Posted on 05/18/2013 7:56:33 AM PDT by darkwing104
AWOL Commander in Chief
During the Benghazi murders, instead of taking charge Mr. Obama went into hiding, the various military elements having to stand down because the occupant of the White House was afraid to make decisions. During a Senate hearing, then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta testified that neither Obama nor anyone else from the White House had contacted the Defense Department or the Pentagon during the attack to find out what was going on. This is not the behavior of a leader but of a coward. As always, Obama pleads ignorance to distance himself from anything that may make him look bad. He has already claimed to know nothing of the IRS targeting of conservative groups or the tapping of AP phone lines. Having the FBI investigate these events will enable the president to duck any questions because there is an “ongoing investigation.”
Cover-up
The Benghazi “talking points” were changed for a number of reasons, among them to hide Obama’s ineptness and Hillary’s Clinton’s incompetence. The people involved in the creation of the false narrative were more concerned about protecting their careers than the fate of fellow Americans being murdered in Libya. On a positive note at least a few people told the truth. Yet, to the low information voter this is “much ado about nothing”.
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Yet the day-to-day functioning of the whole apparatus of his administration seems to escape his attention.
It’s islamism.
And the converse.....
Whenever Obama is not present ...then bad things happen (to the rest of America 24/7)
And how is this different from his performance as an Illinois senator?
I’m certain that the famous photo of Obama “overseeing” the Bin Laden raid would have disappeared if the raid had gone the way of Desert One and the new narrative would have been than military commanders acted on their own initiative. I’d bet there’s a photo in a trash can of The Won “overseeing” the Benghazi debacle if it had turned out better.
I don't recall seeing any photographs of Hitler or Heydrich inspecting the camps.
Barack just never around when bad things happen
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That has to be the best title of the year. Says it all.
I recall a story during the early days of his first term where it was reported that he “relished” taking on the “tough” issues like gay rights, healthcare reform and immigration because he either thought he was, or wanted to be perceived as, a “ brave trailblazer” who wasn’t afraid to take on the tough issues.
I think something that would really be effective in getting under his skin is a relentless drumbeat of being called a coward.
Liberals went berserk in the wake of the fall of Enron and Tyco and Adelphia, etc. After those scandals the government overreacted and put burdensome new requirements on corporations. Corporate executives and board members can now go to jail for bad financial statements, even if those financial statements resulted from the collusion of underlings without their knowledge. In other words, under our law today, executives are criminally liable even when they don’t know. The legislation pushed by liberals and mush-headed RINO’s (Sarbanes-Oxley) demanded accountability beause in their view, the men at the top always know. And on the off chance they don’t know, that lack of knowledge is itself a crime.
I am in no way excusing the crimes committed by corporate executives. I’m pointing out massive liberal hypocrisy. They want businessmen in jail, regardless of their knowledge or intent to commit a crime, but Obama did nothing wrong and he should skate because the government is too big and he doesn’t have any idea what his underlings have been doing, even when those things clearly were to his political benefit.
Frankly I don’t believe for a second Obama doesn’t know what has been going on. It is telling that feigning ignorance is his best defense, but in reality that should be no defense at all.
Anyone remember how the left went after Bush for not coming back to the District immediately after leaving the grade school on 9/11/01?
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At least everyone knew where Bush was and what he was doing.
This is all part of the self-preservation strategy of Obozo. The Slickster used triangulation. Soetoro uses a variation of the Sgt Schultz "I know nuttinck" tactic by disappearing during the crisis and then by using "news dilution" (get as many scandals going as possible to confuse an already dazed mainstream media) making it very difficult to focus effectively on any single crisis like they did on Watergate.
what does it matter! He has to spend his time out campaigning raising millions of dollars to fight us
He may never be around, but he’s going to get to the bottom of it, he’s going to hold people accountable, and take steps to make sure this never happens again...
“Love you in the sunshine, hate you in the rain.
But when trouble comes around, it always seems to rain.”
Not my job, man. Way above my pay grade.
OK, so whose job IS it? And what pay grade would induce you to take over the duties?
According to the Inspector General for Treasury, Sec Jack Lew was advised of their audit of the IRS in March ‘13 two months before Obama says he was aware of this from listening to TV news. Since he has spent over one month in total time going to and from fund raisers, wasteful overseas sightseeing and on various golf courses, perhaps he was never in the Oval Office long enough for his minions to give him a heads up. I personally do not believe he was not advised but under the circumstances, I suppose it’s possible. Since the IRS probably monitors Free Republic and Facebook maybe I should expect an IRS audit
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