Posted on 10/15/2012 7:33:27 PM PDT by Perdogg
just sent out this statement with Senator Kelly Ayotte and John McCain about the attack on our Consulate in Benghazi.
"We have just learned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed full responsibility for any failure to secure our people and our Consulate in Benghazi prior to the attack of September 11, 2012. This is a laudable gesture, especially when the White House is trying to avoid any responsibility whatsoever.
"However, we must remember that the events of September 11 were preceded by an escalating pattern of attacks this year in Benghazi, including a bomb that was thrown into our Consulate in April, another explosive device that was detonated outside of our Consulate in June, and an assassination attempt on the British Ambassador. If the President was truly not aware of this rising threat level in Benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team, whose responsibility it is to keep the President informed. But if the President was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of September 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred. The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the Commander-in-Chief. The buck stops there.
"Furthermore, there is the separate issue of the insistence by members of the Administration, including the President himself, that the attack in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video, long after it had become clear that the real cause was a terrorist attack. The President also bears responsibility for this portrayal of the attack, and we continue to believe that the American people deserve to know why the Administration acted as it did."
Obama is not going to get off the hook that easily.
Could you give us a source on this information?
Okay, but what do Meghan McCain, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Fiffy Cent and Ludicrous say about it? How ‘bout all the reality show people and American Idol contestants?
facebook post it looks like.....
Link was provided.
Graham’s Facebook page.
Holy dog shi# Batman! Mccain is making sense!!¡¡!!
I don’t belong to Facebook (I prefer not to), but after I closed the invitation, I found this post near the top of Lindsay Graham’s page.
My goodness. This must be the first time Lindsay Graham and Juan McCain have said something I’ve agreed with. Of course, they both supported the war against Kaddafi—the idiots—but at least they now seem to see some serious problems here with Obama’s conduct as Commander in Chief.
Senator John McCain Website:
STATEMENT BY SENATORS McCAIN, GRAHAM AND AYOTTE ON SECRETARY CLINTON’S COMMENTS THIS EVENING ON BENGHAZI ATTACK
October 15, 2012
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today released the following statement on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments this evening regarding the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:
“We have just learned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed full responsibility for any failure to secure our people and our Consulate in Benghazi prior to the attack of September 11, 2012. This is a laudable gesture, especially when the White House is trying to avoid any responsibility whatsoever.
“However, we must remember that the events of September 11 were preceded by an escalating pattern of attacks this year in Benghazi, including a bomb that was thrown into our Consulate in April, another explosive device that was detonated outside of our Consulate in June, and an assassination attempt on the British Ambassador. If the President was truly not aware of this rising threat level in Benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team, whose responsibility it is to keep the President informed. But if the President was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of September 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred. The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the Commander-in-Chief. The buck stops there.
“Furthermore, there is the separate issue of the insistence by members of the Administration, including the President himself, that the attack in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video, long after it had become clear that the real cause was a terrorist attack. The President also bears responsibility for this portrayal of the attack, and we continue to believe that the American people deserve to know why the Administration acted as it did.”
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The GOP has stepped it up tonight, Greta had Gingrich and Rudy on tonight voicing a very similar position as the McCain statement.
“This is a laudable gesture, especially when the White House is trying to avoid any responsibility whatsoever.”
talking point
Well Senators Graham and McCain are generally useless with their pandering to the Washington establishment media and trying to be thought statesmanlike with their contrived shows of moderation, but here they seem to actually be taking the country’s interests to heart. (Sen. Ayotte’s record I do not know.)
(Of course, the cynic might suggest that like sharks they sense blood in the water and are going in for the kill on Obama and Sec. Clinton, but predators have their place in the natural world, so why not in the political world?)
Why isn’t Sweet Lindsey and McLame calling for Hillary to resign for the deaths of 4 Americans? Why is the GOP so afraid of Hillary? Do they know she still has copies of those FBI files?
statement worded in a way that helps Clinton
why were those “elder statesman” the first to come out with the response
Billy Boy involved in some way?
Slam! Now Bambi must respond. Either he didn’t know about the
rising threats in Benghazi (missing daily PDBs will do that to you)
or he did, and failed to act. When was he notified about the attack,
did he call a NSC meeting, and who initiated the phony video narrative?
OK, this may be way over the top but I think that this totally makes Obama look bad and Hillary and Bill know it makes him look bad and that’s why she took the fall. Very Machiavellian. I’m sort of loving it.
” - - - if the President was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of September 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred. The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the Commander-in-Chief. The buck stops there. - - - “
What did Obama know, and when did he know it?
I agree that this is laughable.
Mr. Obama, you have th eblood of four men on your hands, and all you can do is lie.
You had best start talking, and you had best start right now, buddy.
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