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Legally, Obama might be able to do this. … Now Obama is isolated at home, and abroad. … Obama may find himself entirely isolated in launching his new war. …
Obama. … It’s not clear what that one accomplished yet, although we did presumably prevent a slaughter of many thousands in Benghazi. … But it is for sure that doing nothing helps the reactionaries.
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The fact is that Obama is the only president we have.…
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: 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.…
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? …
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…
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.)…
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. …
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…
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. …
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. …
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…
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. …
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…
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?…
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.…
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. …
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? …
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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. …
Remember Hillary Clinton's chortling over the fall of Moammar Qaddafi and the role she and Barack Obama played in it? … Qaddafi's regime, and left a failed state in its wake: In March 2011, Obama … of collapsing his regime in favor of the rebels in and around Benghazi -- a bitter irony, in the end.…
Over the weekend, there were strikes against Libyan aircraft on the ground, forces headed toward Benghazi and even Colonel Qaddafi’ … Obama should have brought Congress more into the loop on his decision, and must do so now.There is no perfect formula for military … Former President Barack Obama argued George W. Bush-era war authorizations from the early 2000s covered drone strikes in Yemen.…
