direct result of the US-led NATO … Jeff Duncan (R-SC), when Duncan demanded answers on Benghazi during a hearing on Syria. …
National Journal: Obama facing crisis over incompetence
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/07/03/national-journal-obama-facing-crisis-over-incompetence-n208028
– Voters could take in all of the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House lately — IRS, NSA, Fast and Furious, Benghazi … (If there’s anything to learn from the Benghazi crisis, it was the administration’s attentiveness to detail in how to avoid blame in … (via the Washington Examiner): Public views of Barack Obama today are very different from those of George W.…
The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/07/01/the-ed-morrissey-show-kevin-mccullough-132-n207973
– talk about his column today, which discusses Libyan documentation that shows Mohamed Morsi’s involvement in the attack on our Benghazi … Binge Thinker, Kevin and Stephen’s exploding success in independent talk radio, as well as Kevin’s new book, No He Can’t: How Barack Obama
Benghazi scapegoat finally leaving federal custody
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/26/benghazi-scapegoat-finally-leaving-federal-custody-n209876
– More than a year after the terrorist attack in Benghazi claimed the lives of four Americans, including the first American ambassador … killed in the line of duty in 33 years, critics of the Obama administration like to point out that none of the terrorists have been … Links between the Benghazi assault and Youssef’s film have since been debunked.…
CBS/NYT poll: Obama tanking on foreign policy
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/09/25/cbsnyt-poll-obama-tanking-on-foreign-policy-n209860
Obama was handling the situation in Syria. … after Benghazi.  … As late as June, Obama was still above water at 45/39, with 16% unsure at that time just what Obama was doing. …
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