The NYT’s measuring stick must only reach back four years, because the Obama administration suffered the exact same failure over eight … Speaking of which, let’s think back to the Obama-era predecessors. … However, she did manage to fumble embassy security in Benghazi, leading to the deaths of four Americans, after cheerleading the decapitation…
You’ll notice a glaring omission from that little laundry list of foreign policy decisions during the Obama administration – Benghazi … Besides allowing the Benghazi disaster to go on for thirteen hours while Barack Obama flew to Nevada for a fundraiser, all I really … by a street mob (after Obama vowed it wasn't a regime-change war).…
Michelle Obama has a short memory. Or, at the least, a selective memory. … And she said that there were no scandals in the Obama administration. … That was less than two months after Obama took office.…
that foreign policy might make a difference, Rice will have a tough time overcoming her promotion of the false narrative from the Obama … administration about what happened in Benghazi six years ago:
Collins certainly could be vulnerable, but that’s because she’s…
Then, Obama resumed his speech and continued to the very end.
Obama’s speeches were about him back then. … So, Obama is the party’s sole remaining star. … Obama urged his audience to “remember who started” the boom.…
Didn’t candidate Obama insist in 2007 that genocide in Iraq isn’t our problem?
Obama said. … Nor is Obama ordering anything like a reinvasion of the country. … Bluntly, Obama changed because the politics changed.…
As in the case of Afghanistan, Congress rejected the Obama administration’s aid requests. …
The Obama administration has done its … The greater risk is staying in Iraq, Obama said. … Obama had it exactly backward.…
political strategy than the Democratic Party’s current attempts to goad their Republican opposition into impeaching President Barack Obama … So, the Democratic Party’s last hope is to convince the press that Republicans are plotting in secret to impeach Obama but are just … Utterances on the floor from Republicans about impeaching Obama, in contrast, have been relatively rare.…
the global “responsibility to protect” civilians threatened by Qaddafi’s forces in Benghazi. … But for Team Obama, R2P is just a catch phrase. It sounds good and is easy to type, but that’s about it. … In 2012 Obama even created an Atrocities Prevention Board to carry out this humanitarian doctrine.…
secretary of state’s comments about her wealth and condemning her response to the September 2012 attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi … rival for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, by reviving an immigration-related attack used in the 2012 campaign…
“President Obama … Ditto for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.…
(Better for constitutional government if he didn’t, but worse for the competency of the Obama administration.) … President Obama said Friday that he has “full confidence” in Brennan. … How many different stories got told about Benghazi? How many veterans died while the VA was covering up their lack of service?…
Klein’s book, “Blood Feud,” claims to lay out the messy relationship between Barack and Michelle Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton … The adage warning politicians about punching down is particularly apt, as Team Obama eventually discovered when they went after Rush … Barack Obama scolded the court during a State of the Union address for protecting free political speech.…
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Republican calls to impeach President Obama look like a wedge issue — in favor of Democrats. … Still, I’m not convinced that Democrats, including Obama, are eager to Jedi mind trick Boehner into actually impeaching Obama so much … I suspect they’ll be able to strike that balance up until Obama announces his deportation relief plan.…
Now, believe it or not, President Obama is lifting that ban because, aides say, post-Gaddafi Libya and its relations with the United … The Obama administration has lifted longtime restrictions on Libyans attending flight schools in the United States and training here … Less than two years after the deadly terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, the Department of Homeland Security…
When asked what word came to mind when Obama is mentioned, he didn’t say “IRS” or “executive overreach” or “ObamaCare” or “Benghazi … He would have laid Obama out because he knows that’s what his base wants and he’s superb at delivering it. … Nor is it just Obama whom Rand’s gone a bit soft on.…
Obama to set aside a policy that is both minimalist and unrealistic. … administration has done precisely nothing…
Now, Obama has done the same in Iraq. … ***
“I do think the Kurds used that time that was given by our troop sacrifices in Iraq,” Obama added.…
It was the conflict which gave birth to the infamous and orphaned Obama doctrine of “leading from behind.” … and eight months of deadly conflict, the Libyan people can now celebrate their freedom and the beginning of a new era of promise,” Obama … “From Tripoli to Misurata to Benghazi — today, Libya is free,” Obama said in speech delivered before the United Nations.…
Obama, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that “golfing today is in bad taste.” … The most notable rhetorical tell came from Obama himself. … In the aftermath of the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Obama vowed to bring the attackers to justice.…
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Today, the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group, ISIL…
Jim Foley’s … Obama spoke, the United States Central Command announced that American warplanes had conducted 14 airstrikes on ISIS targets in the … President Obama authorized the “substantial and complex” rescue operation after the officials said a “broad collection of intelligence…
That’s the wrong word, as it diminishes the gravity of the Benghazi and IRS scandals — they’re both legitimate grievances, as Beck … Beck sees something like that happening again in 2016, this time with a patchwork of different complaints about the Clinton and Obama … It’s the fact that, uniquely among Democrats, she can run on the record of a more successful Democratic president than Obama.…
Did Barack Obama really get surprised by the rise of ISIS and its capabilities to fight militarily — or did he just ignore the threat … Somebody needs to tell Obama there was media before social media. … As if the enemy is CNN, and not ISIS, which has proven to be more nimble and quick than Obama.…
A good line aimed at libertarians who used to hammer Obama for his negligence in Benghazi and who are hammering Rand now for wanting … “If it was wrong not to protect the consulate in Benghazi, then it’s wrong not to protect the consulate in Erbil,” he says…
“People … Americans never demanded U.S. airstrikes against jihadis in Benghazi to preemptively protect American diplomatic outposts; they wanted…
National Journal’s Ron Fournier talks about his connection to Prince, the credibility problem of Obama on the war on ISIS, and why … With new revelations this week about Benghazi, Aaron Klein’s new book The Real Benghazi Story just became more trenchant than ever.…
Press Secretary Josh Earnest first made his ridiculous claim in an August 25 press briefing, pushing back on the Obama quote from David … “Keep in mind I wasn’t specifically referring to (Islamic State),” Obama replied. … For the rest of this play we’ve all seen before, I refer you to the 7 Steps to Scandal Comms with the Obama White House.…
President Barack Obama is reportedly interested in nominating a candidate to replace retiring Attorney General Eric Holder quickly … Okay, maybe Obama was merely playing a word association game. … “The White House Counsel’s office advised senior Obama officials to keep quiet about the attack in Benghazi during the weeks preceding…
