pretty much...
Posted on 02/08/2013 10:34:30 PM PST by John Semmens
Recent testimony at the Senate Armed Services Committee by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey disclosed that President Obama showed little interest in the September 11, 2012 attack on the US Consulate.
“Some 90 minutes into the seven-hour siege I briefed the president with what I felt we knew at the time,” Panetta said. “He didn’t react. He asked no questions. He gave no instructions.”
How this sworn testimony should be interpreted in light of Obama’s unsworn assertion that he gave clear directives to “secure our personnel” posed a challenge for Press Secretary Jay Carney.
“The president is legendary for his coolness under pressure,” Carney bragged. “It is easy to see how Secretary Panetta might construe this as not reacting to the shocking news. The president’s incomparable brilliance obviously enabled him to grasp everything without having to ask any questions.”
“As for the Secretary’s impression that the president gave no instructions, let me point out that it is the Secretary’s job to anticipate what the president wants without having to be explicitly told,” Carney added. “This gives the president the flexibility to embrace or disavow whatever action may be taken or not taken as seems most advantageous as the situation develops. Seeing that the President won reelection two months later, it should be apparent that those who are now second guessing his artful handling of the crisis are off base.”
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http://azconservative.org/2013/02/09/administration-asserts-right-to-assassinate-enemies/
“In the landmark television series The World At War, one woman who lived in Germany in the 1930s said that Adolf Hitler appeared to many people to be pursuing order and stability. By the time his real agenda became known, it was too late for anyone to oppose him. Married to a German at the time, she said: “I think that everything that came to us when we were living in Germany came very gradually. That was part, perhaps, of the way Hitler managed these things. It came on us rather, drip by drip, rather like an anaesthetic, one could almost say, and it was only when a specific thing that he did hit you personally that you actually realised what was going on.”
Smile! The WWII Vets I so respected would have said-” Obama could not pour p-—out of a boot if the instructions were in writing.”
Smile! The WWII Vets I so respected would have said-” Obama could not pour p-—out of a boot if the instructions were in writing.”
Carney added. “This gives the president the flexibility to embrace or disavow whatever action may be taken or not taken as seems most advantageous as the situation develops.
This is Beezle. Leading from behind.
John...John... John - another gem in that it fits so closely with reality that it still causes clenched jaws...
that he gave clear directives to “secure our personnel” posed a challenge for Press Secretary Jay Carney.
Everything is a challenge for Jay Carney. That boy sure is dumb.
6 pings?
pretty much...
And Joe Scarborough's show prep - with Mika's assuring grunts and nods.
Sadly, this is all too believable.
“He didn’t react. He asked no questions. He gave no instructions.”
The poster child of cluless on the march,and yet the media says he’s a war hawk.LOL
Thanks for the chuckle, and the ping John.
John, that was worth six pings. Good job.
Thanks, John, for the ping.
“Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies.”
-— Obama AFTER receiving the succesful report of Osama’s death.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead
Giving the same speech during a murderous terrorist attack on our embassy,...well,..”idly by” seems to be the smart play.
“Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies.”
-— Obama AFTER receiving the succesful report of Osama’s death.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead
Giving the same speech during a murderous terrorist attack on our embassy,...well,..”idly by” seems to be the smart play.
What really made me laugh, aside from the excellent satire, was the mental image of Carney delivering these comments..with a straight and honest demeanor.
He can do it! I often watch him for comic relief.
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