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Obama on Benghazi: 'There's No There There'
Weekly Standard ^ | Monday May 13, 2013

Posted on 05/13/2013 9:24:20 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

At a press conference today at the White House, President Obama said "There's no there there" on criticism of how his administration handled the Benghazi terror attack:

"And suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there's something new to the story," Obama said in response to a question about Benghazi. "There's no there there."

The president continued, "Keep in mind by the way these so-called talking points that were prepared for Susan Rice, five, six days after the event occurred, pretty much matched the assessments that I was receiving at that time in my presidential daily briefing."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; chrisstevens; hillary; lies; obama; susanrice; talkingpoints
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To: Bigtigermike
I wish that the focus on Benghazi would not be spent so much on the altered talking points and the false video protest. Was there deception and lying? Yes there was.

But I wish the investigators would focus all their shots on what is even more important; those people in Benghazi died, and SOMEBODY made a decision not to help them.

If we hit on that until the truth is uncovered, the talking points will be of little impact anyway.

41 posted on 05/13/2013 9:54:00 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Let’s see how fast the media will obey their Master.


42 posted on 05/13/2013 9:55:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Bigtigermike

Watch, a few polls will come out showing 60 to 70% believe him.


43 posted on 05/13/2013 9:55:37 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: SpinnerWebb

He’s quoting Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein’s famous little phrase refers to Oakland, California and is doubtlessly aimed at a supposed lack of culture or meaningful identity


44 posted on 05/13/2013 9:56:10 AM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: Kozak

Yup. Obama likes the lesbians. He can mine them for good quotes, or he can put them on the Supreme Court, or put them in charge of the State Dept, or ...


45 posted on 05/13/2013 9:58:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Bigtigermike

When did Hillary set up her defense team?


46 posted on 05/13/2013 10:03:17 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SpinnerWebb

[[I’m thinking it was a teleprompter typo.]]

I dissagree- I think in hism ind that kkklinton got away with ‘it depends on what is is’ and thinks he can use gthe same wordplay to weasel his way out


47 posted on 05/13/2013 10:03:34 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: COUNTrecount
He's giving the MSM their marching orders.

Peggy Noonan had a good column last Friday about how they have politicized it from the very start. Never mind that we were lucky that only 4 Americans died because of Obama and Hillary, not 30 or 40.

48 posted on 05/13/2013 10:03:40 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: sickoflibs
The solution to the Benghazi fiasco is to hire and appoint only black homosexuals or lesbians to foreign service to run guns in covert presidential wars to arm Islam and destroy Turkey, Israel, and Jordan.

Basketball players and dogeaters encouraged to apply.

Obama would never give up on that group.

49 posted on 05/13/2013 10:04:42 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...

Clint Eastwood was right.

Ping


50 posted on 05/13/2013 10:06:02 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: Bigtigermike

Question for the Day:

“Do our sorry Congressional RINOs have the POLITICAL MOTIVATION to Impeach Benghazi Coward B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia?


51 posted on 05/13/2013 10:06:39 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Bigtigermike
I just about can't comment anymore on that POS in the White Hut without going profane.
Normal words just don't get it.
52 posted on 05/13/2013 10:08:53 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: veritas2002
> ... why in heaven’s name Susan Rice the ambassador
> to the UN was hauled out to explain Benghazi ...


This is what proves the Administration purposefully intended to lie about Benghazi.
Rice was used to keep 0bama's and Hitlary's paw prints off of the lie, while giving it credibility (State is the same as U.N. to a low-info voter), and plausible deniability.

Yes, congress critters, who made Susan Rice the point man on Benghazi ?

53 posted on 05/13/2013 10:11:58 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: Bigtigermike

As far as I am concerned, the terms,”Presidential” and “President” should never be mentioned in the same sentence as obama’s name.


54 posted on 05/13/2013 10:12:08 AM PDT by sport
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To: The Cajun

I’m waiting for Reggie Love to get dissed by his bf and start talking. He would make a killing but he’d always have to look over his shoulder for 0 thugs.


55 posted on 05/13/2013 10:14:24 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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The president continued, "Keep in mind by the way these so-called talking points that were prepared for Susan Rice, five, six days after the event occurred, pretty much matched the assessments that I was receiving at that time in my presidential daily briefing."

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 : ()Secretary Clinton and President Obama issue statements condemning both the video and the attacks.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 : ()U.S. intelligence agencies have enough evidence to conclude a terrorist attack was involved.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 : (ELIZABETH JONES EMAILS SNR STATE DEPT OFFICIALS)

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 WED : (ADMIN WANTS US TO BELIEVE US TROOPS DISPATCHED BY HELICOPTER WERE AMBUSHED BY PROTESTERS ANGRY ABOUT A MOVIE?) A squad of U.S. troops dispatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce overnight ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told Reuters.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 : (BY THIS TIME THE CIA HAS FOUND THE LINKS TO THE PERPS OF THE BENGHAZI ATTACK) CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 WED : (LIBYA : BENGHAZI LANDLORD AL BISHARI DENIES OBAMA ADMIN CLAIM THAT THE ATTACKS WERE PRECEDED BY A PROTEST OVER A FILM)

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 WED : (US LAWMAKER MIKE ROGERS FIGURES IT OUR BEFORE OBAMA AND TELLS FOX THE BENGHAZI ASSAULT WAS A TWO-PART OPERATION AND IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE "INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS" FILM) On Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told Fox News that the strike was a "coordinated, military-style" operation. .....Rogers told Fox News he has"no doubt" it was a planned attack and had nothing to do with the film. ...Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/13/consulate-attack-planned-as-2-part-militant-assault-libyan-official-says/#ixzz26ZbUMY7u ............................. 23 posted on Saturday, September 15, 2012 5:31:29 PM by rodguy911 | To 22

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 Wed : (LONDON THINK TANK : LIBYA ATTACK WAS PLANNED; ASSAULT WAS TO AVENGE THE DEATH OF ABU YAYA AL LIBI) ---- http://www.ynaija.com/ticker-sources-says-death-of-u-s-ambassador-was-a-planned-attack/ 72 posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:09:48 PM by kcvl

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 WED : (JCS CHAIRMAN GEN. DEMPSEY CALLS FL PASTOR TERRY JONES ABOUT WITHDRAWING SUPPORT FOR A VIDEO)

56 posted on 05/13/2013 10:19:22 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Bigtigermike; Fred Nerks

Obama: “There’s no there there.”

BJ Clinton:” What the definition of IS is”

Democrats seem to wax existential when under
accurate censure.

Obama should be impeached. He committed a hate crime
by murdering 4 Americans in Benghazi.


57 posted on 05/13/2013 10:27:59 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SpinnerWebb
I’m thinking it was a teleprompter typo. There’s nothere there... instead of There’s nothing there.

No, the quote is correct, he just didn't write the line, and he never heard the original quote from Gertrude Stein.

The way it is stated is:

"There's no there...there."

58 posted on 05/13/2013 10:28:04 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: V_TWIN

Depends on what is, is. Remember?

shoot them all.


59 posted on 05/13/2013 10:43:06 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: cripplecreek

The dominant media should be going apeshit when obama/soetoro said that.

He lied, again.

As late as Sept.25 2012 he was still blaming the video for all the violence in his speech at the U.N.


60 posted on 05/13/2013 10:44:16 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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